/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>59240831
stable for some kind of server, testing for anything else. testing is actually more stable in many cases, because the more recent packages have more bugfixes.

>>59240903
install gentoo

Why is there so much unnecessary hate for Red Hat? They're fixing the Linux world, and making new and better software.

I just installed playonlinux for the first time ever. I've wanted to play some windows games on steam, but some of the modding applications (fallout new vegas, etc.) require packages that can only be installed in a 32-bit prefix of wine when I've installed the 64-bit. It seems play on linux will allow me to have both at the same time and interchange between them reliably.

I see that there are a number of wine versions available in x86 and amd64.

My question is, is there a recommend version of wine that I should use or should I just install the latest version of wine for x86 and amd64?

>>59240965
Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® delivers military-grade security, 99.999% uptime.

>>59240990
what security programs is the military using?

Can someone explain me rofi's -dmenu option?
Sure, it's supposed to work like dmenu, but how I used dmenu was like rofi's run window.
You can add scripts, but what's the use if you manually have to call the script to pipe it into rofi? And I can't use it if I have to have a different keybind for each script.

>>59241009
McAfee

Are (tiling) window managers useful? What can they do that GNOME can't do?

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Any mpd/alsa masters around?

I have two audio outs:

1) external AMP/DAC for headphones
2) monitor speakers connected over HDMI

Now, I'd like to setup alsa & mpd so when I play music, mpd doesn't do software decoding when sending audio to external AMP/DAC and I'd like to do software decoding when sending to monitor speakers... since I don't give a shit about quality when I use speakers.

How do I do this?

>>59240965
They work in a bubble and don't care about feedback.

kek

>Beyond just GNOME apps and tools being stripped of options, Red Hat employee and lead GNOME developer William Jon McCann was caught opening a bug report on the independent Transmission BitTorrent client telling the developers that its panel notification feature should be removed. Why? Merely because GNOME 3 no longer supports a panel: “Transmission has an option in the Desktop tab of the preferences to ‘Show Transmission icon in the notification area’. This should probably be removed.” Transmission developer Charles replied, “So now we can have three builds of Transmission that decide at compile time whether to use AppIndicator, GtkStatusIcon or nothing at all… Removing it altogether, as you suggest, will hurt Xfce users.” McCann replied, “I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an Xfce app unfortunately… And I have no idea what Xfce is or does, sorry. It is my hope that you are a GNOME app.” Charles’s reply to this: “*speechless*”.

>Can we really and seriously believe that William Jon McCann, described as one of the main driving forces behind the concepts of GNOME 3, doesn’t know what Xfce is? What are the consequences of having a large corporation like Red Hat (perhaps with strong influence from the ultra-wealthy Google) in control of widely used open source projects like GNOME and GTK, with its teams of developers routinely altering their APIs in unpredictable, erratic ways and offering no real support to independent projects using their libraries? It’s clear that with the advent of GNOME 3, GNOME has become a corporate product solely created for and controlled by Red Hat.
https://www.gadgetdaily.xyz/compile-your-own-kernel-tutorial/

>>59241251
wrong link https://www.gadgetdaily.xyz/a-linux-conspiracy-theory/

>>59240909
You mean like a desktop? Debian isn't a desktop OS. Use something like Ubuntu or Fedora or Haiku.

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>>59241266

>>59241266
>Debian isn't a desktop OS
Debian works fine as a desktop OS. All you have to do is realize that being bleeding edge for the sake of being bleeding edge is pointless ricer crap, like the whole of Arch is. For the few packages where you actually care about staying current (protip: There's less than a half-dozen of them) there's backports.

>>59241251
"And I have no idea what Xfce is or does"

XFCE PLEBS ARE ON SUICIDE WATCH
>m-muh obscure, unmaintained DE...

>>59241293
Ubuntu isn't bleeding edge either, it just has a team dedicated to the development of a desktop environment, and an app store.

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Help pls How do i pass my existing windows install to qemu+kvm?

>>59241403
Couldn't you just not use Windows? Keep that shit on your work computer.

>>59241293
Bleeding edge => you get updates to security holes quickly => you are less prone to security risks.
It’s also about security.

>>59241570
I can. But I prefer the flexibility of a vm.

>>59241580
Security fixes get backported.

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>>59240903
I was super bored today, so i dug out muh netbook and installed debian on it

>>59241580
that is not true at all stable is far more secure

>>59241666
>C-60 APU 1GHz
>1024x600 screen
>Slow HDD speeds
Literally unusable.

>>59241009
SElinux

>>59241698
web browsing is a pain

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wtf
they changed something and now gentoo install process is broken.

>>59241293
imo bleeding edge is the way to go, and it seems distro maintainers whats to take this path.

Personally I prefer using a bleeding edge distro because I like having the latest kernel, drivers, etc. since recent updates improved a lot my experience in games.

I tried debian testing but after some time went into some troubles. I guess it's quite normal for a distribution made for test purpose.

Ok, so I am have trouble adding a volume icon to my panel in XFCE. When I go to add new item I don't see any volume package.

I downloaded volumeicon package, which I can run from command line and it adds it to the panel. But, when I go to add new items I don't see it or any other volume managers listed.

>>59241909
What shitty bistro did you install that didn't have xfces configured with a simple volume slider by default?

>>59241892
>>imo bleeding edge is the way to go, and it seems distro maintainers whats to take this path.
They want to do that because it's easiest for them, not necessarily out of concern about whats easiest for you
>Personally I prefer using a bleeding edge distro because I like having the latest kernel, drivers, etc. since recent updates improved a lot my experience in games.
That's fine if you actually notice improvements and use the new things that are coming out. A lot don't, though. And without that the knowledge that you're on the latest version isn't worth anything. An older version with security support will be no practical difference and a lot less trouble, if someone, unlike you, isn't doing anything where improvements will be immediately noticed.
>I tried debian testing but after some time went into some troubles. I guess it's quite normal for a distribution made for test purpose.
Its normal for any rolling-release distro that keeps roughly current with the latest releases. Hence my assertion that most people would be happier on an LTS distro.

>>59241952
antergos, the volume icon was there in GNOME, but that DE was crashing a lot for some reason so I am trying out XFCE. I think the same thing with Slackware

>Dennis Ritchie, when asked about this issue, said that he hadn't thought very deeply about it, but was of the opinion that the ability to represent all times within his lifetime would be nice. Ritchie's birth, in 1941, is around Unix time −893 400 000, and his death, in 2011, was before the overflow of 32-bit time_t, so he did indeed achieve his goal.

>>59240984
you really don't need playonlinux, you're just stopping yourself from learning. read the wine manual and learn how to use it, it's simple. you'll have a greater understanding of what's going on and you'll have more chance of being able to solve problems yourself in the future

>>59241061
incredibly useful. having windows go to the most efficient places instead of you having to resize/move/resize etc just so the screen is useable is simply the way it should be

the best advice is to just try it. you'll quickly realise how powerful they are and how backwards floating wms are

>>59241061
Very useful to me.

