/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>58533518
Fost

>>58533594
Frost

>>58533632
foss

What is good OneNote OneDrive alternative for Linux?

>>58533697
Emacs + org-mode for one note

server for one drive

>>58533697
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative

onedrive: owncloud hosted by yourself
onenote: pen+paper

Hello /g/. The internet at my McDonald can't handle when the edns bit is set on DNS requests. How can I configure GLibc to automatically retry without the EDNS bit on failure?

>>58533719
I was mad and typing insults and arguments but really now I'm calm

>>58533850
https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/started.html

I wish you many lucks anon

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>>58533719
>>>58533697
>https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Alternative
socialist elitism at its best

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Now that Infinality is dead, how do I get good font rendering? I just uninstalled it and everything looks like shit.

I need a Linux distro for an old family member to install on her old Asus laptop with pentium dual core. Only for basic tasks like browsing and watching movies, nothing more demanding. Please recommend me something /fglt/.

>>58533977
Have you read the OP?
If no - try reading the OP.

Encode rips using VP9 or x265 (ffmpeg)? I watch stuff on my phone which doesn't use the GPU for x265 but I think it does for vp9.

Also what's the best way to remotely connect to a desktop session? VNC over SSH or VNC with VeNCrypt or something else?

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gentoo is too much maintenance for me, it's takes a lot of time just to get a program to install and run correctly
what's a highly customizable distro that just werks?

>>58534216
There literally isn't one. People might tell you to go Debian Minimal, but Debian fucks up more than any other distro I've used. Especially Debian Stable.

>>58534216
ubuntu or debain. but i personally recommend ubuntu for you

>>58534255
What the hell are you doing to break Debian stable?

>>58534286
fucking up a linux installation is not a tough task especially if you put a monkey behind the keyboard

>>58534286
Probably using hardware built in the last ten years.

What type should my boot partition be? The handbook says to mark it EFI, but my computer uses a BIOS

>>58534334
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks#Creating_the_partitions

just do this

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I've installed Fedora25 and I think I have a problem related to drivers.

Scrolling/navigating around is super laggy and I get artifacts like these when I open any video or gnome help.

How do I troubleshoot this? I have a RX470.

>>58534372
I wanna use fdisk

>>58534421
Then don't create that efi partition, you don't need it. Just boot, root and potentially home and swap.

>>58533697
Nextcloud, LibreOffice online with seafile

How do I change the appearence of my emulator? Any popular skins that don't look like shit?

>>58534461
But what format should boot be? Going off the gentoo handbook. Just regular Linux?

>>58534497
Yeah should be fine. Just remember to toggle it bootable and GRUB will work

>>58534484
either stop being an attention whoring namefag or find yourself some other websites where names are appreciated (reddit for example)

>>58534216
slackware

>>58534563
or IRC

>>58534563
>>58534571
>Triggered
Am I invading your super secrit ANONYMOUSE hacker club?

>>58533518
I love penguins <3

>>58534397
Its kinda ironic how nvidia have treated Linux the worst but even on an enemy OS they have better drivers.

Just install the AMD unix drivers in multi-user.target

I came from reddit and can't get used to this anonymous culture, cut me some slack guys!

>>58534497
Sorry, BIOS boot
>>58534515

>>58534586
>Triggered
all i did was point out that irc uses names

>>58534770
put me in the screencap

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>>58534770
>shitposting is evolving

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>>58533948
Didn't notice the thing on top of the arch wiki page. I did that, but everything still looks like shit

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Anyone here use crazy-ass filesystems like f2fs or reiser or for the really cuhrayzee mfs, zfs?

Antergos vs Arch

Is antergos basically babbies first step into arch?

>>58534937
arch is for advanced users only

>>58534992
I mean, I've successfully installed Arch and used it for several months before but I want to try out different distros without losing AUR

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>>58534992
>advanced users

I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, it's been great, but I think I want to de-bloat a little bit.

I'm not a very advanced user, slowly learning though. I've been on it for about a year now. I'm looking moving to Debian, is that a good next step?

Also, does anyone here know anything about Grub? When I boot it gives me options to boot into Ubuntu, Ubutnu with advanced options, or Windows (I need windows for work). How will installing debian mess with grub? Will the system automatically get rid of the option to boot into ubuntu?

>>58534992
i am advans

So, I've been using openSUSE for a while and it was enjoyable, I've seen the light of freedom and will stay the course (albeit I sin by using nonfree GPU drivers, but having an AMD card is painful otherwise)

I use Debian on my desktop since I wanted something without too many frills, but I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around apt-get and aptitude

Compared to

zypper in foo

which shows me the package I'm about to install in a clear manner

apt-get install foo

or

aptitude install foo

is both harder to parse, as well as way more verbose, which adds up a lot with se, up, lu etc. being really nice abbreviations
I know I can just alias it, and I probably will, I just need to know if I'm missing something

Additionally, I only now realized, after installing way more packages than I probably should have, that apt doesn't install suggested packages by default, but I can't figure out how to install all suggested packages for already installed packages other than going through them one at a time
I've tried

aptitude/apt update/upgrade/dist-upgrade --install-suggests

but shit don't work

I'm obviously retarded when it comes to these things, since I'm not actually at all doing anything related to computers in my "real" work, and have no prerequisite knowledge, so I'd truly appreciate some help

Also wondering if there'd be any problem with my using rsync to sync my laptop's and desktop's document/.config/.emacs.d folders. I'm using KDE on both if that matters (I'll probably switch to i3 or ratpoison or something soon, I'm not really using any of the DE stuff other than calendar etc. and I can just use conky for that, right?)

