/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

I want to switch to Linux. These Distros are what I'm rooting for?
>openSUSE
>Mageia
>Sabayon
>Manjaro
>Debian
>Fedora
Which one should I install?
openSUSE seems to be pretty user friendly, since it has one of the best (graphic) package managers

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>>57999771
debian

>>57999784
Was also considering it. Are the "outdated" packages really that much of a problem?

>>57999808
use testing or sid

>>57999808
You can choose how fresh you want your packages, only "stable" has older packages. Check out: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianUnstable

>>57999808
Yes if you're using the stable version but you can always just install some software from source should you need a newer version although I personally don't like Debian as a desktop distro, been rocking it for solid 9 years on servers though and I cannot complain other than every major release the distro will brick itself during the upgrade.

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>>57999771

>>57999724
you shouldn't make threads so fast.
mods might clean out 60 posts again.

>>57999724
Who is this semen demen?

all of thats bloatware shit garbage except debian , fedora, and sabyon

fedora = systemd sellout shit noobs
debian = alright
sabyon = gentoo for babies

you decide

>>57999724
i want to hug him :3

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>>57999878
>sabyon = gentoo for babies
That's Calculate linux...

>>57999999
>>58000000

>>58000051
>neo /g/ GETs

>>57999771
Out of those Fedora or Manjaro are the best for beginners, followed by debian and opensuse

>>58000063
>still butthurt that loonix is getting standardized

I'm planning on installing a second distro to my laptop for the sake of trying it out in the most realistic settings possible. The laptop already has two OS's on it, W7 and another Linux distro. Is there going to be any sort of grub fuckery I'll need to deal with if there's three OS's for it to handle?

(It's openSUSE, in case that makes any difference.)

>>58000355
ur shit will get fucked up i bet

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>>58000355
>>57999771

Can I dualboot Gentoo with Gentoo?

>>58000751
why

>>58000751
Think about it for a while

>>58000751
don't. duel boot it.

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Anyone got the link to the (You) counter userscript?

>>58000833
you don't want it

Can we start posting Linus instead of RMS? Fuck that guy is disgusting and useless

>>58000856
Linus is boring.

>>58000856
Do you have the (You) userscript? You look like someone who has it. Please share!

>>58000878
you don't want it

>>57999843
I'd basically just surf the web, watch JewTube videos and use LibreOffice.

Where are configs for ricing and stuff in archy kde?

I'm using Arch, just letting you guys know.

>>58001055
FYI, so am i

>>58001055
>not using blackarch
you call yourself a hacker kiddo?

>>58001055
Is Antergos any good?

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>>58001055
Smart.

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>>58001078
>BLACKarch
>red logo

>>58001084
No. It's for noobs that can't maintain their own system.

>>57999651
for starters corrupted binary logs, system hangs forever on reboot.

>>58001150
It's just the metadata that can be corrupted, it still has all the information a you would expect from a text log file.

It only hangs with you.

>>58001190
source?

>>58001210
Source on what? It's just a fucking file with embedded text. Do you even know what a fucking binary file is?

Do "strings logfile | less" you shitlord.

What is the best free as in freedom gnu/linux distro? Trisquel?

>>58001243
Source on it not happening to somebody else and source on it being just the metadata.

>>58001150
>hangs con reboot
I had that problem forma a while but with the latest update it seems to hace been fixed

>>58001190
>just the metadata
not to me, when it happens it fucks everything

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>>58001266

>>58001266
Fedora and Debian may also be considered free as in freedom. Just don't use the proprietary repos.
Parabola is a free arch spin off.

Trisquel is good but doesn't have a very big or active community.

>>58001282
outdated and security issues

>>58001274
>and source on it being just the metadata
Do you know what a binary file is?

>Source on it not happening to somebody else
You claimed it hangs on boot. So you provide the fucking evidence, you fucking deepshit. If you male a claim and don't provide evidence there is no reason to believe it you retarded memester.

>>58001277
>not to me, when it happens it fucks everything
It is. The text is still there. Use "strings file.log >> log.txt" or something like that.

>>58001312
security issues where

>>58001359
Actually, it's not.

>>58001393
They introduced a security issue in OpenSSH.

>>58001398
Ok. What happens when you run the command?

>>58001401
you used plural on issues

>>58001327
>You claimed it hangs on boot
No, I claimed it hangs when rebooting, it doesn't shut off

Are you really tryng to help or you're frustrated with something in your life so you came here to fight somebody over something you don't even know about?

>>58001410
If they introduced a security issue in OpenSSH what have they done to other software which are less critical?

Debian is a plague.

What are some cool software from the AUR? All I ever use are fonts. Why does everybody love the AUR so much? The official repos have plenty.

