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anyone have tips for ricing openbox?

how can i use dirtyc0w to copy a hosts file to a unrooted android?

>>58391908
Just root your phone you cuck

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Consider trying out one of these nice distibutions of GNU and/or the Linux kernel
> GuixSD
> NixOS
> Gentoo
> Funtoo
> Exherbo
> Slackware
> CRUX
> Void
> Devuan
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
or these fine Unices
> FreeBSD
> OpenBSD
> NetBSD
> DragonFlyBSD
> MINIX 3
> illumos (a fork of OpenSolaris)
and remember to keep an open mind.

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I'm trying to compile

ffmpeg-git

from AUR and it's throwing this during configuration:

ERROR: libass not found using pkg-config

I tried reinstalling libass and replacing it with libass-git, it doesn't matter.

But running pkg-config gives me this:

$ pkg-config --libs libass 
-lass

which means there's no errors. So the library is there, yet ffmpeg can't find it during building.
How do I fix this?

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First for reminder to go full disk encrytion:

http://www.pavelkogan.com/2014/05/23/luks-full-disk-encryption/

>>58392328
Performance overhead

>>58392335
cp protection*

>>58392328
is there a noticable performance decrease if it's an HDD in question?

>>58391828
>title in the name slot
REEEEEEEEEEE
also
>not /fgut/

Friendly reminder that wicd and network manager are bloat when wpa_supplicant exists

>>58392344
>he doesn't watch legal CP on youtube

>>58392377
I think it should be
/fnt/ - Friendly *NIX Thread

>>58392374
Dunno. I don't use HDDs for any OS.
But even on my SSD the encryption process really takes quite a "long" time (5-10 seconds or shit)

what's the best distro for doing everything from the commandline without having to run x
I'm talking just using vim and w3m

>>58392484
see >>58392002

>>58392335
Not in the past decade.
The only overhead I noticed is boot got a second longer. Oh well, 100% worth it.

>>58392101

pacman -Rsun ffmpeg-git
pacman -S ffmpeg

Fixed.

>>58392533
It gets shitty when you run VMs

>>58392551
yo mom runs VMs

>>58392576
yeah but yo mum don't

>>58392374
No, why would there be? Unless you have >5GB/s storage speeds you won't even notice encryption.

>>58392551
Like, encryption within guests has poor performance? Or running VMs on an encrypted host has poor performance?
I can sort of understand the former, but I also know that native AES instruction flag can be passed to guests, so that's fixable.

>>58392535
You didn't need to waste those 15 seconds typing that out.

>>58392605
True.
She runs Windows on Wine. She says this works way better for her than any VM

>>58392507
a lot of those come with DE's/WM's though?
I don't want the Xvirus on my system

How do I prevent pulseaudio sink numbers from changing?

I set up my audio controls the way I want them in my i3 config file, something like:
>pactl set-sink-mute 3 toggle
It works, but say I unplug my headphones and then plug them back in. Now the device isn't 3 anymore, it's a different number, so I have to go back into my config and change the number.

How can I make it so I don't have to keep editing my config files for this? Is there a way to speficy the sink name, or to force the sink to have a permanent number?
I actually want the controls to work on both my headphones and my speakers. Only one of them is ever used at a time.

Guys I need help, Im looking for solutions for the last 5 hours. I wanted to install Ubuntu but got a blackscreen, searched for a solution, I added a nomodeset in the boot menu, ding it worked.

Well I regularly Install Ubuntu, it restarts and I get blackscreen. Fuck my life. I searched for solutions on my phone and tried so much shit. Erasing all nvidia drivers and reinstalling them, didnt work.


Any ideas

i7 2600k
GTX 1060
Samsung SSD 128GB
ASrock z44 pro motherboard


I ran several Linux distros in this pc with my r9 270x but Nvidia is shitting itself.

>>58392891
Refer to them by their name like this:

pactl set-sink-volume alsa_output.pci-0000_07_02.0.analog-stereo 100%

You can see their names in

pactl list sinks

>>58392983
Yeah I just saw how to do that, but the thing is if I set that for my headphones then my controls won't work with my speakers when I unplug my headphones.

Is there no way to tell pulseaudio to always set both of those devices to a specific index. Use that index for headphones when plugged in and then use that same index for speakers when headphones are unplugged?

>>58393003
No.
You can write a simple script that would decide volume of which device to change depending on what is plugged in. Assuming it returns the name of the sink, you can call it like:

pactl set-sink-volume $(~/myscript.sh) 100%

>>58393003
Also, this exists:

pactl set-sink-volume @DEFAULT_SINK@ 100%

>>58393112
That works, thanks

I want to create a live usb to be used for browsing internets and typing.
>Which distro you recommend?
dragora seems nice.
I want i3wm.

