/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

first for *BRAPPPFT*

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>mfw there are freetards in this very thread using google botnet captcha to post on a closed source proprietary imageboard software

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>>58520868
>mfw you're right
>mfw not sure if that is worse than buying a 4chan pass

Anyone had any experience using spectrewm? If you did, how was it? Good? Bad?

ok apt-get is slow as fuck idk wtf i should just an hero nobody knows the fix not even google

>>58520897

>slow as fuck

But does it actually get done or does it just hang forever?

Wew lads.
Looking for a hi-dpi friendly DE like gnome. Any ideas? the laptop has a touch screen, which I like to utilize some times as well.

>>58520868
I'm pretty sure that Stallman's said free websites miss the point of free software by being server-controlled anyway, but I can't find it right now.

>>58520897
change where you're downloading the lists from

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You will never be a GNU/Linux pro if you use qwerty.

This is a fact.

>>58520897
change your mirror you dumbass.

apt picks the closest mirror to you so you can have the least latency/biggest speeeds when downloading from repos.

if the mirror shits the bed you need to change it.

>>58520890
I used it, but only for a little while, didn't do too much tinkering, but I think it's a pretty good.
The configuration is straightforward and it's much simpler than i3 for example.
Definetely give it a try, now that you've reminded me, I might give it another go as well.

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>>58520932
?

>>58520916
I don't give a rats ass what that hippie said!

>>58520908
>>58520933
>>58520917

it gets done it hangs at the "connecting to blah blah blah" but it hangs for about 2 minutes before it goes through. i think its my router but theres nothing i can do because its a leased router and it doesnt have an option to allow all traffic on port 80, and it might not even be that because i tried ftp.us.debian and ftp.ca.debian and it all does the same thing, and the wierd part is sometimes itll not hang at all itll just go through

>>58520932
http://t.fuelr.at/snickiz

>>58520935

How straightforward are we talking about? i3 has those damned dotfiles that are OK, awesome requires some basic lua knowledge the last time I tried it.

I understand that configuring a WM is a lot different than a DE but I would like to make one look somewhat decent (not trying to rice here) without needing a physics degree, so to speak.

What's a good Arch based distro to install to USB? I already tried Mangjaro 16.10.3 and it shits itself trying to boot, shits itself before it even hits the desktop/login and never boots to either of the two.

Just want it for persistent USB install to run off my Chromebook on USB.

>>58521038

Try Antergos?

>>58521035
fluxbox

>>58520932
there are devs that still hunt-and-peck

For manually using the AUR, when I am updating something is it enough to just git pull or do I have to run makepkg again? Guessing I need to do makepkg again but just wanted to check. Will I lose my config files?

>>58521002
>i think its my router but theres nothing i can do because its a leased router and it doesnt have an option to allow all traffic on port 80
Wait. Your router only allows some traffic on port 80? I've never seen that before.

>>58521087
If it is properly setup to use git then it will base its package version on the git commit.Just go to the folder and makepkg again

If you're looking to get your feet wet use Bunsen Labs. It has a very polished Openbox experience OOB

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Consider trying out one of these nice distibutions of GNU and/or the Linux kernel
> GuixSD
> NixOS
> GoboLinux
> Gentoo
> Funtoo
> Exherbo
> Source Mage
> Slackware
> CRUX
> Void
> Devuan
> Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
or these fine Unices
> FreeBSD
> OpenBSD
> NetBSD
> DragonFlyBSD
> MINIX 3
and remember: keep an open mind.

>>58521087
>Will I lose my config files?
No, because

makepkg -i

will call

pacman -U

, which is strict about not losing user-modified config files.

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>>58521128
>and remember: keep an open mind.

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>>58521218
>you should be an absolute assfaggot to deal with when discussing software because someone's quote
god how much I want you /pol/edditors gone

>>58521173
>>58521101
thanks

>>58521253
Who are you quoting

>>58521059
name one

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What distro has the premier KDE experience, lads?

>>58521454
Gentoo

>>58520889
Using a pass is even worse. Every single post you make is tied to your pass ID which is in turn tied to your IRL identity through your bank details.

>>58521454

KDE Neon is basically built around KDE.

>>58520780
I have a quick question. I own a GTX 770 and I'm currently using Windows 7 as my operating system. What would be the best way to get the latest drivers for my particular graphics card?

I'm going to be buying a pci-e pass-through compatible motherboard/cpu in the future for some games, but is there a best way to get the most out of my GTX 770 in a Linux environment.
Thank you.

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I looked at my logs today and I notice I have a lot of these Avahi errors:

 Jan 16 14:20:45 anonme dbus[441]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service'
Jan 16 14:20:45 anonme dbus[441]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service not found.
Jan 16 14:20:46 anonme dbus[441]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service'
Jan 16 14:20:46 anonme dbus[441]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service not found.

I check and I do have it installed:

 1 extra/avahi 0.6.32-3 [installed]
    Service Discovery for Linux using mDNS/DNS-SD -- compatible with Bonjour

How do I get rid of these errors? Anyone know?

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>>58521504
>Ubuntu

>>58521504
Does it use that patched version of Firefox from openSUSE without the godawful GTK filepicker?

>>58521035
https://github.com/conformal/spectrwm#readme
>It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration.

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Repostan:
So what exactly do I need to backup so I can move my current setup to another system? I have some stuff from /etc/, /var/, and ~/, but don't know what else would I need.

>>58521578
/usr/

>>58521518

Any decent distro will have the latest stable drivers for that Nvidia in their repositories.

Fedora only requires the addition of the non-free repo (takes a few seconds to add this repo) in order to use the recommended proprietary Nvidia blob.

