/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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Today I will remind them

>>58637816
i can see the linux penguin but where's the gnu gnu?

>>58637816
What's wrong with frogposting? Are you a racist or something?

>>58637830
It's ugly and I can't think of a good way to include it. I thought about putting it on the hat but the pepper is better.

>>58637857
Anti racist

Fyi the Anti Defamation League declared Pepe a hate symbol.

>>58637857
frogposting, n.
low quality googled thumbnail smug pepe w/ 9gag watermark, usually posted by some non-/g/ent in order to gather pcpartpicker ratings, stupid questions, or btfo-ing non-normie software using basement dwellers

>>58637947
Back in my days, frogposting meant the opposite. ;_;

>>58637857
Only newfags think frogposting has anything to do with racism.
Fuck off back to /pol/ with all the other newfags faggot

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>>58637947
>>58637965

The amount of thumbnails posted here, especially /g/ is astounding. Honestly it should be a ban worthy offense. If you think it's normal for a Pepe or what have you to be 300 x 300 or similar you aren't a very smart individual.

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>>58638016
In the real world Pepe is a hate symbol. Newfag.

>>58638066
You're just embarrassing yourself.

>Open the last thread
>Vim advice
>Someone recommends "0i" to write at the beginning of the line.

Is it always underage in here?

Capital I, newfags.

>>58638113
>You're just embarrassing yourself.

>he doesn't realize that frogposting was always about race

Does anyone actually use "Snaps"? There's even an Arch wiki page on them, but I don't think anyone uses them.

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>>58638146
>>>he doesn't realize that frogposting was always about race
Holy crap, just stop please.
You could not be more of a newfag if you tried

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>>58638165
>falling for all of this obvious bait
LOLOL

>>58638192
>whitespace in filename
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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>>58638165
>>58638192

>>58638192
>laughing out loud out load

how to fix Arch's font config post infinality
I followed this gist
https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671 (embed)

and enabled

export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=40

in /etc/profile.d/freetype2.sh
the fonts look better than the default state but still nowhere as good as the infinality fonts

>>58638135

That was me and I just learned about I. What does it have to do with someone's age?

>>58638253
>Arch
found your problem

>>58638192
It's hardly bait when 80% of 4chan these days is honestly that ill informed.

That's like blending in to a special ed class and then patting yourself on the back at the end of the day because nobody pointed you out for not really being a retard.

>>58638253

Holy shit, just paste that sample fontconfig from the Wiki and be done with it.

>>58638243
>he doesn't laugh out lout out loud laugh out loud
HAHAHAHAHA

>>58637790
>GNU/Linux
Linux

>>58638253
I somehow love this. Finally all Arch fags will realize that they don't need meme infinality.

>>58638284
still waiting for the day when archfags realize they don't need arch in order to have a minimal distro

>>58638303
>>58638284
whats wrong with arch???

>>58637790
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

>>58638326
are you still googleing for the second part of the pasta, or -?

>>58638400
>using google

>>58638264
>>58638281
this (fixing the post infinality era) config files and cleaning up old symlinks and editing conf files has been the most extreme post update/upgrade I have done in arch in the last two years.
I honestly don't know why people still meme the shit out of it. All my updates are accumulated over a month or more, because I simply don't have time or energy for every day updates. However, it's still much better than reinstalling buntu based distros every 6 months.
plot twist: it's the same arch install for over 4 years

>>58638473
>ubuntu based
what

>>58637790
>GNU/Linux
I miss /flt/.

>>58638585
I don't. It was a pile of shit which recommended Mint.

>>58638585
create it and dont be a nag

>>58638253
>>58638264
>>58638284
>>58638303
>>58638319
>>58638473
Arch btw

>>58638135
Thanks man, makes much more sense.

When I open something from my shell in my terminal emulator, it's run "under" the terminal emulator. What is the "parent" when I run the same thing from a .desktop file or somewhere else?

>>58638752
Depends on the file.
It may execute the program directly, run in the shell, etc.

>>58638818

What if it's a GUI program?

>arch dropping 32 bit support
>Their April fool's joke in 2009 was about removing 32 bit support (https://www.archlinux.org/news/dropping-i686-support/)
It seems a bit weird and lazy but who still uses 32 bit anyway

So, what are some essential programs for a new Linux?

Is PulseAudio the best way to handle audio?

>>58638950
I think it's considered to be run by your window manager. Or by X or something like that.

>>58638994
GNU/Linux*

>>58639091
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.

Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.

One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?

(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.

>>58638994
>essential
already there, discover them

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>>58638995

You're right. I don't understand why there are 2 LightDM processes and one apparently under the other.

