/fglt/ Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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>>58403470
Packages too old :(

>>58403476
Repeat with me: don't update it what works.

>>58403439
why is there no logo infront of the sponge?

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>>58403439
I installed CloudReady on my X220, and it's quite nice. Still Linux enough? While it is based on Gentoo, I'm not sure if it's GNU/Linux?

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>>58403471

0=0
1-1+1-1+1-....=0
1-(1-1)-(1-1)-(1-1)-....=0
1-0-0-0-.....=1
1=0

>>58403486
>Implying older kernels support new hardware

>>58403500
Oh by the way, it's Chromium OS.

So I have zero experience with Linux, but would like to have it as my main OS for internet browsing, writing documents, programming, whatever, as I really only need Windows for the occasional video game.
I was looking at Ubuntu and ElementaryOS, are they decent choices for dual booting?
Sorry if the question is retarded.

>>58403507
>using a kernel

>>58403439
who else sponge-player here?

>>58403563

I'm sorry I thought this was America.

>>58403500
>CloudReady
What meme is this?

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>>58403599
>cross threading a cross threaded reply

>>58403610
It's just Chrome OS, but the Chromium version. The updates are handled by this startup called Neverware, under their product Cloudready. It's nice.

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Is Gentoo a distro for me /fglt/?

I've been using Arch for a year and despite some hiccups here and there I don't have any complaints. But the thing is I don't feel like Arch is a "DYI" distro and it feels like you end up downloading a bunch of shit that you don't use. This and the fact that everytime I use something related to systemd my computer crashes.

Having said that, should I unironically install Gentoo? I want a multipurpose distro and I don't mind wasting time fiddling with config files. I have a Intel CPU/AMD GPU (dunno if this is important).

>>58403705
Get out of the habit of distro hopping. Do your normie tasks and learn C

Debian 9(stable) or Ubuntu LTS 16.04.2?MM?

>>58403723
What is MM? I know there is an MMA

>>58403705
yeah, it's better in pretty much every way imaginable

>>58403739
It does not matter, so that, Debian or Ubuntu?

>>58403781
Ubuntu

I'm using Arch Linux, if it matters.

>>58403786
Why?

>>58403808
Debian is a piece of trash

>>58403832
Why?

>>58403808
no ppa

>>58403845
it's sjw garbage

>>58403511
Yes ubuntu is good and it's the most supported distro. If your system is low on hardware try xubuntu.

I cannot run sway, i have this errors:
[main.c:42] [wlc] Failed to add socket to wayland display - from running in X session
[main.c:42] [wlc] Not running from X11 and no access to /dev/input/event0 or logind unavailable - error from terminal.

>>58403894
Ubuntu?

>>58403994
Debian aka SJWbian

>>58404009
Proof.

>>58404015
Of?

>>58404022
SJWbian.

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>>58403705
You won't waste time with config files on Gentoo unless you do something retarded. You have 2 main config files for your package manager (portage): make.conf in which you configure your compiler and use flags (you literally write things you like) and package.use (use flags per program). And when you decide to install Gentoo try installing it from some kind lightweight live CD (like lubuntu, xubuntu) so you will have graphic interface, working browser and internet to copy/paste commands to terminal and gparted to making partitions. And you don't need swap partition, make instead swapfile. 30 GB is enough for root partition with swapfile inside.
My make.conf file: http://pastebin.com/E40azNJC
And if you break something during instalation, just chroot again on live CD.

>>58403894
>>58404009
Why not just stop the sjw service?
>/etc/init.d/sjw stop
or for systemd
>systemctl stop sjw
Problem solved?

>>58404051
are you using a non-desktop profile? you don't need that many use flags if you aren't.

>>58404051
CPU_FLAGS_X86="aes avx mmx mmxext popcnt sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3"

Someone isn't reading the eselect news. Also yeah you shouldn't have most of that shit in USE.

USE="X ffmpeg -vdpau zsh-completion"
Mine for comparison.

>>58404108
I am on normal default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop and I need so many flags.

>>58403894
>>58404009
Ignoring the community, debian is a solid distro that is used heavily in servers. You also have no right to complain if you're using arch linux.

>>58403439
>/**Experimental:
>*Wire chat - add @helix to get started
>*/
why the fuck is this namefag from reddit allowed to create /fglt/ threads?

>>58404204
>used heavily in servers
Old ones maybe.

So I switched GPUs because I was moving my high end nvidia to another system and was going to leave GT520 for my linux box.
I install the other card and now I can't boot into the system.

I'm stuck on "Loading initial ramdisk" and nothing happens. I've tried all the boot parameters like nomodeset and all that.
Tried some rescue live CDs same shit.

After 4 hours of failing to boot up the system I went ahead to reinstall, grab my bootable USB, once I hit Install in the menu, black screen.
Try two other distros, same thing. Get another USB stick, try again, nope!