>>58521555

Checked and I hate Ubuntu shit too but you have to admit that KDE Neon is built with and focuses on only KDE...

>>58521578
Bitch just backup whatever is in /home, reinstall the the same distribution, reinstall the software you used and you'll get literally the result you wanted.

No fucking clue why would anyone go through the hassle of backing up root if you used a generic distribution that's still available, up and running.

every bit of data that's relevant is in /home.

>>58521612
>relevant
/etc/*.conf

>>58521636
>/etc/
System-wide configurations.
You care about user configurations, which are located in /home

System-wide configurations will be restored in the exact same state when you reinstall the OS

>>58521661
He is moving from one system to a new one.He will have none of these files there, as it is a new system.
>reading comprehension
Lern it

>>58521594
I'm guessing I should avoid "gaming" distros.
What are some good distros in your opinion that I can test on live usb?

>>58521578
Everything expect /proc, /run and so on. It's a lot easier to just rsync the whole lot over than just parts. Then you just have to update fstab and you're done.

And remember, if it's not backed up, you are willing to lose it.

>>58521697

"gaming" distros? Que?

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>tfw still no thumbnails
What the fuck are they doing?

>>58521560

I have no idea, sorry.

>>58521738
>install filepicker that enables icon view

>>58521725
Steam OS and such.

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>tfw use Manjaro but tell people I use Arch

xD

>>58521749

Ahhh OK.

Well, you can try out Fedora, it's a good OS and like I said earlier you only need to add the one repo to get hassle-free Nvidia driver installation.

You can also try Antergos and see how an Arch-based distro works for you.

>>58521743
Recommend me one, or at least name one.

>>58521752
>tfw I tell people I use Arch and I actually do use Arch

>>58521893
how's it feel to be a KEK

Finally got PCSX2 to work , so long suckers!

>>58521843
*crickets*

XFS or f2fs for flash operating system?

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i've been using arch for about a year, but wifi is still finicky for me. there's no way i'm ever using debian again, so i guess i'll be going back to either fedora or xubuntu soon, although i'm not too excited about it.
are there any other distros you would recommend (besides gentoo and solus)?

>>58522453

What wifi card you have and what chipset? What do you mean by "finicky"?

>>58522471
Intel Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN and Mobile Intel GM965 Express according to some specs page. finicky meaning that it loses connection frequently (which doesn't happen on other computers of mine) and will only connect to like 4 or 5 networks even when i know 100% i have the correct information

>>58522443
ext4

>>58521752
>tfw manjaro causes more issues than Arch

shoulda just used arch-anywhere desu senpai

>>58522550

Man, I would just buy a TP-LINK WN722-N (my wifi card) and just disable the others. My card works great and if you wanna play hacker man it can be put into monitoring mode and shit like that.

Hey guys,

Just bought a new XPS13 and I plan on running GNOME (Wayland) but I am stuck between Debian Testing/Sid and Fedora 25, don't have too much experience with either

>>58522940
fedora because the devs actually do their job

>>58522976
Has their been issues with Debian? Excuse my ignorance

does anyone know the name of the cli typing tutor thing?

>>58522565

>>58521454

I use KDE on Arch. I don't know about premier experience, but it seems pretty decent to me.

I need a gnu/linux distro that I can boot from a flash drive, but will run completely in RAM so I can remove the drive after booting.
What should I try?

I just fired up VMWare Player for the first time in months so I could revisit the bland delights of Linux (I am a Wincuck and proud of it). This time, though, I had my PDF of The Linux Bible open next to it so I could learn some basic introductory shit. And that is why I have come here to ask...

Does CentOS have fucking ANYTHING on it? Pretty much everything I tried, was not found. "Anon, see what file manager you have in Fedora!" It looks like I don't have either of the ones listed. "Anon, try these cool applications! They're in Fedora, but hey, the differences are minimal!" Nope, I don't have a single one.

Is CentOS just a complete desert? I couldn't even download shit because I couldn't make the virtual machine connect to the Internet.

>>58523195
Puppy Linux

>>58523078
gtypist

>>58523253
many thanks

>>58523250
thanks anon

Is there a better wifi frontend than network manager? nmcli works like a charm but is a bit of a hassle because I'm stupid, but nmapplet has been buggy as hell for me

I'm sick of Linux and am trying to install Windows on a bootable USB stick using Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial. Is there a method that actually works at accomplishing this or do I need to buy blank DVDs? I've tried 3 or 4 different methods and none of them work.

>>58523239
CentOS is not Fedora, did you download and install a minimal CentOS? If you did you will not have any of the GUI mentioned in the Linux Bible, which is a terrible book.

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my laptop (chromebook 15) overheats and shuts down when I'm playing duskers

is there anything I can do to make it throttle before it turns itself off?

>>58523582
Sorry, I forgot to specify that I'm trying to install Windows 10.

WinUSB doesn't work. dd doesn't work. Using the Disks utility in Ubuntu to write the iso to the stick doesn't work.

>>58523054
Basically, Debian stable gets all the attention from Debians security team, Testing and Unstable don't really get touched and have a constant stream of security bugs. Hence why they recommend the stable branch.

Fedora is more up to date than Debian Testing/Sid and has a dedicated security team. This means you get the latest software with the assurance of a dedicated security team.

The only negative to Fedora is you will need to add RPM Fusion (a third party repo) to get access to multimedia software and codecs, this is a considerable downside, as you can not know the legitimacy of the package you have downloaded.

Hope this helps, friend

So I recently installed gentoo and it's been great so far.
I'm going with dwm for my window manager since it's what I'm used to. However, it seems to be having a hard time rendering? The windows (in floating mode) just hop across the screen at seemingly 24fps when I drag them. Web browser scrolling is choppy.

i3 and awesome don't do this,
what gives?

