/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>58878529
>>58878543
Looking at his outputs, he doesnt quite have a separate 'root' partition. assuming what I saw is a bootable drive, he has one parition which is /boot and then another partition which is 'everything else'...

Is this an accurate assumption?

Person with the trouble here.
>>58878506
results show the same thing.

>>58878567
I should add that I went retard when I added Ubuntu. I installed GRUB on /dev/sda2 which had the Windows stuff. But my Ubuntu install was on /dev/sdb6.

first for systemd

>>58878584
so GRUB has to be installed at /boot (/boot/efi if your bios is UEFI). So this means sda2 is your boot partition.

This is the partition you wish to fix grub on?

>>58878619
I'm not sure what you mean by that. GRUB was installed on /dev/sda2 which is NTFS and has all my Windows stuff. It's the partition Windows boots from.

First for freedom.

First for Source Mage,

>>58878638
So this 30 second cooldown is really annoying me. I hate waiting to type. Im guessing you allowed ubuntu to perform the installation for you. Have you simply tried re-running the Ubuntu auto-install simply keeping your existing partitions? this way your Grub will be reinstalled for you.

If your not handy with linux installing/fixing GRUB yourself can be a pain, especially if you use UEFI boot, which most computers do now adays

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how do I get my desktop to look like this?

>>58878689
The main issue is that I had an NTFS partition on sdb which has precious photos on it that I want to recover. I'm fairly certain that installing over it would lead to those photos being deleted.

>>58878697
poo on it

>>58878697
i3-gaps and a nice terminal colour scheme

Reposting this from the last thread one last time because I need help

Can anyone help me out with running Steam on Arch? I can't seem to run it as a normal user. Anytime I run either steam, steam-runtime, or steam-native, I just get dozens of the same permission denied errors for every action it would normally take during startup. I just installed it normally using pacman from the official repositories. I did try running it once as the root user and I had no issues.

I am not sure if you guys could help me.
I am searching for info on how logging works on linux. I understand that sometimes it depends on each application.

But ultimately is there any way to learn more about log daemons and how OS handles all that?

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screen or tmux and why

>>58878737
probably you need to create a group for steam, search what permission to do what you need, and assign your regular user to that group

>>58878762
screen, better features although people disagree on the default configuration, like the blinking light

if you want bells and whistles use byobu along screen

>>58878531
Why did you pussy out and removed the LINUXCHIX link, OP?

>>58878818
;_;

Retard with the broken installation here. I'm going to install Kubuntu on the free 25G partition I remembered I had on /dev/sda1. Wish me luck.

>>58878835
good luck

>>58878835
good luck

why not just lignux?

>>58878863
GNU/Lignux*

>>58878843
>>58878855
To clarify. I should install the bootloader (which for Kubuntu is GRUB, right?) on /dev/sda2 right? Where I had it before?

guys, literally nobody ever reads the op pasta
stop the drama and delet the whole spammy thing

thread title is enough, maybe make some "special editions" like /dpt/

my 2 cents

>>58878911
just because you don't doesn't mean other newfriends don't

*** Keep the Spam / Useful Informations Edition ***

>>58878911
the dudes at /t/ want to have a word with you

>>58878911
maybe instead of posting retarded question that you see people are reading the pasta and solving things for themselves :^) just my 3 cents (3>2)

>>58878920
this, thanks to some anon posting the grymoire I found about that great page

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>>58878531
can you add this link to the OP please?
https://archwomen.org/

>>58878911
>sources:
>[1.] "my anal cavity"

>>58878939
if wymen are equal to men, why do they need a special dedicated website?

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>>58878939
OP here, I would like but I am out. Is a bit polemical.

>>58878961
wyrmin*
GNU/men*

>>58878938
>the grymoire
This website is absolutly epic.
If anyone ITT want's to learn wizardry about sed, awk and grep - check this shit out right now.

I'm fucking around with sed since 3 years and just learned that you can change delimiters like sed 's#linux#gnu/linux/g'

>>58878961
Because women are stupid and need extra help.

>>58878980
well, last / should be a #

>>58878981
so they are not equal?
but that contradicts their statement that they are equal!

>>58878961
Let me explain. In their sick brains, there is this "privilege" thing. "privilege" is stuff you get when you are born. When you are white, a man and not fat, you have lots of this stuff, but when you are black, a women or retarded, you don't, and because you don't, in order to be equal to white, fit males, you deserve special treatment.

Help! I can't choose between KDE Neon or Kubuntu!

>>58878768
doesn't seem to work unfortunately. got the exact same issue still

>>58879021
Special treatment is an act of honor and should be done because you want it, not because someone if forcing you to do so.

>>58879021
so that's what they mean by privilege
it's more retarded than I thought

>>58879021
the only thing this shit is teaching people is
>well, at least I'm not black, a women or retarded
>my life matters

/g/ - Gender Studies

One more post before I take a plunge.

I ran the bootinfoscript and saw that

 => Grub2 (v1.99) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sda and looks at sector 1 of 
    the same hard drive for core.img. core.img is at this location and looks 
    in partition 97 for .
 => No known boot loader is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdb.
 => Syslinux MBR (4.04 and higher) is installed in the MBR of /dev/sdc.