>>58393635
ubuntu

>>58393635
pepe linux

>>58393635
install gentoo

>>58392328
Do I have to reinstall if I want FDE?

>>58393756
>B-but I hate ubuntu!

>>58392834
are you fucking kidding me?
I don't know about GuixSD and NixOS, but the rest don't come with xorg preinstalled.

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These threads lack pictures. Why? Post pictures, this is an imageboard.

>>58393880
it's because we have no thumbnails in our filepickers

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>>58393909
KDE on Wayland when?

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>>58391828
> Wire
> not mtrix/irc
> not even xmpp
> tfw you realize how deeply retarded this thread is

So, I have an external hard drive still back from when I used Windows which has two NTFS partitions.
Thing is, I don't want it to have NTFS any more.
So I think about shrinking the partitions, making two new partitions (one for each), put some stuff in it and continue shrinking until the old partitions are nonexistent.
Now, I thought about defragmenting before doing that so that I can minimize the data loss.
But is it even possible to do that correctly under GNU/Linux?
Looking around the internet just confirms that there's no tool for defragmenting but those sources are quite old.
Does anyone happen to know how to help me?
And no, I don't have enough space to just move the content of either partition to somewhere else (which is what I would've done initially if I could).

using dd for the first time to backup ~500gb to an external drive.
what block size should i input?
should i use sync with noerror? (what does sync do?)

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How do you guys store little one liners and commands that you occasionally need and don't want to google for them again?

I have a txt file that I occasionally grep and find shit that way.

Is there a better way? Some kind of a specialized CLI app maybe? What do you use?

>>58395148
I just press ^R to find any command that I've used.
Since I save up to 10000 commands, chances are that I'll find it again.
If not, I'll just write it again.

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>>58394355
>posting low quality, possibly googled pepe
>complaining about quality

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>>58393909
>it's because we have no thumbnails in our filepickers
KDE has no such problems. SUSE even has custom patches for Firefox that allow thumbnails in a file picker.

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>>58395176
yeah, I did that initially but you can't have comments in history. Problem is that sometimes I don't even remember what some cryptic command was so just ^R though history is pointless. that's why I went to a text file so I can easily search for shit.

Summary of progression of distros.

while(not_using_OSX)
    switch(distro) {
    case 'windows' : 
         distro = 'ubuntu';
         break;  
    case 'ubuntu' :
        break;  
        distro = 'mint';
    case 'mint' :         
          distro = 'debian';
          break;
    case 'debian' :
           distro = 'fedora';
          break;
     case 'fedora' :
           distro = 'arch';
           break;
      case 'arch' :
           distro = 'gentoo';
          break;
      case 'gentoo' :
           distro = 'openBSD';
           break;
};
while(using_OSX)
       distro = OSX;

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>>58393909
>>58395199
We do have thumbnails though

>>58395237
for me it was
>windows
>ubuntu
>debian
>arch
>freebsd

Is there a way to remove Yocto linux and install debian jessie onto an Intel Edison? Also wondering if it is possible to change CHIP's linux distro too.

>>58395250
Post these images though

>>58395148
If you're using the command more often, create a function and save it into your shell's rc file.

I wrote myself a small oneliner-manager for stuff I rarly use but don't want to forget, which is basically just a text file formatted like this:

# this command does something
command does something

and a function which greps for the keyword you're seaching for (grep -A1 greps a word and the line after, grep -B1 greps a word and the line before).

so, grep -A1 imagemagick file prints out all imagemagick related onliners

>>58395237
>case 'ubuntu' :
>break;
So you're still using ubuntu?

>>58394682
Why not just rsync

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>>58395309
You just want to get your hands on my rare Yuru's

>>58395148
Folder filled with plenty of properly named .sh scripts in github repo.

>>58395327
unfamiliar :(
wasn't sure which one to use. newish to linux + cloning whole drives.

>>58394682
Don't use dd, use rsync. If you need to ask how to use dd you shouldn't be using it.

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>>58395322
>grep -A1 greps a word and the line after, grep -B1
that's nice! didn't know that you can do that.

here's what I'm using:

f () {
    grep -i --color=auto -i --color=always "$*" ~/.misc/commands.txt
}

>>58395388
I keep all my functions, aliases etc in my own file that my shell's rc script loads. but I keep lots of commands in a txt file because I can more easily grep those and don't really want to hunt for actual scripts.

now.. scripts vs. functions... that's another religious war.

>>58395181
I complain about bloat. At least my Pepe
> 9kb
isn't bloated.