>>58523766
Do you have a compositor?

>>58523786
should I? i3 and awesome don't use compositing, do they?

>>58523806
those low-end WMs expect you to install compton I think

For some reason thought using the AUR was tricky so I've always used Yaourt. It's so easy to do manually

>>58520780
How can i creampie him?

>>58523862
What is the advantage of doing it manually?

>>58523822
So I installed and ran compton. The other WMs are the same as usual, but dwm is still choppy. It's got shadows and effects so I know compton is running, but it's still choppy.

>>58523910
I don't know man, I run gnome/wayland which is basically the opposite of your setup...

You could try running wayland and sway if you like i3.

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Why does the i3 status get cut off and how to fix it? Pic related is top right corner of my screen

>installing my Windows 10 iso in a VM just to be able to create a bootable USB with the iso using Rufus

Linux

I was lurking on japanese Futaba channl (2chan.net) and couldn't find any linux thread, are japs are sane then?

>>58524083
yep

It's why I'm going back to Windows. I can't play my VNs or browse 2ch comfortably in Linux.

>>58524100
> I can't play my VNs
Evein in wine?
> or browse 2ch comfortably in Linux.
Because there are no GNU/Linux thread?

>>58524127
>Even in Wine?

Why even bother when I can just go back to Windows and not waste time troubleshooting shit that probably won't even work anyway?

>Because there are no GNU/Linux thread

No good third party 2ch browsers for Linux. Linux isn't good for learning other languages tbqh

Also no JNovel Formatter or KanjiTomo.

>>58521479
last i checked you can buy a pass with buttcoins

>>58524059
unetbootin

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>>58524083
Nevr forget ;_;

Seriously though, 2channel has an entire board for Linux.

>>58521552
Next time you need tech support, dont ask for it here.

also, try

jounralctl | grep avahi

that may tell you more of what the issue is. I cant tell you anything from that error message other than it cant find the correct avahi service binary

I build sway from source and my graphics card was heating like 10 degrees more with it, when weston installed from repository on 1 degee less then usual i3.

>>58524256
That 2ch board is really slow.

>>58521578
>So what exactly do I need to backup so I can move my current setup to another system?

This all depends on how much you want to save. I would recommend only keeping /home and then reinstalling everything else you need.

If you want to simply save EVERYTHING just in case of total screwup, and then only restore stuff you need later, i would recommend:

rsync -arv / path_to_backup_device

>>58524256
I couldn't find it.

>>58524277
2chan, not 2ch.

>>58524325
http://hayabusa6.2ch.net/linux/

>>58523822
do i need to do anything after installing compton, or is everything done for me?

>>58524335
You got it the other way around. This post >>58524256 said "2channel" which is 2ch.
2chan is futaba.

>>58521111
>Bunsen Labs.
Man, I miss CrunchBang.

>>58524335
http://hayabusa6.2ch.net/linux/
was I boad I was talking about. It's actually a lot faster than I remember.

>>58524389
is crunchbang++ still a thing? bunsenlabs just doesn't feel the same

>>58524351
You need config.

>>58521454
OpenSUSE

>>58520780
how do I mount a flash drive in FreeBSD
I need to make a gentoo boot USB

>>58524412
Pretty sure it's still hanging around. Most people I've talked to deem BunsenLabs as #!'s main successor. I haven't used either of 'em, though.
Fairly certain Bunsen has more devs. Might be wrong.

Help me pick a distro /fglt/.

i want a DIY distro but I don't want to use systemd, so Arch's out. I don't want to compile everything too, so Gentoo's out.

I have a AMD gpu card so I want to use their open source drives, plus I want to use wayland + sway. Which distro should I give a try?

>>58525422
Void Linux

>>58525422
Devuan

what the fuck is wayland

>>58523655
RPM Fusion is insecure? Can you not just for example build mpv from source in Fedora and use it that way?

>>58525535
The future.

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What else can I move to tmpfs? Compiling directory, ~/.cache, what else?

>>58525637
/tmp
browser profile (sync it periodically)

>>58524059
Rufus-WINE

>>58524059
dd

>>58525752
unetbootin ended up working

I'm so glad to be back on Windows again. I'll still play around with Linux in VMs but fuck using Linux as my main system.

>>58525851
Didn't work.

>>58526048
GNU/Linux*

My library encoding script fucked up and now I have several hundred maybe thousand OGG files that are redundant but in a way that fdupes doesn't seem to want to pick up, be it some with a number tag as "-1", or some simply with a different filename but counting as different because of I guess different encode times. Is there a way to recursively find and delete these files lest I spend the hours I have left until I should be waking up going through them and deleting them myself?

How do I do RAID1 with Debian?

>>58526184
lmgtfy.com/?q=debian+software+raid

>>58520780
How do i format read-only drives with gparted?

>>58526196
How do you have permission to format it if you don't have permission to read it?

>>58526252
well i dunno how to change permission. I tried quite a few things/

>>58526268
chmod as root normally does the trick?

>>58523600
You can limit cpu usage with cgroups.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Resource_Management_Guide/sec-cpu.html

Is ZFS still shit on Linux? I'd like to have a dedicated NAS, but I'd rather make it run a Linux distro for a few light server jobs.

>>58526312
BTRFS is what you are looking for.

>>58526194
>google
nice botnet

>>58526315
Isn't it also shit filled with bugs and not ready?

>>58526312
GNU/Linux*

>>58526319
lmddgfy.com/?q=debian+software+raid

>>58526325
Way more reliable than ZFS these days

>>58526338
Isn't their RAID5/RAID6 implementation still not ready? I'd like to know a little more. My last impressions of btrfs were than even the guys using it say it's not ready.

