/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Linux/GNU is bretty gool

Mac >>>>>>>> Windows >>> Linux

>>58260558
nah, macs are better. Even Windows is.
Look here >>58260560

>>58260580
>>58260560
samefag

>>58260560
>>58260580
samefag

>>58260597
>>58260604
yeah. your point though? mac >>>>> windows >>> Linux

>>58260616
GNU/Linux*

>>58260616
>a closed-architecture system made for hipsters and Starbucks-cucks

>a closed-source system that don't respect your privacy and it's not afraid to tell that they track your porn fetishes

>>58260656
>how-cucked-is-each project

>>58260686
yeah, it's least cucked to most cucked like this:
least cucked -----> most cucked
>>58260681
didn't even read your post. nice try though

>>58260616
>comparing malware to a kernel
do you even tech, friend

>>58260702
>do you even
>friend
lmao. stay mad, linkek

Hello guys, I'm searching for "/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread".

>>58260720
hey, this is the Mac OS thread now. you lintards can fuck off.

>>58260720
wrong site, famine

What's some good software to check for rootkits and other crap for linux?

linuxbabby here, so far so good I guess

how do I unpack and install a .tar.xz file?

>>58261384
>install a .tar.xz file
are you using slack?

>>58261425
no, debian jessie

just trying to setup an internet browser (iridium) other than firefox

well I managed to do the first part and unpacked it into a folder, but now I'm now sure how to compile and install it since there's no READ ME file

how would you compile and install this?

>>58260995
linux? uninstall that shit right now.

>>58260995
There used to be a thing called chkrootkit, but I overcame my windows legacy paranoia years ago.

>>58261384
You should be using you're package manager.
>babby

Why is NetworkManager such a steaming pile? I guess I haven't completely ruled out other things, but this is getting silly.

Sometimes when I log in (Arch, i3) it takes an extra five-ten seconds for i3bar to show up, and whenever that happens Networkmanager won't connect, even after restarting the service. the log doesn't give anything useful either, just something like authenticating -> disconnected.
I can't think of anywhere else to look for error messages.

>>58261713
never had a single problem with it. you might wanna try a non-pleb distro first

>>58260522
>dell latitude
>ubuntu 16.04
>sound crackling when it needs to play a sound after a longer time of silence
>hibernate/suspend kills the network manager so I have to restart it each time I wake up my laptop

thanks I guess. Anyone else got the same problems? it's pretty annoying.

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Hey /fglt/,

Is there anyway to implement rice-gaps when tiling in xfce/xfwm?

>>58261883
use a superior wm

does anybody use a tv tuner card with linux? Which one is the best to buy with good linux compatibility? I would like to use mpv to actually view the channels but looking on the arch wiki it seems somewhat complicated. Apparenly I do this first:

w_scan -ft -c [country_code] -M > ~/.config/mpv/channels.conf


but then what ?

Taking a GNU/Linux class at community college for my degree requirement. I've been on /g/ for years but don't know shit about Linux. What should I read to get a head start on the class so I don't seem like a pleb?

>>58262152
install gentoo

>>58262152
>>58262159 if you're hardcore
ubuntu otherwise
use vimtutor, install something from github

>>58262185

Can I do all this on a virtual machine so I don't fuck with my main computer? I used them in my last class for some things

>>58262208
i've never liked the things, but sure

>>58261713
Used to be able to background startup processes just by adding a & to the startup script command. Sorry, haven't used arch for a couple years.
Don't know how to do it using systemd though.
Try searching the wiki or google for backgrounding a startup process.

>>58262208
yes, and if you want to get a little more in depth but still have an easy install, go arch with architect installer

>>58262218
You might try that on your .config/i3/config

>>58262236
or i3bar config

>install *buntu
>insufferable blips and crackling when I listen to anything
>take it as a given that I'll need to edit a config file upon installing a distro to prevent it

>install opensuse
>almost no issues whatsoever with sound - still the occasional glitch but far less frequent

Just wondering - why is opensuse better with this? It's tumbleweed I'm using, is it newer packages or something else?

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>>58262218
>>58262236
Well the system doesn't tie it to i3, I don't see how tying it to it would help.
Looking at the startup plot, rfkill might be something.

>>58262338
probably that. Your sound driver setup might be odd.

>>58262361
systemd starts the service. But you may be able to background the applet loading in your status bar.

>>58262423
I already have that, but I don't usually start it since i3bar has an indicator.

Happy GNU/Year, faggots.

>>58262936
y-you too

>>58262936
remove this shit from my year. i don't want it anywhere near me

>>58262859
I'm guessing that's toe jam flavoured?

>>58262859
should "he" really be eating this much?