I've started using them to better use a laptop (without mouse etc, plus with limited screen space) and then just started using them for everything.

> What can they do that GNOME can't do?
Handle a lot more windows more efficiently, and be more efficiently keyboard-controllable.

>/g/ shills GNU/Linux because it doesn't have a spying NSA botnet like windows 10
>The NSA literally developed a huge amount of the kernel

Rate my ASCII starfield.

printf '\ec\e[?25l';a=(. + o); while :; do printf '\e[38;5;%sm\e[%s;%sf%*s\e[m' \
$((RANDOM%7+230)) $((RANDOM%LINES+1)) $((RANDOM%COLUMNS+1)) $((RANDOM%COLUMNS)) \
${a[RANDOM%5]}; read -n 1 -t 0.01 && { printf '\e[?25h\ec'; break; }; done # fglt

>>59243201
nothing happens on zsh

>>59243238
It's a bash script.

> cowsay cowfiles collection:
https://github.com/paulkaefer/cowsay-files/tree/master/cows

>>59243056
>Handle a lot more windows more efficiently, and be more efficiently keyboard-controllable.
Not really, Gnome works almost exactly the same as i3, if you take five minutes to set it up .It even uses the same modifier key as i3. I use i3 on my laptop and Gnome on my multi display desktop. I like them almost equally.

I'm about to install Windows XP and Lubuntu on my laptop (coming from Windows 10), and I was wondering which order I should install them in for ease of dual booting.

>>59241836
pick hardened

>>59243238
put a shebang at the top of it and run

>>59243539
Windows first. The Linux boot loader then boots both, but installing it later will avoid many issues with the Windows installer going nuts over stuff it doesn't understand and/or Windows overwriting the Linux bootloader.

>>59243731
Thanks, I recalled that windows fucked with the bootloader, but I'd forgotten if it was on install or if it found out it was changed after the fact.

>>59243753
It's almost only on the first install.

Well, if you eventually do it in the wrong order you can pretty easily reinstall grub2 from a live stick, but I guess avoiding it altogether is simpler.

screenfetch or neofetch?

screen or tmux?

I have an old junk pc so i have to use puppy linux. I rather like it especialy because it doesnt make you have a hardrive like lubuntu and alot of other trash pc distros.

bash or zsh?

>>59241570
>Can anyone help me do thing?
>Why would anyone want to do thing?
I don't know how to answer the question, but you are being an ass.

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>>59243820
The people have spoken.

Here is my lspci output for my laptop
I am running gentoo. How do I use that nvida graphics card ??? It is not VGA it is 3D controller.
Detailed solution required.

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor DRAM Controller (rev 09)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core processor PCI Express Root Port (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller (rev 09)
00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB xHCI Host Controller (rev 04)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev c4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev c4)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev c4)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation HM76 Express Chipset LPC Controller (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 7 Series Chipset Family 6-port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Family SMBus Controller (rev 04)
01:00.0 3D controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF117M [GeForce 610M/710M/810M/820M / GT 620M/625M/630M/720M] (rev a1)
08:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA9565 / AR9565 Wireless Network Adapter (rev 01)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros QCA8172 Fast Ethernet (rev 10)

>>59243931
install gentoo

debian or arch?

>>59244001
>debian or arch?
smear shit on your glass side panel

>>59243931
you have a nvidia optimus laptop
you need to setup bumblebee/optimus/<what ever the fuck they are calling it now>

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/NVIDIA/Optimus

good luck

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>tfw dealt with my first rescue mode/grub corruption/system panic episode
>that scary feeling not knowing if my desktop would be a shitty default wipe when i fixed it
is this the price of freedom

>>59241403

qemu-kvm -drive /dev/<where your windows is>,media=disk

note: I can't test this right now, but i think this is correct.


The reason no one wants to help you is because this is a really bad idea
it will also give you a warning about raw devices, ignore it.

I'm on xUbuntu 16.10, how do I get a trash folder set up and working properly on my 2nd hard drive? I've already tried copying and pasting my main HDD's trash folder to the 2nd one's root but that didn't work.

I'd really like to be able to just delete files on it by hitting the del key and not have to see this error message.
I get no error when running file manager as root by the way.

Recommendations for a non-systemd distro?
I'd consider myself an intermediate but lazy linux user.

>>59244336
When I tried to set that up in like 2010 it was an enormous clusterfuck that never did work properly. Is it better these days?

>>59244408
Nah m8. You'll run into problems no matter what you use. Successfully solving a problem because your OS gave you the tools to pop the hood and figure out what was wrong is the *reward* of freedom.

And now you learned something and are (hopefully) a bit more confident in your ability to solve problems.

>>59244457
GNU/Linux*

>>59244436
sounds like the drive isn't mounted correctly

>>59244457
Its almost a battle to keep a system from pulling in systemd
the easiest and most usable option is gentoo (not memeing, it defaults to OpenRC)

>>59244472
no, its either disable the dGPU and get a good battery life or
disable the iGPU and deal with +15C temps and no battery life
or deal with the semi-functional garbage that is Optimus.

iirc Optimus is the reason I gave my i7/745m laptop to my wife and just got a x220 for linux.

>>59244497
srsly, why does GNU push the GNU/Linux thing instead of GNU? it just confuses people, they happily accept Android being Androind with Linux as kenel and call it Android for example...

>>59241666
That rice looks amazing pls explain how
Or at least post font and colour scheme

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>>59244516
It would not be false to the facts, but it is not the best thing to do. Here are the reasons we call that system version “GNU/Linux” rather than just “GNU”:

It's not exactly GNU—it has a different kernel (that is, Linux). Distinguishing GNU/Linux from GNU is useful.
It would be ungentlemanly to ask people to stop giving any credit to Linus Torvalds. He did write an important component of the system. We want to get credit for launching and sustaining the system's development, but this doesn't mean we should treat Linus the same way those who call the system “Linux” treat us. We strongly disagree with his political views, but we deal with that disagreement honorably and openly, rather than by trying to cut him out of the credit for his contribution to the system.
Since many people know of the system as “Linux”, if we say “GNU” they may simply not recognize we're talking about the same system. If we say “GNU/Linux”, they can make a connection to what they have heard about.

>>59244516
because you can have GNU without the Linux kernel
but you can't have Linux without something GNU, because you need GCC to build the kernel (officialy)
there are some Clang ports to build the Linux kernel however

and as autistic as it may or may not be, it is nice to be recognized for your contributions

>>59244516
Mostly it's because they're salty that Linux came around and stole their thunder. They think Linux took the future that rightfully belonged to them, so they want to claim credit for it.

>>59244542
Thanks, but this kind of divisiveness is part of why I've switched to BSD instead.
By all means keep fighting the good fight if you like, but know that the only war you will win will be against your fellow users, friend.

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>>59244568
When we ask people to say “GNU/Linux”, we are not dividing people. We are asking them to give the GNU Project credit for the GNU operating system. This does not criticize anyone or push anyone away.