I know for a fact the gpu works, I had the same problem on my other card but I fixed it by fiddling with CSM and secure boot options for hours. Now with the same settings it doesn't work. Spent my whole afternoon trying to get this load of shit to work. FUCK UEFI, FUCK SECURE BOOT, FUCK CSM WHO THE FUCK INVENTED THIS SHIT IT DOESN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING ISTEAD OF FUCKING EVERYTHING UP

I fucking give up I'll just download Windows...

/blog

>>58404051
>>58404144
can you do bash in make.conf? i want to do:

case $(tty) in
  *tty[0-6]*)
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS=" --quiet-build=y"
  ;;
esac

but too scared to just test

>>58404243
Jessie is still used in servers. People who just want a functional server don't care about SysVinit vs systemd.

>>58404253

alias emerge='if [[ $TTY == *"tty"* ]];then emerge --quiet-build=y;else emerge;fi'

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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 - keep an open mind.

>>58404320
cool, thanks!

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>wire chat

>>58404417
just join as 'guest####', faggot

>>58404355
Try using --quiet-build and --verbose at the same time as well.

Chances are you probably don't want the full verbose output.

>>58404439
How much of a dysfunctional lonely fuck are you that you have to troll for dregs on /g/ to join your shitty yahoo chat?

>>58404417
what's wrong?

>>58404488
my whole life

>>58404439
>>58403439
>not using his name 'kde shill'
>as if he thinks no one will figure it out
neck yourself

>>58404621
if i kill myself and it turns out im not, will you come to my funeral? --if my parents have one?

>>58404271
I didn't even mention init systems you are weird don't talk to me.

:3

>>58404658
https://www.reddit.com/r/lonely/
https://www.reddit.com/r/depression/

>>58404726
how do i sign up?

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What's the best way to copy files discreetly with cp command?

cp -r /source /destination &

The files are on the HDD and want to copy over to USB flash drive.
And might need to remove the USB flash drive at anytime.
Are there better ways?

>>58404749
stop stealing nudes from your sis macbook

>>58404742
1. leave /g/ never to return
2. >>>/reddit/

>>58404749
you should properly eject flash drives to prevent data corruption

>>58404776
h e h
e
h

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>>58404773
It's actually my friend's exgfs nudes.
>>58404777
Yes, about that does data corruption means all the data that was transfered? or only the data that's being transfered?

>>58403439
was middle supposed to be VLC or something?

>>58403439
the fact that spongebob doesn't have any player atached to him is bithering me too much

What's the point of gentoo when you can install any other distro in 30 minutes or less?

>>58404852
I can install Arch in under 15 minutes

>>58404852
what's the point of any distro you don't use if the distro you're currently using works for you?

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>>58404885
Even when moved to USB flash drive?
I thought this only affected HDD.

Also is there an alternative command to use other than cp? something that might give better speeds, like rsync ?

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>>58404852
>le installing gentoo takes a long time meme
cfdisk
mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1
mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda2
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/gentoo
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
cd /mnt/gentoo
scp omg@foundabackup:/stage4.tar.gz >(tar -x)

Depending on how slow your network is this shouldn't take more than 5 minutes.

whoops I made a stupid post and accidentally deleted it

>>58404832
sometimes files that were moved a few minutes prior can be effected

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>>58404975
lulz, what about kernel config and compile time?
le fast gentoo meme

>>58404852
Gentoo takes long because it compiles everything from source code, that's the main reason to use Gentoo so makes no sense to complain about it if you're going to use it.

>>58405006
Shits already configured, src in /usr/src/linux and kernel in /boot/efi/boot/bootx64.efi that includes initramfs and points to /dev/sda2 for root.

>>58405089
But you can't use a backup for another machine.
And genkernel is bad af

$ systemd
Trying to run as user instance, but $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.

What to do?

>>58405121
>But you can't use a backup for another machine.
>And genkernel is bad af
Yes, you can. Don't use processor specific optimization with GCC, if you don't optimize with instruction sets that your machines don't have, there is no compatibility issues. My server with the backups also acts like a binhost so I don't have to compile shit.
Genkernel is easy and there are no downsides.

>>58404981
looks smart to me

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>>58404658
>>58404742
>>58404798
>>58404981
Hurry up and kys!

>>58405218
No, hes a total retard.

How viable is dual booting Windows 8.1 and some Linux distro if I only have ~13GB left on one SSD?

>>58405367
nope nupe nope nope

>>58405125
>$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR is not set.
>is not set.
>not set

>>58405191
So if I were to set make.conf to x86 or AMD64 only, it would speed up compile time significantly?

I'm trying to get LUKS on LVM to work, any kind soul can tell me what kernel parameters I have to put to get it to boot?

My encrypted root partition is /dev/mapper/vg0-lvroot
So far what I got from various guides is "rd.lvm.vg=vg0 cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/vg0-lvroot:root root=/dev/mapper/root", but it goes straight into kernel panic.