>>58526328
End yourself. I don't want to type ganoo when it's not needed.

>mfw you are too intelligent to use gnome

So after a long and painful goodby period, I finally realised that KDE is dead for good.

The logical thing to do, seems to switch over to its big antagonist, gnome.

Now I do understand that gnome works different from KDE and has less customization options, but there are just some things that are so wrong on so many levels that I can't ignore them.

But how the hell do I set anything in this bugger?

Settings is essentially worthless. The most obvious things I need to change, but can't figure out how are:
>have some kind of taskbar, panel or dock that shows my running programs. I know what activities is, but this is tied to some expose-like stuff, which, while sometimes useful and nice, totally breaks my focus. I just wanna keep my eyes on say firefox, throw my mouse to the left, look there for a split second and click on e.g. file manager
>where are the settings in file mananger? The stuff available in the burger menu is a joke. Alternatively: What FM can emulate dolphin? (Have a terminal available in the FM, have a preview panel or preview on hover)
>How do I get a proper task switcher? I dont want icons for the running "apps", I want a list of the windows and their titles on my current virtual desktop.
>where are virtual desktops?
>how do I make use of all the wastet space at the top? 90% of the space are just black. Where do I set a shortcut to view my CPU and RAM use there? Seems like this is the status bar anyways (I get WIFI status there already).
>and speaking of wasted space: How do I make the title bar a sane size?

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>>58526338
I don't like this. It was two kernel versions ago, but it still worries me since I want a RAID6 implementation.

Did KDE Shill kill KDE for /fglt/ or something? I think it works fine.

>>58526325
it's fine except for raid5/6, but you can place btrfs atop mdadm raid5/6 for now

>>58526396
>was using Manjaro KDE
>sudo pacman -Syu
>most of my programs started instantly crashing on startup

never again

>>58526411
>Manjaro
That's your problem.

>>58526418
Let me guess, I should have used Arch?

>>58526428
No, you should have not used an OS for teenagers.

>>58526446
>switch to Ubuntu stable
>mouse randomly stops working and have to restart all the time

Did I do it right?

>>58526493
Not if you think that's an Ubuntu issue.

>>58526505
>never happened until switching to Ubuntu
>started happening immediately after installing Ubuntu

ok then

What should I use?

>>58526527
Fedora or Debian unless you want to buy a less-shitty mouse.

>>58523600
But a better laptop.

>>58523910
Try compiling mesa w/ dri

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>>58526288
nope!

>>58526606
chown -R user:group

-R is recursive

user is your $user
group is your $group

>>58526577
There's nothing wrong with my mouse...

What will happen is I'll install Fedora and Debian and each will have its own stupid issues to deal with, making me wonder why I continue dicking around with this immature hobby OS when I can get actual work done.

i mad

>>58526720
What is mouse acceleration?

>>58526353

>>have some kind of taskbar, panel or dock that shows my running programs. I know what activities is, but this is tied to some expose-like stuff, which, while sometimes useful and nice, totally breaks my focus. I just wanna keep my eyes on say firefox, throw my mouse to the left, look there for a split second and click on e.g. file manager
Addons. There's a bunch of them.

>>where are the settings in file mananger? The stuff available in the burger menu is a joke. Alternatively: What FM can emulate dolphin? (Have a terminal available in the FM, have a preview panel or preview on hover)
GNOME Files is very limited. Replace it with Nemo if you want more functionality.

>>How do I get a proper task switcher? I dont want icons for the running "apps", I want a list of the windows and their titles on my current virtual desktop.
Addons or extensions or however they call them again.

>>and speaking of wasted space: How do I make the title bar a sane size?
Use a different GTK theme or adjust it yourself globablally with CSS overrides.

>>58526807
>Addons
>Addons or extensions
>CSS overrides
Who on earth thought it was a good idea to deport basic WM functionality into addons?

>>58526837

Toolkit theming isn't basic window manager functionality.
Taskoverview isn't basic window manager functionality.

>want to install reactOS to get away from windows botnet
>booting from usb gives me BOOTMGR MISSING error
>flash iso with a different program
>invalid partition table
>wtf
>extract iso contents to a small sata drive and boot from that
>BOOTMGR MISSING
they really make it fucking simple to install, how do i install this crap without an optical drive?

>>58526871
>Toolkit theming isn't basic window manager functionality.
Agreed. However having some basic options to change fucking anything is.
>Taskoverview isn't basic window manager functionality.
I disagree. Enabling me to view and organize my running applications is one of its basic functionalities!

>>58526991

>Agreed. However having some basic options to change fucking anything is.
No, your window manager should not touch anything toolkit related and they never do.
That "wasted" space you're complaining about isn't a product of GNOME's window manager, it's the GNOME applications making use of GTK3's header bar widgets. Switch to programs that don't use header bars.

>I disagree. Enabling me to view and organize my running applications is one of its basic functionalities!
It's out of the scope for a window manager. That's what taskbars are for.

What's the /g/ way to VNC? VNC over SSH or Vencrypt or something else?

>>58527007
I might be mistaking WM and DE…
But
>That "wasted" space
is definitely part of gnome.
Its there when I run gnome applications, its there when I run non-gnome applications, its there when I am in gnomes activities menu, it gives me acces to basic gnome functionality… Who else should be responsible for that besides gnome?
>That's what taskbars are for.
And thos are basic functionality of it (or the DE). when I install some full blown thing like gnome (unlike some autismo fest like ratpoison or xmonad) I expect that everything is taken care of and that I have at least some basic settings.

