/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>>59379628
First for Slackware.

I am tired of the Arch/Arch-based distro meme. I mean, I love AUR and wiki, but fk me if Arch isn't stupid for those using a low-bandwidth connection. Moving on to Fedora/*ubuntu or will be trying OpenSUSE.

Hi,
I installed Ubuntu on my SSD alongside Windows, and I have another HDD for personal files and stuff which is in NTFS format

Is there a way to automatically mount the HDD when I boot into Ubuntu so that programs like qbittorrent that rely on the files on the HDD don't require me to enter the path to individual files every time I restart/mount the drive anew?

>>59379701
/etc/fstab?

>>59379701
make an entry in your fstab

>>59379701
>>59379733
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NTFS-3G#Configuring

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Which distro should I run? I'm on arch right now but I want to switch away for systemd related purposes. I have tried to install void linux in a virtual machine, but it seems to me like this OS isn't really finished yet, I've been getting a lot of crashes and it doesn't have all the packages I want.

I've also been looking at freeBSD, but I'm worried about program support since it is more obscure than Loonix™.

My requirements basically are: firefox, urxvt, LaTeX, vim, and ghc. These are the only programs I use (on a regular basis), but I've found Arch to be nice when I need something more obscure.

What do you people currently run and/or recommend?

>>59379846
Source Mage

>>59379725
>>59379733
>>59379766
Thanks guys, will look into this

>>59378551
>>59378937
>>59379304
fixed it

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=219585

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>this general is 99% "wot distro do i use guise? XDDD"

is it a good idea to run

mkinitcpio

after updating on arch?

>>59379628
I installed fresh Xubuntu and it is downloading something can someone tell me what is it ?

It stopped now

>>59380036
things that affect the initcpio should run that on their own, such as updating linux
but there's no harm in running that whenever

How do I write a live iso to a 4GB sd card with space left on the sdcard?

>>59379628
Is the thinkpad X60 tablet libreboot compatible?

>>59380124
if it's a disk image, write it, then making an additional partition in the free space

>>59379846
Depends on what u wanna do
haxor pro? tails
4chan? gentoo
normie? arch linux
hotel? trivago

>>59380139
do I write it with "dd if=.iso of=/dev/sdb" ?

>>59380165
yea, also consider "bs=1M" as well, the default of 512b is only suitable for older hdd's

>>59380124
have u looked into https://www.pendrivelinux.com/yumi-multiboot-usb-creator/?
its made for multiboot but you could probs do what u want aswell
if u want to use gentoo just leave extra space after partitioning it. if you are installing another distro, just do custom partitions and leave space free (unpartitioned)

Linux is a meme.

You're all idiots.

>>59380188
it will make iso to be written faster, am I right?

>>59380215
yea

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I dont get it. What size am I supposed to choose? My sdcard has 4GB and written iso is 1.7gb. Why does it show me 3.6GB free space?

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>>59380299
uh wrong picture

>>59380195
You mean your life?

>>59379927

You mean

>50% what distro do i use for this very specific use case (i am too retarded to realize there are only a handful of distributions to use and they all can cover every use case)
>30% bikeshedding naming discussions so they can feel falsely intelligent
>10% general questions
>10% troubleshooting help

The latter 2 are the only acceptable and they're clearly the minority of content.

>>59380036

If you edit the options for your initramfs then you have to run it.

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Is there a way to get rid of this one-pixel wide line between the launcher and the maximized app?

fglt more like FAGLET hahah

==> ERROR: One or more PGP signatures could not be verified!
==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build libc++.
==> Restart building libc++ ? [y/N]
==> -------------------------------
==> 

I want to play games using wine, what should I install using winetricks?

>>59380826
Depends on the game. Different games have different requirements. Check on winedb for compatibility, there are often also hints about what each game needs.
For a "semi-unviersal" prefix, native Direct3D9 dlls, .Net Framework and a bunch of vcruns rarely hurt in my experience, though, and a ton of games require some of those. Occasionally I needed quartz for video, xinput or dinput.
But remember that sometimes things are actually more buggy when you install a bunch of dll overrides, and sometimes you're really better off just creating a new prefix and dropping only what's needed into it.

>>59379678
What the difference?

>>59379846
Gentoo GNU/Linux nomultilib.

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>recently heard Wine Staging kinda supports D3D11 nowadays
>decide to try it out on Nights of Azure
>need .Net Framework 4.0 or better to load it
>also need 64-bit prefix, since the game doesn't support 32-bit
>wine apparently just so happens to not support installing .Net or Mono on 64-bit prefix at all
Well, fuck.
Spent like a day trying to work around it with trivial registry editing and installing DLLs in different order, and the only thing I got is a slightly different crash window.
Does anybody know if there is something I am missing?

https://hackernoon.com/usr-bin-time-not-the-command-you-think-you-know-34ac03e55cc3#.lnhtib52r
How does this shit werks on linux?

>>59381012
Try linux version of game.

>>59379678
>debian

also, stop name fagging

>>59380148
kek

>>59380943
+1 for the appdb

also, use wineprefixes. it sounds like you're installing everything into one wine folder from your post. it's much better to keep applications seperate

>>59381072
time -p call binary /usr/bin/time
just time calls time which is built-in bash function, there is no such function in dash or busybox, so you need binary.

>>59381072
/usr/bin/time gives yo uthe command,

time runs as a wrapper on another command and can tell the time it takes to execute and stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13807864

>>59381012
Playonlinux or the closed version may help you.

>>59381077
It's a japanese garbage, so no linux or mac version.

Does Honey Select work on wine?

>>59381077
There isn't one.
I'm honestly just perplexed that, in the end, I was defeated not by Direct3D 11 in Wine being too shit to use, but by the fact the game was 64-bit and required .Net at the same time. This is kinda ridiculous.
I guess not that many games require both of these at the same time.
>>59381126
They barely managed to give enough attention to port it to Windows. Until the patch the game was actually busy waiting for everything.

>>59381133
>[Return] [Catalog] [Top] 45 / 6 / 20 / 1 [Upda
duckduckgo it.

>>59381109
What is the benefit to that? Most games work fine with a "all-purpose" prefix, and when they don't, I make a new one and reinstall there.
Making a new one for every application seems both a waste of space and a waste of typing.

>>59381126
playonlinux is just a wine frontend/prefix manager
it has absolutely no compatibility difference from using wine directly

the proprietary codeweavers software on the other hand, it's different, but i don't know too much about it

>>59381148
.net is often only used for launchers, not the game itself
bet they slapped together a configuration thing for the windows release to handle input edits and setting basic things like resolution which the console release didn't need/have, seen it a few times before

>>59381212
They did slap together one, but the thing is, the launcher actually works mostly fine with configuration and everything.
The problems begin either when I start the game from the launcher or when I start the game manually from executable. That is, at the very worst exception isn't happening in the launcher itself. Though maybe they are using .Net to get what you configured in it, or something.

I'm in love with Crux.

>>59381406
I'm happy for you, anon

>>59381170
i like it mostly as it keeps everything clean and avoids conflicts. if you install something that conflicts via winetricks it can be hard to remedy/uninstall, meaning you having to reinstall the whole prefix and applications

from https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks#How_to_remove_things_installed_by_Winetricks

Winetricks does not provide a way to uninstall individual apps or DLLs inside a Wine prefix. This is for several reasons, but mainly because the preferred way to uninstall anything in Wine is to simply install into a fresh Wine prefix. (Yes, it would be nice to have uninstallers for everything, but I don't need it myself. Patches welcome.)

>>59379628

I don't know if this should go here or in the stupid question threads.
I'm gonna move out to another city and I won't have internet for a couple of weeks. Up until now my home networking was based on the modem/router my ISP gave me.
I mostly just share files with samba through wifi to to my laptop and phone.
I won't have internet for a couple of weeks, so I'm thinking about buying a router to get my home network up, I don't know much about networking, hence the question, is there anything I should avoid or does every router works fine under Gnu/Linux?

>>59379846
what about arch with openrc?

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I've acquired a bunch of PDFs/epubs, and I'd like to print it to A6 paper.
There's a printing service that's willing to do that, but I need to provide it as book format in A4 paper.
Like this

 ___________              ___________
|           |            |           |
| 99     1  | other side |  2     98 |
|___________|            |___________|
then
 ___________
|           |
| 97     3  | ... and so on
|___________|

What do I use to produce something like this under linux? I thought poppler might have something useful but it didn't have anything at all.

How good of a career is cybersecurity/penetration testing? I want to get paid to break computer networks.

anybody ever had a problem with arecord generating massive amounts of cpu usage

i dont even know why, but it's related to which browser i'm using

>>59379846

Systemd doesn't influence any of those requirements.
Chances are you don't even know what systemd is or what it does, but you just want to be edgy and cool for having a bold opinion about something tech related. It's not even your opinion, you picked it up from other people.

Kill yourself you pretentious retard.

Are there any tradeoffs when switching from Ubuntu Unity to Ubuntu with a different desktop environment like Gnome/KDE/MATE etc. ()other than the DE itself obviously)?

>>59383046

No.

What's a free software solution for instant messaging between a Linux distribution and an IPhone?

>>59383046
In linux the GUI is separated from the OS. So no. You dont even need a GUI.

Unlike windows, (an error in the GUI takes down the OS with it.)

>>59383046
Yes, different DE have different tools.
For example KDE have the best wacom configuration tool.

Everyone praise me, I just managed ot downgrade my debian install successfully from stretch to Jessie.

>>59383102
email

>>59383120
>>59383065
>>59383123
When I compare packages of Ubuntu variants on DistroWatch they seem to differ a bit - like Xubuntu doesn't seem to have Postgresql and qt. What gives?

Honestly, I only want to have something that will work with the CUDA drivers. If DE has no influence on that then I'll probably go with Xubuntu.

>>59383149

I would love to use email, but my provider doesn't offer free ways to access it other than the web interface and it's sluggish as fuck. I don't want to change to a different provider because this one has neat @mail.com addresses.

>>59383172

Stop trusting Distrowatch and random websites.
Xubuntu is Ubuntu with Xfce preinstalled. That's it. It uses the Ubuntu repositories. To find out which packages it has, go to the Ubuntu package website and search for it.

>>59383172
>Xubuntu doesn't seem to have Postgresql and qt

Maybe it doesn't have them preinstalled. You can install them later.

>>59383200
T O X
O
X

>>59383285
kek
is still alive?

What's a good tool for splitting .flac files of entire albums into separate track .flac files? I do have .cue files too, of course.
I'm using Ubuntu and would prefer something with GUI.

Is Flacon my best choice or would you recommend anything else?

>>59383353

I was in the same situation. Couldn't find anything, so I wrote a shitty Bash script with my very limited Bash knowledge.
Basically it can split tracks using shntool and then convert them to mp3. I'd post it, but it's not useful for you because it always converts to mp3.

tl;dr: look into shntool. it's CLI, but figure it out once and then just create a shell function/alias to split everything you download.

>>59383431
Yeah I'm aware of shntool
> http://www.webupd8.org/2009/04/split-ape-and-flac-files-in-ubuntu-and.html
Just wondering what's a good one with GUI

>>59383149
Impressive anon, tell us more

>>59383494

Try Flacon then.
Honestly, I don't understand your desire for a GUI if it's just for you. It's way more tedious than navigating to the download and typing one command.

Hi, I'm a complete Linux newfriend. These days I got a nostalgia rush and decided to play a [spoiler]MapleStory[/spoiler] private server. The shit won't fucking run on w10. I've tried every suggestion from the shitdevs, virtual machines won't function correctly for some reason, so I decided I might as well go for it and try it on Linux. Managed to install Linux mint correctly, and it runs oracle VM fine, only now the private server won't run on XP sp3, might have to try w7. But I would much rather run it through wine. I tried to do it with this guide: https://mapleroyals.com/forum/threads/how-to-play-mapleroyals-in-linux-using-wine.22254/

Even though it's for a different private server. But it didn't even execute. The one I'm trying to run is playrien.com
I could simply install a w7 partition, but having 2 windows partitions is just silly, and I like >w10

Any help is greatly, greatly appreciated.

>>59383553
It took me five hours.

And a lot of aptitude search.

>>59383559
Well, it wouldn't hurt if there was a tool which could not just add tags to files (which shntool can) but also rename the files to Song Name.flac using the .cue or the tags.
shntool can't do that.

Perhaps there is anything similar to mp3tag
> http://www.mp3tag.de/en/index.html
for linux?

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What's wrong with freetard community?

>>59383759

Puddletag.

When I tried Ubuntu using a 8 gb USB, it screwed up most of it. When I tried reformatting it to use it normally, it only showed up as 1 GB. Is this normal? Since I was considering getting an SD card for linux but not sure whether it will hold up due the the constant read/write requests.

Thanks

>>59383855
>it only showed up as 1 GB
on windows or linux?

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>>59379628
RARE STALLMAN

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>>59383905
did oyu know that rms is an actor?

>>59383877
Windows
On linux it was normal
When I wanted to use the USB like a USB again and need to re format it, it showed and still shows 1 gb

>>59383962
you probably have multiple partitions on the usb now and since windows is fucking retarded it only reads the first partition. you probably didnt reformat it properly.
On windows youll have to use diskpart to reformat a bootable usb drive.

>>59383832
Fantastic, thanks!

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>>59379846
He fell for the systemd memes.

I know you guys hate this question but Debian GNOME or Ubuntu GNOME : which will be more suitable for ricing.

>>59384169

You're an idiot.
It's the same environment and it has the same options and features, idiot. Stop falling for idiotic claims and do your own research which only requires common sense.

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Can someone help me with this?
Opensuse tumbleweed
Didn't update it for a long time

Used zypper dup to update
Then when I reset the system I got this error and can't connect to the wifi anymore
I've tried resetting a few times but this appears every time
Also when I try to use zypper refresh or up I get an error

I'm thinking I might just wipe and reinstall the OS from the old copy I have on USB

>>59384169
>gnome

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How can I match some regex even if there is a new line inside it with grep? I’m using POSIX-extended regular expressions (the -E flag), and I want to match, for example this:

# I want this to match everything between < and >:
printf '<start blah\nblah end>\n' | grep -E '<.*>'

Another question about extended-regex:
How do I get the shortest possible match?, like here:

# Here, I want to match the string '< 2 >', and not '< 2 > 1 >':
printf '< 2 > 1 >\n' | egrep -E '<.+>'
# matches the whole string ('< 2 > 1 >')

# I found a workaround for this, but is there a better solution than this:
printf '< 2 > 1 >\n' | egrep -E '<[^>]*>'
# matches only  '< 2 >'

>>59384317
Just to note the error is
unable to create io-slave klauncher said error loading '/usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/kf5/kio/desktop.so

I can't find any help online, and I still do t know how to get wifi to possibly try updating packages

>>59385289
It's definitely an issue with with KDE but I have no idea how to repair it without internet

Parabola GNU/Linux-Libre will never support AMDGPU-PRO drivers but only the AMDGPU open source stack, right?

Why does

Alt+F2 r

in GNOME refresh GNOME, but when I try doing that in a terminal, it doesn't work?

>>59385484

clear && reset

Does anybody here use the Adobe Creative Suite in a VM on Linux? I want to make the switch to Linux full time but Photoshop/Lightroom/Premiere is the only thing that's holding me back.

The CIA is stalking me and the Linux kernel is under threat, take care.

>>59385727
Shoulda stuck to the Temple

>>59386010
Terry uses Linux to make templeOS. If Linux falls, the temple falls. The CIA knows this and have been trying to silence me.

>>59386037
What's the story of TempleOS?
Why does Terry dedicate his life to developing an OS that very few people (if at all) are ever going to use?

>>59386464

Most of us dedicate our lives to creating no OS that no one is going to use.

Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS is a stepping stone.

>>59380148
Made me spit my tea out, kek

>>59383046
You don't get the Apparmor profiles preconfigured

>>59379628
whats the most lightweight video editor on linux? I want the Gvim of editors

>>59384317
Pls help
I fear for my SSD
I've installed so many new OS
Plus I don't want to have to get everything working again

>>59379678
Opensuse is great and has rolling release
I used arch and variants for a while but never really liked them
I did want a rolling or at least semi rolling release though

>>59384317
restore from backup

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>He's against justice because he doesn't want his loli or illegal porn found
Every time, every lincuck or encryptard I've seen who is against the NSA or FBI has something to hide. Nothing to hide so nothing to fear.

>>59388510
I don't have a backup
That's why I'm thinking I'll just re-install the OS
I only installed this a few days ago because I was having issues and just about to head on vacation so I quickly installed an old Opensuse copy from the last time I used it months ago

There's nothing vital on my computer right now that isn't already backed up on my flash drive

>>59388751
wow you must be a l33t haxx0r to break into the harddrives of everyone who has ever said that to you in order to verify that they in fact have something to hide.
I'm genuinely impressed.

>>59385146

printf '<start blah\nblah end>\n' | tr '\n' '\a' | grep -Po '(?<=<).*(?=>)' | tr '\a' '\n'
start blah
blah end

>>59388751
If you have nothing to hide, post your passwords.

We really have to get rid of the Stallman sticky and replace him with Terry

>>59379846
Void has all of those.
But use Manjaro with OpenRC or install OpenRC on Arch yourself.
>>59382974
>>59384142
CIA shills.

>>59379628
Question for enthusiasts, would it be possible to use MinGW to build apt-get for Windows, and then use the resulting apt-get to build other GNU packages for Windows on the fly? My ultimate goal is to convert my Windows into a "GNU/NT" system so I can run high performance Windows programs and mediocre performance GNU programs on the same computer without dual booting or using Wine.

>>59389611
(cont) And yes I do know about WSL. It can only do CLI programs. That's lame.

>>59389611
>>59389622
get rid of windows

why do people hate systemd?

using intel open source drivers
do I want lib32-libglvnd or lib32-mesa-libgl?

arch is just a stepping stone

>>59391194
towards?

>>59391520
Suicide

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http://www.fsf.org/news/three-devices-from-vikings-gmbh-now-fsf-certified-to-respect-your-freedom

Are these so called "better greps" ack, ag, etc worth it?

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>>59391785
Neat. Also anyone have more of this character?

So... in 2020 everyone should be using Linux?

>>59392176
Everyone is using the kernel already. It's used in most internet servers, embedded devices, phones and desktops.

>>59392399
Well, seems like the GNU plus Linux is not so meme.. Eh, anyways, should everyone use a distro on their computers in 2020 or not?

>>59392176
The problem/benefit of using GNU/Linux is that you can't measure the actual market share, since there's no botnet that woul gather that info.

Is there a good netbook I should use with linux or should I just buy a thinkpad x200, libreboot it and be happy? o

>>59392421
Normies usually don't bother changing the default OS, so it depends on the OS that is shipped by default when you buy a device.

>>59392176
I guess, after Snowden and Vault 7, any intelligent person should already use it.

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>>59392155
Just this pape.

So I got AMDGPU set up for my gentoo installation, and enabled tearfree, but now programs get locked to weird refresh rates (tried retroarch and glxgears), around 43-55hz usually. Even when I try to disable tearfree this still happens (I was getting 500fps in glxgears beforehand). What should I do?

>>59392970
install gentoo

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>>59379628
Hey /fglt/! I don't have much to add, I just didn't want to start my own thread.

I'm really thankful for GNU/Linux. It's a hobby where I can continuously learn without sinking much money into (only hardware and the occasional book), I don't need to hoard physical items/belongings, and it was the main path to achieving a well paying job for me. It's my hobby and my livelihood.

I have other hobbies, but I wouldn't be able to afford them without GNU/Linux, nor would many of them be as fulfilling. So thanks to everyone out there who participates, both users and developers.

Have an awesome night /g/, I'm off to bed.

>>59393029
>llvm
enemy of freedom

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>>59393057
Sorry anon.

Is linux free?

>>59393656
As in free beer, and most of the time as in free speech.

>>59393656
Contrary to popular belief, the Linux kernel from kernel.org is not free software. It not only recommends non-free software but also actually contains it (i.e., software that does not respect your essential freedoms).

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I can't be the first to struggle with this. I followed a YouTube gentoo installation guide step-by-step, had this problem. I then followed the handbook step-by-step, same problem.
If anyone here has had this happen before, how did you fix it? or any tips regardless of experience is also appreciated.
I'm guessing I need to update the fstab file, and/or install grub 2 to another directory or partition.
inb4: yet again, I followed the handbook step-by-step.

>>59393692
>not using linux-libre

>>59393692
Debian does not have this problem.

>>59393676
>>59393692
>>59393725
>>59393738
It's not free? :(

>>59393717
>current year
>using a boot loader
found your problem

Alright fellas i'm looking to sell an old laptop from 2004ish which i've fixed up but what kind of linux distro should i put on it? I saw some guy on ebay selling the same model a while back but i forgot which distro he used... I basically just need something lightweight and normalwage-friendly which gets basic office work done or whatever the fuck people purchase these oldass laptops for these days

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>>59393832
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

>>59393832
install Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>59393832
install gentoo, not even memeing

>>59393862
Isn't there a distro that looks like windows or something? Basically the guy i mentioned earlier installed one which had this light-colored blue background and the task bar was in this greyish color and it had a window open where it shows you the system specs in a compact format, also i think there was a cogwheel right next to the start symbol in the taskbar iirc

>>59379628
Hey guys.
So I'm trying to dual boot Windows 8.1 alongside Mint 18.1
>I have a 500gb SSD which muh games and other 'windows only' programs are on.
I could probably get it working on Linux but it might be a lot of work
>The other one is a generic 1 tb hard drive with basically nothing on it. Maybe 40 gb taken up by something I forget

>The question
I'm currently at the partitioning stage of the installation. My SSD apparently is taken up save for 9 gb that aren't ntfs. I have no idea why.

My Hard drive is apparently all taken up by ntfs but is also free space, I don't know.

I'm basically going to put the / on my ssd, and home, tmp, swap and var on my hdd. I can't create any new tables though because apparently it will overwrite what's already there, meaning my perfectly working Fallout New Vegas will get deleted I guess.

This is a friendly thread but I'll say it for you anyways, I'm a dumbass. please respond

hey guys, I want to follow your recommendations and install gentoo

where to start?

>>59393927
I mean I guess I could just go the whole stretch and get rid of Windows entirely, which I'd love to do. But I need my CD ripping stuff and games.

I've heard WINE is trash but is that just a meme? From the little digging I've done it looks alright. Making the full switch would be nice because Linux does 99% of desktop work that I want.

>>59393962
Step 1: Tell mom you're busy for a week.
Step 2: Read https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page
Step 3: install gentoo

>>59393962
it's a meme you dip

>>59393971
Depends on what games. Look at the WINE APPDB it's a big database of people's experiences running things in wine.

It's really all over the map, there's no single answer to your question.
There are even some cases of applications actually running faster on linux with wine than they do on native windows, and there's also tons of cases where applications simply don't work at all or work with very poor performance. Sometimes even very old applications are impossible to get working in wine

Linux still isn't ready to be a platform gamers can just blindly move to. If you have gaming needs you should really do some research on how those specific games will run on linux before you make the switch.
and if you're a "gamer" who loves to try out different games all the time (especially if they're modern games) then you'd probably have an unpleasant/frustrating experience switching to Linux as there's going to be something you'll want to play that you simply can't. Or at very poor performance in wine or something.

But you don't have to switch to support Linux anyway. Let developers know you like Linux and want to see them support it more.

>>59394236
Linux is the name of the kernel that Linus Torvalds developed starting in 1991. The operating system in which Linux is used is basically GNU with Linux added. To call the whole system "Linux" is both unfair and confusing. Please call the complete system GNU/Linux, both to give the GNU Project credit and to distinguish the whole system from the kernel alone.

I'm in need of serious help, after installing arch Linux on my windows 10 system using arch everywhere, I now have no option to boot to Windows from boot device order. I installed OS prober during the install process and used grub. I also used the EFI partition as my Linux boot partition.

>>59394343
wipe windows

>>59394343
Remove Windows 10.

>>59394343
delete the windows partition and move on with your life
windows it literally malware, the OS

Is there a way too lock my windows for certain times of the day? I have a really nasty internet addiction and was thinking about running a dual boot setup with linux for work (no games, easier to restrict) and a windows op which I can't always accses.

>>59394343
stick to window you're not worthy

>>59393971
Wine is pretty good these days.

Fedora is better then Arch.

You literally can't prove me wrong.

>>59394876
Fedora is for Ubuntu users who think they are special snowflakes.

>>59394916
Arch is for neets who think they're special snowflakes for looking up how to Mount their USB disquette with commands in the wiki.

What distro should I use? I want newer packages than debian, and something that's not based on Ubuntu.

>>59394973
>I want newer packages than debian
what makes you think that debian packages must be old?

>>59394973
>and something that's not based on Ubuntu
ubuntu is a debian derivative, eg based on debian

>>59394995
Unless you use Sid you will end up with old packages, and if you use Sid you lose one of Debians main usage reasons (it being stable and tested software).

How do I monitor whether a process is running and run a command when it is terminated?

I have a shell script with a program that runs another program then closes itself, so the commands after run immediately since they think they need to start right after the first one closes.

>>59395180
>so the commands after run immediately since they think they need to start right after the first one closes.
I have no idea what you mean by that.

How do I disable udiskie?

I installed and enabled it by mistake but I don't in ed it now

>>59395180
help wait

How do I fix this shit?

[Code] gtk-warning theme parsing error: gtk.CSS:blahblah[/code]

Find me a better theme than numix-archblue.

Protip: you can't.

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>>59395339

Zukitre. Even better when you tweak it to change the bright highlight color to a different shade of blue.
Greybird is a second contender, but needs more updates.

>>59390678

A recent update replaced mesa-libgl with just mesa on my computers. Then mesa pulled in libglvnd as a dependency.

>>59395436
It looks like shit. Only dark themes are good.

>>59395317
Anyone? Pls?

>>59395476
you blahblah'd the most important part.

>>59395486
It just says gtk-warning theme parsing error and then gtk.css: 4534:12 not a number, expected a string etc

I think it's just a theme problem right?

>>59395503
Yeah, you could try fixing it if you know css and go to that part in the file.

>>59395532
>TFW this happens with all the themes I like

Firefox isn't free?!

parabola dot nu/packages/libre/any/your-freedom/

Why can't I still post Parabola URLs? What is this shit?

>>59395549
>>59395476
>>59395317

It's a warning, it doesn't affect anything.
Report the bug to the theme creator.
Also stop using unmaintained themes that don't keep up with GTK changes.

>>59395573
Firefox has lots of botnet enabled by default, comes with blobs, and suggests nonfree software.

There's a freed version of Firefox called "Icecat".

>>59395573
>Why can't I still post Parabola URLs? What is this shit?
Because some retard thought blocking .nu addresses is a good idea.

>>59395580
But it's all my favorites

Numix holo

Numix archblue

>>59395573
>>59395601

crux.nu is also marked as spam. We reported that bug a year ago, but nobody cared. You can work around this by leaving out the https://

>>59395628

Those are shitty forks which probably don't keep up with the latest Numix releases.

>>59395666
What is the best dark theme

And should I use GNOME instead of xfce

>>59395674

There is no "best" theme. GTK3 themes come in both variants, all you have to do is change the setting that you prefer the dark variant. You also want a dark variant for GTK2.

No one knows what you should use, that's another ridiculous question. Use what you like more, stop fishing for other people's approval, learn to live your own life. Idiot.

Which is better from a security perspective out of OpenSUSE or Fedora? This is in terms of security team/updates, defaults (firewall, Apparmor/SELinux) etc? I'm new to all of this

>>59395783
I just wanted some suggestions chill

hey i'm new to linux again after a short hiatus (since college, only been employed at Windows companies, first doing helpdesk, systems administration, managed services, and now datacenter presales)

since the vault 7 revelations, i've decided to go back to GNU+Linux on all my personal computers. It was a long Sunday afternoon when I realized the GUI installer would only dump my filesystem into an incrypted LUKS container without seperate partitions for /boot,/var,/home etc. they also just released a new version of their OS (widely reported on), but without a working cli install script.

i ended up creating my own luks container, setting up my LVM inside, creating my boot,var,and home logical volumes, then installing to a random luks container outside the luks lvm, copying everything over, and trial and erroring my grub into working again.

are there any distros which make this process easy? Where the default installer will create an EFI partition for, create a seperate LUKS container + LVM, and let you set up all your LVs how you like? I'm encouraging my coworkers to jump back in and we're going with the philosophy of encrypt everything, but they aren't willing to jump through as many hoops as I am to get this setup.

>>59395936
>Non-separate /boot partition on encrypted systems
While possible, this is extremely annoying to set up and use.
This probably not the sort of feature you want to be easily accessible to non-technical users, as it will only cause massive problems for them when it doesn't work.

Threadly reminder that if you choose your distro because of politics then you have legitimate autism

>>59394343
open terminal and run as root

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

How do I disable udiskie?

Please help. I'm new to arch

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>professional linux geeks
https://likegeeks.com/main-linux-commands-easy-guide/

>>59396221
>There are people who say that technical decisions should not be “politicized” by consideration of their social consequences.

>>59396392
Thank you for proving my point

>>59396377
lmao

>>59396377

>commands

They're programs that you execute. They're not tied to Linux.

quick question, whats the best distro?
dont want to waste time distro hopping

>>59396443
Funtoo.

>>59396443
Debian GNU/Linux

>>59395936
The OpenSUSE installer lets you do this, out of all of the distro's I've tried, OpenSUSE's installer is by far the best

>>59396461
>using a normie friendly gentoo knockoff

>>59395789
OpenSUSE comes with Apparmor by default and their firewall is prettt locked down by default. Although if you want to use Tumbleweed you will have to do Apparmor yourself, or load them from the OpenSUSE preconfigured profiles.

To new and advanced users I recommend Apparmor over SELinux mainly due to ease of use during set up and maintenance. The complexity of SELinux provides no extra security layers over Apparmor.

I could be wrong but I think Ubuntu also comes with Apparmor preconfigured?

>>59396443
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed with KDE

>>59396318
Pls

>>59395246
>udiski
uninstall it

>>59396492
It's created by creator of gentoo though... You don't even know the difference between them or why they exist

>>59396601
drobbins is a stupid windows+google chrome user, thats basically the difference

>>59396651
Lies.

>>59396377
column -ts: /etc/passwd is enough

I'm tempted to give OpenSUSE Tumbleweed a shot since I want a rolling release distro without the autism that comes with Arch, but what's the software compatibility like?

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Unironically installing Gentoo.
I have a HDD with Debian on it, which was intended to be used as a backup for when Arch fucks up, but that's just a meme. So what do? