/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>58591870
strings
Useful to find printable strings in binaries.

This example prints the hidden insults from sudo:

strings /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so | grep -A51 Dave

Is it true that it's harder to install Linux on Kaby Lake machines?

How can i make a Kali USB that can be used in any PC to boot Kali?

>>58592016

>>58592090
>>>/trash/

Why are you niggers still pushing the GNU namescheme?

>>58592436
Because freedom matters.

Is there any real reason to keep coming to /g/?

>>58592448
This thread. I don't even bother browsing the catalog anymore.

>>58592448
This thread is the only reason I'm still coming to 4chan everyday.

Other boards I frequent like /n/ and /diy/ are so slow I can digest everything interesting posted there and not have to come back until next week.

So you know why I'm so assblasted when /v/edditors come and shit in it for their own entertainment.

Obscure commands, post 'em.

>>58592448
No, not even this thread yet I still come back. Maybe the networking thread? /g/ is absolutely terrible.

>>58592615
tac

Like cat, but reversed.

>>58592684
Meant to quote: >>58592612

How do I change distro without having to reinstall all my programs and settings?

>>58592707
keep /home during installation

>>58592785
Could you go a bit more in depth?

What version of Ubuntu is KDE Neon based off now, 16.04.1 or 16.10?

>>58592860
keep /home during installation

>>58592860
During the installation of a new distro keep the partition called /home untouched.

In linux all relevant files are in /home. Everything else is easily replacible garbage.

>>58592985
/etc isnt
hours fucking about with settings isnt "easily replaceable"

>>58592999
copy any config files that you need into a temporary directory in /home and when you reinstall the programs under your new distro, copy and overwrite the default configs with the ones from your old distro.

>>58592999
/etc keeps system-wide configuration files.

Which may be different in every distro.
Trying to fit old system-wide configs into a completely different distribution completely defeats the purpose of distrohopping.

If possible any changes to the configuration of software should be done on a per-user basis.

Will I lose files on my hdd if I partition it for dualboot?
Could anyone help me find resources on how to setup dualboot with uefi? I have already looked at arch-wiki.

>>58592087
Download kali-image and dd to flashdrivr.

>>58593045
Yeah no
Its going to function the same way it did on any other distro, sans symlinks.
Your networkmanager/mpd/ntp/XXX configs are going to be identical across the distros.

Modularity, look it up

So I've installed gentoo, now what? Working on getting Firefox to install, but what wm/de should I use? Leaning towards my favorite, xfce

>>58593545
>i installed a distro without any clue whatsoever what to use it for
ebun

where do i buy such a retard?

Is there a way to get a global menu bar in GNOME on Debian?

>>58593687
have you tried looking for gnome addons?

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Hey guys, somewhat recently I accidentally the whole hdd, and til I can get a new one I've been running Linux Mint (Cinnamon) on a USB stick

Anyways, I'm impressed with the stuff Linux has, the downside is that a lot of stuff need to be installed manually and there's tons of technical aspects which flies over my head.

Recently I've decided to pass the time playing RPGMaker games (like Yume Nikki, Ib, etc, etc), and I followed this guide to get it working, after installing Wine and updating it to v1.8: http://www.supershigi.com/forums/index.php?topic=888.0

So far I'm doing fine, except the BGM files won't play, since it's in MIDI. I've checked the installgentoo and archlinux wikis and installed timidity with freepats, but still nothing, anyone have any ideas?

Also, this is a secondary problem, but games made in the "WOLF RPG editor" (One Way Heroics, etc) are also incapable of playing bgm or music, and since there's not "Music" folder for games made in this engine, I can't verify if they're stored in .mid format.

tl;dr: Playing games through WIne, BGM won't play because it's in MIDI, wut do? Really new to this so just pointing me to a page won't really help much, pls hand hold

>>58593545
install your favourite then why would you can about what strangers suggest

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>>58593772
One more thing, would running the games through PlayOnLinux work instead without any problems? If anyone's tried it before I'll gladly switch to it instead of using Wine.

>>58593772
>>58593846
winehq reports sound as not working

playonlinux is a management software for wine, it's not different from wine it just makes managing multiple wine profiles/versions easier

>>58593772
>>58593846
stop avatarfagging

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Which keyboard layout should I use for the Ducky Shine 3? Raspbian has many choices, but for other brands such as Apple, Microsoft, and Logitech.

>>58593871
it's a standard us 104 keyboard

intl 105 keyboard has alt-gr instead of r-alt

>>58593750
I haven't found anything. Googling it only shows up things for Ubuntu where it seems to be using Unity's global menus in GNOME

>>58593871
>>58593971
the additional x86 keys should work regardless of layout.

Is the second one XF86Terminal?

>>58594026
>I haven't found anything.
See how much time would it save you?

Make one.

>>58594051
Fuck that, I'll just switch to a DE that already can.

What does /fglt/ use CAPS_LOCK for?

>>58594139
Caps Lock

>>58594139
locking dem caps

How can I enable bash completion for program options?

I have bash-completions already. I don't have an single /etc/bash_completion file but I do have a dir with

dbus-bash-completion.sh  fcoeadm  fcoemon  icedteaweb-completion  lldpad  lldptool  quilt  redefine_filedir  scl-completion.bash

in. My bashrc file in /etc/ also has nothing about completions in it.

I'm >>58593871

>>58593971
>>58594040
My main problem is that my alt keys weren't working for the regular web browsing shortcuts, but I think that had less to do with the layout and more with the option to do alt-gr using "both alt keys" that I overlooked. I set alt-gr to "none/no alt-gr" and my keys work now. Thanks!

(Tbh I didn't know about alt-gr before now.)

>>58594143
[[ -f "/etc/bash_completion" ]] && source "/etc/bash_completion"

>>58594150
we learn everyday

I've been using manjaro for a little while but predictably something has broken since the last update and new xorg version. Getting tired of this, starting to seem not worth the effort.
Should I go back to Neon?