>>58527059
nomachine NX

>>58527070

I assume you were talking about GNOME programs' headerbars. It appears you're talking about GNOME's taskbar on the top. I don't know how it works, but it's their choice. They will most likely point you to the addons.

>And thos are basic functionality of it (or the DE). when I install some full blown thing like gnome (unlike some autismo fest like ratpoison or xmonad) I expect that everything is taken care of and that I have at least some basic settings.
Why are you so entitled? No one is forcing you to use GNOME. They do their thing. Submit bug reports and hope it gets fixed or fix it yourself.

I don't like GNOME and don't use it. That's the other way normal people deal with this situation. The other one is submitting bug reports and suggestions.

>>58526586
>>58526652
>>58526759
>>58527103
Hi there!

You seem to have made a bit of a mist ake in your post. Luckily, the users of 4chan are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!

Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!

>>58527124
>Why are you so entitled? No one is forcing you to use GNOME.
But I am being forced to use gnome. By the KDE retards who can't produce anything stable.
And I am just trying to understand how the hell gnome works. Because for most things so far, I can't understand what the hell the reason for them is.
Seems like addons would fix a lot of it, but the gnome site lists hundres of extension, but fedora only has about 20 of them in their repos, so they aren't exactly useful to me.

>>58527259

>But I am being forced to use gnome. By the KDE retards who can't produce anything stable.
No, you aren't forced to use it. I suggest you look up what the word means and how to use it within contexts.

>but fedora only has about 20 of them in their repos, so they aren't exactly useful to me.
You can install extensions directly from the website using Firefox. Normally I advocate the usage of a package manager, but in this case it might be okay, because it won't be installed globally anyway, but in your HOME directory.

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>tfw downloaded 600 new tracks from various sources
>really can't be bothered renaming and tagging them all to go into my regular music folder

I hate this part of getting new music. What batch renamers and taggers do you guys use? I used to use bulk rename utility and foobar when I used windows.

So, installed OpenWRT on my router a while ago, and it didn't have a working GUI
Didn't care much then, did most of the config through the GUI

Now I'm trying to update it to the latest OpenWRT version and short of using a serial connection, there's no other way of updating it without a GUI, so I'm trying to solve the broken GUI problem.

Going to 192.168.1.1 produces a white screen with

The CGI process did not produce any response

Trying to manually run /www/cgi-bin/luci from ssh produces this error

/usr/bin/lua: /usr/lib/lua/luci/sys.lua:33: loop or previous error loading module 'luci.model.uci'
stack traceback:
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /usr/lib/lua/luci/sys.lua:33: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /usr/lib/lua/luci/sgi/cgi.lua:31: in main chunk
        [C]: in function 'require'
        /www/cgi-bin/luci:3: in main chunk
        [C]: ?

Trying to install libuci-lua (which some people suggested for this error) doesn't work

Installing libuci-lua (12012009.7-4) to root...
Collected errors:
 * opkg_download_pkg: Package libuci-lua is not available from any configured src.
 * opkg_install_pkg: Failed to download libuci-lua. Perhaps you need to run 'opkg update'?
 * opkg_install_cmd: Cannot install package libuci-lua.

pls help

>>58527320
>You can install extensions directly from the website using Firefox. Normally I advocate the usage of a package manager, but in this case it might be okay, because it won't be installed globally anyway
So I have to go through all of this for every single user and update them manually? That'S just great…

>>58527259
ever considered trying XFCE?

>>58527320
>You can install extensions directly from the website using Firefox
nice vendor lock-in

>>58526954
use a VM

you do understand reactos doesn't support much compared to windows yet, right?
you can run more windows software in wine than reactos

>KDE migrating their apps to QTWebEngine (Google Chromium)
KDE fags on suicide watch

>>58527417
ran it on a vm to test and it ran like shit
i want to install it on an old drive so i can test my drivers

>>58527495
what i mean is use the VM to install it to your disk

i haven't installed an os by running its' installer on metal in a long time

>>58527374
The ironic part is:
It does not work with firefox.
But it seems to work with epiphany (holy shit, that thing is apple levels of form-over-function)
However, all the extensions I installed, do not show up in gnome-tweak and do not work

>>58527525
>what i mean is use the VM to install it to your disk
how do i do this
google gives me tutorials on how to install loonix in microsoft virtual pc

>>58527359

Use Puddletag.

>>58527552
with virtualbox on windows for example;

vboxmanage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\drive9.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive9

vboxmanage.exe is in virtualbox's program files folder, run it from cmd as administrator
to find out what drive number to use, open Disk Management and note the numbers on the lower left hand side

you can then add that vmdk as a disk in a VM, run virtualbox as administrator as well, otherwise it won't have permission to access the physical disk

also note; dismount volumes on that drive before using it in the VM, that is, remove any drive letters assigned to it first (you can do so from Disk Management)
if you mount a volume both on the host and the vm, corruption will ensue

>>58527374

It most likely works with all free software browsers.

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>>58527607
cool, thanks man
have a funny pic

>>58527454
good

>>58526652
>chown -R user:group
so it'd be

user:sugna-laptop

How do it know what location im trying to take ownership of?

I've read a few reviews on Antegros and they seem pretty favorable, are there any real negatives I should know about?

>>58526196
you can't by definition, if it's a writable medium, disable its write protection (for example, the slider on the side of an SD card)

>>58527603
>>58527359
different anon here, searching for a cli solution

>>58528249
apt-cache search id3

Is there any alternative to this

cat alist.txt | sort -n > blist.txt ; mv blist.txt alist.txt

Basically i just want to overwrite alist.txt after sorting it

>>58528324
cat alist.txt | sort -n > alist.txt

maybe?