This means I should install GRUB at sda, right? Not sdb (which gparted showed as having no partition table), right?

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

>>58879176
Arch Linux

>>58879187
he said lightweight

>>58879189
Puppy Linux

>>58879189
just because they don't needlessly split every package doesn't mean it's not lightweight

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What are some fun terminal tricks?

>>58879212
yetris

Lads, I have just acquired a new XPS13.

Do I install Debian Sid or Fedora 25?

>>58879282
PCLinuxOS my guy

>>58879212
X11 rainbows!

$ while :; do xrandr --output $(xrandr | awk '/ connected/ { print $1 }') --gamma 0.$((RANDOM%9)):0.$((RANDOM%9)):0.$((RANDOM%9)); done

this turns the colors back to normal

xrandr --output $(xrandr | awk '/ connected/ { print $1 }') --gamma 0.0:0.0:0.0

>>58879212

cat /dev/urandom

>>58879409
contributing
X11 Seizure

while sleep .1; do xcalib -a -i; done

>>58879212

cmatrix

>>58878531
I want to rice and I have the necessary knowledge to do it but I lack the aesthetic taste. How does one gain it, who do I need to sell my soul to?

>>58879212

$(echo "I<RA('1E<W3t`p&r()(pwND&r{,3Rl7Ig}&r{,T31wo});r`26<F]F;==" | uudecode)

>>58879524
110111101101000001000000111100101101111011101010010111000101110001011100010000001100010011101000111011100111010001000000101010001001000010001010010000001000111010000010100110101000101

>>58879212

xrandr --output $(xrandr | awk '/ connected/ { print $1 }') --off

>>58879555
kek

>>58879555
I actually was in that situation a while back when fucking with xrandr. Took me a while to CTRL+ALT+F1.

did anyone ever managed to make something like flux/redshift with pure x11 hackery?

>>58879596
redshift is pure x11 hackery

>>58879596
This guy tried and ended up with a simple C program (which is pretty nice and suckless): http://www.tedunangst.com/flak/post/sct-set-color-temperature

How do I use grep to get only the "fn_pg283.html" from the line below?
Basically I need a way to get everything after (but not including) the forward slash, and then stopping (but also including) the "L" (lowercase of course but I capitalized it so it's easier to read).

<content src="xhtml/fn_pg283.html#app02fn1a"/>

>>58879608

echo '<content src="xhtml/fn_pg283.html#app02fn1a"/>' | grep -o fn_pg283.html

>>58879608

$ echo '<content src="xhtml/fn_pg283.html#app02fn1a"/>' | grep -Po '(?<=/).*(?=#)'
fn_pg283.html

>>58879626
It needs to be universal. I have multiple lines of text like this one but with slight differences. For example:

<content src="xhtml/fflap.html"/>

>>58879604
nice

>>58879637
Actually, to make it more secure:

$ echo '<content src="xhtml/fn_pg283.html#app02fn1a"/>' | grep -Po '(?<=xhtml/).*(?=#)'
fn_pg283.html

>>58879637
>>58879669
Awesome. Both seem to work for all of my lines. Thank you.
What exactly about the second suggestion is more secure?

>>58879679
Just in case you get a line with a slash before xhtml.

>>58879687
Ah, I see. Thanks

>>58879524
interesting

why would I make another GNU/Linux distro?

when i try to kill a process with top after typing the PID it asks
>Send pid 4449 signal [15/sigterm]
what does that mean?

>>58879475

Why is this so funny? I can't stop internally laughing.

Yo guys. I'm trying to cat out a bunch of files based on the contents of different file. The different file's contents is literally just the names to the files I'm trying to cat out. I was trying something like this...

cat /location/of/files/to/cat/$file

...but it doesn't work. How can I cat the contents of $file and then feed them into the end of the command where "$file" is in the above line?

>>58878994
>feminists are stupid and contradict themselves
huh

>>58879113
>>58879113
Anyone? You guys have been very helpful so far.

>>58879932
so cat /location/of/files/to/cat/$file returns names of those files right?
you could just use xargs, would make it pretty simple

cat /location/of/files/to/cat/$file | xargs -n 1 cat

>>58879113
>>58879985
not enough info

what distro is "bootinfoscript" from? are you having trouble with booting? where do you want your bootloader to be?

>>58879932
while read filename; do cat "$filename"; done < list.txt

>>58879212
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

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Need help.
The problem is, I have 3 partitions:
sda1 for ESP, sda2 for / and sda3 for home (didn't format it)
After rebooting system fails to boot.
Previous system (Arch) worked fine with UEFI.
Pic related.

>>58880093
The system I'm trying to install is Devuan Jessie

>>58880032
This worked perfectly, with a little customizing. Thanks!

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Is there an alternative to Adobe acrobat for GNU/Linux that support QR code?

The company I'm applying to require you to fill a PDF form, that generate QR code containing the required information.

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So I moved to testing and this happened.