>>58395392
I mean, you can clone a driver, but IMO it would probably be easier and safer to

>format new drive how you want
>plug in and mount them both on machine
>rsync all files from first to second drive

This is definitely the better choice if the issue is transferring files. Now, if you're transferring partitions or LVM, then yes you will need dd.

>>58395148
How about a script that fetches the command you pass as an arg and copies it to your clipboard for you?

>>58395237
2010 - Windows
2011 - OSX
2016 + Linux
I now have few MBPs (one from work, one mine) and a PC that only has Linux on it. I like both OSes and they share the same shell files and more or less the same userland.

>>58395430
> because I can more easily grep those
you can

ls -a | grep "dumb frogposter"

as well.

>>58395445
>parsing ls
bitch please, use find

>>58395427
>>58395427
was going to use dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb2 bs=8M conv=noerror,sync
pretty sure i get most of it. i think i was under the impression rsync was used more for remote transfer of files. would it still copy system files?

>>58395445
that won't search inside of files.

>shitposting a bit
>go to grab a bite
>ubuntu went into half suspend mode
>come back
>input pass like usual
>"Password invalid"
>wait what
>try a dozen times, each time making sure I was writing the pass correctly, like I used to do every time out of reflex
>"Password invalid :^)"

Well shit. Is there a way to re-enter my account without reinstalling ubuntu? I mean, outside of a couple of spreadsheets for my backlog and stuff, plus firefox's customization, I didn't had much there that couldn't be recovered in a night or two at worst, but still, I'd like to see if I can get it back first.

>>58391828
Linux is cuckold communist trash. BSD is not cucked and is pro white and not controlled by kikes

>>58394682
dd is a great single file copy tool but a terrible backup tool

>>58392328
Using SSD. Worth it? I heard encryption in ssd is weird...

>>58395491
It is used mostly for that, but locally it works like cp on steroids. I like it and would prefer it over dd because it shows extremely detailed progress etc.

Plus, I think your dd command might be wrong, it looks like you're copying an entire drive to a partition, which will fuck things up. Someone else should probably confirm though

I just used morituri to rip a CD. The summary states "rip NOT accurate" for every track, but each track also reports a rip quality of 100%.

How should I interpret these results? They seem contradictory. Is it possible the data it's being compared to is faulty because it's a somewhat rare CD?

>>58395501
>using cucked os
>s h i g gy

>>58395430
>now.. scripts vs. functions... that's another religious war.
What's the technical difference?

Also, I want to start the customization campaign, in a VM first. How do I keep track of everything I modify? Is there a standardized way of keeping records?

Also, what are some "relatively safe" files I can mess around with and see their effects? Is there a way to restore to defaults or do I need to manually keep backups?

>>58395492
this will:

grep -rnw . -e "pattern"

>>58395544
I had to rip some CDs over xmas, used abcde which is a nice wrapper around cdparanoia. Try that

>>58395533
yeah i partitioned a 3tb drive because the source drive is only 500gb, thought that was safe so please enlighten me

>>58392328
that guide is out of date. lots of really bad advice in there. do not follow it! read Wiki instead.

>>58395578
If you're only copying files what I would do, assuming:

>/dev/sda1 is source partition
>mounted on /mnt/source
>/dev/sdb2 is destination partition
>mounted on /mnt/dest

then try

rsync --archive --verbose --progress --human-readable /mnt/source/ /mnt/dest/

Of course, change locations depending on how you have them mounted.

What's the process for installing Linux on a new drive (ssd specifically)? I've only had experience with installing an OS on a new partition of a hard drive using bootable media, and also installing raspbian on a microsd card.

>>58395656
Depends heavily on distro. Pretty much the same though, bootable media, just format and partition the drive during the installation process

>>58395629
A bit better.

rsync -avh --progress --exclude {"/dev", "/lost+found", "/media", "/mnt", "/proc", "/run", "/sys", "/tmp"} / backup_folder

OR

rsync -avh -progress --exclude-from "exclude-list.txt" / backup_folder

You shouldn't be backing up anything in those folders anyway.

>>58395695
DESU it would probably be better to just only back up particular directories, e.g. /home

>>58395656
As long as you don't fall for the Arch meme, most of them come with an easy to use installer on a live disc.

>>58395509
Always encrypt everything unless you can come up with a reason that doesn't sound retarded if you apply the same logic to seat belts or condoms:

>I always watch where I'm driving so I don't need seatbelts
>the only craigslist guys I hook up with are curious straight guys, so I don't need to use a condom

>>58395553
Open to anyone.

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>>58395719
Arch is definitely not that hard, at least not compared to gentoo or some others. Pic related

>>58395718
You're right but if you want EVERYTHING except the useless stuff that's what you should do.