However, there are people who do not like our saying this. Sometimes those people push us away in response. On occasion they are so rude that one wonders if they are intentionally trying to intimidate us into silence. It doesn't silence us, but it does tend to divide the community, so we hope you can convince them to stop.

However, this is only a secondary cause of division in our community. The largest division in the community is between people who appreciate free software as a social and ethical issue and consider proprietary software a social problem (supporters of the free software movement), and those who cite only practical benefits and present free software only as an efficient development model (the open source movement).

This disagreement is not just a matter of names—it is a matter of differing basic values. It is essential for the community to see and think about this disagreement. The names “free software” and “open source” are the banners of the two positions.

The disagreement over values partially aligns with the amount of attention people pay to the GNU Project's role in our community. People who value freedom are more likely to call the system “GNU/Linux”, and people who learn that the system is “GNU/Linux” are more likely to pay attention to our philosophical arguments for freedom and community (which is why the choice of name for the system makes a real difference for society). However, the disagreement would probably exist even if everyone knew the system's real origin and its proper name, because the issue is a real one. It can only go away if we who value freedom either persuade everyone (which won't be easy) or are defeated entirely (let's hope not).

@59244597
Too late, already comfy using FreeBSD, the best of the *nix family operating systems.

Better luck next time

>>59244568
>>59244629
this sort of shit is why nobody likes bsd fags, while sharing the idea of free software, bsdfags always try to be the very special snowflakes, whats the point? why cant ppl just be friendly?

>>59244568
>>59244629
Friendly reminder that without RMS being an annoying faggot towards (the previous proprietary) BSD, it wouldn't be free like it is today.

>>59244652
>>59244668
>>59244597
>>>/r/eddit/

>>59244472
thanks m8, I've only been using Linux for about a year

>>59244652
>>59244668
this, back in the days, bsd an gnu been working together and shared lots of code (you can see this when reading manpages, sections pointing out portability to bsd)
that whole bsd vs gnu thing is newfag cringe

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>>59243201
>tfw nobody likes/runs/give feedback to your oc because 4chan deleted system32

>>59244747
Write a GTK3 thumbnail preview thingy.
Fame and wet chicks will come to you.

So it used to be that when the scroll bar was visible on chromium I could 3-finger-click and jump to that point

That is now broken, and if I want to move down many screens I must literally drag the scroll bar thing

help

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>>59243575
why hardened?

>>59245358
nevermind, I changed something in flags so now the shitty scroll bars always display but I can three-finger-click to wherever

fucking regressions

>>59245358
>chromium
uninstalll that botnet

>>59245408
she likes it

>>59245612
but it works well

doesn't umatrix debotnet it adequately?

>>59245627
chromium is opensource cancer
there was an issue in the past on debian's mailinglist where some guy reported that chromium was silently downloading a binary that listened to your microphone, creepy shit
related: https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/06/not-ok-google-chromium-voice-extension-pulled-after-spying-concerns/

never trust open source

>>59245627
imho all current browsers are shit
there are only two options:
- ff nightly with tweaked about:config
- or simply icecat

or alternativly, don't give a shit about privacy
nowadays firefox is the same botnet as google chrome, so choosing chrome/chromium instead of ff isn't really bad (welp, chromium being proprietary may be an additional security probelm)

>>59245690
chrome being proprietary*

Hey /g/, what's the distro you'all been sattled to after all distro hopping? I want to save some years of my life and benefit from your advises.

>>59245655
you've got that the wrong way round. It's Google you can't ever trust.

>>59245627
>>doesn't umatrix debotnet it adequately?
Nope. It still talks to Google and unless you're willing to compile it yourself with the ungoogled-chromium patch set, you can't stop it. Well, or you could dump Google domains into your hosts file, but then you have to keep up with all the domains they use. Among other things it reports every site you visit to the mothership with Google Safebrowsing, (Firefox has this too and it's on by default, but you can at least turn it off) and for certificate-transparency stuff. Now certificate transparency is a good thing, don't get me wrong, but not when the only log server it'll talk to is Google's.

>>59245690
>nowadays firefox is the same botnet as google chrome
Out of the box, yes. Difference being that in Firefox you can at least turn this shit off.

>>59245712
my 2cents:

Install Noobuntu, use it till you know your way around GNU/Linux, then set up Debian with your preferred stuff and stick with it.

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>>59245712
Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.

>>59245734
You can turn safe browsing off on chromium...

Is Solus good? Right now I have windows and Arch (i3) on dual boot, but my drives are getting full so I will wipe them. The screenshots do look nice on it, but that's pretty much everything I know about it. The screenshots did have solarized terminals, is it default? I love solarized

>>59245780
You can turn off telemety in Windows 10...

>>59245795
>I love solarized
reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>59245795
>I have windows and Arch
sad to hear that

Hey /g/, how do I use a custom gif or video screensaver using xscreensaver? I've been messing around with mvplayer scripts and some other stuff, but no cigar. I'm running 64-bit XFCE Mint btw.

>>59245822
ehh, office is needed, only reason for windows desu.
and yeah I do want to switch from arch

just found this (if anyone cares about vt100 escape sequences: curl it!)

http://umich.edu/~archive/apple2/misc/programmers/vt100.codes.txt

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

>>59246484
lubeuntoo/xoobuntoo

How do I set JEDEC units as default?

Thinking of putting a distro with gnome on my fuckpad

Is Ubuntu GNOME good these days or do I go with fedora? I'm not sure how good wayland is for slightly old laptops

>>59241061

Only if you have a huge screen which can fit multiple windows.

>>59243056

Enjoying your four 300×200 windows?

>>59245795

You can have terminals with the same color theme on any distribution, retard.

>mentions arch
>puts (i3) in there

Yeah, just another idiot who installed a distribution, who boots into it every fortnight to put "ls -l" into a terminal emulator and that's it.

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>>59243820

This is Neofetch.

>>59247726
looks kinda cool?

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anyone have experience with punch cards? i want to install a Linux kernel on this:

What's the best i3status replacement?
i3blocks sucks, standard battery doesn't support power supply and contrib has its font hardcoded

Is Arch the edgiest distro out there?

Can I use OVMF (UEFI) in a vm running on a BIOS host?

How do I into vulkan on mobile radeons and arch?

I'm guessing I'd have to use the amdgpu module, but it doesn't even boot with that for me, just dies with an endless loop of stack traces.
Tried downgrading x and installing the aur package but that doesn't work either.
Guides on the wiki are not the clearest to me. Anyone got it working?

Vulkan works on the integrated gpu without hassle though...

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I'm satisfied with my current fonts.
However if I add fonts to

/.local/share/fonts

and then run

fc-cache -f

The web pages start to renders different fonts from the usual.
Is there a way to make the fonts seen by only specific program?
I just need to have New Times Roman font on Libre Writer.

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Hey, /fglt/, my Nautilus just stopped remembering folder settings (sorting by date, name, etc.), and also the folder custom picture.
Maybe it was because of an update, or because I left a sudo nautilus instance open overnight (?).