How do I fix the lack of margins?

>>58878531
I'm trying to make an easy script which executes a command only if a certain process isn't running.
For example,

if [ps -e | grep firefox <returns nothing>]
then
<do something awesome>
fi

How exactly do should I test for a no return when firefox isn't running?

>>58880343
><do something awesome>
C R I N G E D

>>58880343
[ is a command and needs a space

>>58880343
In general:
http://timmurphy.org/2010/05/19/checking-for-empty-string-in-bash/
In your particular case:

if [ `pgrep -c firefox` -gt 0 ]; then 
    echo ">>>/reddit/"; 
fi

>>58880649
>backticks
Are you a time traveler? We use $() now.

>>58880649
Meant -eq of course.

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To the dude who posted pic related --or maybe anyone else with a Sylvania/EasyPC.

>https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/vt8500-wm8505-linux-kernel
Has lots of great info, if you feel live doing some dev shit, but use a vpn if you hate google or something.

>https://github.com/wh0/bookconfig/releases/tag/v1
is a rootfs and boot script based on Debian Stretch/Sid --in case you've considered upgrading from lenny

>>58880674
i got it a while back because it was cheap and seemed like a fun thing to mess with
that picture is from 2011
the battery in the thing bloated (removed it), and the keyboard is pretty shit (best described as "mushy and stiff")
at the time i didn't have a smartphone, now i do, and i'd sooner use my phone as a terminal than that, i can run current debian in a chroot on my phone easily

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>>58880917
oh , ok.

>>58880949
keep in mind i'm the person who replied to the guy who first brought them up, maybe he'd be more interested in doing something with his

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It took me a while but I finally arrived

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Is KDE Neon good?

I use Linux Mint KDE, really like KDE. I was wondering if I should try this, anyone here did?
Looks cool.

How to check battery health?

upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0

What values should I compare?

CONFIG_PREEMPT or CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY for a desktop Gentoo on a notebook?

>>58881008
Yeah you should, it's very stable and it's always updated to the latest KDE version if you go for the not LTS version

>>58880991
is that the file picker right? how do you do it?

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>>58880991
You didn't have to install another desktop environment lol.

>>58881056
"energy-full" and "energy-full-design"
you can also use the "acpi" utility:

$ acpi -i
Battery 0: design capacity 3520 mAh, last full capacity 3520 mAh = 100% 

using xfce4-panel-plugin for months it worked fine when I ran a command to a keybind to turn up my volume

It showed me a volume notification in the bottom right of my screen when I hit the key

Suddenly today the notification no longer works. When I turn it up with the scroll wheel the notification works, but not with keybind

Arch linux

Why is it broken?

>>58881978
How did you do it kurva?

>>58882932
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka.

If you use debian stable I could share already patches packages.

>>58880282

By using a GTK3 theme which supports your GTK3 version.

Does Mint still have security problems?

>>58882132
>acpi: command not found
Welp.
However there's acpi folder in my drivers.
Is it because I'm using a thinkpad?

energy-full:         48.2328 Wh
    energy-full-design:  47.52 Wh

Thanks for replying.

>>58883736
They block updates, but you can configure it not to block them.

That said, Just get Ubuntu or something like that. Mint is literally green Ubuntu.

>>58883768
>>acpi: command not found
>Welp.
>However there's acpi folder in my drivers.
I was talking about this utility:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/acpiclient/
It should be in the repos of any major distro

>>58883874
>>58883768
>>58882132
>>58881056
>what is /sys/

>>58883768
What values do you need? Check the directory:
/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0 (or BAT1)

Is Ubuntu 16.10, and all it's flavors, buggy as of now? Buggier than usual I guess. I upgraded my Kubuntu 16.04LTS to 16.10, but now the screen goes off on start. Strangely it works fine on my laptop, but not my desktop.
I assume it might be one of the components but not sure which one.

Has anyone else experienced the same issue?

>used to be able to boot from USB
>now my laptop always says "No Operating System Found"
>the USB boot works on my desktop

What the fuck? I use a 2012 Dell XPS 13

What is a good GNU/Linux distro that can be installed on a flash drive?

>>58881008
The only Ubuntu based KDE distro anyone should use.

>>58884336
puppy

>>58884311
try a different way of creating bootable usb.
they're all janky on bios hardware

>>58884311
press F2 to go into the BIOS menu and turn off some sata compatible thing in a sub menu

>>58878531
Only thing this nonsense loser is liberating is bodyfat.

Fucking delusional linuxtards.

Hey guys im trying to get Plex Media working on my VPS im renting

When I run HTOP it shows the plex program running, however when trying to see the running service i see the following output:

 [ - ]  plexmediaserver

Why is this?! The program shows it running in htop but there is a [-] saying the service is not running. Furthermore I cannot even connect to the server, when mapping the open ports using nmap the 32400 port (plex default) does not appear either WTF!

Is there any distro that has a file browser that comes even close to windows explorer? I'm not even memeing but the gnome 3 and unity default file browsers are both just so bad

>>58885000
wine explorer.exe

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>>58885000
Try Dolphin. I also hear good things about Nemo but I haven't used Cinnamon in a long time.