>>58395553
A script is executed by whatever shell you want, functions are executed by your current shell.

>>58395695
>A bit better.
Except that's not valid syntax

>>58395735
>implying gentoo is hard

>>58395735
Gentoo is definitely not that hard. At least compared to windows or such.

>>58395751
Yes it is.

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>>58395766
Harder than arch.

>>58395783
not really, not by much anyway

>>58395767
>have to compile the kernel
>easy
top kek

>>58395751
If you're worried about fucking shit up I recommend https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe

>>58395796
yeah, having to compile it by hand can be pretty hard if you don't know machine code

How tf do I fix a fresh install of Arch from giving me this error when booting:

"Unable to detect root device"

I've tried so many different things and nothing works.

>>58395629
>>58395695
can i do this booting ubuntu from usb? source is actually a mbp

>>58395827
Did you connect your root device? It's a special hard drive, did you even buy it?

>>58395834
Yes. Not sure what an mbp is though

>>58395553
Try

sudo rm -rf /*

>>58395841
Not that stupid dumbass.

>>58395799
>https://github.com/p-e-w/maybe

>>58395834
Yes. Although the directories you want to exclude (if any) will be different.

>>58395827
Means it can't find the device your root partition is on. Could be a few things causing that, but it was able to get past the BIOS right?

>>58395861
wow oops the heart didn't work.

>>58395841
fuggg
lost my keks :DDD

Why not discord channel?

>>58395851
Wow, thanks! Now my system is faster!

>>58395827
Add 'root=UUID=your-root-uuid' to the kernel command line.

Anyone having some config files for a good looking i3wm and i3bar/i3status ? I switched to gentoo and I use i3 as wm and I love it, but still i3 is ugly as hell

What desktop environment do you use on your laptop and desktop? Are they different?

>>58395965
In my PC I use Arch Linux with Gnome 3 and on my notebook gentoo + i3

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>>58395965
>2017
>having a desktop

>>58395501
chroot into Ubuntu with a live CD.
Run the command

sed -i 's/^$(whatever the fuck your username is):.*/$(whatever the fuck your username is)::::::::/'

Reboot and then you can login without any password (just press enter).
Then you should run passwd to change it again.

>>58395501
>>58396035
Actually, you don't even have to chroot. I don't know why I wrote that.
Just also forgot that you have to run the command against /etc/shadow (or whatever the mounted path to it will be).

>>58395965
Laptop: fedora GNOME
Pi (makeshift desktop atm): raspbian i3

Going to build a proper desktop soon as I hate programming on a tiny laptop screen and the pi overheats as soon as I touch octave.

GNOME is comfortable (once properly configured) but it's much more suited to consuming media and the internet rather than doing any programming on, even though keyboard shortcuts can be potentially powerful.

i3 is fantastic for programming but not so great for consumption.

Need to figure out some sort of compromise/best of both worlds for my new system.

>>58395965
i3 for both

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I'm fucking around with bash scripting can't figure out why this doesn't work. Can anyone spot the error?

I have simple functions that test if the OS is linux or not.

isLinux() {
   [[ "$uname" == "Linux" ]]
}

notLinux() {
   [[ "$uname" -ne "Linux" ]]
}

now...

[[ isLinux ]] && echo "Linux"
Linux

[[ notLinux ]] && echo "not Linux"
not Linux

They both print which means I'm not doing something right.

What's wrong senpai?

>>58391828
is there a fglt IRC channel?

>>58395965
Cinnamon for both. I gave GNOME a try but I can't fucking stnad having that useless bar across the top all the time.

>>58396458
it says /sqt/ here, don't know why
https://fglt.nl/irc.html

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>>58396457
-ne compares numbers. use !=

>>58396506
Thanks. Gave it a try but it still prints "not Linux" when uname clearly returns Linux. Can you paste the function into your terminal and check?

notLinux() {
 [[ "$uname" != "Linux" ]]
}

$ [[ notLinux ]] && echo "not Linux"
not Linux

>>58396567
If you're trying to call uname inline, use $(uname), not "$uname"

>>58396567
>>58396598
I was assuming his system had a uname environment variable for some reason, but it would seem not. You're looking for the command uname, you can grab the output with "$(uname)"

>>58396618
Besides, you could verify this by just running

echo "$uname"

or

printenv uname

and see they both give empty output.

>>58396457

$(uname)

See the section on Command Substitution in the bash manual.

>>58396598
>>58396618
>>58396645
Fuck! Thanks bros! I feel retarded now.