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>>58405579
Yeah sure.

>>58405645
You dont need kernel parameters, you need to set yout crypto in your bootloader.
Also use UUID
Check the arch wiki.

>>58405695
The initramfs sets up the lvm groups not the bootloader.

Jesus christ fuck off retard.

>>58405645
You dont need kernel parameters, you need to set yout crypto in your bootloader.
Also use UUID
Check the arch wiki.

>>58405802
Who are you quoting

>>58405827
i wasn't using meme arrows though.

>>58405676
If I don't set any cflags in make.conf, it will try to compile for any possible processor including my own?

>>58405867
Man I dunno just use -march=generic if you can't be fucked to find out which optimizations to use.

I use -march=core-avx-i because nothing I have is older than ivybridge.

>>58405933
>-march=generic
Don't you mean -march=native?

>>58405982
shhh hes retarded

>>58405982
Not if the goal is to produce compatible binaries for installation on multiple computers without knowing which processors are being used.

Fuck, my graphics card is heating much under linux, but with wayland it's heating even more.

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What's the best way to run Google Play Music on Arch? From the browser is the obvious one, and it just werks. But if there are better alternatives I'm all ears.
I use regularly mpd + ncmpcpp to listen music locally, but I don't think it's possible to stream from GPM through that, right?

>>58406273
>I'm using Arch if it matters

>>58406273
>Google Play Music
are you lost, corporate slave cuck?

>>58406273
fuck off archpleb

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>>58406303
>Not taking advantage of free cloud music storage.

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>>58406350

>>58406350

>downloading the same data over and over again

Kill yourself so you can stop wasting precious internet bandwidth.

>>58403439
What's wrong with MPC classic?

>>58406961
it's only good for scripts, try ncmp or ncmpcpp

wayland: sim or nao?

>>58407133

I gave GNOME on Wayland a try and was mesmerized. So smooth, so responsive, so perfect.
But I don't like GNOME, so I went back to my X environment of choice.

>>58403439
fucking kill yourself you kek erectus

>>58403439
>realized I forgot to copy my config file back into /usr/src/linux before compiling the kernel
At least my computer's generic enough where it'll still work

Is devuan any good? I want a good accessible desktop distro without systemd.

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1. When I run mount command, the external USB flash drive have the showexec variable.
Does this means that it can run executive files like .sh or .exe with WINE?

2. Is there a similar program for deep freeze that runs under linux?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_%28software%29

>>58407597
yes

>>58407520
this

>>58407631

Is there any reason to use devuan when I can just remove systemd from debian and replace with sysvinit? Any advantages/disadvantages?

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I've been using Xubuntu on all my machines for about the past two years. I've gotten a little bored with it and want to give another distro a try. I'm probably either going to try Solus or Arch on my non-work laptop.(only ever used for comfy shitposting)

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>>58407804
Shit, cut off the last part of my post:
Can I get recommendations?
I keep hearing Solus is the "next big thing" is it just a meme?

Also, I tried installing Arch yesterday but I think UNetbootin borked up the installer, am I too retarded to use Arch?

>>58407831
Use Arch Anywhere if you're too retarded to do it yourself.
Just remember to occasionally post here to remind the thread that you are in fact using Arch instead of other, inferior, distros.

Is there any point in using Kali as your primary desktop OS? Or is it just a bunch of raging faggots trying to be 1337 H@X0Rman?

>>58407609
>1
>showexec
If set, the execute permission bits of the file will be allowed only if the extension part of the name is .EXE, .COM, or .BAT. Not set by default.
But this doesn't mean it would run automatically, it just means it would run if you run it yourself.
It's legacy from forcing unix to fat.
>2
I'm a sysadmin and use this
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dafturnofris-id/
While it true that linux is protected from such things with root user, but this doesn't mean that root password can't be obtained by idiots to ruin your day.

>>58407934
The latter. For a daily driver use just about anything else than Kali.

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>Online calc textbook uses Flash
>Have to use Firefox plus the plugin because Pepperflash doesn't work, and now I have four browsers installed on my system
Freedom hurts.

>>58408015
>tfw I literally have most of the browsers supported on Linux installed on my system
I use them to see how my websites run on different browsers and stuff.

>>58407749
you don't have to do that on devuan

>>58407934
no

Is there any good Wayland alternative to Openbox?

>be me
>actually install gentoo because i think the meme is funny
>install takes a little less than 30 minutes
>spend most of the time waiting on memetoo to do it's thing with its files watching stupid videos

/g/ tells people to install gentoo because it's hard right?

I have arch installed on my laptop and I can't even figure out how to get Ubuntu working on my desktop what the fuck

I booted the installer and the first problem I found was a lack of drivers for my GTX 1070. The second was that I couldn't connect to the internet. I have an ASUS PCE-AC56 wireless adapter (wired connection isn't an option) and I guess I need to install drivers for it. Next, USB tethering doesn't work with my samshit gaylaxative S7 edge.