Could somebody help me ?

>>59249835
I'd add that every folder is now sorted by name, unless /home, that's sorted by date. That's odd. Is there a temp file that I can purge ?

Memes apart, wich one is a good distro to learn how to use linux? Should I stick to Xubuntu and try to improve the bash use? should I switch to other distro?
Tired about "install gentoo" meme, and at this point I don't know if Arch is any good.

>>59249988
I think a good way to learn how to use Linux is actually trying to switch to it completely and face your usual work/play challenges on it.

That said, Debian minimal netinst helped me a few years ago for basic stuff.

>>59250086
Already did this, been using xubuntu and linux mint for some years. but I feel I don't know how to use linux properly, I still lost at the terminal.

>accidentally ran "rm -rf *" inside my home directory because I assumed I was in another directory

I even have a clear PS1 prompt, with the directory highlighted in a different color yet it still happened. I have backups though on my other computer (incidentally, I ran the command as part of a manual syncing I do between them).

Turns out all the stories aren't fake. It can happen.

>>59249835
>>59249878

Delete everything Nautilus related in .config, .local, .cache. Also delete anything GNOME settings related you see.

Also switch to Nemo, which is a slightly less shit Nautilus.

>>59250674
i'll try thanks
Nemo ? Do I have to install a shitload of other packages from another desktop environment to use it ?

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What's the simplest WM you know?

I plan to use it just as a container for one window, to hold qemu and nothing else.
No point in using i3 or openbox for something like that, I guess.
>inb4 none
I tried this

startx /home/anon/bin/vm-startup-script

but it just says something like "guest has not initialized display (yet)", exits xorg and apparently leaves the VM running in the background.

>>59244001
i run both dual boot.

>>59251323
Why?

>>59251308
I did this for MythTV back in the day, with ion3, one of the early tiling wms. It could be set to open each new window fullscreen on a new desktop.

The main takeaway was that using a wm was really useful:
>"everything fullscreen always" is a form of window management, and if the program decides it wants to resize, it should be put back in place.
>it's really useful to be able to manually intervene, e.g. when you get an error popup or want to switch to an xterm

anyone here made an icewm theme before?
having trouble with a couple things

1. can't find a way to remove/override the taskbar button borders (pic related). is it possible?
2. the window title pixmap doesn't want to work, still looking into it, any hints?

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>>59251822

>>59240903
I just got my libreboot thinkad X60. What distro should I use. It must be 100% free as in freedom and lightweight.

>>59251396
Cause the journey isn't over yet.
Started with mint, now trying arch and debian, maybe gentoo next.

>>59250782

Depends how it's packaged on your distribution. On mine it's negligible.

>>59251901
did you buy it or flashed it yourself?
I am using debian on my X200 libreboot.

>>59241251
The quotes from the GNOME devs make it seem like GNOME 3 is the worst possible DE you could choose for Linux. What is with this whole recent trend of customization and features being bad?

>>59251993
I flashed it myself.

>>59251999
>4 years ago
Well, didn't see that. Anyway, point still stands.

Is there any reason for why I should use

sudo apt-get install [package]

instead of

sudo apt install [package]

>>59252042
no reason at all, apt-get is deprecated

>>59249988
LFS

>>59250674
>>59250782
Did not work. It reversed gnome to factory default and did not solve the problem, I had to put the folders back where they were.
Another idea ?

Thinking of "coming back" to Firefox from Chrome, any reasons why I shouldn't? Firefox is looking a lot better in terms of resource usage and speed than 3 years ago.

>>59250114

You don't use Linux inside a terminal emulator. You use programs inside a terminal emulator with your shell.
Learn how to use the programs and your shell. The reason you're not learning it is because there's no use for you. If you actually had to use it, you'd slowly learn how to. There is no point in reading books or other information about it, because you'll never utilize the knowledge and forget it after 5 minutes.

I'm on Fedora and using a nvidia card, so I'm forced into X. I also have an integrated GPU with my i7 that I want to try wayland with but is it possible to do without unplugging my cables from my card completely? Like somehow forcing the OS to use the mesa driver or something.

>>59252567

Delete the gvfs-metadata directory inside ~/.local/share/. That's where all the view preferences are stored.

>>59241666
I wish I had your skills, satan.

pretty cute!!!

>>59252588
The only reason I stay at this point is how smooth it is in comparison with just general scrolling and the fact that syncing with my google account across all of my devices is completely painless and I don't even have to think about it. Anytime I set up a machine I just log into my google account and its identical to the browser I use everywhere else. I know mozilla has a sync option now but it's just not the same.

One other benefit would be noscript but I've learned to live without it.

>>59252612
GNU/Linux*

>>59252588

Speed is a buzzword you fell for. There is no significant in difference between "speed". What do you even mean by speed? You don't know, you most likely talk about the 0,002 seconds difference in rendering certain websites which goes both ways and the 0,2 second difference in startup time for a program you open once every computing session.

For a normal person, the significance of Firefox being free software significantly outweighs the inane "speed" buzzwords gullible idiots fall for.

>>59252651

He installed software other people made on hardware other people made. There is no worthwhile skill involved, unless your post was badly ironic.

>>59252657
I know what you mean about the sync thing, that's ironically the reason I've stayed so long with Chrome but now also the reason I want to get away from a company who wants to centralize and control all my data.

>>59252671
browsing is just kind of garbage out the box with firefox compared to chromium

it just feels slow in comparison, but if i never switched to chromium I probably wouldnt know or care

>>59241666
>packages: 999
checked

>>59252659

>3 minutes to respond
Which means you're a pathetic person who thinks he's funny for regurgitating other people's "memes". A slightly less pathetic person would at least write a computer program to handle the posting of your deplorable replies.
Kill yourself.

>>59252691

>feels slow
It doesn't feel slow on the same hardware browsing the same websites.
Provide objective and reasonable data to back up your claims or stop spreading your placebo, anecdotal evidence.

>>59252685
Well, he made it look cute.

Have a good day, pal.

>>59252730
i never claimed to have objective evidence

and yes im talking about same hardware

this is literally just my opinion and based on my browsing habits

>>59252671
Don't automatically strawman people, I always knew FF was more free, but the streamlined way of doing anything in Chrome just felt far better than FF for the longest time. Yes it was faster, noticeably, so I don't know how you're talking about 0.002 seconds differences or whatever. I've used a SSD since 2012 so for me the difference has become less noticeable, but 4 years back it was still there.

I think I have been gradually drifting further and further away from Google-owned crap anyway, at some point I hope to ditch my Android for something like Sailfish or Ubuntu Phone if it ever gets good enough.

Freedom is no longer an option, not in this world.

>>59249835
>>59249878
>>59250674
>>59250782
>>59252567
I just figured it out, and it indeed was linked to the fact I kept a sudo nautilus session opened all night long.
It actually replaced the settings file to an admin one, that the non-sudo nautilus could not read. I just re-set them so that they could be read and written on.
Sorry for the bad technical terms.