>>58885000
dolphin is the best file manager I've ever used on any system, the only downside is that it is part of kde.

>>58885030
>>58885038
Thank you, do you have any recommended distro's that have it by default? I heard someone mention KDE Neon or something earlier, but I'd love something more popular so that there's more retard friendly guides/documentation out for it.

>>58885070
KDE Neon will give you the best KDE experience and is based on Ubuntu so almost every guide for Ubuntu works for it too.
You don't necessarily need to use KDE to use it's file manager though.

>>58881008
Great and pretty, unless you're in a niche situation.
>Docking laptop with external monitors at work
>Have to restart/fuck with xrandr

Gnome (on Fedora) just werks

>>58885070
Any distro with kde as default DE: kubuntu or opensuse are be the most popular.

>>58885090
Basically as long as it uses apt I'm happy, I think. I'm just gonna go with Gnome Ubuntu and install Dolphin on it I guess. I was mostly happy with Gnome for the year I used it. KDE looks pretty high maintenance.

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>>58878531
>trying to help anon in other thread with my useful skill that helped me with his issue
>thread archived

Fucking fuck!

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>>58885108
I have a similar issue with my laptop (plasma 5.9), I can generally fix it just by either pushing the "switch display" shortcut (no idea wtf it does), switching tty and going back or restarting X.

>>58885000
Use the terminal like a man.

what is wrong with systemd?

>>58885281
It works

Anyone here interested in the new Garmin Fenix 5 smartwatch? Looks pretty badass (especially when you don't own a smart phone). But since you're only given the SDK with no source code, I'm wondering if anyone here has had any luck with porting an open source smartwatch OS (like AsteroidOS) on to an unsupported device.

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anyone run into this issue with borderlands before?
videos play fine, but anywhere else is ~5-7fps, for seemingly no reason
this game has run perfectly well in wine before, infact, i've only ever run the game in linux since i bought it
this isn't very on topic, but the only people i've found with similar/same problem have fixed theirs by "downgrading the nvidia driver" (i use a radeon card and mesa), and one that disabled a firewall thing called "online armor"

>>58879212

telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl

So I tried to install Infinality font thing with this guide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt4LXRAmWOw&feature=youtu.be
After installing fonts I noticed that repo for infinality is down.
So what do I install now for font rendering?
Youtube guide had no configuring so something as easy would be nice.

>>58879212

strings /usr/lib/sudo/sudoers.so | grep -A51 Dave | shuf -n1

>>58885931
Just use normal freetype. All the stuff infinality did has been merged. Make sure to set hinting to slight or medium and enable proper subpixel rendering.

>>58886038
>All the stuff infinality did has been merged.
wat

>>58879896
(15)
The process is requested to stop running; it should try to exit cleanly
(9)
The process will be killed by the kernel; this signal cannot be ignored.
man 2 kill
man 7 signal

>>58886048
infinality is depreciated

>>58886060
That's not what I asked for.

>>58886048
Infinality was just a patched freetype, normal freetype now does the same shit.

>>58886051
Daily reminder that only newfags kill -9.

>>58879212

echo "main(t){for(t=0;;t++)putchar(t*(((t>>12)|(t>>8))&(63&(t>>4))));}" > hell.c; gcc hell.c; ./a.out | aplay

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>>58886084
But it kills shit so good.

>>58886020
How does that works?

>>58886173
- sudo has an option to print insults when you have entered your password wrong
- strings prints all printable strings from a binary (sudoers.so)
- grep matches 51 lines after "Dave" (the first word before the insult lines start)
- shuf shuffles them and prints -n 1 result

>>58886285
needs more | cowsay

>>58886321
if you're on arch there's a cowsay mod in the aur to change the cow to darkwing duck

>>58886353
wow arch is pretty based

I asked a similar question earlier but realized now that the solution which was given doesn't work. I need to use grep so that the return result is whatever is immediately on either side of the period.
In the first example line below, it would need to be everything after (but not including) the quotation mark and every before (and including) the "L" (lowercase but made capital here for easier reader).
In the second example line below, it would need to be everything after (but not including) the forward slash and everything before (and including) the "L" (again, lowercase in actuality).
The two example lines are what's below:

<content src="volume1chapter1.xhtml"/>
<content src="xhtml/ch01.html#ch01"/>

I was using grep -Po '(?<=xhtml/).*(?=#)' which works for the second line but not the first. Basically I'm trying to produce the following lines:

volume1chapter1.xhtml
ch01.html

>>58878531
Any good resources for a casual reader to get an understanding of how the Linux kernel and Linux driver development works?

I have a project toward the end of the year and would like to start getting an understanding of the basics.

How do I make image previews on ranger work on the tty (without X)?