What the fuck do I do /g/?

>>58404251
plug old GPU back in, turn computer on, download drivers for the other GPU and then switch again

>>58405645
>LVM
>LUKS
>2017
>when ext4 has built in encryption

>>58409111
Wayland is corporate trash. Stay away from it for as long as possible.

I've been running gnu/linux dualbooted with windows and I'm really happy with it. I'm thinking about switching to gnu/linux completely and wiping my windows partitions. I also happen to be an IT student and sometimes we have to do some work in windows and write protocols about it (mostly in network engineering). Can I rely on running windows as guest OS inside gnu/linux with everything working or should I keep the windows partitions but only shrink them?

>>58409281
stop meming

>>58409394
purge dat shit

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Get in here faggots
https://app.wire.com/

>>58404330
I like you

>>58409594
>https://app.wire.com/
Not even open source. Disgusting.

>>58409626
What do you suggest?

>>58409394
There are benefits to both.
VM:
You can backup the image and run it on another computer.
You can do stuff simultaneously.
You can easily take snapshots in case you are testing something risky.
Dynamically allocated space.

Native:
Simpler networking
Better performance

I had a windows partition for a long time. Even after I switched to an SSD.
It was annoying enough to switch between operating systems I wouldn't do it unless I had to and that helped me convert everything in the beginning.
Now I use windows so rarely it is weird to have a partition for it.
So I have a windows image on my secondary drive, so I can just use quemu when I need it.

If you have the space, try it out, see if it is good enough and then use it.
It makes multitasking easier since you can stick to run that one thing in windows instead of everything.

Are there any features in GCC for C that allow you to use some preprocessor macro to remove an item from the global namespace?

That is, delete some constant such that #ifdef will no longer trigger for the const.

>>58403439
can anyone tell me if playmusiccl will still working today? I'm at work and just curious.

>>58407609
the execute bit only affects attempts to run a program /without explicitly specifying an interpreter/
that is, if you try say "./file.sh" without execute permission, it won't work, but if you do say "sh ./file.sh", it will work

>>58407609
>deep freeze
look into overlayfs (seperates reads and writes, so you can just discard writes upon shutdown or boot to do what that program does)

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>>58403439

can you install debian to hdd from the shell of a debian standard live image?

>>58411509
as in avoid the regular installer? yeah, see debootstrap

So I just installed Arch Linux, but for some reason when I double click .exe files nothing happens. How to fix?

>>58409394
any basic VM will do fine for everything outside of accellerated graphics (there are ways around that, too, but it's not as straightforward), that is, if you only use it for things like msoffice or networking tasks, it will do just as well in a VM as it would natively

>>58411637
install exe-activator from the AUR

>>58411637
Is the exe file built against the Win32 API? Is it an windows application?

>>58411637

pacaur -S binfmt-wine

>>58404144
>>58404243
>>58404320
>>58404454
>>58404466
>>58404694
>>58404975
>>58405089
>>58405191
>>58405676
>>58405757
>>58405933
>>58406018
>>58406350
why is this clown allowed to post here?

what is the best distro for gaming

what is the best distro for coding

what is the best distro for funposting

>>58412184
>>58412344
>>58412368
Gentoo

>>58409642
what ever happened to good ol' IRC?

Also I have a question. Currently I dual boot Arch and Windows, but I want to install gentoo now. What do I need to do to be able to tri boot? Just install gentoo on a new partition then add it to grub in Arch? Or is it more complicated

>>58412414
Fist you should clean up your PC from malware and remove Windows.

>>58412414
-IRC is not secure and it doesn't save chats
-Pretty much that's the plan I'd go with

>>58405645
Are you using dracut?

>>58412427
I haven't used the Windows partition in at least half a year, but sometimes a uni course requires me to do something in Windows

Ive been wanting to try out linux for a while but i dont want to fuck something up when installing it on my main computer and end up with a wiped disc.
So I found this pretty old computer on my basement. I dont know the specs, but I remember using it 15 years ago or so.

Whats an easy distro that I can install in an old computer and still make it work? [spoiler]Please no arch it looks hard as fuck[/spoiler]

>>58412590
GNU/Linux*

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Guys I really fucked up. I'm trying to dual boot Mint and Windows. I got Mint to run but now I can't get back into Windows. What do I do?

One of the difficulties I had earlier was that I couldn't make partitions for Mint because of isw raid..... something. I followed some instructions online to get rid of that, I installed Mint, but now when I try to go back to Windows it knows that it's there in Grub but it won't load.

Pic related is what I see when initially booting up. Please help

Should I charge people for Windows binaries, but give away source code and Linux binaries for free?