>>58001359
it outputs

strings: 'file.log': No such a file

>>58001413
>No, I claimed it hangs when rebooting, it doesn't shut off
You understood you fucking deep shit.

>Are you really tryng to help or you're frustrated with something in your life so you came here to fight somebody over something you don't even know about?
Still waiting for evidence to support your claim.

You have no idea of what you are talking about. You just repeat memes. You are everything that is wrong with any online community.

>>58001421
And you think others don't make errors?

>>58001442
I have been memed.

>>58001431
>Why does everybody love the AUR so much?
I don't know either

>>58001468
Other don't fiddle with OpenSSH. They can make errors, but they don't touch the critical software. Debian are filthy pigs which have learned nothing from that CRITICAL error.

>>58001451
Still no evidence? okay, you're here to be an epic troll, good to know.

>>58001511
I don't have provide any fucking evidence you dumb memester. BECAUSE I DIDN'T FUCKING CLAIM ANYTHING. YOU FUCKING DID.

>>58001473
can you help me or are you here to meme?

>>58001520
yes, you did, see >>58001190

Do you know what a claim is?

>>58001522
file.log should be replaced by the path of your systemd log file.

If you didn't know that, better yet, if you couldn't come up with it yourself, you don't need to read logs.

>>58001543
but I have a symlink to it, I thought it would work.

>>58001540
You are not very intelligent are you?

The claim about metadata is evident if you know what a binary is.

The claim that it only happens to you, is the only thing that can be logically assumed if you don't provide evidence that it happens to other people.

I'm even being a nice person and not assuming you are lying.

>>58001580
What do you mean? "strings /path/to/symlink" ? I think it should work.

>>58001601
>I'm even being a nice person
where? what do you want? a video of me rebooting the computer?

>>58001610
But it doesn't.

>>58001617
No. Because I'm being a nice person and believing you. I want evidence that it actually happens to OTHER people.

Note that you said "it hangs on reboot", meaning it's a frequent issue. You didn't say "it hangs on reboot for me."

>>58001617
A recent bug report on the systemd master branch, and not a super edgy case, would be fine.

>>58001661
*stable branch

>>58001638
works on my machine™

>>58001661
Ok, how should I fill it? "My system hangs when I try to reboot, I can't access the log file so I can't paste it here"?

>>58001638
Ok. Then read the strings man page to see if it has a problem with symlinks or use the direct path.

What error does it give?

>>58001686
>systemd develping team in a nutshell

>>58001689
You can. Just extract the ascii characters from the log file. If it is really corrupted.

gnome is a fucking buggy piece of shit and I won't let you convince me otherwise after using it for 6 months

>>58001707
ok

>>58001692
Pretty sure he's trolling, no one can be that retarded

>>58000999
I got double triples plz respund

>>58001705
That's the thing, I can't.

>>58001723
>answering tp yourself

Don't do that, that's sad.

>>58001749
Why not? How are you doing it? What error does it give?

>>58001758

>>>58001692 (You)
>>58001723

(S)he is not me.

>>58000833
Found this idea interesting so I made one myself.

// ==UserScript==
// @name     4Chan (You) Counter
// @include  http://boards.4chan.org/g/*
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// @require  http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js
// @grant    GM_addStyle
// ==/UserScript==

$("body").append ('<div id="youCounter"></div>');

checkWordCount ();

var wordChkTimer = setInterval (checkWordCount, 5000);

function checkWordCount () {
    var matchRez    = $(document.body).text ().match (/>>\d+\s\(You\)/gi);
    var wordCount   = matchRez ? matchRez.length : 0;

    var countReport = '';
    switch (wordCount) {
        case 0:
            countReport = 'No (You) found!'
        break;
        case 1:
            countReport = 'You got one (You).'
        break;
        default:
            countReport = 'You got ' + wordCount + ' (You)s.'
        break;
    }

    $("#youCounter").text (countReport);
}

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        background:  #111 !important;                \
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" );

Enjoy.

>>58001791
You forgot to license it under GPL.

>>58001791
>>58001800

Licensed under GPLv3 or later!

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>>58001779
Oh shit, you're right, It was me all allong

>>58001816
damnit anon stop forcing freedom on us

>>58001834
>arch
:^)

anyone know about VxWorks ? i connected to my ftp in a local adress and it says
230 User logged in.
ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful.
150 Binary data connection for directory list (3232235785,50787).
550 No such file or location.
226 Program flash successfully

>>58001734
KDE is for shitters.

>>58001327
I wish I could filter posters by IP.

>>58002189
>>58002049
>>58001999
>>58001881
what happened?