>>58638713

Capital letters are usually modifiers of the lower case function, and double presses are often the most common (usually line related) use also. Just experiment.

a -> A appends onto the end of the line from anywhere in it.

w and e become W and E, and jump by words separated by spaces rather than just anything that isn't a character. dE will delete a word like wrong["item"] or stupid_long-variable_name in one go.

f / t become F / T, and search backwards instead of forwards.

d is delete.
dw, delete to beginning of next word.
dt", delete up to (not including) the " char.
D is delete to the end of the line (basically d$)
dd is delete the line you're on.

c[movement] is change (delete and put in insert mode)
C is change rest of line (c$)
cc is change this line (like ddO)

etc.

Some commands become actually useful this way.

s is delete a single letter then enter insert mode (like pressing xi). No idea why you'd want that, I never use it.
S though substitutes the entire line which is actually useful. S is like pressing C but always from the first non-whitespace character.

The only one that doesn't fit the pattern is y. Idk why.
yy yanks a line as expected.
Y doesn't yank to the end of the line though. You gotta use y$ like a pleb.

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>>58639103
y so mad tho senpai. Linux will always be Linux. GNU will always be GNU. GNU/Linux is the combination of both.

>>58639103
>>58639135
>>58638994
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!

>>58639120

"
" Y : Be consistent with C and D.
"

nnoremap Y y$

>>58639114
Let me rephrase.

What are /fglt/'s favorite GNU/Linux programs (other than the OS itself)

>>58639120
I love you, thanks. It feels like I've seen the light.

>>58639163
cowsay

>>58639163
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications

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>>58639163
- atool
- aria2
- audacity
- blender
- ffmpeg
- gimp
- htop
- imagemagick
- lemonbar
- mpd + ncmpcpp
- mpv
- pv
- sox
- urxvt
- vim
- youtube-dl
- xdotool

Failed to open /etc/brlapi.key: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/sudoers: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/gshadow: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/gshadow-: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/.pwd.lock: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/crypttab: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/shadow-: Permission denied
Failed to open /etc/shadow: Permission denied
Failed to open /swapfile: Permission denied
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port1.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port2.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port3.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port4.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port5.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port6.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port7.gun_chairs
unhandled setting UI: psx.input.port8.gun_chairs

Why would RetroArch try to open /etc/shadow? What hte fuck?

>>58639490
every application with a file picker or built-in file manager may do something like that. Anyway are you sure you are not sharing your /etc/ folder?

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Reminder that syntax highlighting is for kids and faggots

:syntax off

Ubuntu and Mint have a noob friendly way to look at 3rd party drivers and install them for stuff like WLAN cards and GPUs.

How do I something like that in Fedora?

>>58639578

Don't understand how people can code without it.

When I land on a bad colourscheme (I change a lot cos I'm an autist), it's like reading a wall of text vs reading nice short paragraphs.

>>58639550

You're right, I think / was set as a location for one of the config files.

>>58639659
Pay them no mind anon. People who code without syntax highlighting are animals.

There is no point of the shitux meme if it has no games, it's why everyone buys a computer so they can play advanced video games.

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>>58639918

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Just installed arch. It tries the start job for 90 seconds and then boots after pic related. Suggestions?

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wtf wat do

>>58640050
> Not knowing how to read the wiki

Holy fucking kek go back to Ubuntu faggot

>>58640043
>Just installed arch.
just fucked up

>>58640050
initialize pacman's keys

>>58640059
im mentally disabled

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>>58640082
did now weechat is JUSTIng my sht up

>>58640077
Why does /g/ hate arch now? It seems like in the past few weeks people have gone from shilling arch to actively shilling against it.

>>58640127
fanboys vs memers, ignore both

>>58640103
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman#.22Failed_to_commit_transaction_.28conflicting_files.29.22_error

>>58640139
Arch seems like the best distro because Pacman is the best package manager. Gentoofags who think portage is good and not overly complicated is autistic

>>58640150
yeah ik but why does it do that sometimes

just forcing upgrade of package fixes it but why...

is webkitgtk2 even needed?

says it's vulnerable so i just removed it and everything seems to work lol. was only using it for geany-plugins anyway

mentally I'll tranny BTFO
http://librecore.info/

>>58640173
did you run weechat as root?

>>58640194
>I'll
you'll what?

>>58640194
>mentally I'll tranny BTFO
no sure if typo or you fantasize about becoming a tranny

>>58640220
No.

This happens with different packages sometimes I just want to know why.

If I'm starting from a minimal net-install does it matter if I go Ubuntu or Debian, don't they both have the same base?

>>58640394
yeah, ubuntu is based on debian, and debian is based on debian

>>58640420
That's why Debian is so fuckin' based.

>>58639286
hey you are the aria2 xdotool guy
i know you from another thread
hello, how are you ?

Whats the best mpv frontend? Searching for something lightweight but with comfy stuff for adjusting filters, eq, etc.