>>58528016
check the man m8
chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE

It means you set location on the "FILE" argument.
If you miss that argument it doesn't works.

>>58528324
sponge from moreutils can do this

also UUOC here: use sort -n file instead of cat file | sort -n

>>58528731
But it ain't a file. Its a hard disk

>>58528860
>>58528324

I made a function that does basically the same as the real sponge.

sponge() {
  printf -- '%s\n' "$(cat /dev/stdin)" >| "${1}"
}

Usage: shuf file.txt | sponge file.txt

>>58528708
>>58528860

>cat alist.txt | sort -n > alist.txt
>sort -n alist.txt > alist.txt

both make alist.txt an empty file

>>58529054
sort -n alist.txt | sponge alist.txt

>>58528324
you always need a temp file or a program that pulls it into it's memory before you write back to the original file

>>58528324
sort -n alist.txt -o alist.txt

Hi /g/uys, I'm a Windows user since ever. I want to start using linux just to dev. What distro should I use? For dev and sometimes web?

Any idea why I cannot download anything from the Debian website? Any .iso or even torrent image I choose to download redirects me to a 404. I thought it was just a temporary thing but its been like that for a week.

Alernatevily do you know where i could get a 32bit x86 net install image?

>>58529529
If you want to have some windows-ish GUI, something with KDE (though they are really buggy right now).
If you want to have something nice that just works, but work different from windows, ubuntu.
If you want to have something non-autistic that still has some /g/-cred, fedora.

>>58529721
literally nobody is using fedora

I'm a stupid user of Windows 7 yet, I hate this OS fucking lag and stupid problems of security
Yesterday I was in class with a new teacher a Fucking /g/ IRL. He said me Debian is the distribution of all

Is that right ?
I want to try and leave windows

>>58523627
I'm pretty sure that no one in the GNU/Linux thread is going to help you switch to Windows.

>>58529805
debian is easy to use and has plenty of packages, just ditch the free software meme and use the non-free repos. anything is better than windows

>>58529636
Same issue, the website devs are working on the mirror issue and should have resolved it shortly

Is there a way of making Wayland usable? I want to get away from xserver because my autism spikes now that I've learned of the security issues but Wayland is still pretty bad, half of my programs won't open in it. Trying GNOME 3.22

>>58527259
>>58527370
Get Xfce and Xcfe goodies.

>>58523627
Unetbootin

>>58527359
every DE has some kind of bulk renaming program.
Use puddletag for tagging or mp3tag works quite well in wine.

>>58529764
[citation needed]
According to distrowatch, it at least is among the most widely clicked ones and since they are tied to red hat, at least a lot of their developers have to run it.
Besides:
I run fedora.

>>58523627
1. repartition your flash drive. Create one large, primary partition, set it to active. Set filesystem type of the partition to 7 - hpfs/ntfs
2. format the partition to NTFS. you can use gparted or from console:

mkntfs -f /dev/sdXN

3. mount the partition somewhere
4. mount your windows iso to somewhere

mount -o loop /path/to/iso/windows_10.iso /media/cdrom

5. copy EVERYTHING from your iso (the directory your mounted it) to the flash drive
6. umount your iso and flash drive
7. install ms-sys (it's in apt or in a ppa)
8. use ms-sys to make your device bootable

ms-sys -mbr7 /dev/sdX
ms-sys --ntfs /dev/sdXN

with mbr7 you need to target the device like sdb
with --ntfs you need to target the partition like sdb1

helo

>>58529961

Oh. Taking a long time. Either way, i downloaded it on the linux tracker torrent site.

>>58530662
501 Syntax: HELO hostname

I've been using Arch with i3 for a long time but I want to try Fedora wtih Wayland/GNOME. Should I do it /fglt/?

I've been wiping with my right hand for a long time but I want to try wiping with my left hand. Should I do it /fglt/?

>>58530880
Use both hands for maximum efficiency

question about i3lock: is there a way to run a command on failed attemts?

>>58530866

I can tell that you're lying, because after a "long time" you still don't understand what constitutes a distribution and why someone would switch.
Pathetic.

>>58531091
You could pipe the output to a file and check that file with a loop-script.

>>58523594
It's not that minimal; it has a couple of games and things as far as I can tell. It's not like Windows Server Core-tier minimal or anything. It has a GUI; it just doesn't have a different selection of desktop wallpapers or anything like that.

What's wrong with the Linux Bible? Some other /g/ thread said it was really good, which is why I downloaded it.

>>58531121

Actually I'm asking three questions

>should I use Fedora instead of Arch?
>should I use GNOME instead of i3?
>should I use Wayland?

Also you're not being a friendly GNU/Linux anon.

>>58531231

All of those subjective questions which no one but you can answer after spending 1 minute and seeing what every thing is.

>should I eat an apple or an orange?
>should I walk on the left side of the pavement or the right side?
>should I pick up a fork?

Only pure coincidence that another anon is asking sort of the same question re: Wayland BUT

I was starting out the process of switching out i3 to Wayland+Sway but I read the github page for Sway which says that using Nvidia's proprietary drivers is not supported.

I've looked into a lot of shit regarding Nvidia's (halfhearted) efforts to support Wayland itself but can't find anything about someone trying out Sway on Nvidia drivers.
Does this mean that the Nvidia drivers are out of the question for Sway or just that they won't offer help for people who run into problems using it?
If Nvidia is to be believed, that shit is compatible with Wayland itself (and by extension probably Weston), so what in Sway makes it so different?

I can guinea pig this shit out for what actually happens but I've got other shit to do atm and just want to understand how this all works.

If i3 on X11 works and Wayland works, then what would make a port of i3 onto Wayland not work?