>>58263057
>""he""

>>58263131
yeah, meant to say """"""he"""""" there sorry

>>58263152
im sure you meant """"""""""""he""""""""""""

>>58263163
yeah... thanks mate i forgot to hold the key down for a little longer

In a few weeks there is a possibility that under certain ritualistic circumstances GNU will be wiped from the face of this planet. I am trying to achieve this as we speak

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>>58261384
> install
tar -xvf filename.tar.gz
cd filename
autoreconf
sh ./configure
make
sudo make install
> uninstall
navigate to directory
sudo make uninstall
But i strongly recommend you to use package manager for everything you build not only for experimental purpose. You'll understand later why it is best possible approach.

>>58263331
Forgot code tag. Fuck.

>>58263266
pssh, get on my level.
>continuously emailed Trump's campaign about banning import of anime and manga, and criminalizing possession.
>used examples like madthadd and deviantart links.
>few times I received a "our staff will look into this" dismissive reply.

Hopefully my efforts aren't in vain

how long till merifats have new yea?

>>58263544
idk. i'm pretty cool myself and i've already been in it for a quite a while now. i'm currently on a military base where we are planning something big soon hehe...

>>58263544

$  TZ="America/New_York" date +'%F %T %::z %Z'
2016-12-31 19:00:21 -05:00:00 EST

>>58263577
good. this will be our target. we are taking over

>>58262936
happy gnu ear fgltard

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>>58262936
fuck off nomalfag

i watched so much anime today i'm feeling kinda strange. what is a good distro to deal with this?

>>58263653
arch and gentoo

>>58263675
im running Arch btw

>>58263675
what do you think i was watching the animations on?

Is this an anime thread?

>>58263877
no, fuck off

>>58263885
Huh? There are posts about anime here. Which must mean it's an anime + distros thread. Am I wrong?

>>58263903
yes

>>58264064
Do you reply because you're retarded?

>>58264064
Would you mind telling me why?

>>58264064
Huh!? But there are posts about anime here?

>>58264219
yes
>>58263701
>>58263653
>>58263675

Good thead.

>>58264640
indeed a good thead

>>58264640
good thead is best thead

I recently got a 2015 Retina 13" MacBook Pro. What's a good Linux distro that doesn't look like shit with good battery life and has built in scaling for Retina without fucking with HiDpi. Elementary OS scaled fine but I couldn't get Wi-Fi to work for shit. Manjaro XFCE was fine with wifi but HiDpi wouldn't work. Pls help, OSX is killing me.

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>>58264711
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.

>>58264711
Get an Ubuntu flavor.

>>58264754
I was trying to refrain from this because it's seen as a "kiddie" OS, but looks like it's time to give in. Thanks! How's the learning curve after using Manjaro for about a year?

>>58264745
gnu is shite though. nobody cares about that piece of trash

>>58264794
Ubuntu is the best first choice for IDK-waht-to-install, bro, "kiddie" OS is something retarded like Linux Mint that looks compelling but is trash under the hood. Canonical is a trash company, but they know what they are doing. Manjaro has a bad repotation aswell, but it's not as bad ad Linux Mint

@58264801
guess you lost on your way to >>>/f/unnyjunk

>>58264845
for >>58264801

*58264845
hmm... wait a sec

>>58264875
wants >>58264845 kernel

I'd like to have a hotkey-combination that posts pre-defined text blocks. So, for example, if I want to have the interjection pasta pasted on ctrl+alt+t, what would be the best solution?

>>58265070
install windows

>>58265070
its in the control panel

>>58265070
thats actually interesting, I tried to do this a while back with xbindkeys and xsel (loading pasta into clipboard) and pasted it with xdotools, but it was simply shit

/r/ing solution aswell

towards 58265103
>/r/ing
>>>/p/lebbit

>>58265087
Friendly thead. Which means: No malware recommendations.

>>58265103
your stupid os can't do that yet. better switch to windows.
>>58265115
windows is based. fuck off with your hobbyist trash OS

>>58265115
friendly thead is best thead

>>58265115
>Friendly thead.
>Which means: No malware recommendations.
kys

>>58265143
>>58265132
>>58265110
>>58265087
>i don't know, so I'll shitpost
literally rebbit

>>58265160
windows = best os
this isn't a simple statement of "something is something". i've defined a mathematical constant. which means you have to delete your account and close this tab

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>>58260522
Any fellow communist comrades who also live dat free software? Pic related its my book shelf.

>>58265182
sup, i'm an anarcho-monarchist myself brother. now die

>>58260560
Wrong.

BSD > Linux > all other operating systems > mac > windows

>>58265160
>2 seconds to web search
>"i'll ask 4chan and whine if they don't give the answer i want"
literally >>>/r/eddit

>>58265200
Whats wrong with communism. A classless society that produces according to need sounds pretty goodtome.

>>58265201
linux is a kernel

>>58265201
>BSD (short for based software distribution) > the rest
yes, this is true. didn't bother to even look any further.

>>58265201
Mac isn't an operating system, newfag.

-> 58265214
Yes. To you. Which doesn't say much.
publicly execute this one

>>58265224
Mac osx.