>>58591861
>explain gnu in 1 word

>>58594231

      m m m m m m m
     m o o o o o o m
    m o d d d d d o m
   m o d e e e e d o m
  m o d e e e e e d o m
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m o d e e r F r e e d o m
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I'm thinking about installing a distro in my main PC, but I haven't used linux since KDE 4.0 was new and so unstable it was unusable. What has changed since then, and what would be a good distro for someone who wants something that werks without too much tinkering but it's not ubuntu-tier computer illiterate?

>>58594297
ubuntu or derivatives

stop trying to appear cool because your particular linux flavour has a different logo that appears when you run screenfetch

noone
fucking
cares

if you want a distro that works and doesn't require tinkering
Ubuntu fucking LTS

>>58594297
kde neon

>>58594310
Isn't ubuntu an amazon botnet nowadays? Also gnome looked too "childish" to me back then, I'll check out if it has changed now. I don't care about being "cool" anon, I was just memeing.

>>58594359
I'll check it out, thanks anon.

>>58594215
Bumping my question.

>>58594581
what does your script do

whats a very light wm?

>>58594678
dwm, cwm

>>58594581
What do you mean startup? That usually means you want to run something once when your computer first starts up.
But it sounds almost like you want to run it every time you open a terminal window. So which is it?

>>58592612
strace

Ever asked yourself WTF IS HAPPENING? strace will tell you.

What the fuck happens when you replace some text in a file with sed -i?

$ echo foo > somefile
$ strace sed -i 's/foo/bar/' somefile

You see, it creates a randomly named temp file and when finished, it overwrites the original with it.

What OS would be best for a laptop with 512mb of RAM
Here's the rest specs:https://www.cnet.com/products/hp-pavilion-ze2000-customizable-notebook-pc/specs/

>>58595080
puppy

>>58593859

PlayOnLinux also uses install scripts that go stale very quickly.

I've had games fail when using Wine via PlayOnLInux whereas the same game would work just fine with vanilla Wine...

>>58593772

MIDI support via is convoluted as fuck.

https://wiki.winehq.org/MIDI#Using_MIDI_in_Wine

>>58595080
damn small linux, and if you do not care about the initial install labour then gentoo

>>58595080
>pata interface
you gonna have a bad time on anything

>>58591861
Why aren't any games for gentoo stable?
I just wanna play 0ad

How do I use libinput to emulate a scroll wheel?

>>58596110

http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?p=1734277

What rolling release distro are (You) using, /g/?

>>58596301(4U)
obviously gen2

>>58596229
>natural scrolling/reverse scrolling
Sorry, but that's not quite what I meant.
Before having to use libinput, I could hold down my middle click button and move pages up and down via trackball.

How do I do this with libinput?

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Rate my uptime dick, post yours.

uptime | perl -nE '/p (\d+)/;say+8,"="x$1,D'

>>58596679
will this delete system32?

>>58596679
IO have a home computer not a server why would I have so much uptime? I only leave my NAS on if it's torrenting otherwise that gets shutdown when I'm not around too.

>>58596986
found the shorty

>>58596986
Y-you're leaving your computer alone? ;_;

>>58594678
pretty much this >>58594691

they're the only ones i can really stand

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>mfw using the terminal all the time to do things in debian but it's mostly copy pasting from forums and I'm learning nothing

>>58597053
install gentoo

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>>58596986
>I only leave my NAS on if it's torrenting otherwise that gets shutdown when I'm not around too.

Dude you don't automate your downloads?

>>58597084
wow, how did you made that your tripcode is a word??? look pretty cool to be honest

>>58597084
forgot to ask: what's with these chinese(?) characters? do they have a deeper meaning? pls respond

>>58597084
nah I don't follow enough currently airing things to worry about it.

my poor little NAS has 2x 4 year old wd greens in it. the old girl needs needs a break every now and then. soon she'll rest forever too but we try not to think about that.

>>58597120
Roughly translated it means "I have severe autism". I could be wrong

>>58597099
I'm also interested. Looks pretty 1337.

>>58597142
thats "hexspeak", the language hackers are speaking

>>58597158
holy crap
>>58597084
p-please dont hack me

>>58596581
Anyone?

I have USB headset that I'd like to have set as the default device when it's plugged into my arch laptop.
As it is now, I have to set it as the default device manually so that when I press the volume up/down keys the audio going to the headset is affected rather than the onboard speakers.

does anyone know what I need to do to make this happen? Also, is there a way for me to set the onboard speakers as the default device once I've unplugged the headset?

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>>58591861
In my file manager, my .torrent files are of the type: Unknown. I'm positive that before they were of the type Bitttorent Seed or something like that. How do I change that? I know about mime types but have no idea how to change it.

Help!

>>58596301
gen2

I've spent the last few days mucking around in Debian using apt-get. apparently aptitude is b better when used in the command line with it's autoremoval of uneeded dependencies and whatnot. Is it fine to just start using aptitude? or should I start over?

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So I just updated my system and Infinality seems to have been removed from Arch for reasons unknown which has somehow completely broken my GTK theme and icon theme. I've uninstalled everything to do with Infinality and removed the repo from pacman.conf, to no avail, so I had to uninstall my GTK and icon themes because trying to switch to them wasn't having any effect at all. But now when I try to build the GTK theme (Numix) I'm getting this:

/usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:308:in `to_specs': Could not find 'sass' (>= 0.a) among 13 total gem(s) (Gem::MissingSpecError)
Checked in 'GEM_PATH=/home/myusername/.gem/ruby/2.4.0:/usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0', execute `gem env` for more information
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/dependency.rb:320:in `to_spec'
    from /usr/lib/ruby/2.4.0/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_gem.rb:65:in `gem'
    from /usr/bin/scss:22:in `<main>'
make: *** [Makefile:17: css] Error 1
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build numix-themes-archblue-git.
==> Restart building numix-themes-archblue-git ? [y/N]

Anyone know how to fix this shit? I don't know how Infinality could've even caused this.

>>58598622
>execute `gem env` for more information

>>58598622
>Could not find 'sass' (>= 0.a) among 13 total gem(s)

Looks like it's missing a dependency.