>>58640542
I would go with bomi, which provides mpv internally.
https://bomi-player.github.io/gallery.html

>>58640570
Will check, ty

Quick question, is it possible (or perhaps a better question would be, is it sensible) for a user to configure their computer so that, after being turned on, the graphical environment on TTY 7 isn't automatically started and instead, has to be activated by a command in order for the user to chvt and use it?

The reason I'm asking is because I do most of my work in the terminal and really don't need a graphical environment most of the time. So, if I disable it so that it's not running at all, I assume I would get slightly better performance, or at least better battery life from my laptop. Would this indeed be the case?

Also though, I do occasionally want to need to use a graphical environment and so, would there be a way to activate it through a command, making it available on TTY 7 and then when I no longer need it, a command which will allow me to kill it altogether until I request it again?

>>58640617
I don't get your problem. If you don't want X to start at boot just disable your login manager. Then when you need it just switch tty and run startx.

>>58640674
I'll look into that more but, since you're here, if I disabled the login manager at boot then that's essentially the same as not having X start at boot? Will it then just display TTY 1 after booting up? If that's the case, will running startx automatically run X on TTY 7, and all I'd have to do is chvt over to it? And if that's the case, would there be a way to disable X after I don't need at anymore without rebooting, placing me back on TTY 1? Sorry for all the back-to-back questions.

>>58640167
How is pacman the best package manager?

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NEW EMAIL FROM RMS
>MARXISM IS VALID
>MARXISM IS VALID
>MARXISM IS VALID

>>58641095
>I haven't read him
>But I think he's got great ideas!
>Except what that Lenin did!
>Even though I haven't read any of these ideas!
He's like a retarded college freshman

>>58641112
>I haven't read him
>But I think he's got bad ideas!
>Especially what that Lenin did!
>Even though I haven't read any of these ideas!
You're like a retarded /pol/lack college dropout. Read up:
>>>/pol/108867187


fixd

>>58641131
Did I say that, or did you just assume that you defensive commie fuck?

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>>58641095
>another """real""" rms mail on 4chan

>>58640981
Fast and functional yet not overcomplicated. Installing from source is an autistic waste of time that helps gentoo users feel like hackers (just like using arch)

>>58641095
Karl Marx was an austrian economist who wrote "Das Kapital". Not only were some of his ideas groundbreaking, they also have been proven true in various times and situations worldwide. Communism as the solution of the problem he described was the thing that failed.

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>>58641190
everything posted on 4chan is real nigga

>>58641270
>rms
>google account
>posts /g/ pasta
lel

Alright, you grubs finally convinced me to install Linux. What are some fun projects I can do on it to get learning how to use it?

>>58641508
>you grubs
Im a lilo! Check your privilege!

I want to give linux another go, but I reaaally don't want to have to go through the hassle of reinstalling windows (especially since I don't have a key, since I got W10 from the free upgrade)

Is there something that will let me clone my C:\ drive somewhere, so I can install linux and do whatever and not worry about it, and if I don't like it and change my mind I can just plop an image back onto the drive?

>>58641888
Why not just dual boot?

You have both OS's on the same machine and get to select which one you want to boot when you turn the machine on.
If you decide you don't like Linux you can just wipe it and give all the free space back to Windows, or vice versa.

>>58641957
Too low on storage, I've only got a 120gb SSD and most of it is taken up by windows and development bullshit + userdata from misc programs that I can't get rid of because I still use them

>>58641988
Just search for drive imaging. Like:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DriveImaging

The really important things to remember is that you can't do the copy/restore process while you're actually using the drive at all. So that means you'd probably have to start by burning a liveCD so you can run your machine off the CD without your harddrive being used, then you can image the disk.
and also it's important that the filesystem used on the medium you're storing the backup on allows single files to be 120gb or more (since the entire disk will be backed up to a single file)

>>58642065
>The really important things to remember is that you can't do the copy/restore process while you're actually using the drive at all. So that means you'd probably have to start by burning a liveCD so you can run your machine off the CD without your harddrive being used
you can use your initramfs environment instead

Help me pick a distro please
I'm somewhat new to linux. I like debians stability and free philosophy, but I also love arch's rolling release and up to date packages. That said I'm a bit too retarded for arch. Is debian unstable good or similar to arch?

>>58642530
Debian's stability comes from their main bread and butter stable version. Debian Sid is more on the bleeding edge and will fuck you up if you carelessly upgrade and don't read what apt is doing.

>>58642596
Is it similar to arch then? Is testing rolling release?

>>58642648

Just use Antergos: it's easy mode Arch.

>>58642673
Does it include better wifi and nvidia drivers? Because installing those in arch makes me want to kms

>>58642689

It includes Mesa, noveau, and the proprietary Nvidia blob.

What wifi card do you have?