>>58265201
cringe
>>58265214
the problem with communism is that it still enables tyranny

>>58265242
yeah, if you disregard all the other minor flaws like being based on false premises

>>58265242
What about the socialism in revolutionary Catalonia? Or anarcho-communist Ukraine? Or the socialism currently present in rojava. Che and Fidel gave the Cuban people healthcare and education and stuff but I don't support there method of socialism.

>>58265265
almost nailed it

>>58265228
whoops meant >>58265214

>>58265278
What?

>>58265307
Yes. This a top-secret black op. Don't expect any official support.

>>58265228
So you like starving people and massive income inequalities? Your perfectly fine with the fact that we have warehouses full of uneaten food and tons of food we throw out each day while other people starve?

>>58265329
Yeah. I am

>>58265371
Are you rich?

>>58265329
Stored food != unowned food

You have money i want money give me your money for free

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just got ourselves some sweet gnu POWs lmao... he was preaching something about "free"ware or some shit
that's me on the right by the way

>>58265384
Not particularly

Any tips on hardening my banana pi m2 running Bananian

>>58265423
porn

>>58265423
>Any tips on hardening my banana
yeah, watch some anime and it should be the natural result of that

>>58265405
In a communist society no one would need money. Fuck markets. We need to create a society based on giving according to need. You get some food if you need it. Everyone who works gets extra food. Nearly everything can be automated. But that's communism we need a transition state of socialism to get there.

i hope you are still under 16, but even then that's pretty ratarded my "mate"

>>58265475
happy gnu year my man, please don't drink and post!

>>58265442
Yes. I fully support this. How can we start doing this at least at a local scale? I already have reclaimed a lot of supplies for our comrades. Where do you live by the way?

>>58265490
sup, happy "gnu" year to you too my mate. not man though. just mate.
>please don't drink and post!
why? got a problem with that?

>>58265492
I'm fully willing to give up some stuff. for the greater good. But it would be better overall to fight for a communist revoultion.

>>58265507
Oh no, I'm not talking about you giving up stuff. I've already taken what is truly ours from the locals at my area. They didn't mind much, or so I have been told.

What does urxvt have over suckless.org's st?

>>58265523
you can effectively search for help with it

>>58265522
Only take from people who own businesses then give the businesses ownership to the workers and have them manage it democratically to establish socialism.

>>58265523
suckless.org's stuff is satire, it isn't meant for real use

>>58265554
They owned "property" which means it is actually rightfully ours. Where can we possibly meet up? I have about 5 other comrades willing to fight.

>>58265571
They got that property via stealing the wealth generated by there workers. Its not ours it belongs to the workers who work in that business. Lets meet up in northern Syria.

>>58265589
Yes, it truly does. I am currently nearby myself and I am helping our comrades in the north.

>>58265625
Rojava right? Yah the revoultion is going pretty well.

>>58265562
>dmenu is not meant for real use
GNOME Pajeet detected.

>>58265644
It is... We are currently planning a surprise attack on Aleppo and we are probably going to retake it within the next few days.

>>58265644
The nu-left are indistinguishable from satire.

>>58265713
Do you want to get Assad'd? Because that's how you get Assad'd.

>>58265716
No seriously there is a communist revolution going on in northern Syria and its working pretty well. Also were the old left. Liberals are the "nu-left"

>>58265734
I am actually saw him the other day. He didn't look like he was capable of the thing you are describing here.

>>58265676
it isn't, it doesn't even set a fucking window class

dmenu2 or rofi is the way to go, only 1337 arch kids use vanilla dmenu

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>>58265756
Yes. I believe we are going to succeed. Here is one of our best fighters after Aleppo

>>58265760
Why would Kurds want to put Aleppo back into the hands of al-Qaeda?

>>58265756
I know, "Rojava", or "de facto Kurdistan" as everyone knows it, is such a fairyland.

>>58265803
de factor Kurdistan is communist and there holding up for now.

>>58265815
Kurdistan has a market economy.

>>58265839
Socialist. The workers own the means of production.

Trying out linux mint mate on new thinkpad. Which video player do you use for the best looking chinese cartoons? mpc?

>>58266084
mpv

>>58266084
don't listen to >>58266094
use mpv

>>58266221
Thanks for the free (You).

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>>58266244
take another, friendo. hows your counter piling up?

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https://telegram.me/linux_fan_club

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>>58266276
Only 17. Deleted it when they removed (You)s for the dotted shit.