>>59252637
Just saw your post.
This would have worked, but I could also have deleted other important files.

>>59252730
>Provide objective and reasonable data to back up your claims or stop spreading your placebo, anecdotal evidence.
No one cares enough to do this.

>>59243820
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Neofetch-vs-Screenfetch

>>59252762

Because there is no difference and it's only pathetic fanboys leeching off other people's work (the software writers) to feel better about themselves (I pity the proprietary fandrones more).

>>59252757

I don't understand how that happens. I have never had any issues running graphical programs as root.
Every file created by root gets created inside of root's home directory. It doesn't touch my home directory. How does it happen to other people?

>>59252757

There are no "Important" files in there. Everything created in there should be recreated upon any gvfs activity (running a file manager that uses it).

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>>59252805
I don't know. All I can say is that the two first files of this list (home and home*) had the little padlock on it. Removing it resolved the problem. Never happened before, and I also never let a sudo session open before. I supposed correlation.

>>59252822
ok then, thanks

>>59252787
>>59252657
What are your thoughts on the encrypted-with-password-sync of Chrome? Was it 'trustable'? i.e. could we ever really know that Google weren't looking at our encrypted bookmarks/passwords?

Can I do something similar in FF? I guess there is more reason to trust Mozilla to actually encrypt my data properly and not snoop on it. But can we trust Mozilla even then?

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>>59249341
Anyone?

>update a lot of files
>suddenly getting a TPM warning on beginning (some Intel shit)
>have to turn it on in my BIOS to get rid of it
>i don't want TPM

Is anyone else experiencing something similar? I don't know why it suddenly started caring about it.

>>59252879
i honestly dont give a shit about encrypting my browsing I personally dont do anything that I would care about if it got leaked in some way

should ask someone else in that case

>>59252879

This isn't Google Chrome specific, it's just common sense.
You use proprietary software and you ask such a question. The default is "no", you "cannot trust it". Who encrypts it? With what?
Secondly, you use a proprietary browser, which theoretically means they could see every website you try to load (at least the URL, not content; I don't know much about https), yet you're not worried about that?

I just don't understand you.

>>59252910

>personally dont do anything that I would care about if it got leaked in some way
You must be lying, because I doubt people like that exist. I'm not even a sociable or normal person, yet my internet browsing data reveals so much private stuff.
People always assume it must be some illegal activity, but it's not. It's private things like having certain embarrassing illnesses or taking trips you've kept secret from some close people.

>>59253051
yea i google and look at some freaky shit but honestly i surround myself with people that would not really care or get over it real quick

would i prefer my stuff being private? sure but im not going out of my way to keep everything encrypted and secure because I dont think its worth it if it becomes a hassle to worry about

>>59252992
>Who encrypts it? With what?
You encrypt it with a password. Obviously I'm hoping Google are honest enough to actually do the encryption and not just trick me into giving up my passwords.

Its really just convenience, you get to have your passwords synced across all your devices where Chrome runs and you don't run into issues of forgetting passwords or forgetting what accounts you're signed up for.

Of course I'm worried about both things, but convenience seems to override all my concerns I guess. I just get sick of recording this stuff, when a company like Google offloads it for you then I just end up saying 'okay here you go'.

And then I get 2nd thoughts a few years later and start to wonder if it was a good idea to give them so much info about me.

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>>59251822
if anyone's wondering, i'm trying to make a more accurate windows classic theme

the ones floating around aren't very convincing

>>59241403
What a coincidence, I've been looking up for some guides as well to set it up myself and stumbled across this.

>Here comes the airplane waaaaaaaa
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Multiheaded-NVIDIA-Gaming-using-Ubuntu-14-04-KVM-585/

It is for an older version than the current 16.04, but seems fairly in depth and might work I don't know yet. Based on what I have read so far you have to check if your motherboard, CPU, and GPU support vt-d and vt-x which are required to pass the hardware itself to the Virtual Machine.

I checked and my H97-ME, GTX980, and I7 4790 support vt-x and vt-d. You might have to enable them in the bios prior because they might be disabled by default on your system.

When I did that my system fucked up and wouldn't boot sending me to grub rescue. I then found out that installing the latest bios generally solves this issue so I did just that and flashed my mobo to latest version.

Then my whole fucking system froze at the post screen for an hour despite claiming flashing operation successful. I fucking freaked out spending hours doing trial and error diagnosing the problem until only recently fixing my boot issue by removing display port using only a single DVI and tearing apart all my Peripherals including all SATA hard drives plugging nothing but a USB disk with Ubuntu on it and a keyboard then for some magical reason it posted.

And now I can FINALLY get started...FML

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Okay so I've learned Vim - but now I've become aware of a way of using VIM inside Emacs.
1. Can I use the same emacs config easily between Windows and GNU Linux?
2. This video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWD1Fpdd4Pc has a really stylish emacs setup with a line as opposed to block blinker. Is there an easy way to set my cross platform emacs up this way as a foundation?

3. Is evil mode emacs worth it? :)

>>59253296
ah my bad, you aren't doing PCIE passthrough

>>59251308

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xinit#Starting_applications_without_a_window_manager

See what you're doing wrong.

>>59253272
I really wish someone would put effort into making a theme that's _similar_ to those, but original. There's tons of "windows themes" for GNU/Linux, but very few original ones that have the same aesthetic.

and all of them only work on GTK2 I think, I haven't found a single one with that early computer graphics feel that works on GTK3

Guy who is trying to switch to FF from Chrome here.

I'm on Ubuntu 16.10, decent-ish SSD (all SSDs are decent to some degree anyway), i5, 8gb RAM, only about 30 tabs open.

And when I open a few tabs, the existing tabs get *lagged*. What in the fuck? I'm kind of sad, I spent about an hour tidying up my bookmarks and preparing to switch over, and now I find FF is still a slow fucker.

What's the point of bashing Chrome when FF is still noticeably inferior? I'm pissed off but I'm gonna give it a chance because I really want to be free. Chrome is making FF look retarded in every other way than free though.

>>59253544
>chrome
botnet, unacceptable

>>59253544
if you really must stick to chrome, at least get ungoogled chromium

>>59253544
Go to about:config and tweak it. Turn off botnet, enable speed features and you have a good browser.

These benchmarks make no sense.
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Qcow2
>The following table shows the installation times for a minimal RHEL 5.3 VM with old and new qcow2 drivers, and for comparison raw images. The installation was done with all three different cache settings. The VMs used IDE disks.

cache =                 off         writethrough    writeback
Old qcow2 (0.10.5)     16:52 min    28:58 min       6:02 min 
New qcow2 (0.11.0-rc1)  5:44 min    9:18 min        6:11 min 
raw                     5:41 min    7:24 min        6:03 min

>This is the same test as above, with IDE replaced by virtio.

cache =                 off         writeback
Old qcow2 (0.10.5)      31:09 min   8:00 min 
New qcow2 (0.11.0-rc1)  18:35 min   8:41 min 
raw                     8:48 min    7:51 min

Shouldn't virtio be much faster than IDE?
See here http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Tuning_KVM#Storage
>The default, IDE, is highly supported by guests but may be slow, especially with disk arrays. If your guest supports it, use the virtio interface

>>59254039
>Turn off botnet
Are you talking about Chrome here? I'm confused. I thought FF was not botnet.