>>58002228
mods got mad because of cutted of waifu

Looking for software that can pull a list of new podcasts into it then I can stream or download it (through the software) depending on what I want - on fedora

>>58002457
wget

>>58002457
you mean an rss reader? like newsbeuter or liferea?

>>58002485
but what if I want to stream it I mean I could make something that lists all the latest podcast from several RSS feeds then I can pick which it wgets but most of the time I'd want to stream them
>>58002525
kinda but just for podcasts with the ability to stream the podcast within the software

>>58002539
>kinda but just for podcasts with the ability to stream the podcast within the software
i have mpv set to be the default action for my rss reader. werks well. i use that for youtube subscriptions actually.

During initrmfs it produces below error.At no point during generation does it say what causes this error.Where do i start?

WARNING: errors were encountered during the build. The image may not be complete.

>>58002539
Hidden in the newsbeuter package is "podbeuter", try it.

>>58002593
we need more information than this anon. what are you trying to do, what distro and what did you do before it etc

>>58002625
I am generating an initramfs image.
I am compiling a custom kernel
I used makenconfig to edit kernel parameters

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What cloud service would stallman use?

>>58002712
The kind that comes out of his ass

>>58002712
oldmanyellsatcloud.jpg

>>58002712
the FSFs servers probably.

>debian
>old outdated packages
what does this actually mean please? in noob terms

>>58002765
It's stupid people parrotting other stupid people. Debian has three branches; stable, testing and unstable, where unstable is a rolling release (like Arch).

>>58002765
debian does many many checking til a program comes into "stable", this takes a while, so when you use debian stable, you have a rock hard stable system, but older packages, which is pretty good for servers, but for desktop use, unstable is better

>>58002800
thank you
what are the main advantages of having a rolling release, what actual difference would it make to me?

>>58002765
by default, debian gives its users the 'stable' branch, which its packages tend to be older, but guarenteed to be secure & never break. you also have the option of using testing, which provides more up-to-date but lesser audited programs, and 'unstable' or 'sid', which is similar to a rolling-release style system such as gentoo or arch. rolling release is better for having new software, all the time, constantly new features & things, but stable is better for a never-breaking system.

>>58002826
>>58002843
thankyou

>>58002831
Newer programs. With older packages, you may miss the newest feature of a program.

how linux compatible would you think this is? (willing to use arch(antergos) or fedora)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aycJRXPRJQQ

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Any distro where this shit won't happen? Normally I'd install Arch but I don't have time right now. If possible not fedora because it spergs out with my GPU.

>>58003159
>Normally I'd install Arch
nice

>>58003159
no comprende you fucking beaner

>>58003159
Arch takes like 30 minutes to install. Lazy shitter.

>>58003265
My internet is shit, it's just 30MBPS but I never get the full 30 with Arch's mirrors.

>>58003259
Fucking Ubuntu wants to reinstall absolutely everything when I update to 16.10.

>>58003310
>Fucking Ubuntu wants to reinstall absolutely everything when I update to 16.10.
What on earth did you expect?

>>58003324
I expected it to just reinstall what's changed. Does literally everything ever change between one version of Ubuntu and another?

>>58003353
Si

>>58003353
What would be the point of releases you dumbass?
If it bothers you so much just go rolling release

>>58003310
> 30
i've instaled it under an hour with 20 but real 10mbs

Guys, what do you use to disable the touchpad\tapping when typing on your laptop?

I know 'syndaemon' does the job, but i'm not sure i want it to autostart.

>>58003353
ask yourself ,"will i be running */*/linux in 4 years?"
if yes, time to invest in a rolling release.
if no, consider Ubutu LTS

>>58003495
I install learn-to-not-touch-the-pad-moron

>>57999771
Hopped from Linux Mint to Sabayon KDE yesterday.
Everything werks except g'mic plugin for gimp2.9

>>58003495
There's some rule you create in your xorg config for it. You'll have to look it up though.
You shouldn't have to download or install anything for it.

>>58003495
Or wait, did you mean to disable it only while typing and then re-enable it when you stop typing?
If so then disregard my post >>58003713
I don't know about that.

>>58003538
Took the time to google.
Needed an older libpng version.
Fixed now.

>>58003310
>My internet is shit
that's why you reuse your package cache

what good is a cache if you never reuse it?

Having issues with ,probably, sddm or Xorg patch.
Sddm runs properly the first time it is started. Sddm is slow to start, though. If sddm is restarted or logout/restart/shutdown is issued the system will go to black screen and hang up.
Sddm is in video group
Nvidia-drivers-375.20-r1::bobwya and related patched Xorg-server-1.19-r1
The nvidia-361 driver and xorg-1.18.4 causes instant black screen and hang up

>im using gentoo btw

>>58004065
I'm on Arch, if you care.