>>58598622
Oh great, and the fucking icon theme which did actually build properly is still not working. What the fuck.

This might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back and drives me to another distro.

>>58598638
All I get is:

RubyGems Environment:
  - RUBYGEMS VERSION: 2.6.8
  - RUBY VERSION: 2.4.0 (2016-12-24 patchlevel 0) [x86_64-linux]
  - INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0
  - USER INSTALLATION DIRECTORY: /home/myusername/.gem/ruby/2.4.0
  - RUBY EXECUTABLE: /usr/bin/ruby
  - EXECUTABLE DIRECTORY: /usr/bin
  - SPEC CACHE DIRECTORY: /home/myusername/.gem/specs
  - SYSTEM CONFIGURATION DIRECTORY: /etc
  - RUBYGEMS PLATFORMS:
    - ruby
    - x86_64-linux
  - GEM PATHS:
     - /usr/lib/ruby/gems/2.4.0
     - /home/myusername/.gem/ruby/2.4.0
  - GEM CONFIGURATION:
     - :update_sources => true
     - :verbose => true
     - :backtrace => false
     - :bulk_threshold => 1000
     - "gem" => "--user-install"
  - REMOTE SOURCES:
     - https://rubygems.org/
  - SHELL PATH:
     - /usr/local/sbin
     - /usr/local/bin
     - /usr/bin
     - /usr/bin/site_perl
     - /usr/bin/vendor_perl
     - /usr/bin/core_perl

Doesn't seem to tell me anything about the error.

>>58598648
That was the problem. I had to install ruby-sass from the AUR.

Okay, so the Numix GTK theme builds fine now and works, but the icon theme, as I mentioned before, isn't working at all. When I try switching to it, nothing happens.

Any ideas?

>>58598712
Might be worth noting that all the other icon themes work fine, it's only this one which is broken.

Is there an icon cache somewhere that I need to wipe?

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>>58598736
>>58598712
Reinstalled and it's still not working

>>58598785
check /temp and if you still think the problem is a cache thing restart you system after you remove the package

>>58598785
Okay, crisis averted. I had to reinstall, for whatever reason, a package called gdk-pixbuf2 and then reboot my PC.

fuggin hell

>Wayland is still in a bad state, from a security standpoint it is generally advised to use OpenBSD/MacOS/Windows currently. I find it quite astounding that GNU/Linux has become known as a secure OS when the xserver vulnerabilities have been around for 10+ years.

My audio is all crackling/stuttering /fglt/. How do I troubleshoot this?

I'm on Arch and installed alsa-utils.

>>58598622
isn't infinality moot with the newer versions of freetype?

>>58598842
I dunno. My fonts look like ass now, so I don't think so.

>>58598832
install pulseaudio and pulseaudio-alsa

>>58598844
that's probably just because your only configuration is in infinality-specific locations
i used to use infinality, but haven't felt a need to for a while

>>58598622
https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671
https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671

>>58591861
So on fedora 25 I downloaded waterfox, I extracted it to my home directory and can launch it (I haven't figured out how to install anything just extracted and launched) then when I go to favorites (by hitting the super key) I right click waterfox but it doesn't let me add it to favorites, how do I install it or add it to favorites?

>>58594581

>>58594655
>>58594882
Executes each hour since the session starts. It enters giveaways for steam games from a website.

>>58599119
then pass you script to cron or what ever job scheduler you use

>>58599119
Why not just make the script a cron job?

>>58599152
>>58599154
I'm still haven't got into cron. I know, I know.

>>58598926
it probably has to be a .desktop file

just guessing since you didn't specify what you're using that is showing "favourites"

>>58594215
make a systemd service unit

>>58592612
Oh, and post them.


e.g.
https://spin.atomicobject.com/2013/09/09/5-unix-commands/

>>58599171
none of these commands are obscure

>>58599170
Interesting. Can you explain further?

>>58599184
Not even cal? Are you a hacker?

What's the best "just werks" distro?

>>58599202
>Interesting. Can you explain further?
just a regular systemd service

have it run your program or script, make it depend on what you need it to depend on, give it the type "oneshot" so it just runs once and doesn't hang about or restart, make it wanted by multi-user or graphical, and enable it so it's run with one of those (aka, you're normal bootup)

>>58599202
no the way i learned unix was through using nothing but command line utilities it was not until the last hour did the gui become relevant

The only user on my debian install didn't have the ability top sudo stuff. Whenever I wanted to do something I had to su and do it as root with the root password.

I gave my user sudo privileges, using a password different to the root. did I fuck up? I feel loike having to su into stuff all the time ratehr than sudo on a per command basis was much less secure.

>>58599229
I'd say Fedora.

>>58599229
Ubuntu or pretty much any derivative (kubuntu and xubuntu are pretty easy ootb).
Linux mint cinnamon is most likely the best distro for people transitoning from Windows to Linux.

>>58599229
None of them imo, at least in my expereience. I could probably get my grandma to install windows and be able to use it. the easy distros you kinda do the same but I have always still had to do some work in the terminal configuring things even with mint/ubuntu. major distros still have a ways to go to be as user frindly as OSX and windows.

>>58599396
GNU/Linux*

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

>>58599474
install gentoo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPM6FFD2eCk

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>Installing Arch Linux on an old laptop
Don't know why I'm having fun with this, even though it's frustrating. Trying to out because I eventually want to get a single board computer and put arch on it.

Will KDE Neon run well on a Chromebook or do I have to go with something like Xubuntu?

>>58592612

>commands
Why do people say commands? It's just programs that you run. It's not a "command". Is opening Firefox a command?

>>58600755
Firefox is a program. You run the program firefox by emitting the command firefox. You use commands to command programs.

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>>58592612
slackclub

>>58600803
No! Typing the word firefox will execute the program. Commanding a program would look like this:

$ firefox kill yourself

>>58600755
Firefox is a program.
You run firefox by issuing a command to the computer to run firefox.

Your command (in this case firefox) is a directive to a command-line interface which is another program, in this case I assume Unix shell which is a command-line interpreter.