>>59254115
FF has some bad defaults: https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

If you want a free as in freedom browser, get GNU IceCat, which is basically FF with all that crap removed.

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>>59240502
>>59240789

>>59254053
Maybe the 2 benchmarks were not made on the same systems.

>>59253451
i'd say there's more windows-ish ones than ones that really try to be pixel-perfect

>>59254251
why is 1024 a thing? what's wrong with 1000?

>>59254271
Then they are meaningless.

>>59254284
>what's wrong with 1000?
Nothing.
1000 B = 1 kB

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>>59254280
>>59253451
speaking of windows-classic-like themes that are original
this one here was my favourite XP theme, with a classic/watercolor feel to it
it'd be nice to put together a "port" of it for linux
http://b0se.deviantart.com/art/Codename-Opus-3-0-9240396

>>59254370
GNU/Linux*

>>59254284
>why is 1024 a thing
2^10

>>59254384
no
themes are neither relevant to linux nor gnu specifically
if you're going to be pedantic, it's more accurate to say "icewm/gtk" (or other wm/de/toolkit)

I can't find any disk defragmentation software on apt. Do I really need to boot into windows to defrag NTFS partitions?

>>59254280
I have no idea what you mean by this. Why can't old looking themes be pixel perfect?

It has nothing to do with perfection, it's just about that "early computer graphics feel" that I mentioned, as opposed to the modern styles which lean toward being as "flat" as possible or as shiny and slick as possible

>>59254370
Yeah this is a decent example of what I mean. Something that resembles those styles but is original.
All the old windows styles had slightly warm colors but it's hard to find themes like that. Most have cold colors or white themes (or "dark themes")
or they're overly "flat"
By the way, those title bars remind me of the "crux" window border theme in openbox. (can't seem to find a screenshot though)

>>59254445
the tools available only cover enough ntfs functionality for momentary usage
if you're using ntfs drives purely in linux permanently, you really should look into migrating to a linux-native filesystem

defragging and error checking are not available with ntfs-3g

you can sort of defrag by copying everything off, formatting, and putting everything back on, or you can defrag/chkdsk without leaving linux by attaching the disk to a virtual machine running windows

>>59254445
http://vleu.net/shake/

>>59254533
>I have no idea what you mean by this. Why can't old looking themes be pixel perfect?
what i mean is that most "looks like old themes" themes only resemble the old theme, and aren't perfectly accurate (pixel-perfect)
like the buttons don't quite line up the same, or the borders are off-color, or whatever

while what i've got in icewm is more accurate than the win95 theme that ships with it, icewm's theme engine is too limited to make it pixel-perfect (at least without modifying icewm's source code)

>>59254384
Microsoft Windows*

>which no one ever says

In a shell script is this overly awkward:

if condition; then
    cmd=(prog -opts "arguments...")
else
    cmd=(some_other_prog -otheropts "other arguments...")
fi

do_something | "${cmd[@]}"

Anyone catch my drift?

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>>59254640
Oh ok. But I don't want EITHER of those.

I neither want something that's trying to look like windows as much as possible but without being perfect, nor a perfect windows theme clone

My point is that windows doesn't have dibs on that art style.
It seems like people are either trying to avoid looking like windows at all, or they're trying to make windows theme clones.

Why can't people just make themes that encroach on the windows look territory but without trying to actually look like windows.
Pic related is probably the best example I have, it's "Raleigh" and used to be the default in GTK

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>>59254709
Almost everyone in developed countries really does know that the “Windows” system is made by Microsoft, so shortening “Microsoft Windows” to “Windows” does not mislead anyone as to that system's nature and origin. Shortening “GNU/Linux” to “Linux” does give the wrong idea of where the system comes from.

>>59254709
microsoft is a company, gnu isn't, it's the operating system

>>59254826
>shortening
Who said it was shortened? Did god come down on a cloud from heaven one day and say "henceforth all operating systems shall be named by the format primary_software_organization / kernel_name"?

Microsoft is the company and it considers its operating system to be named "Windows", not "Microsoft slash Windows" or "Microsoft plus Windows".

I like Stallman but I'm sorry, he's technically wrong on this point. There is no law or rule for how operating systems are named.
The simple fact is people don't want to fucking call it "GNU/Linux". He'd probably get a lot further in promoting GNU if he pushed for everyone to just call it the GNU operating system and cut out "Linux" entirely.
"GNU slash Linux" is just a fucking ridiculous clumsy mouthful and everyone knows it.

what are the averanges with zsh? should I switch?

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>>59254758
the one i have been using for a while now, Aurora, reminds me of codename: opus
it's got that "windows classic with a hint of xp" look, mostly grey but with hints of color and very shallow gradients

man, i'm going to have to do a codename: opus-like theme for icewm now to go with it

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>can't figure out why I can't ssh to server
>somehow turned off port 22 in ufw

>>59254946
y so mad tho senpai. Linux will always be Linux. GNU will always be GNU. GNU/Linux is the combination of both.

>>59254983
I don't understand how your post relates to mine in any way at all

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what difference is there between manjaro and arch?
am I missing something vital if I pick manjaro instead? I don't care about removing bloat, if that's the only difference

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>>59254946
>just GNU


It would not be false to the facts, but it is not the best thing to do. Here are the reasons we call that system version “GNU/Linux” rather than just “GNU”:

It's not exactly GNU—it has a different kernel (that is, Linux). Distinguishing GNU/Linux from GNU is useful.
It would be ungentlemanly to ask people to stop giving any credit to Linus Torvalds. He did write an important component of the system. We want to get credit for launching and sustaining the system's development, but this doesn't mean we should treat Linus the same way those who call the system “Linux” treat us. We strongly disagree with his political views, but we deal with that disagreement honorably and openly, rather than by trying to cut him out of the credit for his contribution to the system.
Since many people know of the system as “Linux”, if we say “GNU” they may simply not recognize we're talking about the same system. If we say “GNU/Linux”, they can make a connection to what they have heard about.

is there a way to have a nice stats readout on the login display?
I'd like something similar to the top of htop, showing cpu%, ram%, etc

>>59255019
manjaro is arch made usable

>>59254970
Not bad.

By the way, the reason I've been making these posts about themes anyway is because of GTK3. On GTK2 I had a few options (like the Raleigh one I posted)

But GTK3 has nothing that I've been able to find because it broke all its earlier themes, people have to make new ones, and they aren't making any like Raleigh, or that opus one you mentioned.
I really need someone to make something nice for GTK3

how do i know if I'm using gtk2 or gtk3

>>59255067
codename: opus is a windows xp theme (that is, FOR windows xp)

i don't really use any gtk3 programs, so i haven't looked very hard into gtk3 themes

>>59255026
Alright so what about "GNU-Linux" then? Which would just be pronounced "GNU Linux"
It's so retarded to have to verbally say "slash" or "plus"

I really don't think it's as trivial as just who gets credit. If this is such an important issue for Stallman then he really should have put more thought into his gameplan, because honestly I can tell you he is NEVER going to win on this point solely for the reason that people just don't want to say it that way. Period.