TL;DR: I need suggested packages through apt/aptitude, pls help

>>58533719
>owncloud
>not nextcloud
>>58533948
>infinality is dead
¿que?

>>58535184
>believing in "clouds"

>>58534461
What has changed that has made /usr, /var and /boot obsolete?

>>58535218
Nextcloud/owncloud are just easy ways to set up a home server you silly goose

>>58535225
/home can be used for /usr and /var

why use a customized kernel?
what is it about regular kernels that people don't like?

How big should my swap space be?

>>58535164
--install-suggests is a flag for apt-get

not aptitude
not apt
they're completely different frontends

synaptic has a filter "missing recommends", where you can view what wasn't installed on your system and pick which one you want

>>58535250
there a many different patches for many different scenarios like "security" extensions, low-latency for music production, and scripts for removing blobs in order to make linux free again

>>58535337
if you want to hibernate, at least the same size of your ram

>>58535337
you don't need a swap space

>>58535337
2x RAM is the recommended amount

>>58535250
have you tried asking google?
If not, try asking google

>>58535365
>>58535368
>>58535337
>yes, no, maybe
What the fuck is it with this board

>>58534216
Most any minimal installation.

>>58535397
>google
nice botnet

>>58534397

>wayland is the future they said
>why waste time with arch or gentoo fedora just works they said
>amd support is better on linux they said

>>58535074
probably not, grub should be smart enough to see both Ubuntu and Windows when you reinstall it. So youll be presented with three options, Windows, Ubuntu, Debian. Youll need to be careful if you install Windows over Linux, as the Windows bootloader will wipe out entries for Linux.

>>58535405
google is a verb now

>>58535397
I'm sure there's a special hell for people who feel the need to fill a captcha for the sole purpose of sending people to google.

>>58535431
GNU/Linux*

>>58535439
>he doesn't have a pass
laughingstallman.mkv

>>58535378
how are you even posting with that 90s computer?

>>58535435
>he does it for fee

>>58535439
Yeah, just one step over people who go through the trouble of writing a post only to ask the most mundane fucking retarded question you can came up with despite it being answered a gazillion times before

>>58535460
>>58535378
more like 80s

>>58535460
>>58535475
>I've never done any work on my computer
Time to go back to ricing your archie linux machines buddies

>>58535164
apt-cache show i3

>>58535471
When people post here, they want to discuss shits with other anons, not searching the web. Don't be a faggot.

>>58535518
You searching the web saves everyone's time.
Your ineptitude to use a search engine is not anyone's burden.

Don't be a faggot.

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>>58533518
Is aptitude or apt-get the preferred package manager for debian, and why are the both on a default install? This confuses me.

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Why would anyone use SWAP space in todays day and age if he doesn't want to hibernate?
If you use RAM heavy applications, just buy more RAM.

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Hey /g/, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?

>>58535556
aptitude
apt-get
apt
synaptic
are all frontends to dpkg

out of all of them apt-get is the one that's most low-level

You use the one which suits you the most. If there was a single "preffered" method it would be the only one installed.
There isn't, so go figure. Stop trying to seek approval on every single decision you make

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>>58535560
On a desktop system? Probably no longer necessary.

On a server, it's important for the stability of your applications to have some spillover so that you have time to respond to scaling needs. Increased application latency is preferable to a denial of service.

>>58535556
If you are new and don't know how your way around apt, aptitude is a lot easier to use since it provides automatic solutions when you fuck something up. apt-get is the standard, (now apt).

>>58535560
>i've never done any work on my computer
go back to watching anime on your arch linux

Ext3, Ext4 or reiserfs?

>>58535577
>>58535597
Thanks anons, for the record I'm not new but a curated answer here means more to be than google.

>>58535601
define 'real work'

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>>58535572

>>58535609
Btrfs.

>>58535609
how would you describe the relationship with your wife?

Is there tension?

>>58535352
apt and apt-get are referred to as different things? I thought they were interchangeable, my mistake
Regardless, I did

apt-get --install-suggests -update/upgrade/upgrade-dist

which didn't work either so

I'll install synaptic and try it out, though I'm adverse to GUIs, but I can always just set --install-suggests for apt-get in the future, but pray tell, what does aptitude use instead? I see the -r flag for recommends, but nothing for suggests, other than mentioning that aptitude why foo will show dependencies, recommends and suggests for foo

I'm a retard that doesn't understand architecture.