>>58413048
I like the idea. But I'd charge only for iOS and MacOS bins

>>58412740
Please someone help..... I can't access anything from the Windows partition even though it's all there and untouched

>>58413147
I assumed cross-compiling for Mac was simpler than for Windows - I guess I was trying to make some sort of real cost payable for the work involved in catering to Windows users, and to penalize their poor moral choice to use a grotesquely insecure and restrictive operating system.

>>58413162
Posting in multiple threads and bumping your self after 26 minutes,isnt going to get you anywhere.

>>58413224
What do I do then?

>>58413162
Have you tried mounting it?

>>58413259
be more vague

>>58413278
I am perfectly aware that I am both vague and incompetent. My problem is compound ed by the fact that I don't really know own what mistake I made. I'm begging for help here, but I know that this may not be salvageable

>got sucked into the linux meme and installed ubuntu
>it's actually fucking incredible

t-thanks /g/

I need some help, My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite C55Dt AMD A6 with a radeon 5200. My problem is kernel 4.8 and below boot properly but initram fails to boot on my self compiled 4.9 and 4.10 kernels using arch AUR linux-git and linuxpf. I cannot figure out how to get a log because journalctl is not running when the kernel panicks.

The error is to the effect
"bad: scheduling from idle thread!"
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted:
nothing really interesting before or after and it doesn't list anything specifically. I also tried enabling Southern Islands in the kernel config. In the kernel config I used the default linux 4.8.

PLEASE HELP SENPAI

>>58413270
I should mount the partition and then what?
Genuinely asking. Not sure what to do from there.

>>58409642
could try using riot/matrix

>>58413441
Then it should appear at the mount point. That's it.

My fstab entry for my NTFS partition looks like this:

[c

>>58413458
Oops, this is the actual fstab entry:

UUID=<the device UUID>    /media/windows    ntfs    permissions,locale=en_US.utf8    0 2

does anyone actually use guixSD as their daily distro?

>>58413476
Okay so while trying to mount it, I found something weird.

I used fdisk to list all the partitions, and they're all there. However, my original sda1 was a tiny little OEM partition and now it seems to be... overlapped with the Mint partition? Dafuq did I do.....

>>58413575
Are you sure it's overlapped and not just adjacent?

>>58413610
Probably adjacent. How would I check and how would I resolve this?

>>58413624
You could try a graphical tool (gparted?), it might be easier to get a visual idea of what's going on.

>>58413457
Riot is actually pretty neat, but it has an extensive account creation process

No one can drop in and post. Plus riot is a little "secrit club" that I do not want to pollute

>>58413636
So the OEM partition got deleted, the place I put /home and swap got renamed as /dev/sda1, but my Windows and Recovery partitions remain untouched.

What do

Are there any unix utils for showing the duration between two timecodes?

Like, I could run <util> yday:06:30 now # and get time in hours and minutes, or seconds if I wanted.

>>58413697
Do you care about the OEM partition being gone?

Will gparted show you the UUID of your Windows partition?

What's the least bloated version of ubuntu? I'm a noob but i dont like the bloat

>>58413724
I've got the UUID.

I could give two shits about the OEM partition. I just wanna get back into Windows.

Also, I researched my previous mistakes, and I think the command that let Mint go ahead but fucked up Windows was # sudo dmraid -rE

>>58413790
How do I check it? (sorry)
Again, thank you so much for your help....

>>58413776
Okay - what happens if you try doing this?

mkdir /mnt/ntfs 

mount -t ntfs /dev/sdaX /mnt/ntfs

where sdaX is your Windows partition

>>58413810
Ignore that - let's do that later, first let's make sure you can mount it at all, see >>58413813

>>58413826
I mounted I'm pretty sure. Put in both commands with no errors.

>>58413866
Cool - can you see anything inside /mnt/ntfs?

>>58413873
See with what? Like fdisk?

what scrot commands do you guys have bound? currently I use xfce4-screenshooter, but I believe I could just use scrot and some different bindings/commands to do all the same things.

It has the option to scrot the whole screen, the active window, or a selected area. You can also add delay and choose to hide the cursor or not. I don't care much about the cursor thing, and the delay doesn't need to be very many different values. I'll generally want it at 1 second or less, maybe on occasion I'll want it 3 or 5 seconds for things you can't scrot because they disappear if you click something. (e.g. context menus)

I'm thinking in the short-term I'll put xfce4-screenshooter on the printscreen key in my i3 config, but I could probably have some different bindings for different types of scrots when I know what I'll want in the future.

>>58413891
In your file explorer, or with ls.

>>58403488
I was wondering the same.

>>58413902
It shows up as Windows Network.

However, when I click it I get "Unable to mount location. Failed to retrieve share list from server: no such file or directory."

>>58413922
What's the output of the below? (Feel free to obfuscate anything private)

ls -lh /mnt/ntfs

>>58413948
in short, it shows all the folders in my Windows directory. Like I can see Temp, Users, Program Files, all that good stuff

Also a lot of dll files and eula.txt s

>>58413719
No, but you could write a hackish one yourself using date and shell builtins.