>>58260522
when i compare, all the hussles & tweaking in the 90-ties, needed to get some kernel 1.3 / 2.o.35 GNU/Linux up & running, on some Pentium1/24 MB ram or on classicAmiga_12oo 68o40/PowerPC_G2 hybridSymetricMultiprocessing; nowDays allmost every localised desktop distros (Mint, simplyMepis, AntiX, ubuntu,...) which i put in multiBoot, during gnuFeministic & cyberFeministic advocacy & activism, to new folk, who look for help inSide & outSide of a hackLab, i can say: -GNU/Linux is easier & less time consuming to install (halfAnHour per distro, compared to a day to patch, protect (fireWall), driverSolve & userLand (apps) equip any winblou$) -GNU/Linux is easier to use -- all the techical details are hidden from common desktop user, & left to root/admin realm...to the point that some desktop distros have their terminal/shell dissabled.. :) (control panels & centers reigns... :) ) -GNU/Linux saves time in general -- my estimate is 80 % after full switch (support) -you are on the legal side -- no cracking -one can recycle way old hw -- Pent2 / 64-256 MB ram with AntiX (exception to above is maybe hw egsotics like Debian GNU/Linux on new dual or Quad c0re Power6 AmigaOne x1ooo or x5ooo/4o 2.4 GHz :) & other non x86 hw like ARM/rasperyPi or the like. ) ...recently, we had an interesting phenomenon with g33ks in hackLab: experienced Slackware, Debian, Gentoo, arch,... powerUsers figured that, staying on a bleedeng rollingRelease tweakingTheLast edge "as-per-se" has no point any more, & that leaving developers, betaTesters, maintainers & packagers job is better to outSource to the people that do that things the best, so they switching to versionin "newbie" distros... :) ...actualy now than ever, it is more a question of psichologycal, sociologycal...maybe culture acceptance; than technical excelence.

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>>58266389

>>58266332
You're an idiot for not using 4chanx in the first place.

>>58266495
rude, famine

>>58266505
I'm not your famicom

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>>58266511
Fucking Nintendos!!!

let's talk about linux

>>58266747
I just pause a moment. What are you talking like Linux, is in fact, GNU / Linux, or as I have recently taken to calling it, GNU + Linux. Linux is not an operating system itself, but rather another free component of a fully operational GNU system made useful by corelibs GNU shell utilities and vital system components including a complete operating system such 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 that's just part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates resources of the machine to the other programs you run. The core is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can function as part of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is actually GNU with Linux added, or GNU / Linux. All distributions called "Linux" are really distributions of GNU / Linux.

Happy GNU year!

>>58266822
I've got kubuntu running mostly vanilla, only a handful of extra packages installed. However for the last probably 2 weeks synaptic hasn't marked any updates. Is this normal? I would think I'd update something in that time.

I've been using i3 a bit but when I close windows I can't help but get rather jarred by the sudden reorganization. Logically I get exactly what happens but it doesn't seem to stick.

I have some ideas for visual aids that'd help me. How would I go about implementing these for i3? Right now all I really want is a fading effect like the one you get on phones when you attempt to scroll further than you can on the side closest to the recently closed window of the adjacent window to the one that was just deleted.

I don't even know where I'd go to implement my own visual effects in a DE.

>>58267139
Updates aren't all that frequent. Even on things like Arch.

>>58267256
>sudden reorganization
You have ten workspaces this shouldn't really be an issue. You don't have to have everything open on the same tag.

>>58261570
Post the output of ls -hla in the directory

>>58261713
Ran into a Network Admin on the Arch IRC once who told me it's beyond fucked. I still use it, but I hope to move away from it at some point.

>>58267304
Well sometimes, like right now, I'm monitoring the thread and reading other stuff in a pdf reader.
For me workspaces is for seperating tasks anyway. Like running a compiled program is different from compiling a program/writing code. Those would have separate workspaces. But multiple browser windows concerning leasurly things isn't something I separate out.

>>58267350
>Well sometimes, like right now, I'm monitoring the thread and reading other stuff in a pdf reader
Chill tf out man. Sounds like you have a stimulation problem. What's he big deal with pressing mod #? You can't read two things at once and it's a fast transition anyways.

>>58267371
>chill the fuck out
Anon I'm not pointing a gun to your head I'm just explaining my problem. This is how I use workspaces.
I'd rather not change when there's a solution that's at least superficially simple.

what distro should I install? I am running it on a desktop for general stuff and steam games. I was thinking of fedora kde. do not suggest ubuntu. I am also pretty experienced when it comes to linux.

>>58267384
Your solution is idiotic. Wrap your head around a new paradigm.

>>58267394
If you're actually experienced go with Manjaro/Antergos/Arch

>>58267399
>insults and demands for submission to his super specific way of using a tiling WM
Full autism.

>>58267410
what's gaming performance like?

>>58267414
>super specific way of using a tiling WM
No it's not. Just because it's a 'tiling wm' doesn't mean you have to tile everything. It's not uncommon for someone to use a tiling wm and have ten different fullscreen programs. You have a fucked up idea of how to use them.

>>58267452
Idk. The most intensive thing I've ran is Fallout 3 / NV in WINE. Which is fine. I haven't pushed it further than that but my hardware isn't that great.