And yes clicking a menu option in a graphical user interface to run Firefox is technically a command as well.

>>58600836
>Typing the word firefox will execute the program
That's what is called a command. I'm sorry for you, it looks like it's too complex for you.

>>58600846
>no arguments
>insults
found the 12 year old

>>58600854
>>no arguments
The case was already closed.
>>insults
fact: an idiot is an idiot
>found the 12 year old
What an insult!

>>58600803
A command is only a command with command in front of the command. What if it's just an alias?

>>58600899
An alias is still a command.

>>58600977

$ alias butthatswrongyoufuckingretard=':^)'
$ type -t butthatswrongyoufuckingretard
alias

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Help

>>58601010
restart firefox

>>58601019
I use ungoogled chromium

>>58591861
Is Ubuntu a stable distro?

>>58601034
why?

>>58601041
It consumes less ram

>>58601038
yeah

>>58601038
no

>>58601038
For a general-purpose desktop PC the LTS version of ubuntu should be "stable enough"

But it all depends on the purpose.

It's definitely not suited for mission critical applications, and even the biggest canonical shill will not try to convince you otherwise. It's still commonly used on servers.

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>>58591861

>>58601002
And? You just stated that an alias is an alias. And I agree. But you didn't state tant an alias isn't a command. It's friendly so I will shut up.

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I'm having issues with sound glitches and I have no idea how to fix it.

After searching for a fix I found that the problem is related to snd-hda-intel driver.

I noticed that this option flicks between Line Out and Headphone (plugged and unplugged).

Any idea how to approach this issue? I've tried a bunch of distros (Arch/Solus/Debian/Fedora) and this problem persists.

>>58601959
>I noticed that this option flicks between Line Out and Headphone (plugged and unplugged).
and you want headphone/speaker right?

what naming scheme do you use for backing up default configuration files.

for a moment I was comfortable with Emacs doing it for me with a copy of the original file with ~ appended to the name it since it stood out.

But then I realized it will do that emacs will put the "last previous version" in the ~ file.

.old?
.bak?

>>58592448
Obviously because you're bored and have nothing better to do.

Kill yourself.

Is ed the smallest and most minimal editor?

>>58596301
>install memetoo

Is upgrading to debian testing for a personal server a bad idea? Stable has so many packages that are several years old and backporting is a pain in the ass.

>>58594475
>Isn't ubuntu an amazon botnet nowadays?
Only Unity, which was ugly anyways. A better idea is to install xubuntu, which the exact same thing but with xfce.

>>58596301
Arch

>>58602522
Yes it's a bad idea

>>58591861
What's the best wm for making my desktop look good?

>>58603123
Aero

>>58603142
>wangblows

>>58603123
Unity with material theme

This is probablly the wrong thread but I shall ask anyway:

So I did a re-install of Arch recently, in the process I fucked up my MBR and have lost access to my windows partition, I completely formatted the 100MB partition and have tried booting a windows recovery disk and doing the fixmbr fixboot commands but I get some error about unknown partiton type. Anyone here know a way I can fix my MBR, preferably from linux, I have a live CD lying around so re-installing grub isn't a problem.

>>58603672
boot-repair-disk

look it up on google
It fixed all of my problems

I have tried out Linux and it objectively sucks donkey balls.

>>58603847
I tried out Linux and it's ok.

But it doesn't have as many cool little things as macOS

>>58603009
Why?

on gentoo, portage keeps saying my conifguration files in '/etc' need updating, but I have no clue which ones or what to update on them. What the heck is that supposed to mean?

>>58603856
Indeed. If the Linux devs would all pool together and create one big, proper distro instead of forking shit and having over 9000 different package formats, they could easily surpass Windows and MacOS. But as it is, everything looks unfinished as fuck.

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>>58591861
I'd just like ta interject fo' a moment. What you’re referrin ta as Linux, is up in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken ta callin it, GNU plus Linux. Linux aint a operatin system unto itself yo, but rather another free component of a gangbangin' straight-up functionin GNU system made useful by tha GNU corelibs, shell utilitizzles n' vital system components comprisin a gangbangin' full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computa playas run a modified version of tha GNU system every last muthafuckin day, without realizin dat shit. Through a peculiar turn of events, tha version of GNU which is widely used todizzle is often called "Linux", n' nuff of its playas aint aware dat it is basically tha GNU system, pimped by tha GNU Project. There straight-up be a Linux, n' these playas is rockin it yo, but it is just a part of tha system they use.
Linux is tha kernel: tha program up in tha system dat allocates tha machine’s resources ta tha other programs dat you run. I aint talkin' bout chicken n' gravy biatch. Da kernel be a essential part of a operatin system yo, but useless by itself; it can only function up in tha context of a cold-ass lil complete operatin system. Linux is normally used up in combination wit tha GNU operatin system: tha whole system is basically GNU wit Linux added, or GNU/Linux fo' realz. All tha so-called "Linux" distributions is straight-up distributionz of GNU/Linux.

>>58603870
read up on security policy of debian branches.

debian security team does not maintain security patches for testing and sid, only for the main release (stable).

testing is actually the least secure debian branch out there.
Sid updates packages frequently, so all discovered vulnerabilities will be patched as soon as the new software release is deemed "stable" for sid ie. doesn't have critical bugs.

Testing can be left for weeks or even month without an update, especially now since the current testing branch (stretch) is undergoing a freeze and is ready'd up to become new stable.

If you want debian testing to be used for a server, there's a distro. It's called Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is based on debian testing but has independent security team.
Ubuntu LTS is frequently used for private servers, so consider installing it if outdated packages of jessie bother you.

or just wait a few months for stable to be updated from jessie to stretch

>>58603887
"Linux devs"

>no matter what I try from google or which district I try
>audio doesn't work and says "dummy output"


Pls help

>>58603887
Truly an opinion worth of a clueless drone

>>58604031
because you are dummy

>>58604072
I've tried multiple distros, the first 3 pages of googling the problem, nothing works.