>>57999724
/g/ents, I'm getting a new HDD tomorrow to install Arch on it. Should I encrypt my primary partition?

also, is there a guide on how to install Nvidia drivers PROPERLY on Arch? I don't wanna fuck it up.

thanks!

>>58004065
How are you launching it?

>>58004542
xdm init script

>>58004500
>posts lolicon
>encrypt
Yes
>properly
sudo pacman -S nvidia
modprobe nvidia
startx
done

>>58004500
Chinese people are not normal.
Pls delete this.

>>58004652
>lolicon
>lolita complex
you only have to say 'loli' ,famine

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>>58004655
PRUDE!

>>58004652
>>encrypt
>Yes
Could you expand on this anon, how do I properly encrypt my disk? Do you know of a good guide?

>>58004707
Use the arch wiki,even if you arent using arch.
you want dmcrypt+luks, full disk encryption

Wiki it

>>58004724
>you want dmcrypt+luks, full disk encryption
it's hard to search for something when you don't know what it's called. thanks for these programs!

>>58004741
you can google "linux encryption" and be sent to the arch wiki

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>>58004500
>I came in this building

Would you like to see a fork of VirtualBox that uses QEMU?
I prefer the UI of VirtualBox but QEMU/KVM is the better virtualizer.

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So I typically use spotify for my music streaming and was wondering if there was a good visualizer able to be run in terminal which would be compatible. Any suggestions?

Is there a way to throttle a programs disk I/O?

>>58005283
https://stallman.org/spotify.html

>>58006576
>>58006382

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Hey guys I'm a complete beginner to linux. I'm using Fedora 24 kde and it won't connect to the internet through ethernet cable. It won't show up in the connection editor when the cable is plugged in. Wifi works normal but it's really shit and takes me a whole week to download 1 anime. What do I do? Thanks for the help thx!

>>58006779
Are you using free or proprietary drivers?

>>58006779
If you're using the iwlwifi module, try the 11n_disable switch.

>>58006382
Why is everyone using spotify? I never used it and I don't understand why people don't want to have their own music, preferable in FLAC, on their own machine. Am I missing something

what dns should I choose for my resolve.conf?
does changing it even matter for privacy?

>>58006946
1.Finding new music passively
2.Smaller foot print.Why have 500gb of music that you may only listen to 10% of any given month.
3.Portability,one service,many devices.

I dont use any streaming service, but there is appeal to them.

what speeds do you guys get downloading packages for ubuntu? I'm topping out at about 20kb/s here and it's really pissing me off.

btw I'm not using arch if that matters

>>58006988
1. Discovering new music is nice. Been using lastfm for a while, does spotify work simliar?
2. Depends, I don't think that spotify has all the obscure shit I'm listening to and what if spotify dies? No music! :^)
3. Granted.

>>58007025
Choose a faster mirror. US is mostly faster than %random_country%. There is also apt-fast (if I remember correctly, searx it), which updates shit parallel.

>>58006870
I haven't installed any drivers. If I was using any drives they'd be the ones installed when I installed fedora in the first place, I think.
The labtop I'm using is a Toshiba satellite
>>58006917
I don't even know what that is.

>>58007108
Run

lspci -v

to find out what drivers and modules your devices are using.

>>58007108
I'm pretty sure fedora uses open source for everything by default, try getting the proprietary drivers instead

>>58006946
depending on the music you like it can be awesome. A lot of the music I like isn't on spotify but other streaming services have it, like soundcloud.

I'm like you though, I don't like change. I much prefer to download and store all my music in good quality. Not flac because I'm not autistic but 320kbps is fine.

What's your favorite login shell?

anyway to make script.py on any usb plugged into a raspberry pi running raspbian (debian based) execute automatically?

ubuntu and all of its variants feel like a bloated mess? i'm only a couple months into linux, but I want to change.

what is a bare-bones, but not too difficult distro I should consider moving to? also planning on picking up Awesome since basically every stacking wm is bad.

i'm considering debain since ubuntu is based on it, but is it such a bad idea to dive into Arch? my only issue is with its hyper-edgy logo...

>>58007883
Arch isn't hard to install or use. Just follow the guide.

>>58007228
So I did what this anon said and found out that I had iwlwifi like this anon >>58006917 said and then looked up how to do the 11n_disable switch
I disabled it I think but I don't exactly know what I even did but the ethernet connection works now so thanks guys.

I'm not quite ready to commit to a Ubuntu installation wholly right now.

I currently own a x250 and am wondering what software is required to be able to select which drive to boot off of as I plan to install Windows and Ubuntu on separate drives.

How to choose which drive to boot off of on startup?