>>58267465
>doesn't mean you have to tile everything.
No but I tile what I want to.
And you're demanding that I use it the way you do.
At best you should say "good luck can't help you". If my way of using things isn't your way and you deem it bad you can say so. but you can't come here and say how I _should_ use my god damned windowmanager.
Internet threats are pointless but I really should inform you for your own safety that I'd punch you in the face for such stupid comments.
>Tiling WM ten different fullscreen programs
Basically your use of a tiling WM is to not tile. I'm fine with that approach but my problem is a general problem with using tiling in any situation ever. If I close my window it's jarring. I have a potential solution but don't know where to start.

I don't see why you even comment on this if your general (and strongly encouraged to the point where you call others stupid) use of a tiling WM is to not use it. Don't you feel a little bit out of place?

It's like using a laptop as a table-leg prop and being upset when people open theirs and actually use them.

And yes I'm repeating myself in many different ways because I've established you've got serious issues communicating effectively. Hope you get it.

>>58267510
>Ima tile different programs on the same tag even when they aren't related
Eat shit weirdo

>>58267510
You don't understand why they're called tags and not workspaces do you?

>>58267531
>Ima tile different programs on the same tag even when they aren't related
Where did you get this from?
We have only established that two arbitrary applications (related or not) share a tag and i3's way of visualizing the closing one could be smoother.
>weirdo
You're one to speak.
>>58267545
Anon really now. Is it not clear? Is the reading comprehension that low here? Open two windows in a workspace. Close one.
You've now reproduced my issue. It's completely irrelevant what relation the two windows have and all the comments on how I should use my WM are completely irrelevant because I haven't even asked about that.

The only way to avoid this is to NEVER tile. And in that case it doesn't matter if I'm talking about a tiling WM or not. And if this was somehow the accepted way of doing tiled windowing we'd never use it as it's completely superfluous features that you will never use. They only cause you inconvenience.

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>>58267510
>>58267531
>>58267545
These anons bring up a good point. Why aren't you tagging?

>>58267570
>Open two windows in a workspace. Close one.
>You've now reproduced my issue.
This is an issue? Take your fucking meds dude. Fucking switch to kde or somthing damn.

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I left gentoo with dwm for windows 10. It's kind of shit but it runs my japanese programs pretty good.

>>58267570
>It's completely irrelevant what relation the two windows have and all the comments on how I should use my WM are completely irrelevant because I haven't even asked about that.

THE * ONLY * SOLUTION * TO * YOUR * "ISSUE" * IS * TO * NOT * OPEN * TWO * WINDOWS * ON * THE * SAME * SCREEN *

>>58267570
>i3's way of visualizing the closing one could be smoother.
Maybe you should try something besides i3. It really sounds like you aren't happy with it but are to autistic (literally) to realize that you should change.

>>58267609
No. It's not the only solution. I've established I have a solution to try but it involves special rendering. Trivial rendering in fact.
Just because you're a systems ape who can't actually do anything yourself dosen't mean everyone are.

But clearly /fglt/ is filled with complete retards (>>58267588) and it's silly of me to think I'd be able to get a moderately useful answer here.
>>58267619
No I'm perfectly happy with i3 and I use it for more than maximizing my windows, that seems to be the norm. It's just this one issue that bothers me.
Other WM's would have me do more work all the time to get close to what I want.

>>58267630
>I've established I have a solution to try but it involves special rendering.
This is retarded and it doesn't "solve" and "problem".

From what I've seen online, it looks like the best option to remove a program in openSUSE and also take care of the other unneeded packages is "sudo zypper remove -u (program)"

Is there a way to do this without selecting a program to remove? I guess whatever the equivalent of autoremove in apt is. I removed Amarok via yast and I'm not sure if it took care of the dependencies, or if there even are any I can remove.

>>58267664
>This is retarded
You hardly seem to even know what I'm gonna do.
>and it doesn't "solve" and "problem".
It doesn't solve a problem? I think it does and I want to try. And you can't know that. You're not me so you can't possibly know.

>>58267683
Don't install bs you don't need in the first place (honest good advice)

>>58267693
Pointless visual effects. Get the fuck out and consider abstaining from alcohol in the future.

>>58267705
>Pointless visual effects
Yes, effects indicating motion to the human mind are completely useless for human operators. Well spotted anon.

>>58267705
This is a friendly thead. The only people who need to get out are unfriendly people.

>>58267700
I'm talking about programs that came with it by default. Amarok, Dragon Player, Konqueror, etc.

There's also the slight problem that I don't know the precise quality of every program in existence and, therefore, might need to install one to see how it is. I apologize for my imperfection.

what is literally the literally best distro?

>>58267731
Literally the one I'm using.

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>>58267722

>>58267742
which one is it?

>>58267760
Solus

>>58267760
The best.

>>58267742
>Literally the one I'm using.
So it never changes?
Why would you change?
When did you start using your linux distro?

>>58267330
the problem is is that it's basically the only thing that can handle most cases.
I can probably use something else now that I'm out of college, it matters less, but there are few real replacements with as many features. It seems like something that should be pretty high on the list to fix.