I want to try out Antergos but I've noticed that the only available live ISO is x86_64

Can I use Antergos x86_64 ISO to install Arch despite my system being 32-bit?

System:    Host: balls Kernel: 4.4.0-31-generic i686 (32 bit)
           Desktop: LXDE (Openbox 3.6.1) Distro: Ubuntu 16.04 xenial
Machine:   System: Acer product: Aspire 3690 v: V3.03
           Mobo: Acer model: Grapevine Bios: Acer v: V3.03 date: 11/10/2006
CPU:       Single core Intel Celeron M 420 (-UP-) cache: 1024 KB
           speed: 1595 MHz (max)
Graphics:  Card: Intel Mobile 945GM/GMS 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller
           Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa)
           Resolution: [email protected]
           GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel 945GM x86/MMX/SSE2
           GLX Version: 1.4 Mesa 11.2.0
Audio:     Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-31-generic
Network:   Card-1: Broadcom BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX driver: b44
           IF: eth0 state: down mac: 00:16:d4:63:62:99
           Card-2: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
           driver: b43-pci-bridge
           IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:16:cf:c1:2f:92
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 80.0GB (7.7% used)
           ID-1: /dev/sda model: HTS541080G9AT00 size: 80.0GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 72G used: 4.3G (7%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
           ID-2: swap-1 size: 1.60GB used: 0.08GB (5%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sda5
RAID:      No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors:   System Temperatures: cpu: 50.0C mobo: 50.0C
           Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info:      Processes: 144 Uptime: 4:00 Memory: 483.1/1497.6MB
           Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.2.35 

>>58535993
no

you could use an i386 iso to install the OS on amd64 cpu but amd64 won't boot on a i386

>>58535492
I was more referring to the learning curve which, as far as I have understood, is fairly steep as compared to the mind-numbing simplicity of your average compositing WM

I'm already trying to learn Evil-mode and AUCTeX in the next two weeks so I'll be able to take notes for my lectures properly, as well as an exam next week.
Learning a tiling WM on top of that seems a tad excessive.

Thank you for informing me of the command, though. Wasn't aware of it. Only been using Debian for two days

>>58535580
>>58535560
Do you guys not hibernate your desktops or what

>>58536030
Damn. Antergos stopped development of their i686 installer back in 2016 but have continued to maintain their i686 packages... Would using that ISO be a bad idea considering its age?

I may just got with xfce manjaros but I like the arch repos

>>58535700
No wife yet

>>58535577
Hard to know the merits of each without
A) Understanding what a good package manager should be like
B) Understanding what each of those does, how, and why that's a good/bad thing
C) Knowing about how each can be improved by the user

all things a bit unreasonable to expect from a newcomer you fucking cockwhistle

>>58536080
[spoiler]the creator of reiserfs killed his wife[/spoiler]

>Try GNU GuixSD
What exactly does that package manager provide that makes it better than the wealth of packages, support and development that exists for other distributions? What is GuixSD's raison d'etré?

I'll probably use it just because I'm a freetard and the GNU is my spirit animal, but wherefore art thou, GuixSD?

>>58536131
Ah, ext4 then

Which DEs besides Unity are capable of scaling their UIs by fractions of integers? I mean like 1.25.
I know Gnome can only scale by 1, 2, etc, so its not an option for me.

Am

>>58536251
Xfce

>>58536188
guixsd is nix with some stallmanisms sprinkled on top.

try looking up the benefits of Nix, it's a much older project so there was definitely some research done on the topic

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>install package in ubuntu
>19 additional packages are installed with it as dependencies
>automatically starts a script that runs a daemon on startup
>half my open processes are daemons running who knows what

>using apt
>not wajig

>>58536307
>Ubuntu
You brought this upon yourself

>>58534849

I know a guy who uses xfs.

>>58534937

It's Arch with an additional repo on it, that's it. Faggots will tell you it's not true Arch and all that shit but who gives a fuck about their opinion?

>>58536069

An older ISO should still work, it will just download the 32-bit versions of whatever you need during a netinstall...

Which stage3? Just the regular amd64 or hardened?

>>58536647
No, because it's still quicker to

# systemctl disable someservice

than it is to wake up every morning to work on configuring your Arch install all day. I mean, I still have to tweak and configure Ubuntu to make it how I want it - Arch, I imagine, would be neverending.

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I posted last thread. Couldn't connect to any google services.
Turns out nss got upgraded to 3.38 when i wasn't paying attention. 3.38 has some bugs related to my issue.
Downgrading nss fixed my problems.

>>58537162
There are thing in-between, y'know

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What's in your fonts.conf file, /g/?

I just had to get rid of infinality because it was too outdated and was causing KDE to crash. Now I'm stuck with Freetype, which I hear has mostly caught up with infinality, but it currently looks like fucking diarrhea. Pic related, my eyes are actually hurting.

Here's my current configs that I lifted off Google, and barely seem to help.

CTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>false</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter">
   <const>lcddefault</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>

>>58537162
>implying I'm an Ar-noob-ch Linux user

been using linux for a week now (xubuntu). I'm totally new to it. I really like it, starting ricing it, messing with the terminal, basically trying to learn.