>>58008092
On my computer it is F12 at boot up. Basically go into the bios and choose which to boot.

>>58008101
Is this just to change the default boot drive?

I was wondering if there was a way to like select the drive upon startup with some software.

>>57999724
>I'm available tonight
What did he mean by this?

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does anyone recognize this audio player?

>>58008124
nvm looks good

>>58008497
ncmpcpp

>>58008821
thank you, anon.

Are Mageia and PCLinuxOS good for beginners? They look like they're very easy to use.

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It's been a while last time I used Arch, I've been testing GNOME wayland and It's really stable this time. Even my wireless keyboard's touchpad works ootb unlike any other distro.

I hate that GNOME shell 3.22 broke mailnag indicator plugin. Luckily enough the daemon does its job. Getting things GNOME (GTG) is broken as well. I hate how GNOME devs hate productivity.

Otherwise wayland + mailnag + GNOME calendar + GTG + Evolution would be a very nice productivity solution.

Manjaro or Antegros for someone who wants to try something like Arch, but is not quite ready for Arch proper.
All of my experience is from Ubuntu MATE so I'm not all that experienced.

>>58009251
Both are the same

>>57999724
This was a thing that happened?

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>>58007883
There is practically no difference between debian and ubuntu. Ubuntu is just a usable version of debian.

>>58007025
https://askubuntu.com/questions/39922/how-do-you-select-the-fastest-mirror-from-the-command-line

>>58006971
>does changing it even matter for privacy?
No

>>58006493
If you do anything that's cpu intensive, linux-ck wil shine like no other. I commonly compiled software when using Arch (personal projects) and if you want your machine to be responsive at all under a make -j9, you'll want to use the -ck patchset.
If you do anything that puts an average load of 1 or more on your cpu, even, you'll notice a difference. Linux-ck, combined with graysky's modprobed-db, and you can make a 5mb kernel that boots in under 10 seconds and screams all day.

>>58006296
VirtualBox uses some parts of the QEMU project.

>>58003154
>TP Link Wireless Adapter
Get one that uses intel/atheros chips

>>57999771
Get an ubuntu derivative, or korora or Arch/Manjaro
Definitely avoid half assed wannabe freetard distros like debian or fedora

>>58009460
>Ubuntu is just a usable version of Debian
*shittier

>>58009514
Debian is a wannabe freetard distro. Instant trash

>>58009520
>Wannabe freetard distro
>both are free
Ubuntoddler pls

>>58009539
Ubuntu even ships with non free drivers. Unlike debshit's """((((de-blobbed))))""" unusable garbage freetard kernel

Ubuntu also has ubuntu-restricted-extras which has ttfs, non-free codecs and ms-fonts: great for WINE stuff

sjwbian is trash, is there literally any reason to use it over ubuntu?

>>58009460
>linux-ck
Is it easy enough to patch or I should just get the one from the aur? It should be fine for any distro, right?

Why would a package installer tell me I don't have packages that I definitely fucking have?

>>58009631
Follow your distro's wiki

>>57999771
I personally love Manjaro because it's the easiest Arch derivative to use. I haven't had any problems with it so far.

>>58009633
There is no up to date ebuild in the main tree so I think I'll just get one from the overlays or patch it myself.

>>58003495
I hit Fn+F9.

>>58009251
My experience with Antegros was much better than Manjaro. I had Manjaro break on 2 occastions. Antegros served me well in the past.

>>58009555
I'd rather use PCLinuxOS than Ubuntu imo.
There's an option for installing proprietaty drivers in the GUI installation though.

How is AMD GPU support in Linux these days?

I ask because AMD stopped supporting my integrated GPU, and I can't use any of their latest drivers for my dedicated GPU because there's no way to disable iGPU on mobile APUs. Would I be able to utilize GCN drivers on Linux via an open source driver?

It really has been awhile since I've used Linux on anything and back when I did use Linux I only briefly had it on an AMD system.

>>58007883
Just do a minimal install of Ubuntu.

>>58007883
>awesome
use i3 instead, awesome is shite

>>58009578
I have been using it as a desktop os for a few months because Ubuntu kept giving me Kernel Panics. I think it was hardware related though. When I get my new laptop I am going back to Ubuntu. Honestly Debian is made for servers. It is alright as a desktop OS. I would recommend Debian testing/unstable over Arch or Fedora for desktop use.

>>58009460
Should I use the BFQ scheduler with linux-ck?

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How come there isn't system backup option for many distros like Mac and windows have?

>>58009896
if you had spent more than 3 seconds looking you wouldn't need to ask this question.