>>58642530
you're not too retarded for arch, just use architect to install it and refer to the archwiki when you have an issue. also a brotip: when seeking help through the forums do not mention you used an installer instead of doing it manually
also pick the lts kernel and don't just blindly update whenever updates are available, that's how shit gets broken

>>58637857
I hate pepe because reddit, twitter, and other normalfags like it.

>>58642771
I might just try to fix my current arch install which I did with archboot.
I have this problem https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA/Troubleshooting#Black_screen_on_systems_with_Intel_integrated_GPU
After installing the drivers. Total black screen after grub unless I turn post GPU to integrated

What is the recommended open source flash solution? I need to want to be able to use mango languages without having to use library/mummy's computer, but I don't want to give in to the adobe botnet.

>>58642833
HTML5

>>58639286
what do you use xdotool for?

Installed arch and now windows 10 isn't in grub
OS prober sees windows but grub-mkconfig doesn't fix it

>>58642953
good, you should format that windows 10 partition

>>58642953

Did you run update-grub after installing?

>>58642967
Ebin meme my friend, but I'm not a neet and have a job that makes me use windows

>>58643003
use windows xp/7 in a virtual machine without internet access

i know this is going to sound pretentious, but is there a good mp3 player that show in decent size the artcover of the album? its just a detail that makes the difference for me

using ubuntu

Is there any way to get TrueCrypt 7.1a working on Linux (Debian stable in particular)?

I've been messing around with Wine and Playonwine all day to no luck

I just really need to be able to open the encrypted container, I've got the password and everything

Is there even any encryption alternatives for Linux systems?

>>58643171
mpv shows the full size, but it only works if the album art is embedded in the file

>>58643240
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup

>>58643243

So does VLC.

>>58643058
this desu.

>>58643302
so does mplayer

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/fglt/ masters,

I need to backup some data and need to encrypt it and burn it onto a BluRay drive.

I used to use Mac a lot and they have encrypted DMG images (they're like encrypted ISOs that you mount like regular partitions for example).

I need something that works on Linux (and possibly other OSes) that accomplishes the same thing. I have around 12-15GB of data that I need encrypted & burned onto a BluRay disc.

How do you go about creating an encrypted "image" so I can burn it onto a BluRay disc?

As a bonus question, what software is the best for burning BluRay? I run GNOME as my DE if it matters...

Thanks so much!

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how do mpd+ncmpcpp users display album art?
do you use some kind of script that opens images with feh or something?

>>58643347
the closest thing to DMGs is probably squashfs
mountable, read-only filesystem image with compression support
doesn't support encryption, but you could put it on top of an encryption layer

>>58643437
interesting. thanks for responding!

what do you think about Truecrypt? I know it's a dead project but I wonder if it would work like DMGs...

>>58643455
i don't really know much about filesystem encryption options

>>58643465
>>58643455
oh, as far as i do understand, LUKS (the standard on linux for disk encryption) works like other dm stuff, in that creates a new block device on which you place your unencrypted filesystem and files

so i suppose you could;
1. make a bluray-sized disk image file
2. set it up for LUKS and mount it
3. create your squashfs image onto that mount, out of the files you're backing up
4. unmount it and burn it to the bluray
then you'd end up a random-accessible, mountable, encrypted disc

>>58643386
>do you use some kind of script that opens images with feh or something?
Yeah. Have ncmpcpp's execute_on_song_change update it.

>>58643386
>mpd
Why do I need my music player to be a daemon?

I like the sound of the rolling release and I'm getting sick of how outdated debian Jessie is.
Is arch really hard to install? because I've been strongly discouraged from using an installer, and the guide looks confusing as fuck.

>>58643599
multiple clients, keybinds

>>58643455
>>58643518
had a go at making such an image
https://jii.moe/Bybr72SPe.bin

losetup -f image.bin
cryptsetup open /dev/loop0 c1
mkdir /tmp/test
mount /dev/mapper/c1 /tmp/test

(first step won't be needed from a bluray disc as it'll already be a device, cryptsetup might also work with a file, didn't check. second step asks for the passphrase, it's "test")

>>58643599
no idling frontends during music playback
playback from offsite server

>>58643643
>>58643682
Is there anything that gives a similar interface to ncmpcpp but for something like mpv instead of mpd, and isn't a daemon?

>>58643699
cmus

>>58643699
stop being dumb and install mpd and whatever client you want

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>tfw too dumb to install arch
>tfw want rolling release but don't want to be bullied on /g/

>>58643740
just use manjaro/antergos

>>58643754
How about using an arch installer? What are they like? What's the best one?

>>58643518
>>58643680
that's very cool

>>58643786
antergos

how do I get into Linux kernel dev?

>>58643740
You know what you must do:

install gentoo

>>58643859

% alias install="pacaur -S"
% install gentoo
:: Package(s) gentoo not found in repositories, trying AUR...
:: resolving dependencies...
:: looking for inter-conflicts...