I'm curious how much you guys use the terminal? Are you on it all the time? For example I downloaded ranger and it looks cool and all, but I feel like I'm "forcing" myself to use it, instead of just using the gui file manager

>>58538031
Using only one of them exclusively is pretty dumb, just use both of them. I have a terminal open at all times, but not using a file manager is pretty dumb when I have thousands and thousands of unsorted images. Looking at the thumbnails at first is much more convenient.

>plug in my phone via usb
>all other usb devices stop working

back to windows i go

>>58538491
good riddance

>>58538540
You're suggesting this is my fault?

>>58538757
possibly

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here we go
1gb ram, 1.5ghz, nvidia blah blah 6500 (i think)

I'm a complete noob using qubes 3.2 and I'm fucking crying because I have realtek network hardware and the default drivers don't work.

I have no way to connect to the internet on this machine.

I need a way to install a driver package from a USB to my fedora vm template using terminal.

I have the realtek driver tar, but I have no idea where to put it for the vm to actually see it.

Should I do genkernel or manually configure?

>>58538953
Genkernel is lame imo, manual if you want real benefits

>>58534937
Yes.

>>58538992
But at what cost for a millisecond off boot time?

>>58539002
Why gentoo, then?

>>58538953
manual

>>58538757
Your distro or confs suck, bro

>>58539002
genkernel can cause issues. manual is only as indepth as you make it so you don't have to go nuts.

using genkernel is like buying a model plane set and then getting somnone else ot make it for you. whats the point.

>>58539025
Ubuntu, no special config....

What's the difference between Octave from the official Arch repositories and the one from the AUR (octave-hg)?

hey how can i access /ect/whatever files from command line I'm doing an overthewire game and i cant read the password stored in /etc/bandit_pass/bandit14 i tried cat i about every directory i could think of.

>>58539054
Think about mercury's elemental symbol you fucking dumbfuck

Get the fuck off Arch if you're this fucking dumb

>>58539045
That's your problem! Use something less hugely spread in sense of maintainers. Go for a stable something, Debian — SUSE maybe?

>>58539077
Since this anon was perhaps not clear, octave-hg would be the Mercurial version :)

What's the difference between including something in the kernel and making a module?

>>58538946
Could you connect to the internet on the installation cd?

>>58539133
modules are only used when needed. if something is in the kernel it's always loaded.

>>58539371
Nope. At no point have I connected to the internet on the machine.

hi guys, getting the hang of this I think but I still need some help and really feel like I should know this answer by now.

Anyway, I am running slackware and I got the thing to use my tethered connection despite the applets and junk not showing a positive connection buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut I'm wondering if there's a possibility that this will function this way with my wireless card. A netgear wna3100 (Prorietary trigger!). Yes, I've read everywhere, throroughly, and know that I will need ndiswrapper, but I have no idea where to look to find anything on this thing. I have heard of slackpkg and swaret but I'm still not sure how to install those.


git, right.

it's git, right? like I'm an idiot now right?


But

>>58539371
I fixed it! qvm-copy-to-vm fedora-23 <filepath> then I ran the auto.sh for the driver

>>58539724
btw, installing slack helped me solidify a big part of my experience with linux. I still have to learn how to install xorg-server from the command line, so I can get an idea of how the process is being cut and maybe get a backdrop. I still need to learn how to customize the css of the deals running the os media. And I am still terrible with general networking but at least I've managed to get this and a few other distros going without a full blown gui.

Have yet to get this card running out of ubuntu. I also still can't get any of these things to write to my sandisk cruzer. I think I have to change the filesystem to fat32 but does that do enough in the bypass of the first flashed partition?

Just to double check:

My partition scheme is as follows
>sda1, boot partition, 1GB, ext4
>sda2, swap partition, 4GB, swap
>sda3, root partition, 20GB, ext4
>sda4, home partition, rest of disk space, ext4

What order and to which mounting point do I want to mount these partitions during the first steps of an arch installation?

This is what I think I'm supposed to do, please tell me if I'm being retarded...

root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sda3 /mnt
root@archiso ~ # mkdir /mnt/boot
root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/boot
root@archiso ~ # mkdir /mnt/home
root@archiso ~ # mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/home
root@archiso ~ # mkswap /dev/sda2
root@archiso ~ # swapon /dev/sda2

later once I've generated my fstab, I should then add the entry

>UUID=<UUID> none swap defaults 0 0

where <UUID> is my swap partition's UUID, correct?

> tfw 2020 is just a year when python finally 2.6 dies.
Why live.

>>58539923
after re-reading this I realize I am retarded for even asking

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pimp my GNU (if you know what I mean)

>>58539927
Oh wait, pip is gonna drop it this year, and the rest will follow.

How long does GRUB2 usually take to emerge?

>>58540374
No really, it's been 15 minutes just to install the fucking bootloader

>>58540416
Grub takes a while for some reason. Are you using Gentoo?
What is your -j set to for MAKEOPTS?