The only way it will work is sometimes if I restart it a bunch I'll get lucky and it works

>>58604085
what have you tried doing, distro, which audio mixer/player, pulseaudio or alsa? WM/DE? audio not working is a broad issue, but if it says "dummy output" your system might just be outputing to something other than your speakers

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>>58591861
Hah! I found that board game in a thrift store one. Here's a picture I took of it.

How does building in chroot containers work? Am I supposed to build as root?
I created a container using systemd-nspawn but I'm don't think I can simply create a unprivileged user without user namespaces configured in the kernel and my disto (rightly) keep that shit disabled.

>>58604138
I've tried ubuntu,opensuse, mint, and Debian, all give me the same issue. Have tried both alsa and pulse audio, issue persists.

There isn't an option to select anything other than dummy output as an outfit device, so I guess it's not detecting the speakers

>>58601010
At least show us the first few lines of

ps aux --sort=-%mem

>>58604238
changing distro won't help, for some reason your machine need some extra configuration.
What kind of hardware are you using?
Also post the output of

lspci | grep -i audio 

and

cat /proc/asound/cards

>>58603968
Thanks. I'm glad I asked now because all I did so far was setting up iptables and ssh, so I can quickly nuke it and restart with Ubuntu LTS.

tfw want to build a shitbox as daily driver so I can run Linsucks on it while keeping my gaming computer for heavier tasks.

what should I build? i3 and AM1-system?

>>58604190
>I'm don't
>a unprivileged
sorry, kinda tired

>>58604317
why not run a raspberry pi

>>58604486
I want to at least watch youtube videos on it

Is there a way to fill up a file to an exact amount of bytes with standard shell utitlies?

For example, I have a 123k file and I want it to be 1337k, random or zero data.

Possible?

>>58604579
yes

>>58604494
then go to /pcbg/

>>58604579
use dd

dd if=/dev/zero of=your_file bs=1 count=#_bytes oflag=append conv=notrunc

>>58604672
Thanks

>>58592448
No, but you can't leave anyways. There was never a reason to come here in the first place but you made the mistake and now your trapped like the rest of us.

>>58592087
In the most basic way possible,
(sudo) dd if=/path/to/iso of=/path/to/device

>>58604299
> cat /proc/asound/cards
--- no soundcards ---


The other command doesn't work
>bash: lspci: command not found

I'm just on a thinkpad T420. I ran an older version of ubuntu forever and it just worked and then I decided to update to a newer version and started having problems.

>>58605025
lspci is part of pciutils, it should be present in the base installation of basically any distro.
Anyway if you have an i3-5 it should be using the audio controller included in the processor, can you also post somewhere the output of dmesg?

>>58605120
actually, the fact that pciutils is not installed is extremely suspect. That's probably your problem.

>>58605155
>>58605120
I don't know what pcutils is, I just freshly installed this off of a live USB so I don't know why something that seems essential/important wouldn't be installed.


Here are the results of dmesg: http://pastebin.com/5SWsWneE

From what I can tell with 0 knowledge no audio output is detected and the OS can't even find a soundcard so it defaults to dummy audio which is no audio ?

>>58605183
weird, try to install pciutils, then run

sudo lspci -vv

>>58605436
>sudo lspci -vv

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

root's password:
lspci: relocation error: lspci: symbol pci_init, version LIBPCI_3.2 not defined in file libpci.so.3 with link time reference

How can I make my terminal in Xubuntu look like the default one in Ubuntu? I liked that your username always had a different color and that the selector was blinking.

Also another newb question, how do I know that the package I'm installing is actually a legit one and not someone trying to scam me by using a similar package name as the one I'm interested in?

OS: Arch
Modem: Huawei E3531 (3G modem)
Connecting via nm-applet
Problem:
I get disconnected from time to time, can't find fucking fix.
I thought that i get disconnected when im not using internet so i ran ping www.google.com to see if ill get discconected after x minutes and i got. I dont know why is this happening and how do i fix this shit?
Any linux master here?

>>58605732
Install Gnome Terminal.

gnome-terminal

You may then configure it how you like, the blinking [] and all.

>How do I know that the package I'm installing is actually a legit one?
All packages in the repo are signed with a GPG key that proves that they have not been modified.

>and not someone trying to scam me?
All packages are verified by the FTP masters prior to upload. I'm sure they could catch something like "f1ref0x"

>>58602745
I've always liked the sleek, modern look of KDE. Any KDE distro recommendations?

I'm on Debian Testing in a laptop with an AMD APU with dual graphics (AMD/AMD).

I would like to know if the discrete GPU is been used and switched on and off.

If I run xrandr --listproviders, I get this:

Providers: number : 1
Provider 0: id: 0x8a cap: 0xf, Source Output, Sink Output, Source Offload, Sink Offload crtcs: 4 outputs: 3 associated providers: 0 name:radeon

So it seems that is seeing just one GPU, but if I check the switch file on /sys/kernel/debug/vgaswitcheroo/, I get this:

0:IGD:+:Pwr:0000:00:01.0
1:DIS: :DynOff:0000:01:00.0

It seems that both cards are there, but even while playing a video, the Discrete card appears off.

Any ideas?

I need to run a live CD on a 166 MHz P5 with 128 MB of RAM. Any suggestions? It's not even a Pentium Pro and that immediately rules out a bunch of distros I looked at, should I just hunt down an ancient build of Knoppix or something?

>>58605875
kde neon

>>58606001
The only distro that I know, that will "probably" run on that, is PuppyLinux, check this links:

http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/MinimumSystemRequirements

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=22070

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>>58603968
>mfw running a personal server with Debian Sid

I'm planning to upgrade the entire PC this year with Zen, nvme SSD, and maybe even a high end GPU. What would be the best way to move my shit to this new drive? Just dd the main drive onto the new drive?

>>58603672
you formatted the partition grub was on, or the windows reserved partition?

if the grub one, then set the windows reserved partition to be the boot partition, then use ms-sys to write a windows bootsector (linux tool)

>>58606001
>166 MHz / 128MB of ram
wew boy
Try OpenBSD instead.

>Live system
You won't be able to execute firefox. It will probably segfault. The same goes for just about any graphical web browser. You could try links though! (If you were planning on web browsing..) Also, take a look at Damn Small Linux.