Shit, ZFSoL is supported up to kernel 4.8. What about muh bleeding edge?

>>58531285

I'm just engaging in a friendly GNU/Linux conversation with my friendly GNU/Linux anons about friendly GNU/Linux distros, DE/WM and protocols.

>>58520780
Is it true that the new gcc broke trying to install gentoo?

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So how do I get my layers tab back on the right side of the window, this seems to be the default now and I hate it as it's unbalanced.

>>58531694
just grab it and put it back on the right lol

>>58531731

Doesn't work, you can only grab the tabs and they just detach and float instead of docking anywhere you drag them.

>>58531758

rm -rf ~/.gimp*

>>58531694
I didn't even know it could be on the left side in single window mode. Have you tired just disabling that mode and reenabling it?
windows > single-window mode

>>58531694
>>58531811
Also, if that doesn't work I just noticed there's an option to reset window positions under Edit > Preferences > Window Management

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>>58531840
>gimp has such poorly thought out UI that the devs anticipated such option

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>>58531694

>>58531811
>>58531840

Single window mode seems to be causing the problem at least, I've reset the layout 4 times, then when I enable single window mode it joins both the layers and brushes menus together and sticks them on the left.

I've fixed it now though, had to close all the menu tabs except for brushes then enable the layers menu and it finally opens on the right.
>>58531858

That didn't work for me, I've found out why though, for some reason the space was so small that it wouldn't respond to having stuff dropped into it, it had to be expanded first.

>>58531858
"freedom"

>>58531977
?

Yo ma boys
I'm runing debian with XFCE, can I uninstall lightdm and run XFCE without a windows manager?

How do I get the old mpv UI back? The new one looks like shit.

>>58532471
mpv.io/manual and ctrl+f it yourself

>>58532448
It is possible.

However you should wait for someone who actually done it on jessie.

Last time I did it it was wheezy and I had tons of problems with policykit and all those authenticating doodads. Not being able to mount external storage without root password and shutdown/restart without root password was a huge pain in the ass.

This might've been fixed. I don't know, I don't want to try.

To do it do

systemctl disable lightdm

systemctl stop lightdm

and try to login with startx. It should default to XFCE.

If something goes wrong just reenable lightdm with

systemctl enable lightdm

systemctl start lightdm

>>58532501
That's what I did before asking here.

>>58532448
You can and probably should run the same install in a VM and test the VM before fucking with your host. VMs are fun and useful for testing with any OS.

>>58532537
Ah, fuck, it _was_ there after all..

is there any reason why i can utilize google services from vivaldi but not from firefox?
i cant even use captcha

>>58530880
I adhere to the UNIX philosophy and the only purpose for my right hand is to wipe my ass. It is its single task and it does it well. I don't even need TP this way.

>>58521464
I wouldn't be surprised.
Sabayon KDE is a pretty nice KDE experience.

Could someone help me understand why URxvt/Zsh would no longer be able to display certain characters following a system reinstall?

>install lubuntu
>install rxvt-unicode
>install zsh
>fonts look great, glyphs from powerline and lemon show up fine
>break install later because I'm a GNUb
>reinstall lubuntu
>install zsh rxvt-unicode

urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'lemon:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=8:antialias=False:autohint=True:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'DejaVu Sans Mono:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=10:antialias=False:autohint=True:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'DejaVu Sans Mono:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=10:antialias=False:autohint=True:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'Courier New:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=10:antialias=False:autohint=True:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'Andale Mono:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=10:antialias=False:autohint=False:minspace=True', ignoring.
urxvt: unable to calculate font width for 'FreeMono:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=10:autohint=True:minspace=True', ignoring.

Searching told me that urxvt simply didn't support the fonts but there's no way that's correct, as it was working perfectly on my previous install.

I know this is probably a retarded question but /sqt/ isn't up and I am 100% willing to work with you and try any suggestions.

>>58532579
probably some privacy extension you're using on firefox

>>58532745
tried running a youtube video in mpv and it failed to load.
im gonna try changing my mac address

>>58531858
I like that small filesize, post your webmscript pls

>>58532723
Post your xressources, the font part.

>>58532772
>mac address
Jesus man. Who told you that mac addresses are web related?

>>58532819

ffmpeg -ss 0 -i temp-2017-01-18_04.24.21.mkv -map 0:v:0 -c:v libvpx -auto-alt-ref 1 -lag-in-frames 25 -threads $(nproc) -slices 1 -deadline good -cpu-used 1 -g 7200 -qmin 10 -qmax 40 -fs 3M -y /tmp/a.webm

that's what i ran verbatim for that one, i just tweak it as required (-ss/-t if i need just a segment, change qmin/qmax if the result is too big, etc)

when it comes to clips like that with little changes, having a larger GOP makes all the difference

>>58532723
>forgot xresources
https://hastebin.com/kanefezihi.bash
>forgot .zshrc
https://hastebin.com/usifuqumab.bash

maybe I shouldn't play around until I better understand what it is I'm doing...


>>58532579
Probably uMatrix being aggressive

So what's the best desktop environments for Linux? I want something that looks good. Also how do I get a meme terminal that's transparent?

How to get MATLAB for free on Debian please? I need it for school.

>>58532875
full file here>>58532904

font only:

URxvt*font: xft:lemon:size=8
URxvt*boldFont: xft:lemon:size=8
URxvt*letterSpace: -1

>>58532904
There's your problem. lemon is a bitmap font, xft woun't load that. Try setting it as x

-benis-lemon-abunai-abunai-medium-r-normal--10-110-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1

>>58532913
a) The one that fits your needs.
b) The one I'm using.
You need to choose.