AUR Packages  (1) gentoo-0.20.7-1  

:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n] 

>>58643868
Do it faggot

>>58643868
derp

>>58643848
if you force yourself on him, he might slap you and call the police

>>58643868
>>58643895
>>58643910
worst file manager ever!

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>>58643740
it's ok anon, there's a bunch of arch-based installers and distros you can use until you pass your english classes

>>58643796
speaking of cool filesystem layering stuff, ever messed with overlayfs?

you've likely technically used it before, most livecd's use it

it lets you combine a read-only filesystem with a writable folder, to create a writable filesystem with the contents of both

i use this for bigger games, i store them in a compressed, read-only squashfs file, and mount them along with overlayfs so i can run them without needing to extract them completely

I keep having problems with nouveau on any distro that isn't mint or ubuntu. They just refuse to work with my 970.
>finish arch install
>follow arch wiki guide to nvidia drivers, follow troubleshooting and blacklist nouveau and intel
>still get black screen unless I switch to integrated in bios
>using modprobe gives error
I'm pretty sure this problem is because of nouveau not being 100% killed. I'm on debian rn, how the fuck do I remove nouveau for good?

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>>58637790
Picked up a CPU and motherboard for cheap on craigslist.
Checked the Intel ark too late and had my presumptions smashed.

Can a KVM based PCI passthrough be performed without VT-d to a Windows guest?

>>58644040
>speaking of cool filesystem layering stuff, ever messed with overlayfs?
I heard of it when I was fucking around with Docker. It's used there for some stuff but I havent' really looked too closely at it. I will now. Really cool tech.

>>58644088
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/How_to_assign_devices_with_VT-d_in_KVM
>In order to assign devices in KVM, you'll need a system which supports VT-d

>>58637790
How do I force a floting window to open with a certain size using i3?

Now that everyone is aware of the security risks of using xorg/xserver, is there a reliable way of allowing GUI isolation without using Wayland or are we stuck with it?

>>58643618
Just use Debian Sid and install apt-listbugs. Rolling release and occasionally gets packages before Arch does

>>58643680
>had a go at making such an image
could you please post steps to actually make this image? just downloaded it and opened it and found lots of music! nice!

why not TempleOS? Terrys code is better than gnu/linux

>>58644382
>just downloaded it and opened it and found lots of music! nice!
heh, wondering if someone bothered to check out what i put on it

create a 16M file;

dd if=/dev/zero of=image.bin bs=1M count=16

attach it to a loop device (/dev/loop0 by default);

losetup -f image.bin

turn it into a LUKS encrypted device;

cryptsetup luksFormat /dev/loop0

"open" the LUKS device (attaches to /dev/mapper/c1);

cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/loop0 c1

create a squashfs image to put on it;

mksquashfs . ../virt.squashfs -comp xz

write that to the LUKS device (could also write to it directly from mksquashfs as well);

dd if=virt.squashfs of=/dev/mapper/c1 bs=4k

close the LUKS device;

cryptsetup close /dev/mapper/c1

>>58643171

>go to arch wiki
>type in list of applications
>scroll down to GUI music players
>try them all or look at screenshots

>>58643386

Not at all. I learned to live with it. I rarely look at my music player anyway. As long as I can control the music on my desktop from my laptop I'm all good.

>>58644486
Yeah, I checked it out.. I was the one who asked the initial Q. hehe.. Those old demoscene it and scream tracker files were a blast from the past!!

Also, I wondered how you fucked around with filenames.. I think you inserted a R to L unicode char or something. lol

Anyway, thank you so much for these detailed steps! Will study how this is done. This is a great method.

>>58644407
It's the bad influence of ısıs that keeps them away from TempleOS

>>58644407
>>58644518
Terry needs to find a way to add a simple tcp/ip stack to that thing so people can connect to internet with it. that would make it a lot more useful.

>>58644514
>Also, I wondered how you fucked around with filenames.. I think you inserted a R to L unicode char or something. lol
nope, that's how Amiga did "extensions", they were prefixes
these are the original filenames, not modified for windows users
makes no difference on linux since their formats are detected by their magic numbers anyway

>>58644537
windows or dos, i should say

>>58644537
Oh wow... don't even remember that far back!

Right... I played them right away with no issues.

Now I gotta go find some old chipmusic tunes from demoscene. Demoscene is what got me into computers in the first place. Second Reality was the shit at the time when I was a kid.

>>58644531
you really think it's a matter of finding a way? terry doesn't want it on his OS, god told him not to.

>>58644558
>Second Reality
yea, loved that one as well

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

>>58644602
one of my fav of all time. it was just amazing when it came out. all that in like 3MB exe.

Anyone use QubesOS?

I miss foobar.

>>58644642
imo, the music is timeless, but it's not terribly interesting to go back and watch now

>>58644665
True. That guy Skaven came out with an album for WARP records long time ago but haven't come across anything by him since. That music is just amazing.