>>58267891
The problem is that its some skid with a hacked up i3 that doesn't know what hes fucking doing and fucks shit up.

>>58262859
He's fucking disgusting.

>>58267897
holy shit, how did you make that your tripcode is a word??? it looks fucking cool!

>>58267933
>>58267945
I choose to believe this isn't sarcasm.

>>58267897
>>58267945
I'm also interested. Looks pretty 1337.

>>58267943
He doesn't have much longer to live lmao. so let him enjoy his food. It'll just hasten the process

>>58267897
>!BE/4wes0mE
that's "leet speak", right? pretty new to this stuffs

>>58267973
are you one of them 'new' 'fags'?

>>58267973
It's HEXSPEAK. Look it up. Common amoung hackers.

Searching for an de independent hotkey program. Should I go with xbindkeys or sxhkd? Is there something I missed? Recommendations welcome.

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how to fix fonts on rtp games with wine?

looks like crud

>>58267998
w647 60 90u m34n?

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>>58260522
Why is there no search function when I want to upload and image? I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. This is pissing me off.

>>58266094
>>58266221
Encountered a problem, some videos look like slideshows. Googled around and came up with something about display resampling?

>>58268485
use your file manager like a gtk plebian.

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getting bored with Antergos, what are some other distros I can fuck around with?

I have a 610m graphics card on kubuntu which drivers should I be using?

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Is there a tool in linux similar to Recovery drive/System repair of windows?

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>>58260522
>install only working distro Antergos
>something breakz™
>unable to change/access password besides on initial login
>try to fix it be rolling back update and asking in forum
>never works again
>think to myself fuck that i don't need it anyways
>weeks go by where i'm quite happy with it
>since i don't play games much i do not realize that there's something wrong
>get home for new years
>want to play a few games to kill some time
>[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver
>try everything i can think off over the course of the week
>reinstalling deleting configs and a bunch of other things
>then on the last day
>morning it doesn't work
>evening magically it just wekz™
>think to myself at least i can enjoy it tomorrow a bit
>today
>[ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not load GPU driver

i don't even know anymore this just plain doesn't make any sense

>inb4 use any other distro
tried it didn't work properly

I'm trying to install qbittorrent and I'm getting the following error

sudo apt update && sudo apt install qbittorrent       Hit:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety InRelease         
Hit:2 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-updates InRelease  
Hit:3 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-backports InRelease
Get:4 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu yakkety-security InRelease [102 kB]
Ign:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/qbittorrent-team/qbittorrent-stable/ubuntu yakkety InRelease
Err:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu yakkety Release
  404  Not Found
Reading package lists... Done                            
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/bumblebee/stable/ubuntu yakkety Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

What do? spoon feed me please.

>>58268923
Install gentoo

>>58269017
That's not in the offficial repos?

>>58269037
doesn't work

>>58269090
What do you mean 'doesn't work'

You configure it for your hardware.

Looks like antergos 'doesn't work'

>>58269109
i mean it in the way that it did not go past blinking cursor on the top left
that was the first thing i saw after starting the livecd and thus i moved on to another distro seeing how at that point it was like the third one showing this behavior

>>58269137
You could find something that somewhat works and try to install a working system based on that.

It looks like your problem is that you only have working driver for one of your gpus, so the system is fucking up when it tries to use the display on the wrong one. The kernel you are using at the moment probably has support for dynamically controlling this, so only activates the nvidia GPU when it wants to play a game or something.

Basically you need the drivers for your card. I don't know why you couldn't log in, that's probably just a bug with the login thing, Ive had something like that before

>>58269228
as far as i can tell the driver of my integrated gpu (intel) has no problems
and i got the nvidia driver out of the repo
i'll try getting the official one from nvidia that might fix it

the problem with finding something that somewhat works is that it stops working after a reboot
this is the second time it just stopped working
and i assume the same thing happened at the beginning and i just didn't see it because i did not use it

i'll next try setting up a clean system to fix the password issue and hopefully the gpu issue
but first i'd have to find a way to back up the stuff i can't loose
(i can't just copy the home folder and later throw it back in and it'll just work can i?)

>>58269303
Try typing lspci -k (might need sudo) and see what comes up. The nvidia card should say it has something like the nouveau driver. If it doesn't you might have to manually load the kernel module with modprobe

You can just copy your home files. If you have it on a separate partition you don't even need to do anything

>>58269448
it says
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GM107M [GeForce GTX 950M] (rev a2)
Subsystem: Pegatron Device 22cd
Kernel modules: nouveau, nvidia_drm, nvidia

weirdly enough nouveau is blacklisted in the blacklist.conf

How do I umount sshfs?