>>58540416
--verbose was a mistake

>>58540563
-j3

>>58540374
I think it takes longer if you have more grub_platforms set.

>>58540572
You have only a dual core CPU? That option is recommended to be set to the number of cores you have plus 1.

For the number of cores, use the number of cores output when you do
cat /proc/cpuinfo

Should I make a separate /home partition, or just leave it in the main partition? I've heard that the reason for making it separate is so that you can reformat without losing it, but wouldn't it be just as easy to keep it backed up and drop everything back in?

>>58540644
Except for the copy time, it's fine either way.

>>58540611
>you only have a dual core CPU?
Si
Also
>Boot Error
I guess I'll call it a night there

>>58540611
cores+1 is not ideal, at least from benchmarks I've seen. cores-1 is usually optimal

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>>58539724
so it turns out slack does packages similarly but not so centralized. Maybe like a repo over the ages?

anyway
>>58540565
>mfw did this recently on pacman
>with -Ssy
>on 4g
>with progress as my token
>and 3 failed attempts to the server before every download init.

>>58540835
oops I meant -Syy

oh and at about 58% of the way my neighbor pulled the circuit breaker. I was able to continue where I left off but man was I mad.

>>58540644
It saved my ass recently. It requires almost no effort and it's nice to have just in case.

>>58533719
onedrive: git-annex

>>58540919
My issue is just I never know what size to set it as, and I seem to pick the wrong size. I've only got a small SSD.

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>>58537805

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
  <match target="font" >
    <edit mode="assign" name="autohint">  <bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">   <bool>false</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"> <const>lcddefault</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"> <const>hintslight</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="antialias"> <bool>true</bool></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">      <const>rgb</const></edit>
  </match>

  <match target="font">
    <test name="pixelsize" qual="any" compare="more"><double>15</double></test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
  </match>

  <match target="font">
    <test name="weight" compare="more"><const>medium</const></test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
  </match>

  <match target="font">
    <test name="slant"  compare="not_eq"><double>0</double></test>
    <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintnone</const></edit>
    <edit mode="assign" name="lcdfilter"><const>lcdlight</const></edit>
  </match>

how do I connect to eduroam on linux? specifically antergos?
I've done the correct configs (WPA & WPA2 Enterprise, PEAP, cacert.pem, MSCHAPv2, and correct user name and password) but it just doesnt connect
please i don't want to use windowns

>>58541852
i've tried with the certificate my school links to, and chmod on its location if permission was a problem but nothing seems to do the trick

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Mint 18.1 cinnamon x64

Why do programs open a window on the second monitor instead of on the main display? For example qbittorent does this.
Really annoying, how do I solve this?

>>58541887

Check your window manager settings.

>>58541409
don't forget it needs to go in UEFI and that you need to set the GUUID not to be confused with the volume ID. Single pass on the dd. After that I don't think you raelly need to concern yourself with having a large home partition. You don't want to be reading high volume high frequency files on an ssd, things like large videos being during editing sequences really wear down on the ssd. How many times will you be on your linux to watch a movie, you know?

my home is 50gib but I also made a /dev_home where I keep my code stuff and an /etc_home where I keep the sound, image, video and general value information and files.

I have three primaries, slackware, arch. parabola or pixel, an extended with 10gigs for a /usr each ( opting to customize the path for a program or something to use them as storage if it's too much ). And then the 3 50GiB partitions. I think the parimaries have like 40 GiBs each to hold desktop and build configurations.

From now on I'll just be adding new drives into fstab and slowly building an arsenal of usbdistros to go with every build and desktop so I can hand em to my son and have him pass them around to his friends and cousins. Maybe that'll get things moving.

I could start one of those patreon revolutions and dream in code. This kind of thing would be real cheap too using a Linux machine. I could have 100 distros out in 32Gig drives for like...$600?

>>58541852
>>58542103
GNU/Linux*

>>58541887
try removing the second workspace so that it only comes up explicitly. That or change the wrap settings on your computer if there isn't a dialog option for opening all windows in the workspace they are called from and not changing back to original workspace in case you spend time using both monitors with a workspace each.

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Hey /g/, I'm using Arch Linux and I was wondering how I could remove bad things like systemd and bash. Any tutorials? Also I'm wondering why this doesn't work:

zsh: command not found: screenfetch

How am I supposed to show the terminal logo thingy?

>>58540644
I make it separate so i can reinstall OS without loss.

>>58542126
10/10 kek

>>58542126
anon pls no meme, this thread has been amazing good lately, pls dont kill it

>>58542162
sry ;_;

>>58542092
>>58542120
Thanks. I only have 1 workspace.
Apparently my 2nd monitor needs to be in the right position and not on the left.
Not ideal now but I think it's solved.

Why use LUKS and not Truecrypt/Veracrypt?
Dual booting atm but if I clean my PC I might just leave Windows to just VM. I use it for office stuff.

>>58542126
0/-1
SEGMENTATION FAULT^C^C^C
attempt not found

>>58542135
>>58542162
>>58542685

He is probably a ban-evading spammer from /vg/, stop replying him.