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>>58010021
dd/rsync are file backup.
And clonezilla are cloning software.
I'm talking about system restore option similar to system image/backup that windows provide.
Also one that support DVDs, The closest That I could think of was tarball with size limit.

>>58003495

I use the X11 libinput driver. It supports that natively, without having to run syndaemon.

@58009896
@58010054
post anime or gtfo

>>58009578
Why is it called "SJWbian" recently?

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>>58010210
i don't think it's that recent but the reason should be fairly obvious

>>58010054
Who is this semon demon?
Google tells me selena gomez, not falling for that.

>>58010267
>semen
sorry.

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>people still not knowing the difference between GTK and GNOME
>complaining about GNOME's HIGs
>start calling GTK shit

Are people pro free software against getting a CS degree and working for a company like Google or FB? Because that's where the money is at I hear.

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>>58010244
>forwhatpurpose.jpg

xfce or KDE? On Manjaro if it matters.

>>58010524
XFCE

>>58010524
Xfce looks a lot nicer than KDE in Manjaro, imo

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>>58010244
only nukes can stop this shit
>replace human with hu or huperson

Is there a way to restore Lubuntu to resemble a 'fresh install' like you can with windows? (Remove all files and packages that dont come with the OS) I cant use a live USB to reinstall the system.

I have a external hard drive with my old /home folders on from every time I've jumped to a new distro, with a lot of repeating data.
What tool should I look into to cook it down? or am I out of luck, and should probably just do it by hand?

>>58006971

>what dns should I choose for my resolve.conf?

Your ISP's server, probably.

>does changing it even matter for privacy?

Depends what you're trying to hide, who you're trying to hide from, and how hard they're looking.

DNS requests aren't encrypted, so anyone with a tap in the line between you and the DNS server can see what you're requesting - if they're looking for it.

If you're worried about businesses collecting data on you, then use DNS servers you trust. They probably aren't reading your packets.

If you're worried about governments or law enforcement, then look into VPN solutions or maybe TOR.

>>58007397

I use ksh on BSD or Solaris, bash on Linux.

Some people like zsh, but I can't be bothered to learn a new shell. Same thing with tcsh.

>>58010054
>Also one that support DVDs, The closest That I could think of was tarball with size limit.
here's something i came up with for someone with a similar situation
https://rbt.asia/g/thread/S54923728#p54927781

>>58010524

Dunno about Manjaro, but on all the distros I've used XFCE usually uses GTK-based apps from the GNOME project.

KDE has its own apps for a lot of things, all based on QT.

Both can run either set of apps, and there usually isn't a problem mixing and matching.

So decide based on if you like the QT apps or the GTK apps better. If you're not familiar with either, then it doesn't really matter.

FWIW, I use KDE; I put XFCE on low-end machines for non-technical end users. My dream desktop is basically KDE apps under FVWM, but polkit always fucks with me when I try it.

>>58010452

Depends who you're talking about.

The FSF and their hardcore advocates aren't too fond of companies like Facebook and Google, but they're a vocal minority in the open source world. Most open source people are more pragmatic, and Google actually does a lot for open source.

It's mostly privacy advocates who hate Google and Facebook, and they come from all over the free<->proprietary spectrum.

For a VM, should I use a lightweight DE or just get a WM?

So lads:

I have a ubuntu server with 4x4tb and 3x3tb hard drives. The 4x4tb drives are in a mdadm raid10 array and the 3x3tb drives are spanned using LVM. The 4x4tb volume is backed onto the 3x3tb LVM volume.

I'm slowly starting to run out of space so I was thinking of converting the raid10 array into a raid5 or even just spanned. However I will miss the extra IO raid10 gave me so spanning seems a waste of potential IO and RAID0 across four 4tb drives just screams disaster.

What do? I guess I want this non-existent magical solution that lets me use more space AND extra IO but I might have overlooked something.

>>58010054

I'm surprised Canonical doesn't have something like this. They might, for all I know - have you checked?

Either way, once btrfs is stable and in widespread use, you'll likely see this as an option. It has snapshot support built into the filesystem, similar to what ZFS does on Solaris and FreeBSD. That'll give you transparent filesystem-level restore points that are easily managed.

I don't know what the state of btrfs is (I know the BSDNow guys make fun of it, but they're biased), but it should hit the mainstream at some point.

What microsoft """""loves""""" about linux ?

I have read an article about that some months ago, what happened ?

>>58011157
btrfs is pretty solid now besides its raid5/6 support

>>58011151

You say it's a server. What is it serving?

If it's a fileserver, go ahead with the RAID-5. Your disk access is probably not your bottleneck - the network connection is.

If it's a server that uses a lot of the disk locally (say, a database server or a build machine), then the only way to be sure is to test it. Still, unless you're reaching your limit speed-wise you'd probably be fine going to RAID-5.