>>58886826
not the best solution, but try this:

sed 's/.*="//; s/".*//; s/#.*//; s/.*\///'

>>58887137
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/The_Linux_Kernel
https://kernelnewbies.org/
http://tldp.org/LDP/khg/HyperNews/get/
http://wiki.osdev.org/Main_Page
https://github.com/gregkh/kernel-tutorial

for drives specifically
https://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/
http://linuxdriverproject.org/mediawiki/index.php/Main_Page

>>58886826
grep -Po '(?<=")*[a-zA-Z0-9]*\.[a-zA-Z0-9]*'
seems to work

You can also change the two instances of [a-zA-Z0-9] to [^"#?] instead if you want ANY characters to match except for " # /

>>58887335
>[^"#?]
should have been
>[^"#/]

>>58887137
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVpbFMhOAwE

>>58887335
Other anon here, how would I go for an OR (following # or ") ?
Thinking of something like this:
grep -Po '(?<=xhtml/).*(?=#|")'

>>58887480
all you want to know is here: http://perldoc.perl.org/perlre.html
grep's -P is perl regex

>>58887234
with w3m:
https://github.com/ranger/ranger/wiki/Image-Previews

I'm trying to make a compressed 7z archive using p7zip and it is insanely slow, almost like it is not using the processor to it's fullest capacity. Is there any switches or flags for this?

>>58887548
It ss installed and works under X, but on the tty doesn't work. Any idea?

>>58887480
Are you trying to do something else now? Or are you still trying to make it work with your example?

Because what's wrong with the solution I posted? I seems to work perfectly for me.
Granted I'm not 100% sure why it works, I'm not sure why the 1st asterisk is needed or what it does exactly, but I just randomly tried putting an asterisk there and it suddenly worked

>>58887558
>almost like it is not using the processor to it's fullest capacity.
but is it? check processor usage while it is compressing

>>58887615
That's a good question. I'll see and get back to you.

is there a Linux distro that isn't autistic about firmware drivers and just werks™

>>58887662
Linux Mint

>>58887674
no

>>58886826
my 2¢

$ printf '<content src="volume1chapter1.xhtml"/>\n<content src="xhtml/ch01.html#ch01"/>\n' | grep -Po '(?<=src="|/)\w*\.\w*'
volume1chapter1.xhtml
ch01.html

>>58887662
Give me 1 (one) distro autistic about firmware drivers that isn't one of the following
>debian
>distros running linux-libre

>>58887662
>>58887820
>autistic
What do you mean senpai?

>>58887674
he asked for a distro that works

>>58887820
Fedora
>I can't go full freedom because I have professional autism

>>58887849
good meme, 10/10

Any recommendation for developing a RTOS on the Pi (or similar SBC)

Which version of nc is the good one?

>>58888122
I heard FreeVMS is popular these days, maybe check the source code.

>>58887882
Clueless manbaby confirmed.

Fedora policy doesn't allow non-free software and software protected by patents into it's repository with the EXCEPTION of firmware.

>>58888157
cryptcat comes with encryption, also try socat

>>58888239
>protected

>>58888239
That's the point, faggot.

>>58888157
Depends, there is traditional netcat and "security oriented" netcat from openbsd with removed features. socat is netcat for $current_year, get this one.

>>58888330
>socat is netcat for $current_year
said who

>>58887615
Ok, it's using all the cores available but it still seems slow as balls vs windows 7zip... idk, I'll just roll with it,

>>58888348
maybe you are using different compression options?

What am I doing wrong here?

I'm trying to install KDE Neon on my x220t onto an msata drive but its booting only to a white blinking underscore.

Does KDE Neon not like msata drives?

FUUUUUUCK

rms spoke in Berlin today, even near where I work but I DIDN't KNOW UNTIL IT WAS OVER
FUCK FUCK FUCK

Time for sudoku.

>>58888672
disable quiet booting so you can see the log messages and get what is going wrong, if you are using grub just push "e" on the neon boot option end delete "quiet splash" from the command line.

>>58888839
propriteary software = hitler

Here, I just saved you a solid 3+ hours of time including the travel.

>>58888849
How can I accomplish this when I can't even get into the OS?

>>58888839
this is why we need a pasta guy to post his whereabouts

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>>58888839
Same here, anon. Same here.

>>58888898
whatever man

>>58888898
B-but I wanted to thank him for his work and maybe get a few crumbs of foot skin as a keepsake.

>>58888947
Hurry up meeting him. He's an old man.

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>>58888947
He will come back.
>>58888986
He will life forever.

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>>58888905
Grub is a bootloader, which is that software that loads the OS, which also means it starts before the OS.
I suppose neon ships a default grub conf that hides the grub menu at startup.

You can still get in the grub menu by pushing shift during boot (like you would push Esc or F12 or whatever to get in the bios).
Pic related, it's the grub's menu.

>http://phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Intel-GVT-g-Mainline-Q1
is GVT going to require specific hardware?

(Forgive me for being an idiot, this is my first time trying anything linux:)

I just used Rufus to mount the Ubuntu .iso onto a flash drive, I put it into the PC and booted off the flash drive, and all I'm seeing is a black screen with the flashing white underscore flashing. What have I done wrong? I followed the tutorial on Ubuntu website exactly.

>>58889342
it's bajongled or your motherboard firmware (Uefi) refuses to boot it

>>58889408
i guess that could possibly be it, it's an old ~2009 prebuilt HP. the specs aren't bad, I just figured i'd give linux a try on that machine and install it on the 120GB SSD so I could get some smoother internet browsing than the dying seagate HDD it has windows on and learn linux a bit.

so now what? I just give up and stick with windows forever?

>>58889461
Nah, just try different methods of writing the iso lol.

If everything else fails get a CD/DVD and burn it.
It always works.

>>58889342
>white underscore flashing
Without pics we don't know what that is, could be you booted on grub, could be you booted on a CLI, could be your BIOS.

Download the iso and burn it again.

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>>58889489
is that what DD image is for? it mentioned that I can use that option but it may not let me use the full amount on the drive again. it's a 16GB so I'd prefer to not lose that if possible. Only reason I didn't choose DVD is because my DVD burner is not plugged in and i'm feeling too lazy to open up my PC and find a SATA cable and bother with all that shit

>>58889528
not my pic but pic related is exactly what it looks like, happens after I get into the boot menu and select the sandisk flash drive as the boot drive.

>>58889567
You can always wipe the USB and repartition it to get it back to "normal" mass storage.

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>>58889578
ok good that's what I kinda figured, the wording they used sounded serious so I wasn't sure if there was some sort of irreversible disk writing I didn't know about or something. so I guess i'll give DD image mode a shot, and if all else fails, just go into my PC and get the burner plugged back in. I've been meaning to do it anyways

>>58889650
gl
you did back up all your important data from the machine you're using to make the image, the stick and the pc you want to install it on, right? as in, copied to a hard disk that is currently not connected to any of those machines.

>>58878697
can i have that desktop image? danke

/v/ here.

I'm fed up with strategy games not allowing to move the camera with WASD.

Instead of looking for an ad hoc solution for each game, how do I set up a customised keyboard layout that swaps the arrow and wasd keys?

Do you know how to do this? Help me to git gud.

>>58889831
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Keyboard_configuration_in_console#Temporary_configuration

>>58889741
thanks, appreciate the help.

I did back up the important photos and documents from the old PC a long time ago, I haven't however mirrored the windows 7 copy or any of the programs to another disc. If the risk of corruption is that high maybe i'll just disconnect the hard drive, the blank 120GB SSD should be enough for now. what do you think?

>>58889894
Thanks. I'll look into it.

Hello. i am a newbie to linux, why you choose ArchLinux?

>>58890161
It has all new software, it has aur, theres no need to compile it like in gentoo

>>58890161
I chose Arch, because it gave me a certain elitist feeling without the cumbersome, time consuming compiling processes with Gentoo or LFS.

>>58890161
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_terminology#The_Arch_Way

I'm trying to get this driver, but it's asking me to choose RHEL I'm using:
https://www.altera.com/support/support-resources/download/drivers/dri-usb_b-lnx.html

I'm using lubuntu. Am I shit out of luck?

>>58890336
In the instructions for redhat >= 5 it is simply settings the permissions for some usb device using udev, so you can access to those devices without root permissions. You can do that on ubuntu as well.

Anyone using KDE with wayland already?

>>58890409
So am I safe to just follow those instructions then?

>>58890423
I would love to and was planning on switching to full-wayland as soon as plasma 5.9 was released.
Unfortunately this qt 5.8 regression fucked everything up making plasma unusable on wayland:
https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-58423
hopefully they find a way to patch it up soon(tm).

I installed Kubuntu on a 25 gig partition I didn't know I had so I could fix GRUB. Now I wanna remove that shit and install something else on my second hard drive.

If I delete the 25 gig partition it's on, will GRUB get fucked again?

>>58889907
Try unetbooting instead of rufus and try downloading another iso.

For some reason, downloading Ubuntu or any other distro from Windows has a risk of corrupting the iso. Is not even joke.

>>58890427
yeah, useful references:
http://www.fpga-dev.com/altera-usb-blaster-with-ubuntu/
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Altera_Design_Software#USB-Blaster_Download_Cable_Driver

>>58890243
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

tl;dr nice meme

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>>58890243
>User centrality

Reminder that Arch doesn't care about his users https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

>>58890569
>>58890575
>he couldn't install arch
:^)

>>58890575
>Daniel Micay
heh, he is somewhat bad-tempered (anybody would having to constantly deal with script kiddies telling you how everything should works), but obviously is not the only person working on arch.

>>58890616
actually I did, and gentoo, fuck off

>>58890625
So, users are considered a threat and called skiddies now?
You are trying to defend arch at any cost don't you?

>>58890663
you should calm the fuck down with your loaded questions. I'm just saying that a nagging developer is not necessarily that meaningful.
Also, I don't use arch currently.

>>58890702
That dev was taking important decisions affecting the community and also was mocking a guy who just asked why Arch betrayed KISS.

If he is not outed he sure must be important.

>>58890482
>>58890482
please respond

>>58890745
You just need to edit your grub anon. Delete the partition and edit the grub.

Of course, I seriously hope you understand for grub to exists it shouldn't reside on the same partition.