Hello all, is xorg/xserver safe to use? I want to use XFCE as my DE but since I've learned about the security vulnerabilities of xserver I've been using GNOME on Wayland but some things just don't work properly.

I am not too educated on the matter and was wondering what you guys think?

>>58542953
Yes. Wayland is still new compared to X, so there is still not much support for it.

>Using anything that doesn't support Wayland.

Enjoy your security vulnerabilities, May aswell use Windows with '1234' as your password if you're using xorg/xserver.

>>58540416
>actually fell for the install gentoo meme
Try GuixSD.

>>58543022
True, but good luck having a usable desktop with Wayland.

Man for all the easy to use distros they are still way behind the it just werks of OSX and windows. Even ubuntu and mint require troubleshooting that I know for sure people like my parents would not be able to do, whereas they can bumble through windows just fine.

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Trying to find a nice ncurse font, Inconsolatas doesn't seem to be it - the scan lines aren't rendered correctly, and the diamond is ugly as sin. I can't for the life of me remember which font rendered them correctly, do you guys have any suggestions?

Also, I realized that the base16 color schemes don't actually define "bright" colors (e.g. bold colors are the same color as non-bold ones) because the creator is ridiculous. Do you guys have any recommendations for nice color schemes that do?

>>58543285
terminus, for anything else, check the font pasta in OP

>>58543022
This has been known for years. There is a reason those focused on security and privacy do not use Linux

>>58543022
>>58543347
please leave

>>58543321
See, I tried Terminus, but the character spacing was far too wide. There is no 70-* file in /etc/fonts/conf.d either.

>>58543386
what terminal?

>>58543382
Enjoy your insecure, vulnerable system, idiot

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>>58543406
urxvt
Moreover, see pic-related: this is Terminus, still no scan lines. Is this a terminal issue? I'm not sure if I had this problem with xterm.

>>58543425
>he fell for the urxvt meme
lmao, just use a modern terminal and you wouldn't have to deal with these problems

>>58543477
>modern terminal
what is that?

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/fglt/ = faggot lite?

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>>58535622

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>>58543649

>>58543649
there is a huge difference between fglt and gblt.

>>58543031
Well, I'm a neet, sooooo

How do i move the taskbar down at the bottom in debinan? I've tried the thing suggested online but none of them worked. It was so easy in ubuntu, i dont understand why they didn't add a way to customize it by default

>>58543285
>nice color schemes
type terminal.sexy in browser and click on scheme browser.
>>58541409
20 GB for extremely lightweight distros (xfce is not lightweight), 30 GB for Gentoo (you must have additional free space for compiling) 40 GB if you want try everything for / partition and rest for /home partition.

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Running Ubuntu at work.

It is surprisingly laggy.

Would I have better luck with Fedora?

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Well, fugg

>>58544101
you would have better luck with another UI. Unity is one of the worst there is. Use MATE or XFCE. Ubuntu still has the best repositories. I wouldn't trade that for the world.

>>58544106
You need to mount a partition, eg /dev/sda4 if it's your root. Not /dev/sda

If I switch my gpu from AMD to Nvidia Loonix will boot without problem?

>>58544175
Yeah got that, apparently grub had issues installing. Something about "file system 'ext2' doesn't support embedding." When running $ grub-instal /dev/sda

>>58543477
see >>58543382

>>58543649
friendly gentoo linux thread

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So i recently switched from windows 10 to ubuntu. I really like it, it's fast, not bloated like windows, and looks really nice. But i have one problem. I have no idea how to use that fucking terminal.

I don't know any commands, and i need to use it for a lot things. Does anyone have a link to a guide or book that explains all the words and commands? Thanks.

>>58544121
Honestly don't like the aesthetics of either. But it is pathetic that Windows 7 and 10 both run better than Ubuntu on Unity.
I know, work machine, who cares about aesthetics, etc.
But I like at least a little eye candy.

I like KDE a fair bit, but I'm not 100% sure this machine will like it

Okay, so I think I fucked up and made my BIOS boot partition in ext4. How would I undo that?

>>58544433
Bash man page.

>>58544443
change the type back to ef02 and run grub-install again

>>58544433
google bash tutorial or go to /t/ a find the linux training thread

>>58543266
That and Linux still lacks tons of software. If you aren't a software developer and you need special software you're probably fucked.

>>58545191
>>58543266
you need to go back >>>/v/indows

Fuck it, I'm reinstalling gentoo

>>58545645
nice

Are we going to get a new GUI toolkit as we move into Wayland? Or are we basically just going to keep using the same old gtk/qt crap?

Ive been quite annoyed by Windows lately and im considering making the jump to Linux since its free, etc, etc.

Also most of the games i play on PC can be played on Linux so is not really a problem on the short term

What is the best version of Linux for a desktop?

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>>58546381
>What is the best version of Linux for a desktop?

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>>58546247

>>58546381
Since you're probably a new user to linux, assuming this is not bait. I would use Mint (stable) or Ubuntu.