>>58592612

help fc

fc -l -10 = list last ten lines from bash history
fc -l 1 10 = list first ten commands from bash history
fc -e gedit 21 = open bash history line 21 in gedit. edit save close gedit, it runs in terminal.

It's been a few decades.

Do AMDGPU drivers work on GCN 1.0 cards now?

>>58605739
probably some power saving feature, do you use, for example, tlp?

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>>58606095

>>58606115
I would use some disk cloning software like clonezilla

>>58606183
>tlp
Nope

>>58606216
install powertop, go to the "tunables" tab and check if you can disable some autosusped/PM feature related to that modem

Hey there, using Openbox.
How would I go about disabling the titles that appear at the tops of windows?

Example:
/g/ - /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread - Technology - 4chan - QupZilla

I'd like to disable that text, while keeping the bar.

>>58606281
http://openbox.org/wiki/Help:Configuration

>>58606003
I've read that it's basically ubuntu with the latest KDE packages slapped on top of it and it has some performance and stability problems. Aren't Manjaro/suse better?

>>58606146
I was initially hesitant on DSL because I had annoying bullshit issues with it in the past, but it turned out to work just fine for this need. Thanks mate.

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Just tried CentOS live today, both KDE and GNOME feels pretty integrated. Anything I should know about it besides having old packages?

where is the best place to get linux news?

whether it be podcasts, websites, or any other form of media. I would prefer podcasts but most of them suck aside from Bryan Lunduke's which seems to be youtube exclusive.

>>58606455
phoronix

>>58606455
https://lkml.org/

>>58606393
its rhel without paid features.
it's all you should know about it

>>58606462
>>58606471
Thanks /g/entoomen

Why is ghc taking so long to emerge? It's fucking about to melt my laptop

Hey there, just switched to sysvinit from systemd on Debian Testing. Went well except for one issue: Restarting and other things don't work from lightdm or lxsession-logout anymore. This could be fixed in OpenBSD by simply installing and configuring messagebus, but that fix doesn't work here. I can stilll reboot by typing

sudo reboot

at the terminal.

For anyone curious, the reason that I have decided to switch from systemd to sysvinit is because I use a very low-powered laptop to do my computing. sysvinit is much faster a boot than systemd on this system.

>>58596581
Does anyone have any ideas for this?

Should I install Pulseaudio? ALSA is being a pain in the ass

I'm running openSUSE with Plasma and I have foobar2000 installed on here. How do I get it to show up in the quicklaunch menu?

>>58607482

I use PulseAudio and it works fine on my machine.

What reading programs does /g/ recommend? Using Okular right now and it's alright, but I'm having an issue were one of my books' background is grey with black text, making it unreadable. I've tried fbreader and wasn't a fan.

How do I install ubuntu 15.10 on top of 16.10 without having /home deleted?

The option that allows me to install one on top of another says I'll lose everything I have. Why can't that shit leave /home untouched?

>>58607858
back up home then whip the disk and reinstall

>>58607873
BUT I DON'T WANT TO DO THAT!!!!

>>58607673
dank you Poettering
turns out I just had to recompile my kernel

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Okay I know you're gonna say why are you still using Bluetooth you faggot its the current year

But I'm just curious about this piece of shit device that is on my (dellshit) laptop and thought I would try and pair it with my Nexus 6.

I couldn't even send a fucking image to the phone, I think because it doesn't have the right profiles or some shit.

It's a Dell 365 Bluetooth module on a Vostro 3300 on Ubungo 16.10

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whats the best debian based distro? preferrably one that doesnt require too much messing with configs

will be installing on an x230

>>58607963
that is one DANK ASS battlestation

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Where do you guys mount your hard drives?
I have my internal hard drives mounted at /media/[DriveName].

>>58607998
Ubuntu.
It's good enough for Donald Knuth.

>>58608584
Internal HDDs
/data1
/data2
/data3
/data4

External
/mnt/usb/backup
/mnt/usb/zipdisquette
etc...

Network
/mnt/net/foo
/mnt/net/bar

>>58608623
It annoys me that there's no official standard for mounting internal hard drives in a unix filesystem. /mnt is supposed to be a temp mount point and /media is supposed to be for removable devices.

>>58608658
Why would there be a standard?

You're either mounting them for just extra storage, or you're mounting them to make them act as a seamless and specific part of your filestructure.

The later is pretty much "standard", if you're doing that then you know exactly where to mount it, no question about it.
As for the former, then it's like I said, nothing more than extra storage space so put it wherever you want. /mnt is fine, some newer distros like to have a separate /media, I have no idea why but whatever floats your boat.

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im sick and tired of this shitty OS and i plan on replacing it with a linux distro (probably arch)
can i pass my gpu to a win10 virtual machine with these specs?

How do you guys feel about elementary os? I'm going to go full linux soon and am trying to decide on what to use. That or mint probably. I just want stability, something nice looking, and that can accomplish normal tasks.

>>58600275

Any fellow x201 user?

>>58592883
kek'd

>>58608806
your processor have the required features, but I can't say anything about the mobo (check at least if you have an option to disable or enable VT-d or IOMMU in your bios).
Anyway note that vga-passthrough doesn't always works and is a _real_ pain in the ass to configure.

What video codec does twitter use for their videos, and how do I get it to work on firefox?

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>>58608584
I mount them off root.

I don't do this but it's a possible plan I thought of recently. Mount everything in directories in /something, then bind mount each sub-directory in a more convenient place. So
/something/drive1/anime -> ~/videos/anime
/something/drive1/books -> ~/books
/something/drive2/movies -> ~/videos/movies
/something/drive2/programming -> ~/books/programming
where a -> b means the directory a is bind-mounted at b, and drive1, drive2 are the filesystems you mounted.

Sometimes I see people ITT mentioning security problems with Mint, but they never specify which. Could you mention some examples?

>>58609189
do you use gstreamer? in that case you should install the "good" plugins package and the ffmpeg plugin

>>58609223
What's wrong with mounting your mounts in the standard directory /mnt and then creating symlinks to wherever?