I'm sure a smart guy like him could come up with a better way no? It's like he doesn't actually want to win.

>>59255135
Linux isn't a GNU project like GNU wget, etc
it would just mislead people thinking Linux is part of GNU

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>>59255135
To care only about what's convenient or who's winning is an amoral approach to life. Non-free software is an example of that amoral approach and thrives on it. Thus, in the long run it would be self-defeating for us to adopt that approach. We will continue talking in terms of right and wrong.

We hope that you are one of those for whom right and wrong do matter.

>>59255135
i don't pronounce the slash in "gnu/linux" (not that i have ever been in a situation in real life to say it)
as >>59255167 mentioned, it's to not confuse it as a GNU project
if you don't like "slash" or "plus", what about "gnu and linux" or "gnu with linux"?
moreover, if you're the kind to avoid just "linux", why not just call it "gnu"?

>>59255167
>>59255222
People don't want to do it that way, and they never will.
It's honestly as simple as this:
They want one nice, simple, small, easy to roll off the tongue, name for the entire package.

That's it. They might acknowledge that it is technically "GNU/Linux" and even be willing to write it that way in technical documents or whatever. But in casual conversation "GNU slash Linux" is simply retarded and will never catch on.
It's that simple.

There is no official rules for how to name something. Its makeup, or who gets credit is irrelevant, we could could call it "poopOS" and nobody would give a fuck (in fact people would probably greatly prefer that over "GNU slash Linux")

I mean, he could try to come up with something else then like "GNUX" or something if he wants both to be a part of the name so bad. GNUX actually is something that could actually catch on and would give them both credit.
"GNU slash Linux" is simply a failure.

>>59255115
it's a per-program thing
gtk2 and gtk3 are libraries, which is in use depends on which library the program is written for and uses

for example;

% ldd $(which vsedit) | grep -E '(libgtk|libQt)'  :(
    libQt5Widgets.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 (0x00007f1aaa08d000)
    libQt5Gui.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5 (0x00007f1aa994d000)
    libQt5Core.so.5 => /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 (0x00007f1aa926d000
ldd $(which spacefm) | grep -E '(libgtk|libQt)'
    libgtk-3.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-3.so.0 (0x00007fc133d55000)
% ldd $(which lxappearance) | grep -E '(libgtk|libQt)'
    libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x00007fe2e7e1d000)

a qt5, gtk3 and gtk2 program, respectively

>>59248114
What's wrong with i3blocks? It's very configurable. Polybar is also decent.

Am i actually going to have to build icecat from source to use it on arch? baka arch devs not freetard enough

>>59256364
no, there's an icecat-bin package available on the AUR

>>59256364
>baka arch devs

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>>59254826
>>59254946
>>59255026
>>59255135
>>59255222
>>59255339
I cannot breathe

>>59256364
Of course you have to compile it your self,so you can check the source and make sure it is acceptable to your freetards needs

I installed OpenSUSE on a laptop I had laying around about a year ago and decided to boot it up and play with it today

I installed it from a USB

now, when I try to access the package manager or whatever, it says "installation media not available"

what do I do about this? How do I fix my installation so the media is available on the laptop and it doesn't constantly look for the USB?

>>59256432
I'm getting good at this, anon.
It only took me about 8 words this time.

>It's another episode of Linus BTFOing pulseaudio hater
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/12/23/75

>>59257050
i've seen this befo--
>2012
yep

>>59257050
Does Linus post on 4chan?

>>59257144
he's a google+ tard

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>>59254758
>>59254370

Why not this?

http://b00merang.weebly.com/windows-whistler.html

Check out these as well:
http://b00merang.weebly.com/redmond-collection.html

I also remember seeing a perfect Windows 10 GTK2/3 theme. Gonna see if I can find it again.

Is Lubuntu stable?
I installed Ubuntu on my PC and it ran like shit so I went back to Windows. I hear Lubuntu is very lightweight so I want to give it a try.

>>59257296
i thought whistler looked cool at the time, but codename: opus is better

>I also remember seeing a perfect Windows 10 GTK2/3 theme. Gonna see if I can find it again.
not a fan of the win8+ look at all

>>59257296
Why would I want to use a "windows" theme on my GNU/Linux?
I want GNU/Linux original themes

>>59257395
this

black terminal, green fonts master race

>>59257467
No, see this is what I don't get. Is everyone so retarded that they can't conceive of two operating systems having similar themes but not being exact copies?

Why can't I have nice comfy warm colored simple GUI's with slightly beveled (but not glossy) buttons without it being a fucking "windows theme"?
I don't get it.

>>59257395

I wouldn't, but people have different tastes.
I prefer my themes to be as bland, neutral and greyish as possible.
Too bad that there aren't any such themes which are being actively updated (for GTK3 changes and for minor fixes). The closest Iv'e come was Zukitre.

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This theme seems to be an almost perfect copy of the Windows 10 theme. Looking at it makes me realize how ugly Windows 10 is.

guys I installed Gentoo on my Asus laptop and I can't seem to make my touchpad work. I tried both synaptics and libinput. What do?

How do I configure pkexec to work like sudo/su/su -c? If a run a script with all of these i get expected results but pkexec gives

Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
pulseaudio: pa_context_connect() failed
pulseaudio: Reason: Connection refused
pulseaudio: Failed to initialize PA contextaudio: Could not init `pa' audio driver
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
alsa: Could not initialize DAC
alsa: Failed to open `default':
alsa: Reason: Device or resource busy
ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1052:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave
alsa: Could not initialize DAC
alsa: Failed to open `default':
alsa: Reason: Device or resource busy
audio: Failed to create voice `dac'
gtk initialization failed

And I don't feel like going anywhere near pulseaudio to fix this.

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any JACK users? I'm trying to figure out how far I can push it without xruns & stops. Is there any science to this or do you just have to spend time guessing and checking? I was running a 88k sample rate and 256 buffer rate which would work fine until JACK entered a long xrun and autostopped. I've moved to 44k/512 but it kind of sucks to be here for the quality and 33ms delay. I'm on a thinkpad t450 w/ i5-4300u @ 1.9ghz

>>59256761
please answer this

should I just reinstall opensuse using network installation

actually yeah I'll just do that

How do I set up my fingerprint reader on my thinpad to unlock my computer when I wake it up from sleep?

right now it prompts me for my password every time

I've read "What distro should I choose" but still don't know what to do. I've used linux a little bit and know some basic commands. As a developer I want relatively new packages but as a linux beginner I want to have a stable system too. After some reading it seems to me that the choice comes down to two options:
>Debian Testing
>Ubuntu

Can a noob handle Debian Testing?