>Read OP's post for more information

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>>58546381
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.

>>58546417
What does that have to do with anything? The old ones are very likely to have a lot of quirks caused by their history with X11 that will carry over into Wayland. I'd prefer something new coded with Wayland in mind.

Also, for the record that image doesn't mean anything either when basically everyone _agrees_ that all the competing standards are shit. That image only applies when there are many options that are already good enough yet someone wants to start a new one hoping to just unify everyone.
Totally different situations.

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So I switched from urxvt to xterm and now I just have different problems.
Looking in my .Xresources file, if I have

XTerm*font: -*-proggycleanttsz-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*

then ncurses line drawing characters are not rendered at all - they're just blank spaces.
If I have

XTerm*faceName: ProggyCleanTTSZ:pixelsize=16

instead, then the line drawing characters are rendered but I have this issue instead when rendering colored blocks.
What the hell, is it possible to get the line drawing characters AND avoid this color nonsense? This font configuration stuff is really frustrating.

>>58546545
>So I switched from urxvt to xterm
why

I may have just fucked up.
I deleted the Ubuntu partition via Windows, and there is a 4GB partition that may or may not be grub.
How do I make sure MBR is back for booting Windows 7 without rebooting and possibly being unable to boot into Windows?

>>58546381
I'd say 4.9.4 (the newest stable one)

>>58546568
Because it's not "modern" (>>58543477) but mainly because no matter what font I chose, certain ncurses characters would not be rendered correctly (>>58543285, >>58543425).

>>58546620
>xterm
>more modern than urxvt
lel if you're on Arch, the name of Terminus has been changed to 'xos4 Terminus', don't know why
so to make it work with urxvt add something like this to .Xresources

URxvt*font:    xft:xos4 terminus:size=10

>>58546545
Have you tried pointsize instead of pixelsize?

>>58546601
>4GB partition that may or may not be grub
what the fuck, why would you need 4GB for the bootloader? It's supposed to be only like 2MB.

Well whatever you do, I would probably take this opportunity to burn a liveCD (or liveUSB) so that even if you can't boot back in you can at least boot into those and still access your machine.

Can you list all your partitions? Also their filesystems and flags if possible

>>58546247

>crap
Post the programs you created that use said toolkits and post reasons why they're crap.

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Let's say I want to make an independent distro from scratch.
I don't have the servers to host packages nor the manpower to maintain them.
How would I go about this?

>>58546852
No.

>>58546889
Create a universal Linux package manager that can take advantage of any existing repositories.

>>58546894

Because you never created anything, you don't know anything about those toolkits or toolkits in general and your problem is most likely something retarded like "buuh why doesn't this theme from 2006 still work?".

>>58546749
Yes, I've used XTerm*faceSize and the result is identical to using pixelsize.

>>58546889

Create the logo, everything else will sort itself out.

>>58546932
Nope.

I keep meaning to get away from Ubuntu (Unity is too fucking good to leave tbfh) and switch to Debian, I think I might do this for version 9 because I am a little tired of the Ubuntu shit now.

Why can't Debian have Unity? Unity is seriously fucking miles ahead of shit like Cinnamon and KDE. Haven't tried lxqt yet? Tried Mate about a year ago but it was too broke but I like the old gnome look.

I just want something that werks and composites out of the box.

>>58546937
stop using xterm in favor of urxvt now

>>58546956
But then I don't get my scanlines!

>>58546952
What the hell is so great about unity? As far as I can tell the only benefit over the standard desktop paradigm it gives you is you quickly type out what you want in the search bar to access it instead of fumbling through menus.

But that's nothing special, for example pretty much everyone using i3 uses dmenu or equivalent, which basically does the same thing without all the bloat.

>>58546679
Not the distro, the new fontconfig did that.

>>58546952
Because Canonical are filthy jews who don't contribute anything upstream and make it very hard for others to use their stuff. They heavily patch packages for Ubuntu and it's very hard to port Unity to other distros

Anyone uses TP-Link TL-WN722N on GNU/Linux and how is it?

Was trying to install linux on my PC for the first time and Winshit does not even let me shrink my drive :CCC

>>58547043
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering 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!

>>58543649
What are you talking about? It's /flt/, it has always been that.

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>>58544433

Anyone knows anything like SAMBA but over internet, so i can access folders outside my localhost?

I have tried sshfs with some success, but it cant replace samba.

I know that Samba can be run over the internet but not encrypted.

Have been trying to google this but no real good alternatives, except using like an VPN and just continue using samba.

>>58547181
>fg
Holy fucking tomatoes this is awesome

Anyone here own/have a Toshiba Chromebook 2 Bay Trail 2014 or had/owned one?

Anyway. I'm running Apricity Cinnamon, Arch based.

How can I get my working in this shit? The only only way/distribution that'll get sound going and working + keyboard layout mapping working properly oobontoo and I don't want it currently for now.Also Gallium OS which I don't want either since it's based off oobangoo.

Help me out, please?

Got some strange issues with using alsa/pulseaudio on Archlinux.