>>58413998
That's good, it means it mounted, so I suspect you're clicking on something else in your file explorer. Maybe type "/mnt/ntfs" in its address bar?

Anyway, it looks like Linux can mount the partition. Do you need to be able to write to it from Linux, or just read from it? If you need to write to it, you should test whether you can do that (create a text file in it or something).

>>58414045
I can both read and write to it. This is great.

Honestly, I could survive from this point onward but I still would like to actually, yknow, boot into Windows. If you can help with that then I would be deeply gracious, but otherwise I think things could be a lot worse than this.

Regardless, thank you so much for your help. I mean it dude, I was about to pull some hair out

>>58414001
Is there really nothing to convert a number of seconds into a human readable duration?

What are some porn games that can be run on Linux or at least with WINE? Not even VN type games, actual games that involve gameplay. I have a huge itch to scratch.

>>58414102
Tell grub about windows

>>58404832
sauce/story on that pic?

I need some help, My laptop is a Toshiba Satellite C55Dt AMD A6 with a radeon 5200. My problem is kernel 4.8 and below boot properly but initram fails to boot on my self compiled 4.9 and 4.10 kernels using arch AUR linux-git and linuxpf. I cannot figure out how to get a log because journalctl is not running when the kernel panicks.
The error is to the effect "bad: scheduling from idle thread!" CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Tainted: nothing really interesting before or after and it doesn't list anything specifically. I also tried enabling Southern Islands in the kernel config. In the kernel config I used the default linux 4.8.
Arch linux
I have torn apart the initramfs with lsinitcpio and then did the same to my 4.8 that boots and they are the same. I can boot if I disable acpi at boot

>>58414144
how do

>>58414159
fucking google it and stop expecting to be spoonfed

>>58414155
Why did you install a kernel from the AUR?

>>58414102
No problem, happy to help out.

You'd have to edit your bootloader in order to be able to boot into Windows. I don't know how to do that and it can mess up your system if you get it wrong so I'm not about to make any guesses.

One thing worth mentioning is that when you restart, you'll have to mount the Windows partition again manually. You can make it automatically mount on restart by editing the /etc/fstab file. There's a guide to doing that here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Fstab

>>58414167
Aight, will do. I know I'm being annoying as fuck, but google/ trial & error fucked my shit up while you guys have had a 100% success rate. Thanks for all the help, sorry I'm a shitheel

>>58414191
Thanks so much. I'll be sure to check this out.

Also, forgot to mention, Windows does in fact come up in the grub menu but it won't load from there either. Does that affect anything? Will editing the fstab file resolve this?

>>58414178
I have a 6600k with a nvidia gpu and had no problems building and installing the latest kernel from AUR linux-git. I heard the latest kernel provides a ton of updates for AMD gpu's. So i was trying to get in on that action. SENPAI

>>58414308
>nvidia gpu
>AMD gpu

>>58414308
Yeah but why from the AUR? You're supposed to compile that shit yourself. No wonder you have no idea what went wrong.

>>58414276
>Windows does in fact come up in the grub menu but it won't load from there either. Does that affect anything?
My guess is that when you installed Linux, the installer detected that you had a Windows installation and tried setting it up in grub, but got it wrong. I don't know how to fix it, sorry. The Windows installation itself is probably okay.

>Will editing the fstab file resolve this?
No, editing fstab only affects what gets mounted inside Linux.

>>58414344
Gotcha. Whelp, I'll try to figure it out. And this doesn't have anything to do with the RAID and intel software stuff I fucked with earlier?

>>58412590
Puppy Linux will run on Pentium 3 hardware just fine, I recommend at least 256MB RAM though

>>58403635
But the fuck would anyone want that.
I don't get the point of fucking chromeOS. Why the fuck would anyone willingly cuck himself from doing anything else than looking at anime porn on his computer?
Or is it something for retarded boomers who can't use a gooey specially tailored for google inept idiots?

>>58413739
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/MinimalCD

>>58414339
All it does is clone using git, make oldconfig, I then tell it to make nconfig to make my personal changes, make -j4, create intramfs install to /boot/, then generate grub. I can almost do it without reading the wiki. Can you please give me a hint.

>>58414392
It's difficult for me to say, but if the files from the Windows partition are intact (e.g. the Windows folder, all the system folders and stuff) then my instinct is that it's going to be possible to get it booting again.

I guess you could look at your grubfile (probably at /boot/grub2/grub.cfg), in particular the Windows menu entry, and see if there's anything obviously wrong with it (e.g. wrong disk or partition).

>>58403439
on gnome I'd like to use one wallpaper on my vertical monitor and one on my horizontal monitor, I found a fix using nitrogen but nitrogen crashes - any way to do it without nitrogen?

>>58414513
Oh, and don't change anything in that file! Any changes need to be made somewhere else.