How is Zorin OS?

>>58644795
win 10: the linux distro

Why does Unity request I sign-up for an Ubuntu One account, when I can install from the terminal with "sudo snap install file-name"? Is there any difference between installing from Unity and from the shell, aside from not needing a to create an account?

>>58644845
does that include all the spying :^)

>>58644867
no just the pajeets, shitty ui and aesthetics, and of course bloatware

what makes Fedora better than say Debian for a GNOME experience? I read everywhere that this is the case

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>mfw installed arch through arch anywhere
it was easy and now archfags can't bully me for having antergos

>>58645225
hope you like being bullied by the anti-arch shitters

>>58645244
Just as liking arch used to be a hip meme, hating it has become a meme. I think they're the same people who shit on systemd.

how to revert this to normal:
setxkbmap -option caps:swapescape

>>58645061

It doesn't and it's a myth spread by retards who see it like you did and then just adopt it.

>>58645282

Log out and log bac in from your X session.

What is bsd and why would someone want it instead of Linux? Does it run Linux software?

>>58645296
I want to toggle it with a script.

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So I'm using Arch and for a class need to use an Arduino variant whose drivers state they are for the Linux 3.x.x kernel (pic related)

Since Arch is currently on a 4.x.x kernel, should these still run OK? Since even I think Ubuntu is on kernel version 4 nowadays I would think unless this driver is just extremely outdated it should be OK.

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>>58645317
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.

>>58645323
Forgot to add: I'm on Arch.

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>>58645351

>>58645351
yeah that was obvious from your original post, no need to keep flouting that you use Arch you fucking pretentious asshole

>>58645323
>>58645351
>>58645367
>>58645379
samefag

So, it seems Ubuntu has problems with the newer AMD cards. I have to reinstall, so... what distro does not?

>>58645319

Took me 16 seconds to figure it out reading the manpage for setxkbmap.

>>58645464
Why not post the solution? I've read it too, but couldn't find it.

curl wttr.in

t. reddit

>>58645496

I seriously doubt you read it. It's clearly mentioned how the -option flag works.

>>58645542
Thanks for spoonfeeding, I finally found it.
-option without arguements resets

>>58645531
Sadly it's using 256 colors, which doesn't respect user-defined colorschemes.

>>58645616
>when you're long enough on /g/, you manage to find a flaw on EVERYTHING

>>58645531
>curl wttr.in
wget -qO- wttr.in

Lads I installed Ubuntu last night. I restarted it multiple times last night. Now the PC was closed for the night and it says its in emergency mode and something filesystem something.

>>58645716
lel

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>>58645631
(not him)
I tried it and...wtf?!
>We were unable to find your location,
>so we have brought you to Oymyakon,
>one of the coldest permanently inhabited locales on the planet.

Okay, so I'm fairly new to linux and the command line in general. I memorized a few basic commands and that's about it. Where do I go from here? What literature/useful websites would you recommend me to expand my knowledge of the command line?

>>58645759
You do it like I do >>58645716

>>58645749

Just do wttr.in/your_city

>>58645749
wttr.in/dallas

t. reddit

>>58645759

You learn by doing. There's no point in reading things you'll never use and just forget 5 minutes later.

>>58645766
Well, I already have linux installed on my machine. It wasn't that hard, to be honest. I just followed a video tutorial on youtube and googled any problems I run into during the install and everything seems to work fine so far. I have a GUI, login manager and an internet connection.

>>58645788
Yes i did it just after, thx
>>58645790
???

>>58645808
demonstrating the same thing as the poster above me did, at roughly the same time. Their post didn't appear before I posted mine.

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pls halp

How do i actually make this thing control the volume? The mute works but the slider does nothing for the actual volume.

>>58645869
I have same problem

>>58645878
fucking replaced xfce4-mixer for no reason...

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Hey Cuties, any of (You)s have experience with Calculate Linux?

>>58645869
>>58645878
You too are in root?

I had the same problem, so i used alsa, the slider is still useless but i can adjust from alsa

arch newfriend here
is yaourt still the best way of getting stuff from aur? i like how it's simple and works similarly to pacman. to install stuff all I need to do is ''sudo yaourt -S (package)''? or do I do something else? when I try to install waterfox it gives me a warning that it's a potentially dangerous unsupported package.

>>58645984
>it gives me a warning that it's a potentially dangerous unsupported package.

all packages are this way from AUR. And no you don't need to run it as root initally .