>>58890766
I'm well aware of that fact, anon. Despite not knowing really how bootloaders work, I know it shouldn't be in the same partition.

Now I'm wondering if I'll really need that 25 gigabytes for anything else. Hmm.

>>58890745
Not 100% sure but I think GRUB might not know where to find your config file. Why not just reinstall GRUB though? It takes like 5 seconds. All you really need is to just make sure you always have a partition for GRUB and fixing it is usually a piece of cake.

>>58878531
I JUST INSTALLED MY FIRST ARCH WITH FIREFOX AND SHIT HELL YES.
FUCKING HYPE.
Enjoy proprietary software faggots.
Would post a screen, got no app for prointscreens tho.

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>>58890839

>>58890834
I was in /fglt/ last night for hours trying to get it to work again with a kind anon. Although that's a good suggestion. What size partition should I take out to make sure that GRUB has enough space to work? Or am I thinking about this the wrong/uninformed way?

>>58890851
GRUB is very tiny and it doesn't need his own partition anon.

>>58890884
So I am thinking about it the wrong way.

Is there a good place to learn more about it? Or would you be willing to teach me, since I'm not that smart and have trouble learning this stuff from a page of documentation?

>>58890851
You only need about 2MB for the GRUB partition, it needs to also be the first partition on the disk, and it needs the "bios_grub" flag set on it. Also whatever partition houses the /boot directory needs to be set as bootable

>>58890851
>>58890931
The Gentoo Handbook does a fairly good job of explaining everything.
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks

They go through it step by step for an example partition scheme, you can just modify it to suit your needs

>>58890459
Man that sucks, hope they fix it soon because that bug report seems pretty dead.

>>58890907
To watch some videos on youtube is my first advise. On partitioning and GRUB and what else, you must know how and why it exists.

When your computer boots the first thing booting is the BIOS, which is part of youur hardware so to speak. Then the BIOS goes to GRUB (or any bootloader in charge), then GRUB boots the Linux kernel.

>>58890743
That why I said he is bad tempered.
He was not taking a decision at precise time because that systemd was going to be the only supported init system was already decided years before:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1149530#p1149530
The question about systemd was already abundantly discussed, and arch developers decided to go on with the choices explained in that post. But obviously on the internet this means nothing and flamewars about X vs Y vs Z _never_ ends. When for the thousands time someone tried reopen the same discussion about systemd this short tempered developer answered like that, which I recognize is not fair to that user, but at that time made little difference on what kind of distro arch is.

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>>58890554
>http://www.fpga-dev.com/altera-usb-blaster-with-ubuntu/
I tried following this, but it didn't work. Then I found this on the companies website:
https://www.altera.com/content/dam/altera-www/global/en_US/pdfs/literature/ug/ug_usb_blstr_ii_cable.pdf
And was able to set it up all fine. Altera is such a weird company, they have instructions on how to do the same stuff on different parts of the website, with slightly different steps. Makes it confusing.

Thanks for answering my questions. Above all else, I just wanted to make sure the RH instructions weren't going to mess up ubuntu/debian.

>>58890961
they are keep discussing it here for now:
https://codereview.qt-project.org/#/c/184278/

>>58890851
>>58890907
Also, what distro are you installing anyway?
You might not even need to think about any of this since most of the "user friendly" distros do it all for you, so you might just be wasting your time right now.

>>58891017
best advise so far

>>58891017
I was thinking about just installing Ubuntu and calling it a day, although an anon mentioned that switching DEs was a bad idea and I want to use something that I can get to look good, not Unity. Fuck Unity.

>>58891052
Go for Devuan and you won't need to mess around so much. Is pretty modular and you can choose whatever DE you want.

Check it out.

>>58891006
are you an EE or just getting into fpgas for fun/interest?

Why would I choose GRUB 2 instead of GRUB Legacy or even LILO?

I have simple needs obviously.

>>58891086
Thanks for the suggestion. Why is switching DEs a bad idea though?

So since KDE is dead (migrating to QTWebEngine, which is basically Chromium aka botnet), where are you switching to?

>>58891132
well, why would you use abandonware or legacy software when there is a newer supported version?

>>58891154
I have a single boot device,with grub2 it is over 100 lines of configuration.With grub or lilo it is less then 30 lines

>>58891135
Problem is not switching DEs, problem is uninstalling a DE. Is kind of hard for a person just starting on Linux.

>>58891138
anon please, stop the meming, Chromium may have some shady BS from google, but QT is a separate project and is clean.

I accidentally used DD with an ISO on my harddrive with movies and music and other important files on it. It only copied 95 MB, but when I plug the HDD in it doesn't mount properly. I had two partitions on it before. Is there anyway I can recover any data on it?

Thanks.

>>58891170
I only bring it up because I had issues with Cinnamon before under Ubuntu, although it could've just been
>Cinnamon

I just want something that looks nice and is still entirely functional.

>>58891138
Well atleast google is fuzzing that shit 24/7 for bugs.