>>58404749
>>58404832
if you use rsync with the -u flag (in addition to -r or whatever else, so maybe -rvu) you can resume where you left off and it'll only recopy files that are different (so ones that didn't transfer yet and ones that are corrupt from you pulling out the drive)

>>58409381
really?

>>58409228
>/g/ tells people to install gentoo because it's hard right?
it's because it's a good distro and /g/ wants the best for anyone who is actually a fellow technology enthusiast

>>58414822
nice troll

>>58413048
Yes. I think Xchat did something like this for a while.

>>58414839
He's right though.
Plus installing Gentoo isn't even hard if you know how to follow instructions and search stuff.
Although it's somewhat time consuming.

>>58414822
gentoo is a waste of time, it's /g/'s way to say lurkmoar/delete system32

then reddit came and took the "advice" seriously

>>58414839
I'm not trolling, but you are welcome to disagree with me.

>>58414861
>core of the os isnt on the installation iso
>stage3
Retardation

>>58414878
this

>>58414882
You don't need a gentoo livecd to install gentoo, I use an ubuntu one personally.
It's a better way than what distribs like arch do imo, and if you screw something up you can always copy stuff from a stage 3 archive.

>>58414927
>You don't need a gentoo livecd to install gentoo, I use an ubuntu one personally.
Last time I tried (and failed) to install Gentoo a few years ago, I just used a Gentoo installer. Can you give me a bit more info and/or link to a guide on doing it from a different distro?

Now that infinality is dead, how do I unfuck my font rendering?

>>58415461
>Now that infinality is dead
Bohoomil's infinality-bundle works fine.

>>58415578
Even with the latest harfbuzz?

>>58414974
You can install from your current distro, https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Installation_alternatives#Installing_Gentoo_from_an_existing_Linux_distribution, or use systemrescuecd

>>58414974
First you need a livecd for the same arch, or you can install it from your current distro on a separate partition.
Follow the handbook starting from the Preparing the disks section, you can use gparted if you want to.
Of course you can safely ignore all the talk about setting up the environment on the minimal cd.

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Hey bros, I need advice.

They tell me Linux is best environment to learn C or C++ and as a Windows user I'd like to run linux through a VM.
Which Linux distro would be best to use for programming purposes on a Virtual Machine?

>>58415899
if you're on windows 10 you could try bash on ubuntu on windows on NT on computer

>>58415583
Apparently not.

Thank fuck I'm not using a rolling release distro. Enjoy your broken font rendering until someone decides to fix Infinality.

>>58415915

wat

>>58415899
Literally just install any of the debian derivatives. Or Debian. Or Fedora. It doesn't matter. They all have the same build utils.

>>58415915
It's junk, especially for any serious development.

>>58415948
Indeed. I could just downgrade harfbuzz, but that just smacks of further problems to come.

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>>58415899
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.

I have a Thinkpad from 2010. Nehalem chip. The thing can be slow as shit sometimes. Unironically, no memes, would installing Gentoo be a good idea on this thing for moar speed? I've already got an SSD in there, and never find myself swapping RAM, so it's almost certainly a CPU-bound issue whenever it has problems.

>>58416498
Gentoo would certainly help, but it's tough to say if you'd notice it. You'd also then have to deal with long compile times for most software. You CAN use binaries on Gentoo, but then you're gonna miss out on the speed of compiling everything for your system. What series is it? If it's T or W you might be able to upgrade the CPU. They were socketed.

>>58415915
oh man I actually laughed by the end of this post

>>58415899
I would honestly recommend Arch just because the packages you work with will be newer and you could potentially use newer stuff that's come out. I don't know how often the C standard is updated or if this matters.

Arch Anywhere is probably the best way to install Arch besides the kind-of-hard vanilla way.

>>58412740
>>58413162
did you delete your original EFI partition and make a new one when you installed Mint?

I made that mistake once, caused the same problem you're having, had to reinstall windows.

>>58412449
I was then, guess I was lacking some modules. Now I generated initramfs with genkernel, used these kernel parameters: "dolvm crypt_root=UUID=<encrypted root UUID> cryptdevice=/dev/mapper/<vg>-<lv>:root root=/dev/mapper/root" and it all booted up perfectly.

Now I'm off to fighting with encrypted swap and hibernating, seems like fun.

>>58412740
If >>58416632
is the case, insert Win usb/cd and repair, it will restore windows efi partition and you will be able to boot. Then install grub2/refind/whatever you want without touching /EFI/Microsoft.

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My emoji look like this: fucking outlines and no color of any kind.

How do I fix this? Using Arch.

>>58418002
Forgot to add: I'm using Arch, if it matters.

>>58418002
Arch is so minimal they removed emoji support from the kernel :(

>>58418062
thanks for a bump, bud.

>>58418100
kek'd

For a second, I forgot I was in a friendly thread.

>>58403978

If your pc is really really shit, lubuntu. But xubuntu and ubuntu should work on any modern pc.