>>58645998
just run yaourt -S (package) and then press n?

it's basically gentoo with an advanced installer and some default settings. like gentoo but it just werks more.

for i in {1..9}; do for j in $(seq 1 $i); do echo -ne $i×$j=$((i*j))\\t;done; echo;done

>>58645897
>>58646034
oops didnt reply

>>58646034
Yeah cool, did you use it for long?
Feels weird man, Russia based and lots of French users... mailing list hasn't updated since 2015 also

>>58646062
I havent run it, basing it off what a friend who tried it and /g/ wiki says. I think he eventually moved to gentoo, it does seem a little dodgy and outdated. I'd just use gentoo, chances are if you're competent enough to use gentoo properly you should be fine installing it.

>install spotify and waterfox with yaourt from aur
>no icon on desktop or menu (cinnamon) how do i fix the icons?

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>>58646108
Yeah I am babying towards Gentoo, since no systemdicks, will try out Calculate and Pentoo first and install Gentoo when I have time/internetz for live install
Do you use Gentoo or something else?

>>58646115
get alacarte or something similar, create .desktop (launcher/"link";windows.lnk) files using it

point to binaries

>>58646149
I only used gentoo years ago and gave up because i prefer other package managers. why do you hate systemd?

>>58646164
Have to start stop enable disable restart services then reboot
Have to basically change program config then daemon config
Have to write and type things twice all the fucking time
I don't care about srv utilities
crashes fucking all the time lel
basically it's like
forcing me to do more shit for no good reason and it's a hassle

>>58646187
idk about that because I've pretty much only used systemd since it became standard. (I've had arch for a few years) do you want gentoo just for openrc or do you like portage? other distros like arch can be changed to support openrc later.

>>58646038
this is retarded
>echo
use printf
>one time brace expansion, one time seq
why?
>all that escaping
what are quotes?

Performance of a game in Wine is shit.
Should I install the windows graphic driver on that virtual drive or doesn't it help?

>>58646248
>>>/v/

>>58646244
Gimme your version

>>58646248
>Performance of a game in Wine is shit.
try CSMT, or gallium nine if you can
>Should I install the windows graphic driver on that virtual drive or doesn't it help?
you can't do that

>>58646225
I really want a distro that can repair itself with a LIVECD if I am in trouble, or have limited time to fucko. I've used arch before but I didn't like it since "doesn't werk out of box" and need to install and download shit.
Portage is good, the idea and practice, but the compiling heat/CPU load is bit scary if you've ever seen it.
OpenRC is good, but I want it as default rather having to install something else then changing back to it.
It would be really fucking Good if Devuan picks up

>>58646265
This is only for DX? It's an Opengl game

>>58646248
What GPU do you have? Driver implementations on linux can be weak.

>>58646261
Bash can do c-style loops (I guess you were using seq because brace expansions don't work with variables, right?). My take:

for((i=1;i<=9;i++)); do for((j=1;j<=i;j++)); do printf '%dx%d=%d\t' $i $j $((i*j)); done; echo; done

>>58646309
>I guess you were using seq because brace expansions don't work with variables, right?
Indeed yours is less barbaric

>>58646309
>parse error near `)'

>>58646337
This is a bash script, stupid zsh fag.

>>58646282
Ubuntu and boot-repair play nice. When I've dd-imaged a disk and it won't boot back up, it fixes it.

>>58646292
yea, for dx
opengl stuff doesn't tend to have performance issues, though they can, for other reasons

>>58646343
>The first works on both
>The second only on bash
Who's the fag?

>>58646299
AMD 6850
>>58646359
Hmm. On Win it ran great. It's like 144fps vs 40.
That's too much imo

>>58646366
>>58646366
>Who's the fag?
the one using zsh obviously

>>58637790
Just buy a new laptop.
Gonna install unix system.
I know Debian perfectly.
Should I, use Debian again?
Go for free bsd or other?
Try arch or cent os ?
Is butterFS just a meme or a nice stuff?

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>>58646374

>>58646370
what game?

>>58646409
GP Bikes
a small/indie motorcycle sim

>>58646374
What's your problem?

>>58646366
Portable POSIX version:
i=0; while [ $i -lt 10 ]; do i=$((i+1)); j=0; while [ $j -lt $i ]; do j=$((j+1)); printf '%dx%d=%d\t' $i $j $((i*j)); done; echo; done

>>58646416
>opengl 1.2.1 / directx 8.1
damn, that's been around a while

let me grab it and see what i get

>>58646366
the one who is using a meme shell whole no even knowing anything about shell scripting

>>58646430
Wow I'm actually amazed you take the time to help me and not say some memeing shit like "install Gentoo".
<3

>>58646432
>mememeh i'm so superior than you, you know nothing, and i know so much
You are the one who is pathetic
Go fuck your mother.

>>58646450
cry more

>>58646402
>I know Debian perfectly.
>Should I, use Debian again?
Debian is good, if you can work with it,then keep using it.

>Go for free bsd or other?
>Try arch or cent os ?
do you have any reason to switch to one of them? If you are curios you can try, nothing wrong with that.