>>58891189
photorec

>>58891168
this, adding a layer of complexity is exactly why people complain about bloat

>>58891191
TestDisk, PhotoRec, ddrescue (yes, is the cousin of dd)

>>58891191
is all about personal tastes, really

>>58891168
In all honesty, having a shorter conf file is a weird reason to prefer legacy software, which is usually used for compatibility reasons. But if it works on your machine I don't think there are other downsides in doing so.

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>mfw Debian provides Tor services
https://onion.debian.org/

Debian strikes again.

>>58891227
>this, adding a layer of complexity is exactly why people complain about bloat
well you know.. they had to support uefi machines.

>>58891244
Why would i dick around with shit i dont need or even wanted in this "new" version?
its a fucking bootloader,why do i need 500 configuration points where it was done the same way in the legacy version

>>58891227
Alright, one last question.

Let's say I have more hard drive space then sense. Because of that, I want to have two separate distress running on my hard drive. Is it possible to have a /home folder that can be used by both dittos? Does that even make sense?

>>58891221
Holy shit you're a lifesaver saver

>>58891291
like I said, if it works on your machine there shouldn't be any downside as far as I know.
Of course you will have to switch to the new version (why the quotes anyway?) as soon as you, for example, get a uefi machine or anything else that doesn't works with the legacy version, so you may as well get used to it now.

>>58891322
Yes it has a lot of sense. I some people here do the exact same thing.

Is an advanced setup though.

>>58891257
Just like with torrent etc, there's nothing inherently wrong with this technology and don't let people tell you otherwise.

Someone else using it to achieve malicious goals is not your concern

>>58891344
Alright. I'll see if I can get that working. I'd love to have two full distros up - one for day to day use and the other for dicking around with.

>>58891400
a hacker is born

>>58891413
I'm not nearly smart enough to hack. It would be fun though. I know there's some games I would love to mod, etc.

can I run android apps on ubuntu? if so how?

>>58891443
In a virtual machine

Now that Arch Linux is dead (dropped 32 bit support), which distro are you moving to?

>>58891109
Comp E, and yes to the second question.

>>58891456
Source Mage

>>58891456
>lets support 40 year old technology no one uses

installing OpenSUSE was the best thing I ever did 2bh

Trying KDE Neon out here. It seem nice and everything, got a nice looking grub boot loader, but it occasionally freezes for a bit here and there. Kind of odd, though I know it is new too.

I'm using Arch Linux, if it matters.

I am considering using EXTLINUX because muh minimalism, check this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJs16CrANPo

Going to use Ubuntu on my PC.

I'm trying to use steam (not ubuntu). Installed steam, and then steam-native-runtime packages. Most games I've tried work fine. when i try to run binding of isaac (launched steam-native from terminal) It fails to open and I get this:

Game update: AppID 250900 "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth", ProcID 4786, IP 0.0.0.0:0
>>> Adding process 4786 for game ID 250900
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tristan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tristan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object '/home/tristan/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/gameoverlayrenderer.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded (wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32): ignored.
>>> Adding process 4787 for game ID 250900
Setting breakpad minidump AppID = 250900
Steam_SetMinidumpSteamID: Caching Steam ID: 76561198137655487 [API loaded no]
Game removed: AppID 250900 "The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth", ProcID 4787
No cached sticky mapping in ActivateActionSet

suggestions? steam overlay is off, and the runtimes presumably shouldnt be a problem because I am using steam-native and its 150 runtime dependencies.

>>58891997
Install Ubuntu

>>58891484
Posting from an Asus 1000HE that I've used on a day to day basis since 2009.

Gentoo boots in seconds on a single 1.66 GHz core and uses 24 MB of RAM with the GUI running.

Arch was dead when it adopted systemd.

>>58892015
whats wrong with systemd

Seriously, can we just put some links in the OP about why systemd is bad, so we don't have to keep answering the same question over and over?

>>58892039
fuck off with your autism

>>58892022
why is people still asking when they know is going to start a flameware?

>>58892022
nothing. only retards who want to fine tune absolutely inconsequential things care about systemd. there's a reason only the most customisable distros like gentoo don't have it by default. The only problem with systemd is if something goes wrong it isn't pretty to fix, but the same is true for every other init method

>>58892039
Is it bad? Why don't you go ahead and tell me why, anon. :^)

Now that this thread is dead (hit the bump limit) which thread are you moving to?

>>58892022
t. Lennart

>>58892039
is a good idea imho

>>58892044
fuck off troll

>>58892062
>:^)
Ohoho, you almost got me there anon. I started writing out a 3 page essay on why systemD sucks before I noticed this little guy

>>58892064
new thread?
>>58892090

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>>58892062
>>58892087

>>58892087
Honestly I don't know much about systemd so not sure what the fuss is about. Might be interesting to read a 3 page essay.

http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/the-biggest-myths.html

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>>58892176
>http://0pointer.de
>giving poettering your ip

Quick can someone post the "Linux is not a consumer OS" copy pasta?

>>58892333
G A Y
A
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>>58891168
the auto-generated confs are pretty ... verbose
but you can write your own, grub2 only /needs/ about as much as grub1 did