>>58418002
install emoji-hd-color-support-pack from the AUR

>>58418062
oh shit! im using arch too! so dope.

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How do I list partitions of my disk so I can see on which block a partition begins and ends? lsblk doesn't list that kind of info.

I was trying to use valgrind so I first installed it the easy way
(sudo apt-get install valgrind) tested it by running (valgrind --help)
and it worked but it was not the lastest version so I
unistalled it(sudo apt-get remove valgrind) then I downloaded the
tar.bz2 file, and uncompressed the folder into the desktop, then I
opened the README file and it said to run (./configure) then (make) then
(sudo make install) so I did, then I run again (valgrind --help) but it
tells me (bash: /usr/bin/valgrind: No such file or directory)
what do?

>>58418383

I'm pretty that running make install won't install it into /usr/bin but in /usr/local/bin. Check where the executable file was placed.

>>58418350

parted /dev/sda unit s print

>>58418654
compiling things generally doesn't put executables anywhere for you except in the folder they were built in

>>58418383
you'll have to run it from the folder or move it to somewhere in your PATH

>>58418850

He said he ran "make install", so it should be put in /usr/local/bin.

>>58418383

run

find / -iname "valgrind"

and see if it did get installed.

>>58418912
>

find / 

lol

>>58418984
what's so funny? not every system has the locate command

>>58418912
>find
>not locate
do you even linux-run?

>>58419020
what kind of degenerate distro are you running, boy? DEBIAN?

>>58419062
Arch, scout.

>>58419079
Ah. Carry on, then.

>>58419130
what distro are you running, kiddo?

>>58419396
Also Arch. Switching from Debian to Arch a year or two ago made me learn the Find command, though. You _can_ install mlocate to get the locate command, but it was my first time not having locate out of the box. I'm glad I now know how to use find. It's very powerful.

>>58418801
thanks anon!

>>58419434
oh shit! im using arch too! so dope.

>>58419601
when did the meme start and why

>>58419608
Reddit here, as far as I've discovered this meme is because there are 2 sorts of questions in these threads:

1: y0 /fglt/, help
2: y0 /fglt/, help, I'm on Arch btw

Hope it helps.

>>58419716
thx now it all makes sense, I'm on Arch btw

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>>58419716
kek

>>58419778
>saving a thumbnail
>unironically reposting a thumbnail
literally >>>/r/eddit

>>58419608
Some butthurt shitposter gor really insecure about Arch - probably a debian shill but I'm not sure

>>58419608
>archbabby

Which distro to pick?

>I'm currently on a riced out Ubuntu Server installation
>been using linux for a while(3-4 years)
>on an x220
>want everything to look good out of the box
>want everything to work properly out of the box
>fast boots are extremely important

>>58419843
Come at me, bro :D Tell me what your distro is and I'll shit on it exclusively

>>58419846
Arch. the Romans used it everywhere and lots of their structures are still standing.

>>58403439
Using Gentoo switched from Slackware

>>58419850
Windows 7 :DDDDDDDDDDD
>>58419866
natural flow of life

>>58419846
If you have to ask, just use ubuntu

>>58419870
Indeed

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>>58419870
Oh you mean that piece of shit OS you decided to cling to since you know micro***t went downhill after XP?

I'll enjoy your moaning when you get cucked into W**dows X

>>58419904
>he thinks cuckold is bad
i shoulda said vista

>>58419904
I've seen lots of stupid people in 4chan, but you're certainly in the top 3

>>58419904
I've seen lots of stupid people in 4chan, but you're certainly in the top 3

>>58419910
>Not thinking cuckold is bad
>Ironically a wincuck
makes the perfect sense

>>58419918
>>58419920
Does it hurt?

>>58419933
not really it's just a fact

>>58419933
I always have fun seeing stupid animals

>>58419956
R E K T
E
K
T

>>58403439
i agree with this image. once i seitched to mpv i didnt see a reason to ever go back

>>58419960
in a gay way

>>58419947
>>58419956
Aww so cute

>>58419866
did you optimize your kernel with --omg-optimize?

So what's a good reason to switch from Windows 10 to any Linux distro that's not a meme.?

New thread >>58419991

New thread >>58419991

>>58419981
nobody is here to teach you anything, go to Google.

>>58419997
How am I going to find out why you chose to install a linux distro? I thought nerds were supposed to be logical.

>>58419996
why'd it get deleted?

>>58419796
Funny that this comes from exactly the person who started the sjwbian meme for no reason.

>>58419981
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_10#Distribution_practices
and the next part about privacy.

Find your own reason why you want to switch. The link I provided should be a nice incentive.

New thread: >>58419965

>>58419020

I don't have locate installed. I also use find maybe once every fortnight, so I don't mind the few seconds of additional search time and hard drive activity.

>>58419608
It's honestly a really funny meme, I'm on Arch if it matters

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>>58421033
4U