>>58608806
Yes you can as long as the motherboard supports VT-d as well.

It isn't too hard and it's really, really fucking good if you get it working perfectly. I highly recommend using Arch/Manjaro/Antergos since the Arch Wiki is really self explanatory (see PCI Passthrough via OVMF). Though anything else works as well if needed. Fedora 26 is apparently going to make it easier to do via GUI tools and Boxer I believe, however Fedora 26 isn't out yet so right now you need to do it the "hard" way.

Just read how to isolate the GPU in the Arch Wiki page (goes for pretty much all distros, except the mkinitcpio part) and make the VM using virt-manager.

I highly recommend using virt-manager and virsh to make the VM. As virt-manager has vCPU-pinning which is something that QEMU bash scripts don't do and it'll help a lot when fixing the sound issues you might encounter.

Good luck, Anon. It'll require some reading, but once you have it running you'll be happy you did. I actually bought new hardware just for this feature and I don't regret doing so one single bit. It has saved me a lot of frustration of dual booting and playing games or using video editing software while in Linux.

Same as >>58609272
After some googling, the only thing I found are kernel updates not being selected automatically. Are there other security issues with Linux Mint, or is /g/ just memeing as usual?

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>>58609157
>>58609365
this is my mobo, can i do it?
sorry for asking for spoonfeed, im really scarred of fucking things up

I have a question, if you could help me, since I have no experience with this. I asked in some other threads but got no good replies. Anyway, I have to set up two servers, a school server and one for small businesses.

For the school server, how do I set up one for 250 users, the server has to have at least 2x8 core processors, 1GB of network connection, at least 2x300gb sas raid1, 4x400 SSD raid10 and 2x400gb SSD raid1.

For a small business you're supposed to set up a server for VMware ESXi, a NAS hard drive, for 12 workstations (2GB RAM, 500gb HDD) and 2 graphic workstations.

This is all hypothetical, but I will have to actually set everything up later on; it's part of a course at school and part of my passing grade.

>>58609495
if you do not see that as a glaring issue you should read more

>>58609524
Yes it does. You need to enable Intel Virtualization Technology (also sometimes called VT-x) and VT-d in your BIOS.

VT-d is located under "Chipset".

>>58609567
But is this the only issue?

i only have a 1tb hdd
how many partitions should i create for a linux install + a future VM?

what do i do next to install GNU IceCat in debian jessie?

I extracted the tar and everything, and have icecat-45.5.1 in the downloads folders

i tried to do

./configure
make
make install

after using cd into the the debian folder but nothing happens

the README is also extremely confusing

I really wish it was as easy as sudo apt-get install icecat but that doesn't work

>>58609308
>gstreamer
never heard of it

I'm so glad arch isn't bloated with crap like the gnu coreutils

What's the best way to install Arch?

>>58610192
emerge =sys-os/arch-20170101

Here's the deal.

I'm considering to change distro from my Frankendebian into either Xubuntu or Mint+Xfce; but to be honest I distrust Canonical since the Amazon adware fiasco, that's why I was asking for security issues with Mint.

If it's just about the kernel updates not being "encouraged" enough by Mint, well, I can change this by hand just fine. But if there are others, I'd really like to know.

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which one should i install?

>>58610464
If you don't know then you probably want the 1st one

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Hey guys I am at a loss here. I'm trying to add myself to the vboxusers group so I can access USB's in my VM.

Host is Linux Ubuntu 16.04 MATE and the VM is Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. I get pic related whenever I try to add myself.

So portage says I need a USE flag that doesn't exist

The following REQUIRED_USE flag constraints are unsatisfied:
    cpu_flags_x86_sse? ( cpu_flags_x86_mmxext )

>>58610705
don't capitalize the username

>>58610503
this, it's nothing you can't change later anyway.

>>58610705
Your username is "joshua", not "Joshua". Case matters.

>>58610759
Short version:

echo 'CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse mmxext"' > /etc/portage/make.conf

Long version: What you're looking at is a "USE_EXPAND variable". Basically, it's a bunch of USE flags that all start with "cpu_flags_x86_", and since you're possibly going to have a bunch of those installed, Portage allows you to just set CPU_FLAGS_X86, and automatically expands them to USE flags prefixed with "cpu_flags_x86_" (so, CPU_FLAGS_X86="sse mmxext" becomes USE="cpu_flags_x86_sse cpu_flags_x86_mmxext").

Incidentally, LINGUAS, VIDEO_CARDS, and so on all work the same way. See the last section in https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/use-flags/

>>58610855
Samefag, the > in the command for the "short version" should be a >>, unless you want to erase /etc/portage/make.conf while you're there. Or just use an editor.

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>>58610768
well that worked. So I'm now a part of the vboxusers group. How do I add USB's to the VM? None of my USB's are showing up AT ALL. The Host sees them of course. I unmount the USB from the host and even then, the VM doesn't see it. I have USB enabled in the VM settings. I can't add any devices as VirtualBox doesn't recognize the drive is even plugged in.

I've been troubleshooting this shit for almost a full day now and it won't go through. This is ridiculous.

>>58610768
>>58610855
oh and thanks. Sorry meant to say that before. I've just been trying everything for such a simple task and nothing has been working. I'm frustrated.

>>58608584
under my home folder
for example "~/Videos" is a mountpoint for a subvolume on my raid

>>58610881
Does it work when you run Virtualbox as root? If so, you need to add your user to another group, probably "plugdev" or "usb".

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>>58610881

>>58608658
the standard is to mount them where you need them to be

>>58608658
This is the first I'm hearing about /mnt being for temporary mounting. I just mount all my extra partitions in subdirs there.

/media is, of course, an abomination.

>>58610940
probably is safer to just set the adequate write permission to that usb device rather than trying to run vbox as root

>>58610942
I did that and it says "no usb devices detected". I can't screenshot while I have that menu open.
>>58610940
I never tried running Vbox as root so I'll give that a go right now.