Everything was running fine until today where I decided to install pulseaudio to automatically set my USB Headset as default device when pluggin it in.

I did this:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Automatically_switch_to_Bluetooth_or_USB_headset

Got a strange issue since then.

When using a music player like:
-quodlibet
-amarok

and selecting a song, the application gets muted. After unmuting the song the music plays just fine until I select another song, then it gets muted again.

Here is some info about my system if it helps:

System:    Host: tomo Kernel: 4.8.13-1-ARCH x86_64 (64 bit)
           Desktop: Xfce 4.12.3 Distro: Arch Linux
Audio:     Card-1 Intel 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller
           driver: snd_hda_intel
           Card-2 Hewlett-Packard driver: USB Audio
           Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.8.13-1-ARCH

>>58547161
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as /flt/, is in fact, /fglt/, or as I've recently taken to calling it, /fgt/ plus /flt/.
/flt/ is not a thread unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning /fglt/ made useful by the /fgt/ users and posters.

>>58547160
You know what I ment, stop being such a fuking know it all about it.

MBR or GPT? Using BIOS
Also, what's the rule of thumb for MAKEOPTS?

>>58547181
>installation
>dpkg
>rpm
Excuse me, did you just assume my distro!?

>>58547325
MBR

>>58547272
what the fuck, it also gets muted when selecting another browser tab.

the fuck is going on?

>>58547325
GPT

>>58547035

>>58547325
maybe

>>58547272
>>58547367
try the Arch forums

>>58547325
choose one, two or both:
>>58547355
>>58547374

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Alright, so I bought an SSD for my thinkpad, I moved the hard drive to the ultra bay slot and put my new SSD to where my hard drive was. Now when I boot I get pic related. What do I need to do now so that I can boot from my hard drive and have Linux recognise my new SSD?

>>58547466
You need to change the boot command. It tries to boot from sda which is now the SSD while your HDD is sdb

>>58547530
Btw this is why you should use UUID/PARTUUIDs instead of sda/sdb etc

What file system is most friendly to SSD drives

>>58547541
>Btw this is why you should use UUID/PARTUUIDs instead of sda/sdb etc
This. Any reason why I shouldn't use labels on the fstab?

>>58547583
Anything. Except FAT16 or FAT23. Or similar old.

Why would you even ask such a question?

>>58547600
I didn't know if there was some super modern shot designed just for those sort of drives

>>58547530
>>58547541
Thanks senpai, am I gonna need a livecd for that?

>>58547272
A year or so ago when I used Arch, mpd would pause or go forward a track if I had certain images displayed in sxiv (and some other things I can't remember). I changed mpd's port from 6600 to 6601 and it stopped happening.

I was using snd_hda_intel, nothing else.

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>>58547678
Enjoying that Lennart dick up your ass?

>installed ubuntu
>works fine for the most part
>my audio doesn't work though, always just says "dummy output"
>have tried every solution on the first 3 pages of google, they don't work
>only solution i have found is if i restart the computer a million times the audio sometimes works


????

>>58547726
Re-install in bios legacy mode instead of uefi.

>>58547726
use a distro that works like fedora 25

>>58547725
I don't use potteringware anymore.

>>58547250

Bumping and hoping!

>>58546796
Dude, I have no clue. Fucking Ubuntu did the partitions on its own, I just hit next.
It's a work computer, I'm not exactly worried about it

Created Fedora 25 USB

>>58540792
Shitpost

Does the Debian CD #1 contain Lxqt? Is there any way to tell what comes on the CDs or DVDs?

anyone who uses vim should watch this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHm36-na4-4

>>58547043
resize it from in linux

So I just saw that my boot is 15s and then it takes ~20s for GDM/GNOME 3 to set up and take me to the login screen, so I'm naturally thinking about ditching GNOME, what would you recommend that demands little configuration needed but is faster and more lightweight?

>>58547213
Try Seafile or Nextcloud

Cunts is it ok to do with debian for a weak laptop or should i go for something else?
If i go for a different distro i want something that is totally compatibile with debian's stuff.

>>58548586
Are you using systemd?

>>58547213
what's wrong with sftp?

>>58548599
>I need something that does what Debian does, should I run Debian?

What would be wrong with Debian anyway, it's about as far from resource-intensive as you can get without being completely bare-bones.

>>58548401
nice

new thread
>>58548739

>>58548401
>nnoremap ; :
My god this is great. It honestly should be the default.

>>58548775
Actually nevermind, I just looked up what ; does in vim and it seems pretty damn useful.

>>58548401
where can I download his stuff?

>>58548766
I hate you.

>>58548998
hi kde fag

>>58548627
I don't know, i just wanted to make sure in case there was some meme lightweight distro since i am not informed about that stuff.

>>58548401
vi is fine for editing config files and some light stuff
but emacs is for serious business
vim is just unnecessary

one final bump to wipe this thread off the face of the earth

>>58549128
its already past bump limit ,retard

>>58548912
watch the last minute of the video

>>58549108
to each their own because objectivity does no exist when talking about things of this nature