>>58011178

Sounds like clickbait to me.

>>58011185

The BSDNow guys were talking recently about data corruption issues. Like I said, they're biased, but that could set it back a bit if true.

>>58011252
>The BSDNow guys were talking recently about data corruption issues. Like I said, they're biased, but that could set it back a bit if true.
raid5/6 support has corruption issues, but the rest is fine

>>58011227
I would have gone with raid5 right away if it werent for the shitty write speeds. Theyre meme WD reds so they aren't even 7200rpm drives, thus probably limiting me to ~100mb/s write speed which is a bit shitty.

It's mostly a file server, media server for multiple people and a couple of VMs.

I'm almost convinces to just fucking stripe them and see how it goes since I have a backup of everything anyway.

>>58011299

Hrm, I haven't run a Linux fileserver in ages so I don't know what to tell you. If you were using ZFS I'd say get an SSD for your ZIL.

The media and fileserver parts won't be affected too much by slow writes, unless you're uploading a shitload of multigigabyte files regularly. What do the VMs do? Do they need the write speed?

A stripe will fail eventually. It's up to you to decide if you want to deal with the failure or the slowness.

How the FUCK do I play rogue? There's no man page there's no --help option, rogueforge is down and googling anything related to rogue gives me nothing but wow shit.

Do I have to reinstall external modules like nvidia and vbox after kernel recompilation even if it's literally the same version from the exact same source?

I set up ubuntu 14.04 for my mom 2 years ago and it's been running great since.

The only problem is that I have to manually run apt-get update/upgrade/autoremove every couple of months.

What is the best way to automate those three commands?

>>58011435
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=rogue+roguelike
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Rogue%3A+Exploring+the+Dungeons+of+Doom

>>58009829
It actually depends on your work type

Any site/program that let me translate common phrases between languages (english/italian/spanish/portuguese/french)? Don't want to use google translate.

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>>58011559
>google

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>>58011596
Babylon Translation

>>58011600
please learn what "botnet" means

>>58011596
>>58011614
stop namefagging, spreading bullshit and shitting up this thread faggot

>>58011622
I do it just to trigger your little autism

>>58011622
triggered sjwbian user? lmao
>>58011651
keep doing what you're doing

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>>58009460
>sjwbuntu
no

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alright cunts, i've had enough of your shitposting

which distro is non-cucked and non-sjw, i will install it

>>58011855
Fedora or Arch

>>58011861
>sjwora
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Diversity_Adviser
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Women

>sjwarch
https://archwomen.org/blog/post/responding-to-harassment.html

no

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>>58011861
>>>>>>>>>>>m'distro
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>a distro that doesn't give a fuck about its users (even the devs said so)
bit cucked to be honest
>>58011871
hey cunt reply to my post with a non-sjw distro you fuck

I found a script online that automatically downloads from rented seedbox to raspberrypi at my house. However it used ftp, and I much prefer secure connection.
How can I check if this indeed uses sftp, other than having it written inside the script?

#!/bin/bash

login="MYUSERNAME"
pass="MYPASS"
host="sftp://my.server.url"
remote_dir="~/remote/directory"
local_dir="/local/directory"


trap "rm -f /tmp/sync.lock" SIGINT SIGTERM

if [ -e /tmp/sync.lock ]
then
  echo "Sync is running already."
  exit 1
else

  touch /tmp/sync.lock

  lftp -u $login,$pass $host << EOF
  set ftp:ssl-allow yes
  set mirror:use-pget-n 1
  mirror -c -P1 --log=sync.log $remote_dir $local_dir
  quit
EOF

  rm -f /tmp/sync.lock
  exit 0

fi

>>58011880
>a distro that doesn't give a fuck about its users
>implying a distro shouldn't just fuck off and let you do with it whatever you please
anything but this is the definition of cucked.
>hey cunt reply to my post with a non-sjw distro you fuck
Gentoo Linux.

>>58011924
>Gentoo Linux
any other options?

>>58011880
If you want to get rid of SJW, get rid of Linux in general.

>>58011945
slackware is pretty good too, or just make your own "distro" with LFS.
I prefer Gentoo out of these three.
>>58011949
I just want them to have as little influence over me as possible, I don't care if they contribute to the kernel

How stable is Windows-gaming in Wine? Obviously it's relevant to the game and your hardware, but I'm talking in general - what are the limitations of Wine compared to a Windows-install?

>>58011526
create a script with that does those commands
put it into a cron job

>>58011880
Join GNU and follow RMS. Feminists hate him.
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Stallman
https://libreboot.org/gnu/
https://libreboot.org/why-not-gnu/

Get Trisquel!