>>58395735
>zsh shilling

>>58395794
>stage3

>>58396686
zsh is the default shell for Arch installer and Arch CD. deal with it.

zsh >> bash

>>58395735
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/3ya67j/install_arch_infographic/
literally red dit, you should go back

>>58396686
>using nash

>>58396725
how did you find this link? are you a plebbitor too? you really should fuck off

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>>58395735
what a shitty guide. that will give you a basic Arch with shitty partition management and no FDE.

>>58396724
zsh is bloated shit just like arch itself

>>58395851
sudo rm -rf /your/mother, douchebag.

>>58396772
>zsh is bloated shit just like arch itself
no trolling on /g/, kid. familiarize yourself whit rules. both of your statments are factually incorrect and dead-wrong.

>>58395851
Holy shit FUCK YOU

I just spent an hour getting a live CD of Ubuntu to run so I could come back and say that. This sucks.

>>58396791
yeah, then tell me why arch packages are twice as huge as on other distros
tell me why a shell needs predefined oh-so-colored ps1's and builtin tetris

>>58396772
zsh is white and based while nash is bloated gnu shit.
>>58396817
>oh-my-shitzsh
it isn't default though you fucking retard.
>tetris
i don't have it in my shell though, i forked it.

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> using 16.04 Ubuntu
> 200+ ping on all CSGO servers
> internet seems normal speed however
> normal ping on Win 10
> didn't have this problem on Ubu 14
> using pic related for connection

Should I upgrade from default rt2800usb driver? Should I buy a new usb/pcie wifi? Should I reinstall to Ubu 14? wat do fak

Others apparently also have this issue:
https://github.com/ValveSoftware/csgo-osx-linux/issues/1130

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>>58396840
>zsh is white and based
geez it's that retard again

>>58396878
yeah, i fucking hate that "Anonymous" guy too

>>58396878
There are people who somehow think that using software made by blacks turns them black aswell.

>>58396772
>zsh is bloated
Go away troll.

$ ll /usr/bin/zsh
-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 778K Dec 22 14:27 /usr/bin/zsh

$ ll /usr/bin/bash
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 809K Dec 10 13:55 /usr/bin/bash

>>58396909
are you stupid, that's not how you compare packages

>>58396909
>having nash installed on your system
>>>/p/lebbit

>>58396840
>>58396886
Yeah, go fuck yourself with a blowtorch, you uncultured swine.

>>58396937
but that's all correct
there's no reason for it.

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>>58396909
> /usr/bin/bash
> /usr/bin/

can I play tetris in my command line with zsh?

>>58396966
no, but you can in your command prompt

>>58396966
autoload -Uz tetris
zle -N tetris

Use M-x tetris return to play tetris.

wait, there are people who still use the Blacked Again Shell?

>>58396966
yes.

autoload -U tetris 
tetris 

>>58396953
Racists are not human beings, they're just defective genome and must be removed. It doesn't matter whether what they say reflects reality or not. I was merely making the defective genome aware that he should do as instructed. In any case, enough shitposting.

>not using fish

>>58396992
>It doesn't matter whether what they say reflects reality or not
Yeah, I can see that you aren't very interested in reality.
>the defective genome
God's world is perfectly just. Only a nigger cannot see. That's why niggers have no morals.

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>>58396992
you have to go back.

>just made learnt vim visual copying and configured it to yank to system clipboard
>just found out shift+printscreen makes fedora capture a specified area

what're some tricks you guys have learnt so far in 2017?

@58396992
>>>/r/abbit

>>58396979
>>58396986
does this work by default or do I need some extensions?

>>58397028
default

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>>58396725
>>58396768
Didn't know this originally came from reddit, picked it up from some thread a long-ass time ago. Here's an alternative one for those of you getting assblasted.

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1. I've switched from XFCE to Cinnamon, and now whenever I turn on my computer, it keeps making me select my username in the login window, rather than automatically signing me in. The settings on "Users and groups" says to log in automatically, and the log in window setting also are set to log in automatically.
How do I solve this?

>>58397054
What's wrong with the Arch wiki? Why do people need infographics? Just screenshot the Arch wiki page - done.

>>58397043
lol how is that not bloated?

>>58397068
Because the wiki, good as it is, includes a not-insignificant number of edge case scenarios that most normal users will neither desire nor encounter. This tends to confuse beginners, which is who the images are intended for.

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>>58397054
it's still shit anon. it's no diff from the one above.

for one, if you have any modern PC with an SSD, for example, it will fuck it up over time.

this is why I think these images should be fucking banned. you can do some serious damage following this shit like a retard.

stay the fuck away from that shit. just read the official Wiki. it's up to date and information is actually solid.