>>58269514
Hmm, looks like you have both open source and proprietary drivers, maybe they are conflicting. Which would make sense if nouveau is supposed to be blacklisted

Try unloading nouveau and see if your issue still occurs

>>58269521
You don't, it's there forever

>>58269592
unloading made no difference
i checked and it shouldn't even be installed since i had to remove it before installing the proprietary driver and bumblebee
the package manager also says it is not installed

>>58269042
I don't know.

>>58269017
bumping problem.

Sup

Is there an equivalent to parallels on Linux? Some virtualization software that can run software over a windows virtual machine fairly well, and not as basic as VirtualBox?

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>>58269592
this might be unrelated but i found out that
nvidia-persistenced.service was loaded but is failed

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>we are in January 2018
>Steam OS is finally released with wayland, latest kernel version and latest drivers and gnome as an alternative to their UI
>To convince gamers to switch to their OS, they made portal 3, half life 3 and left 4 dead 3 exclusive to steam OS / linux for a year.
>During 2017 nvidia and AMD updated their drivers to catch up the windows version
>All game engines have a working vulkan version
>wine support DX11
>Rockstar, Blizzard and other big game companies announced they are supporting linux after the increase of users
>linux is said to be more performant compared to windows (games load faster, more fps, etc.)
>the number of linux users is now 10% and because predicted to reach 25% in the next months
>hardware manufacturer are starting to sell desktop and laptop computers with linux
>the year of the linux desktop is finally here because of video games

How would it make you feel ?

>>58269861
i came.

>>58269861
See, that's cool and all, but it ain't gonna happen.

>>58269861
aren't they halfway done with implementing dx11 in wine?

When will AwesomeWM 4.0 be available in a PPA for Ubuntu? I don't feel like compiling shit

>>58270009
they are going to release wine 2 with DX11 in january. They got overwatch running on it

>>58270009
What is the point even

How hard is it to dual boot to windows and why would you subject yourself to the pile of bugs that is anything running under wine

>>58270072
it's not hard it is just anoying as fuck to have to restart if you want to use Linux/windows software

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which music player do you recommend and why?

>>58270108
clementine
works nicely
has the features one would want
looks nice

deadbeef if you want a foobar2k on linux and dislike wine

>>58270108
I recently started using one called Lollypop.
It seems nice. It's got a somewhat simple and clean interface, and not bloated with a bunch of features you probably will never use. Although that simplicity comes at the cost of customisability.

>>58270108
rhythmbox. The UI is clear, it's easy to use and does the job.

>>58270093
Yeah, but let's suppose you have some proper hardware and you want to run something like Overwatch

Wouldn't you want to get the best performance you can from it even if it takes restarting, rather than using something half assed?

>>58270108
Clementine has a fuckton of features.

>>58270326
of course but that would only be the case if you just play for long periods of time not if you play every once in a while
like you work on linux
reboot
play a round of overwatch
reboot
do work on linux
reboot
play another round of overwatch

now if wine doesn't hamper the performance below a certain acceptable level then it would be acceptable to not have to reboot if you want to play a round

is there something like wikitaxi for linux?
something that doesn't ask me to download a 16gb image instead of a 2gb one

I was trying to get warcraft 3 running on wine, but when it's in fullscreen and I switch to a different desktop and then back, the window is completely fucked up. When I run it in windowed mode, the mouse pointer won't stay inside the window even when I set the MouseWarpOverride thing to "force".
Could anyone please help me with either:

- forcing the mouse pointer to stay inside windowed warcraft 3 but get released when I switch desktops

- making warcraft 3 in fullscreen not flip its shit when I either minimize it or switch desktops


thanks friends

Is there a good voice command center/framework?
Just for putting on an SBC, for waking up computers and reading news and shit.

Tried Mycroft, unsurprisingly it's shit

>>58271065
>forcing the mouse pointer to stay inside windowed warcraft 3 but get released when I switch desktops
Sounds to not be trivial to do

>making warcraft 3 in fullscreen not flip its shit when I either minimize it or switch desktops

Have your tried windowed fullscreen?

>>58271112
Yeah, but that fucks up my aspect ratio, it stretches the game out because it only supports 4:3

>>58271162
You could try running it in its own X-session, but I never tried something like that myself.

>>58271209
That actually makes sense, I'll try that out now, thanks for the help friend

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>>58271065
set wine to use a virtual desktop, which basically forces everything in the prefix to display within a window, even if the program thinks it's running full screen

Terminal command to clean a folder without removing the folder itself?

rtorrent failed to remove some stuff from my seedbox so I need to delete everything in the torrents folder but don't wasnt to remove torrents folder just in case rutorrent is too retarded to recreate it and breaks

>>58271279
Nevermind, rutorrent have a comfy file manager
I love this shit

>>58271279

rm /the/folder/* -r

>>58271279
rm -rf folder/*

>>58271311
>>58271308
I already used that once I fucked up the seedbox and got the drive full so I was unable to run anything but terminal
Doesn't it remove the folder too?