Ok i want to get into c++, what distro should i install.

I'm seriously a brand newfag at linux

>>58011949
especially KuckDE
http://women.kde.org/
https://community.kde.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
:^)

>>58012051
The distro doesn't matter. If new, get Ubuntu.

>>58012051
wsl

>>58011975
>limitations
Dx9+ Games won't probably work. For gaming I would have a dedicated hardware. A dual mobo desktop

>>58012086
sjw pls leave

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>>58012095
Are you still mad that your SJW distro has reached a meme status all thanks to me?

>>58012111
Should you be fighting against manspreading somewhere with your KDE girlfriends?

>>58012086
What about dual-booting? Also, if I go with Wine, should I expect complications with playing online?

>>58012051

If you want to do GUI development in C++ (probably not right away), get something that defaults to KDE.

KDE Neon, perhaps. It's Ubuntu with KDE as default.

>>58011949
hmm, is BSD cuck and sjw free?
>>58012040
>https://libreboot.org/gnu/
>https://libreboot.org/why-not-gnu/
fucking hell
>>58012069
>especially KuckDE
>http://women.kde.org/
>https://community.kde.org/OutreachProgramForWomen
FUCKING HELL

it looks like almost every GNU+Linux project is plagued with muh womyn muh trans*lgbtwtfbbq outreach "we need more gender pronouns than software code" shit

fuck

>>58012142
Dual booting is an absolute pain in the ass. I was going to refer you wired RDP over ethernet. It'd be kinda fancy to show off to /g/ babbies as well. With that you get dedicated windows machine and Linux goodness

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>>58012146

>>58012040
>http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Richard_Stallman
>In 1993, he asked for birth announcements to be banned from emacs mailing list, unless they are announcements for seahorses, because then it would be the male that gives birth and therefore interesting.
I fucking love this man.

>>58012158
>Dual booting is an absolute pain in the ass.
How?

>>58012173
Why not be able to play games in a workplace and stay on your primary OS? Why would you want to reboot the machine just for the games? It's 2017

>>58012188
I think setting up gpu passthrough would be much more time consuming than just booting into windows on an ssd.

>>58012069
>>58012069
>>58012143
Thank you guys

>>58012209
But I am not telling him to passthrough GPU.

I'm telling him to set up RDP: It's failsafe, flexible with literally any hardware and it has completely dedicated physical hardware - from the CPU to the GPU.

>RDP bottleneck
Use wires - ethernet cable

>>58012171
let's recap
>Mac OS makes you a homosexual
>Windows makes you a Pajeet cuck
>Linux and BSD are both infested with SJW
>everything else is unusable in the modern world
computing is done

>>58012236
if everything is fucked and cucked, make your own OS
that's what i'm doing

>>58012236
You can't escape them fully but you can minimize their influence on you by using LFS. Also I don't think FreeBSD has them in their management so it's still relatively untouched

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>>58012172
Feminists crippling facts like usual.
Read the full gem!

>>58012270
LFS or are you actually making a new operating system from scratch?
>>58012275
what about other BSDs?

>>58012289
he's pretty much right

>>58012323
from scratch
multiboot compliant though because writing a elf-loading bootloader is a pain in the dick

>>58012323
I've used only FreeBSD and haven't looked into other ones yet.

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>>58012325
stallman is a treasure trove of unpopular truths

>>58012327
that is really cool, how long have you been developing it?

>>58012371
only a few days now, all i really have is printing text on the screen. i'm working on context switching and keyboard interrupts right now
I got most of the information from here: http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
if you want to check it out

>>58012146
>>58012040
rms responded to the libreboot thing https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/libreboot/2016-09/msg00052.html
but tranny says he lied
welp, pure horror

>>58012389
thanks for the link mate, i've been getting into some of this recently too, been learning C and assembly. nowhere near writing an os though.

>>58012389
i'm too stupid to make an operating system

good luck with your OS anon, you should make a thread when you get more things working!

>>58012453
yeah i definitely will.
i don't have much to show at the moment but once i get something like keyboard input or commands working, i'll make a thread and post a few pics

>>58012493
i will be looking forward to it

whenever I try to use an applications 'open file' feature it opens just a blank screen. what am i missing?
i'm on i3 if that helps

>>58012389
>http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
Do you have any more resources like that?

>>58012551
Are you on Arch?

>>58012585
https://software.intel.com/sites/default/files/managed/39/c5/325462-sdm-vol-1-2abcd-3abcd.pdf

>>58012615
no, he's on i3, please try to keep up

>>58012330
will freebsd run my games?

>>58012615
yes, i am on arch

>>58012620
>pdf

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>>58012697

New thread: >>58012704