>Is butterFS just a meme or a nice stuff?
It's definitely not a meme, but personally I'm waiting it get tested more (i.e. distro starts adopting it as their default FS) before switching. Also not every feature in complete yet:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Status

Sometimes /g/ reminds me of /pol/.
>A: look, B, he's using $something
>B: $something users should be gassed

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>>58646454

>>58646454
It's true you sound really pathetic 2bh.

>>58646472
maybe because a lot of anons browse multiple boards. The fact that they might actually be /pol/tards is yet another reason to ignore them.

>>58646337
Forgot to add: I'm on Arch (if it matters).

>tfw im using Ubuntu + Unity and im perfectly happy with it

>>58646494
>>>/t/witter

>>58646491
like another said, that doesn't work with zsh (and maybe sh?).
See http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/ccmd/c_for

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Why are my HDDs mounted as read only? How can I change this, the options are grey'd out

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>>58646491

>>58646541
I had the same. For some reason I could only write when my hd's are NTFS formatted.

Only my root and home partitions are ext4 and writeable that way. All my other disks are ntfs.

>>58646559
Mine are both btrfs, yet mounted as read only.

>installing steam on arch
>errors out the ass on opening it
>Try pacman -S steam-runtime
>literally 140 dependencies
>Steam just werks
The massive amount of package triggers my autism

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>>58646554
It was another guy. Maybe it was you.

What's the command to tell you how long it took to boot? I saw some people posting in a boot time thread with it a while ago

>>58646541
Why is this so hard, why can't I just select read & write from the option menu

Why is the option menu even there if I can't do it

Have to use shady looking codes from Ubuntu forums to be able to write on hard drives

How is this supposed to be a desktop OS, pasting codes from randoms is weird

>>58646559
install ntfs-3g

>>58646563
check for errors, maybe you miss the package to manipulate btrfs partitions

>>58646586
>he thinks screenshots are somehow legit
please leave /g/

>>58646152
>>58646152
Confused about how to do this. Pacman -S alacarte and its gnome dependency and then what?

>>58646606
on systemd?

systemd-analyze
systemd-analyze blame
systemd-analyze plot > plot.png

>>58646584
>installing steam
jokes asides, that's because steam-runtime contain any lib32 bullshit steam games may need.

>>58646610
I made other HDD ext2 (same as my OS is installed as) and it doesn't allow for read write either and I just get "bad options" error if I try this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/175739/how-do-i-remount-a-filesystem-as-read-write

>>58646611
You try so hard, you even speak for me, and you say to others that they are retarded, continue please, you make me live a great moment.
I will stay.

>>58646442
this is interesting
the menu runs at 200fps, but as soon as i get into the "testing" screen, the framerate tanks, and i get a whole lot of errors complaining that the graphics driver is out of memory, despite only using ~600M/2G

>>58646621
3 seconds, 1.5 in userspace. is that good?

>>58646639
uhm, do you see something strange in the kernel logs? (dmesg)

>>58646621
it's svg, not png

>>58646674
well they are small number for sure. You are not loading much stuff at startup I suppose or have a really fast ssd.
Anyway the last command I wrote is wrong, the "plot" option outputs a svg file not png.

>>58646681
[ 5991.350739] EXT2-fs (sdc1): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

>>58646667
Radeontop also displayed not all my vram was being used.

>>58646713

WHy are you using ext2? It's most likely not related to your problem, but why would you use it?
You obviously have not enough knowledge to warrant the use of a non-mainstream or standard filesystem, but you still insist on it.

>>58646730
Can you tell me what to format it to then.

I used ext2 in the other drive to rule out the possibility of something missing since the OS is installed as ext2 (automatic option made by the installer which I did not even touch or change)

>>58646713
Is it an external drive? some ext adapters have a hardware switch for a read-only mode.
If you use udiskctl try to use it to mount that drive:

udisksctl mount -b /dev/sdc1

(unmount it before that obviously)

>>58646760
Not external.

>>58646749

Use ext4 like any sane person living in 2017.

>>58646749
ext2 is very old and superseded by ext4. Is it an old installation?

>>58646749
>>58646778

Also, which distribution is that?

>>58646779
?

http://releases.ubuntu.com/16.10/

It was quite literally this and I didn't change anything myself and let the installer do it.

It installed the operating system as ext2

>>58646789

i seriously doubt Ubuntu chose ext2 for you. Scrape it again, install from scratch and this time don't do anything which will fuck you up.

Thread: >>58646801

>>58646802
while I do find it strange that the installer would choose ext2, it's not necessary to reinstall the system:
http://www.ghacks.net/2010/08/11/convert-ext23-to-ext4/

Anyway, I don't think running ext2 is all that big issue.

>>58646716
i have no idea why it's complaining about running out of vram
never seen that before, and most stuff i've found is just actual cases of running out of vram