>>58271326
yeah, you said clean a folder. If you want to remove the files only, you would have to do something like

find path/ -type f -iname "*" -delete

>>58271229
I did that, but I don't know how to temporarily release the mouse pointer if I want to do something else on my computer and then switch back to warcraft

>>58269800
try aptitude

>>58268504
Bumping this for help. Also tried xine and vlc, both of which play smoothly, so what do I have to do to make mpv usable?

>>58271383
just put warcraft on its own workspace

>>58271065
In my experience the best way to use wine is on kde with wine in its own virtual desktop and use the win key to escape the game.

>>58271744
>he has a win key

So, which distro do you use and why?

>>58271827
is this yet another bait?

Wine or dual boot Windows 7 for vidya?

Is there a possibility to disable XDG user directories from having "customized" icons?

I would like to keep XDG directories as XDG directories (a lot of software seeks for them) but I would like them to look like regular directories with regular icons

>>58271888
I heard that there is some sort of lightweight windows 7 version, maybe you should try dual booting that

>>58272143
Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.

>>58272155
must be bait ,no way someone can be this retarded

>>58271857
>>58272240
yes

>>58271888
wine if your games aren't DX11 and your machine doesn't suck.

>>58272240
Well, he's correct. Lots of code in Linux is written by Microsoft developers.

>>58272240
it's a pasta you dummy

>>58272273
linus writes the kernel

>>58272298
Linus wrote like 2% in the beginning. Today he just appoves commits. The biggest contributers to the kernel are Red Hat, Google and Microsoft (and of course people from all over the world).

>>58272330
2% is a lot in such a large project IMHO

>>58272273
And? that's not related to that stupid pasta

>>58271308
Holy shit you have a THE folder on your ROOT!

Getting a Thinkpad X260, it uses Intel 520 graphics. Do Intel graphics need special video drivers?

>>58272848
nah, intel igpus are the only GPUs on the market that you don't have to fuck around with on Linux.

Intel provides an open source kernel that's included in the kernel.

It's literally better than the one you get on Windows.

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Friendly reminder that you can make happend the Year of GNU/Linux dDesktop by


1. Help making good software and videogames if you are a programmer. There are plenty of open source games you can help https://libregamewiki.org/Main_Page. Imagine if you have a company, you can sell GPL games too if you create an original story and artwork. Yes you read it just right, you can sell it. Put some money on marketing and you are on the right track helping the community too.

2. Offer technical support for those willing to switch the platform. I am not joking when I say people made money with this. RedHat and Canonical are the biggest examples.

Godspeed.

>>58272964
>implying /g/ can program

STOP RECOMMENDING DEBIAN


You are all completely stupid. Debian is outdated and insecure. More over, it's just a noobuntu spin that was made to attract power users. All it's maintainers are SJW and the distro is sponsored by jews and the liberal media.
The Debian project shows through it's public statements and manifests that it's clearly no aligned with the moral Christian values that made the US the great nation it came to be.
It's degenerate.

Arch Linux is superior to it in every way. It has bleeding edge packages, what means more stability and security, since you get all the last bug fixes.
It's rolling release, it doesn't randomly breaks during version updates.
It's also more configurable and extensible. On overall you just have more control over your computer.
Anyone that is serious about their OS uses Arch.

>>58272909
That makes sense. My laptop has a Skylake i5, would it be important to update my kernel to maximize performance?
I use Fedora 25 and normally exclude kernel updates from yum because I find removing each grub entry after an update.

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>>58273057

>>58273084
a kernel might introduce an update to the cpu microcode.

if your hardware is recent it's worth to use recent kernel versions.

>>58273084
>>58273131
and you aren't supposed to remove grub entries on fedora you dummy.

Fedora keeps 1 or 2 (i don't remember) kernel version backwards after an update so you can boot and fix a problem IF some critical bug slips through when they release a new kernel.

They're removed as you go.

What's some good linux software for keeping a journal?

>>58273381
I think Emacs + org-mode is the tool for that.

But there's https://github.com/maebert/jrnl which i haven't tried.

>>58273456
Thanks, will check it out.

>>58273131
I'll keep updating it, especially because Skylake CPUs are still relatively new.

>>58273152
Never noticed that Fedora only stores the 3 most recent kernel versions (googled it to be sure). Never had an issue with the most recent kernels before I stopped updating, but I agree that it would be good to keep the entries just in case.

>>58273667
>googled
don't do this, it's botnet

-> -> -> >>58273761

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OK, so, I have one HD with Ubuntu installed, but Ubuntu isn't as free as other distros. I want to install Trisquel on it, but only on a part of it, not all of it. Could I? Which software should I use? Would it be safe to do? May I define that the same user folder be shared by both distros?

Currently running OpenSuse and I'm having trouble getting a Huion graphics tablet to work.

I've managed to get it set up on Mint and I've seen people get it working on Ubuntu so I know it can be done.

The distro shouldn't even matter as support for this model has been included since kernel 3.12.2

Any ideas on what to do?