>>59258887
only if he's not afraid of invoking the package manager from the command line

>>59258981
I come from Windows but don't mind learning to rely on command line. I'll take it as a yes.

>>59258887
Debian testing is better. Very easy to use.

>>59258887
Not even meming, install arch

>>59259074
ebin meme

sum up systemd controversy in one sentence

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>>59254970
so i'm doing codename: opus now
anyone know if it's possible to have window buttons have a transparent background in icewm?
i got away with a solid color with the previous one

How do i make a script that will download all images from a 4chan page

>>59259456
SystemD is a good Linux distro.

>>59259654
GNU/Linux*

>>59259630

wget -e robots=off -rHDi.4cdn.org -nc -nd -nv -ERs.jpg,html <thread-url>

>>59259630
4chan has an api

>>59259853
this will grab ads, but yea

>>59259880
>this will grab ads
No?

>>59259943
why not?

and it wont grab gifs or webms or pngs

>>59259853
would this work better

https://github.com/Exceen/4chan-downloader/blob/master/inb4404.py

>>59260006
>and it wont grab gifs or webms or pngs
But it does? Did you even try it?

>>59260011
>using regex instead of json module
literally why

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49KB, 613x511px

>>59259458
nvm, found another pixmap filename for the button background

>>59260028
should i use it or is it malware

i don't know anything about programming

>>59260006
I guess you mean the "-ERs.jpg,htm" part, but it doesn't do what you think. -R rejects things (here thumbnails and the thread's html file).

>>59259853
Downloaded: 102 files, 282M in 48s (5.84 MB/s)

It worked thank you. what is the best way to do it overall though?

Why is there so many options, wget, bash, python, ruby? what is best

>>59260133
The best way is using the api (so future 4chan changes woun't break your script) and a json parser in whatever language you want.

>>59260159
how can i learn to do these things

another person i saw posted script to convert all images to another fileformat how can i do that kind of stuff

>>59260200
>another person i saw posted script to convert all images to another fileformat how can i do that kind of stuff
ImageMagicks convert(1) can do this.

convert file_a.png file_b.jpg

convert has lots of effects, read the manpage or better the online documentation.

>>59260239
Yes I understand for that specifically but i always used windows before and i never even had an idea that you can make scripts to automate so much things in gnu/linux

Where can i learn about all the different things i make easier or automate?

>>59260283
Pick a scripting language like bash or python. Learn it and you'll start seeing its potential applications.

>>59260283
https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

>>59260319
>>59260325
okay thank you

Seems very useful

>>59240965
Why so much hate for the Nazi Party? They're fixing Germany, and making a new and better world.

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>>59260489
>they're fixing

WERE, anon. They WERE fixing Germany and the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBN-tARHNts

They had such good music videos...

>>59241061
I like me some dwm on dual 1440p screens setup

>>59244001
Ginger or Mary Ann?

>>59259630

#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -gt 0 ]; then
  if echo -n "$1" | grep '^[0-9]\+$' > /dev/null 2>&1; then
    thread="http://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/$1"
  else
    thread="$1"
  fi

  tmpfile="$(mktemp)"
  curl -sqRJLgkC - "$thread" > "$tmpfile"
  sed -i 's/</\n&/g' "$tmpfile"
  grep '<a class="fileThumb" href=".*"' "$tmpfile" | sed 's/<a class="fileThumb" href="//g;s/".\+//g' > "${tmpfile}.new"
  mv "${tmpfile}.new" "$tmpfile"
  while read img; do
    trap 'rm -f '"$tmpfile"'; exit' SIGHUP SIGINT SIGTERM
    curl -OqRJLgkC - "$img"
  done <<< "$(sed 's/.*/http:&/' "$tmpfile")"

  rm -f "$tmpfile"
fi

Save and give it execute permission (chmod +x).
Usage:

$ prog_name h*tp://boards.4chan.org/g/thread/59240903

or:

$ prog_name 59240903

I thought I would give Konqueror a fair shot, but Jesus Christ it's slow. Does anyone even use it?

>>59245712
After 7/8 years of moving back and forth from Gentoo/OpenBSD/Fedora I've settled down with Fedora since 19, though KDE Neon keeps catching my eye

>>59259074
NO.

Try Antergos for a while, which is almost Arch.
Then if you like it, later you can super easy switch to Arch.

>>59259456
Systemd is Redhat desperately trying to be the new
Microsoft - embrace, extend, extinguish.

>>59260939
NO.

Try Slackware for a while, which is almost LFS.
Then if you like it, later you can super easy switch to LFS.

>>59260987
NO.

Systemd is GNU/Linux distribution.

what is wrong with systemd?

what is wrong with OpenRC?

if I use systemd, am I a bad person?

what are my treatment options?

what's a distro people woun't bully me for using it?

>>59241666
Sauce for wallpaper?

>>59261554
>>59261606
>>59261636
>>59261671
kek

>>59261694
Source Mag or Gentoo

What is the best distro for National Socialists?

is it Arch?

>>59261748
do you even reverse image search

>>59262000
alpine

>>59262000
apartheid linux

New thread: >>59262020
New thread: >>59262020
New thread: >>59262020

>>59262000
Hitler Linux http://properfucked.net/hitlerlinux.html

>>59262028
>>59262048
GNU/Linux*

>>59262000
Arch self-proclaims they're about raw functionality over ideology.

>>59262115
source?

>>59262115
They just say that so that butthurt leftists don't get mad.

They are quite clearly Nationalists and hard right for the most part.

>>59262136
source?

>>59262122
On the wiki, under the description of Arch and the FAQs.
>Arch is a pragmatic distribution rather than an ideological one.
>The large number of packages and build scripts in the various Arch Linux repositories offer free and open source software for those who prefer it, as well as proprietary software packages for those who embrace functionality over ideology.
Essentially they're stating that they're not Debian and have no particular goals in mind besides allowing the user to do what they need. Whether you believe them or not is up to you.

>>59262167
I overheard it somewhere

>>59262136
Arch is mostly right-wing but non-inclusive, more like survivalists than nationalists. Every user is expected to be a developer and vice-versa, if you have nothing to contribute you can fuck off. That attitude is pretty uncommon in politics, as the goal of politics is usually to appeal to as many people as possible.

>>59262331
I like arch

>>59243118
Lincucks on suicide watch

>>59243118
>>59262393
DELET THIS

Hi All -

I have a folder with a series of sub-folders containing *.tgz files. Kind of like the poorly illustrated example below.

Parent/childa / childa.tgz
Parent/childb /childb.tgz

I need to recursively unpack the tgz files into another directory.

If I were doing it for one file I would run

tar xvfz xxxx.tgz -C /otherdirectory

I know I need to run a find -name "*.tgz" and -exec ?

I'm just a bit lost getting it to work without error.

>>59262738
find's -exec syntax is pretty similar to xargs but with a \; included, iirc. I usually have to man/trial & error a few times to make it go myself.

What's a font that look like Lemon, but doesn't give you eye cancer at any size larger than 9?