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>>58397095
it's a fucking script. not even 100 lines. are you from 1970s and only have 5MB of disk space or something?

>>58397132
>ssd
>it will fuck it up over time
[citation needed]

There is nothing to "fuck up".
fstrim is enabled by default,when the system identifies the ssd as an ssd.
journaling has always been meme
modern ssd's break one PETABYTE before throwing errors.

>>58397132
shittty "anime", breh
you should really consider deleting this "post"

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>>58397160
>modern ssd's break one PETABYTE before throwing errors.
your whole post is wrong. and this part is only true of quality enterprise SSDs. not consumer shit that you'll find in most laptops and in most of the shit that gets peddled on /g/.

>>58397170
stay mad

>>58397132
What part of it will fuck up an SSD? The guide covers the overwhelming majority of use cases, obviously there's always going to be somebody using a hard drive from jupiter but if they're using such an unusual system they should know better than to follow generic user guides.

>>58397239
>enteprise
Nice try kiddo
http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

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>>58397160
>fstrim is enabled by default,when the system identifies the ssd as an ssd.
On Arch? HAHAHAHAHAH.
No.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives

>>58397132
>it will fuck it up over time.
how? point to the exact line

>>58397296
>how? point to the exact line
it's not what's there but what's missing.

>>58397330
tell me what's missing then. i have a sneaking suspicion your just lying to us and to me in particular

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>>58397249
all of those are expensive SSDs. Samsung Pro line is more expensive than their EVO line, for example. none of the TLC drives can be pushed that much.

and Firefox or Chrome, for example, generate 100s of GB per day.

Spotify was caught writing 700GB of data per day for example.

your SSD will turn to shit in few years easily.

>>58397349
rtfm. I already posted the link. don't be fucking lazy.

>>58397362
who is that qt

Need fedora help, using two monitors my login screen on boot is the wrong way on my vertical monitor (secondary monitor, dvi) and after logging in I have one inactive unmovable mouse on the vertical monitor but weirdly only the first mouse shows up in screenshots

>>58397362
In both instances it is a program not performing to the norm,aka "bugs", "misconfiguration".

If you do dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdd and let it run all night its going to write terabytes on your ssd!!!!!!!1111!1!!!!111!1

What's the best anime player for macOS?

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>>58397387
Theresia van Astrea

>>58397432
>In both instances it is a program not performing to the norm,aka "bugs", "misconfiguration".
stfu. you don't know shit. if it was a misconfiguration, why hasn't it been fixed in either chrome/ium or FF? it's a deep sync issue. and Spotify is still writing gigs per day (but not 700GB/day like before).

in either case, people are overestimating how long their SSDs will last and are underestimating how much they write per day.

>>58397474
Fuck off with your plebbit tier trash.

>>58397474
How can i measure this? I need some stats before I can believe someone from Reddit.

>>58397470
bump

>>58397470
RealPlayer

>>58397470
You waited 10 minutes.
Fuck Off.

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>>58397543
I'm not from plebbit.
use smartctl

>>58397517
kek. you can't argue worth of shit. go away retard and sulk in your stupidity.

>>58397579
Looks like some outdated shit, will it even run anime?
>>58397581
Sorry (｡ŏ﹏ŏ)

>>58397470
mpv.

>>58397600
i'm not even trying to argue. i am merely stating some undeniable truths about the real world
them being:
1 - you are from rabbit (the most recent wave of immigrants)
2 - you have the shittiest possible taste in "anime"

>>58397636
thanks!

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>>58397640
how do your insane rants pertain to SSD issue? I proved you wrong and now you're so mad that you're talking about anime and accuse me of being from plebbit. why? who knows... there's no logic when it comes to autists.
stick to the topic or fuck off and pop another anti-autism pill because it seems to have worn down.

>>58397682
np

>>58397692
when have i ever said anything about ssds? i literally could not care less as i could easily replace them every day if need be.
I want to see the reasoning why you're not from reddit, which you obviously are.

>>58397692
>that image
Never mind, I hereby retract my thanks.

>>58397640
His taste in anime is normal.
You are a delusional pedo weebfag that needs to be gassed.

yes, for ribbit.
you should deport yourself back to your website

>>58392101
packer -S ffmpeg-git --noconfirm

>>58397895
another very helpful meme

>>58397918
welcome

>>58395827
re-read installation wiki

>>58395501
not our problem

>>58395501
>>58395501
try turning off capslock

>>58392484
any distro wtf

>>58391873
stick a panel on it and then get yourself a file manager. Don't stop until you're happy. Keep notes on what you did on an external drive etc. so when you f up you'll be able to start over and get it how you like it.