I'll check to see if I'm already in the plugdev and usb group. I should be by default yeah? I mean I'm hte only user/admin of this PC.

>>58610974
The idea isn't to actually try to run your VM as root or anything, it's just to check if it's a permissions error. If even root has a problem with it, there's something else wrong.

>>58610978
I haven't run Ubuntu in a while, so I don't know what your default groups are. You can check by running the "groups" command in a terminal.

Hey again:

>>58606988
Never fixed the reboot issue. Not too concerened about it.

So I'm trying to completly remove systemd from my system now, and the only things that are blocking me are these packages:

The following additional packages will be installed:
  consolekit libck-connector0 libpam-ck-connector
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  appstream* apt-config-auto-update* cgmanager* colord* colord-data*
  dbus-user-session* exfat-fuse* exfat-utils* gconf-editor* gdisk*
  gnome-packagekit* gnome-packagekit-data* gnome-settings-daemon*
  gnome-system-log* gnome-system-tools* gvfs* gvfs-backends* gvfs-daemons*
  gvfs-fuse* gvfs-libs* iio-sensor-proxy* libappstream4* libatasmart4*
  libcgmanager0* libcolorhug2* libgusb2* libmtp-common* libmtp-runtime*
  libmtp9* libnfs8* libnih-dbus1* libnih1* libnm0* liboobs-1-5*
  libpam-systemd* libpolkit-backend-1-0* libudisks2-0* nautilus-data*
  packagekit* packagekit-tools* pk-update-icon* policykit-1*
  policykit-1-gnome* system-tools-backends* systemd* systemd-shim* udisks2*

Appstream in partciular seems to be important, but it relies on systemd. I have no idea what the rest of them are, but keep in mind that I did have GNOME installed, but I have removed it. Is gvfs is GNOME's virtual file system, it's safe to remove those, I assume. I really don't like the idea of touching packagekit either... Consider this a "Can I remove dizz?" kinda shitpost.

>>58609938
just run ./icecat. It's precompiled

>>58610978
To use virtualbox's usb pass-through feature you need a proprietary plugin (Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack):

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

>>58607482
In what sense is it a pain in the ass? I haven't used pulseaudio in like 4 years, just plain alsa, and I haven't had any problems.

>>58611009
OK So I launched VirtualBox as root and it sees the device now. Problem is it still doesn't mount in Windows 7. It did the "installing drivers" portion in windows and said it recognizes a USB device plugged in but it doesn't even show up in device manager or partition menu.

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I've been trying to install crunchbang++ and I got all the way up to choosing a debian package manager mirror and lo and behold, none of the archive links work.
Fuck my life.

>>58611062
I downloaded that already.

>>58611102
Sounds like an internet connection issue. Also, consider Bunsenlabs.

>>58611027
Consolekit (and probably Policykit, which is marked for removal) is required to get rebooting from anything other than "sudo reboot" to work. systemd has consolekit built into it because systemd is the Borg and assimilates everything. dbus-user-session would probably be pulled back in as a dependency.

gvfs is sometimes used by non-GNOME programs who happen to use GTK.

udisks goes with udev, and (surprise!) handles disks. udev can handle the basics on its own though, so I don't know what udisks is used for.

you know more about appstream than i do, but other than that and what i mentioned that should be a safe apt transaction

>>58611139
Thank you very much for the detailed responce. I will report back if everything went well.

>>58611088
thanks for all the help with USB mounting in VirtualBox /g/. I had to unplug/re-plug the USB device and the Windows 7 VM scanned/fixed it.

>>58611190
It did! I'm now completly systemd-free.
Thanks again for the assistance!

has anyone tried bcachefs? i've found surprisingly little information about it, and i can't access its main site (bcache.evilpiepirate.org)

>>58610855
Yeah, I managed to figure that out, feel stupid, but the more portage breaks, the more I learn how powerful it can be

Anyone here actually run a fully free system? it just seems like a pain in the ass to me. Even if free drivers and the like are available they are rarely fully functioning.

>>58606393
Don't use the Live images to install. If you do, you will have to choose to initialize via rescue mode everytime you turn your device on.

When will Linux package management finally be solved?

>>58611894
What is the problem? There are fancy GUIs for installation, nowadays.

What file manager goes best with a tiling MW like dmw or awesome? thunar is too... grey... for my liking

>>58611894
never. Linus won't waste his time ,but try asking Patrick Volkerding.

>>58612003
pcmanfm is pretty light, has both gtk+ and qt versions

So I got past the grub uefi install problem I was having but now I ran into a new issue with my gentoo install:
When the system boots up it hangs at "Waiting for uevents to be processed ..."

I'm thinking about cucking out and going for openrc-arch. This shit is getting ridiculous.

>>58612187
are you using nvidia drivers?

>>58612197
No. both cpu and gpu are amd.

>>58612220
Did you compile your kernel with necessary firmware?
Do you have amd graphical drivers installed? try booting with nomodeset in grub.
Editing /etc/rc.conf test rc_parallel="YES" OR rc_logger="YES"
Parallel with allow other jobs to run at the same time but logging will become a mess. Logging will be useless if the hangup is /dev related
Also use a livecd to check /var/log/dmesg,messages,rc.log

were you the one with kernel panics on boot?

>>58612389
>were you the one with kernel panics on boot?
no, that was a different anon. I was in that thread though.

>>58612187
I might be wrong, but you could safely remove udev-settle from whatever run level it's on.

mount your gentoo partition and delete the symlink somewhere in /etc/runlevel

>>58612510
what should that do?

>>58612813
Not make your computer hang.

Look at /etc/init.d/udev-settle to see what it does. Removing the symlink will make it not run 'udevadm settle'.

I don't have it enabled to run at boot, so I guess it won't break your system by disabling it.

>>58612134
how ricable is it?

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Linux Mint looks like a pretty good choice for a beginner like me, but I've heard that pretty much every ISO out there was compromised. How true is this?

In vim I want to make it so if I do :del it deletes the current file (including fro mbuffer) here's what I have in my .vimrc

:del :call delete(expand('%')) | bdelete!

how do I do it, this doesn't work