>>58532899
router uses mac address (and other info) to determine which devices get packets
>>58532904
i dont have umatrix addon

>>58532913
GNU/Linux*

>>58532955
That's your local network, not the internet.

>>58532955
MAC addressed operate on a lower layer than TCP/IP, they're not even internet-related, letalone web-related

if there's an issue with your MAC address, you wouldn't have internet access at all

>>58532933
What confuses me is that xft:lemon was fine before.

URxvt*font: -benis-lemon-abunai-abunai-medium-r-normal--10-110-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1
URxvt*boldFont: -benis-lemon-abunai-abunai-medium-r-normal--10-110-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1
URxvt*letterSpace: -1

>urxvt: unable to load base fontset, please specify a valid one using -fn, aborting.

>>58531857

Every program worth its money has such an option, idiot.

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Welp, wish me luck

>>58533059
and which of those programs even allow you to fuck up the panels so astronomically in the first place?

>>58532978
>>58533001
i dont think its an mac address issue, but instead that my isp or google may have blocked the device.
after changing mac address and reloading dhcpcd, i can mpv youtube videos again.
i'm reinstalling firefox.

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Is the most recent version of Firefox horribly broken for everyone else (on Arch Linux)? The loading icon on tabs spins forever, even when the page is fully loaded; and YouTube videos just don't load. The rest of the page loads but the video is just a black box. It's annoying.

I'm trying to install Fedora but I'm confused about partitions.
Do I need a /, /boot and /home? How about size?

>>58533093
google can't see your MAC, your MAC is only relevant for your LAN, not the internet

an ISP could technically block your router by it's MAC, but i haven't heard of any that do that

>>58533111
You only need a /, but you will regret that decision. Boot only needs to be about a gig. / is where all installed programs go, and /home is where all your files go. On my 500GB hard drive / is 100GB, /boot is 1GB and /home is everything else because I keep a lot video and pictures on my drive.

>>58533131
ok
well mpv is puking

[ffmpeg] tls: The TLS connection was non-properly terminated.

so i'll check gnutils/openssl/gmp

>>58533111
you can use a single partition, provided your bootloader supports the filesystem you choose for it
a separate /boot makes sense for multiboot (though not required for it) and for when your root is not a bootloader-supported filesystem
a separate /home might make sense for a few cases, such as;
- keeping root nearer the beginning of a hdd, where it's the fastest
- sharing it with another root (multiboot)
- using a different filesystem
- placing it on a separate physical disk (for example, root on an ssd, home on a hdd)
etc

>>58533184
first ensure youtube-dl is up to date, google fucks with things from time to time, breaking the way youtube-dl works

>>58533107
why not GNU IceCat?

>>58531686
It broke for around 3 hours until it was resolved, all good to go now

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>>58533107
I fixed it. It was a video download extension that looked to be searching every link on every website for videos to download. A little bit ambitious.

>>58533273
I have that on my Debian laptop and it is just called Firefox? Is there really a difference?

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>>58533308
>>58533273
nvm that's IceWeasel. I don't know man, Firefox works and I have it customized to have lots of privacy features and stuff.

Not to mention I've been using it since probably 2007. I don't want to let it go.

>>58533010
try -*-lemon-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-10-110-75-75-m-50-iso10646-1

>>58533257
youtube-dl is 2016.12.22
main problem is firefox and it doesn't use youtube-dl though.

>>58533327
it's basically just firefox ESR with restrictive artwork/branding swapped out, plus a few privacy-related defaults (which can be removed)
it's compatible with firefox profiles

>>58532913
You have the choice of the two desktop environments that currently run on Wayland (which is a must due to security issues with xserver) these are GNOME and KDE.

GNOME is based on GTK3 and has a more unconventional user interface, KDE is based on Qt and uses a Windows like user interface and is much more customisable than GNOME, though a tad more buggy and resource heavy.

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>they fell for the urxvt meme
jesus, just use a terminal emulator from this century and you'd be ready to go instantly

>>58533364
that's 7 releases behind

>>58533327
>and I have it customized to have lots of privacy features
You should also clean up your about:config from spying stuff. There's very much shit inside, or just install IceCat, where this stuff comes disabled ootb.

>>58532913
If you go into the preferences of any terminal eg. Gnome-terminal / konsole / xfce4-terminal, you can set the colours and transparency there

>>58533425
enjoy your babby-de terminal

>>58533445
enjoy having to spend two hours _setting your favourite font_

lmao

inb4 new thread while still on page 2

>>58532530
>systemctl
lel cuck

>>58533429
Excuse my ignorance but isn't IceCat heavily outdated and full of security vulnerabilities?

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>>58533492
4u

NEW THREAD >>58533518

>>58533511
memes

>>58533538
I hate (You).

>>58533511
no, IceCat 45.5.1 (current) is based on FireFox ESR 45.5.1 (current)

It's on-par security-wise with regular firefox

>>58533511
>heavily outdated
it's firefox esr.

aka the only sane firefox version you can use

>>58533425
what would you recommend?

>>58533511
firefox esr is like the "debian stable" of firefox, held back feature-wise, but security patches are current

I might be interested in trying linux but I'm not a fatass that eats dirt from between my toes. Can I still enjoy it?

Hi /g/. My McDonald's free internet shits itself when the edns bit is set on DNS requests. How can I configure GLibc to automatically retry without the EDNS bit on failure?

>>58533613
urxvt is fine don't mind him

>>58533511
Look at the mailing list
>IceCat is highly insecure, we're always months behind the latest ESR even
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2016-12/msg00058.html

>>58533929
the windows/mac releases are behind, but not the linux one

>>58521128
Why did you get rid of Open Indiana?