I want to know what is a mapping and where is it stored. Reading this guide https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cryptsetup I noticed the part that says

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/xvdc backup2

So from what comes later I understand that a mapping is some sort of tag which only purpose is to allow me to write /dev/mapper/backup2 instead of /dev/sdh. Is this mapping info stored on my OS or on the external disk? Like if I take this disk to another computer, can I also call it mapper/backup2 there?

>>58392977
Try running it with the cpu graphics.
Maybe this was you?...
http://askubuntu.com/questions/836239/ubuntu-16-04-doesnt-seem-to-see-my-gtx-1060-gpu

>>58397786
dumb tripcode poster

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Preface: I'm completely fucking incompetent at this

I'm installing Arch as a dual boot just as a learning exercise. I'll probably use another distro in the future, but figured this would be interesting to start with. I've worked with Ubuntu in the past, but never the initial installation or anything past that.

I'm fucked right out the gate. I partitioned my hard drive while in Windows 7 and have a shit ton of unallocated space. Gives me /dev/loop0 while in Arch.

Whenever I try to format or mount the partition, I get errors. Says that it is read only, or that it has a squashfs signature on it so I'm not allowed to touch it.

Saw someone say online that this is in fact just space made by the ISO on the boot disk I made, but that doesn't make sense to me.


Someone please help. I know I'm trash.

>>58398412
>I'm installing Arch
Why?

>>58398494
I just... I just told you that a moment ago

>>58398412
Arch is for advanced users only.

>>58398507
That's not gentoo

>>58398507
>>58398514
Soooo, anybody gonna help me or are we just gonna fight over distros?

>>58398412
Literally just installed arch my first time as well. I had partition problems, and after trying to wrap my head around fdisk or whatever, I decided to stop the headache and install gparted to my USB, boot from it, and sort out the partitions from there. Fixed.

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How the fuck do I update -git packages from AUR???

I've just run

 yaourt -Syu --aur

and it tells me that all is up to date. However, if I go to a git repo of the package in question, it was updated an hour ago and contains the fix. Obvious solution is to reinstall.

But why? Doesn't yaourt know what git HEAD I have installed? Why doesn't it check github/git-repos for updates?!?

Explain that shit.

What's the best loonix for development? I hate doing webdev in windows so thinking of dual booting for that.

>>58398523
You can't partition anything that's under /dev. Did you make a partition under what I assume would be sda?

>>58398526
Will the fact that I'm using a DVD to boot impede my ability to follow your advice?

>>58398555
Wait, forget that first part, you can partition and mount what's under /dev, that's where your drive device is.

>>58398539
Debian

>>58396458
geez if only there was an original post or something like that, that had all the information

>>58398560
I imagine you'd be able to burn gparted on to a DVD and boot from it, so there should be no problem, just go to the gparted website and download a DVD ISO, follow their instructions.

>>58398526
fdisk is extremely easy to use.

>>58398666
When you're messing around with something delicate, like hard drive partitions, you want a program that's more willing to hold your hand through the process, Gparted just seemed better in that regard. Plus, it has a GUI.

>>58398527
>using yaourt
KEK
enjoy your malware

>>58392101
On that note, does anyone have a good guide on how to compile ffmpeg from source? First time I'm trying.

How can I transfer my Firefox profile data and settings that's on my ubuntu machine over to my windows machine?

I tried throwing it on a USB, but it was data corrupted or something when I stick my drive into my PC

>>58398756
So which AUR helper does what I want and isn't "malware"?

>>58398851
cower is the only acceptable AUR helper
you can use it to search the AUR, download packages and list and download updates
you do the building and installing manually via makepkg, after you check the PKGBUILD

>>58398915
what's your opinion of packer?

>>58399012
never had the need to use it

>>58399012
although it's better than yaourt

>>58398799
just use firefox sync

>>58399029
>>58399043
long time ago, someone on arch irc told me to use packer over everything else because it has no dependencies and it won't stop working if someone breaks. person told me that all other tools could break because they depend on something else.

>>58399075
if that's true then nice, but I don't see why you would need anything more than cower

>>58399075
packer actually uses cower in the backend if I'm not mistaken

>>58399115
no, pacaur does. packer doesn't use anything.

>>58399155
yeah I mixed them up, my mistake

Is there a nice linux calendar?

>>58399410
try cal

>>58398110
It shouldn't matter what you call it. If you take your disk to another computer, you'll run that same cryptsetup command there to open it, and it will work so long as you have the key or passphrase.

>>58399410
if you think cal is lacking in features, try gcal (the GNU version of cal)

>>58399410
GNU/Linux*

>>58399410
>>58399424
>>58399510
>>58399906
oh yeah i want it to sync with android if I can make that happen

>>58399906
.*Linux

>>58399917
*GRUB/Linux/OpenRC and GNU compiles the kernel

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I'm bored of */*nix already. What are some productive tasks or projects one can attempt which are exclusive to Linux?

>>58400121
the kernel

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>>58400128
Where do I start, and what's the benefit to a desktop system?

>>58391828
>adding your faggot ass on wire
not a chance kid, get friends somewhere else

>>58400148
add modules
remove modules

make yourself an alias to enable/disable webcam

>>58400176
My webcam is taped over and hardware disabled in BIOS, and I already had to tinker with modules to get USB 3.0 to work for certain external drives, as there were problems with UAS and the controllers.
Is there really nothing else productive to do? I'm simultaneously watching the output of htop and

watch -n1 "dmesg | tail"

and literally nothing is going on.

>>58400311
You can just

dmesg -w

>>58400323
This is an anti-feature. "watch" works just fine. Goddamn every developer wants to take after systemd, it seems.

Yo, is anybody alive here? I fucked up something in an Arch installation with partitioning and I need help

>>58393993
I created so many memes that even I can't believe.

>>58397330
He can't answer

What are some good gtk2+gtk3 themes that are not overly flat? I'd prefer one that has a light and dark version, like gtk3's default theme.

>>58400591
forgot to add: I'm using Arch if it matters

>>58400911
Please help. I finally got the partition made and in Linux format, and now I need to make a file system.

When I try, it says that it's an isw raid member and I can't make a filesystem because it is in use by the system

>>58400935
lmao you are not ready yet. Get a virtual machine and play with it beforehand, until then use Antergos

>>58391828
What happens if I disable Wayland on Fedora? Its so shit, is there something else I can use instead of it?

>>58401083
>not ready yet
Is installing Arch something to archive?

>>58401199
looks like it

>>58401134
Fedora's repos don't have xorg?

>>58391828
so usually on boot I get the message kvm disabled by bios printed two times then fedora boots like normal, I recently installed nvidias proprietary drivers, now when I boot I just get the same message but flashing forever and I never boot into fedora, tried the built in recovery tool and it doesn't work - I can get a basic grub session working but that's it - what do I do?

>>58391873

>install openbox theme
>done

>>58400897

ZUKITRE
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>>58395586
Like what?
The wiki says to use that guide.

>>58400170
>look at me, I'm not butthurt at all

I want to bind the copy-to-clipboard to a new shortcut in vim. I had this

nnoremap <leader>p "+p
nnoremap <leader>y "+y

But it doesn't work. Do I have to escape the quotation marks? I tried with a slash, but it doesn't work.

>>58401981
>look at me, I'm not kde shill at all

This might be an ultra stupid question but whatever.

Let's say i have a dual core CPU with good single core performance and a quad core CPU with shit single core performance but better multi core performance than the dual core of course.

Which one would be better for a gnu/linux system?

>>58402661
Depends how shitty shit is and how good good is

>>58402252
>>58402252
set clipboard=unnamed
automtically yanks to the clipboard

>>58402661
>a quad core CPU with shit single core performance but better multi core performance
Ground work has been laid for better load balancing/sharing. but it's up to programmers to take advantage of such for their programs.

while not useful in answering your question, this analysis paper is informative in stuff you'll likely never use in your life.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/osdi10/tech/full_papers/Boyd-Wickizer.pdf

what lonux is best

>>58403124
>=4.8.17

>>58403124
also linux-next if you're the bleeding edge of the bleeding edge.

I wanna learn Linux system administration.
Is installing Ubuntu Server in VirtualBox a good first step?

If my WIfi works on Debian(which is blob-free) afaik, will my Wifi still work when im going to use linux-libre?

>>58402572
But I am

>>58391828
I Have used Slackware for a long time, recently switched to Gentoo.

>>58403262
Yes
>>58403274
Not necessarily but you can try

>>58403262
> Ubuntu
Gentoo. Seriously.

>>58403262
I think CentOS is a better option for you

>>58403262
>first step
Yes, but then literally install Gentoo as a second or third step

>>58403262
The Ubuntu/Debian clan have now a clear lead over Red Hat/CentOS (2º place). You should start for one of them

>>58403308
ditto, slackware users retire to gentoo. natural course of life

New thread
>>58403439
>>58403439
>>58403439

>>58403451
Yes, but I can't complain about Slackware, saying that I'm really enjoying the experience with Gentoo

>>58403321
>>58403425
And the second step is to try and learn 100 most used CLI commands?

>>58403541
nobody is here to give you lessons, go to wikipedia or google.

Debian 9(stable) or Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2?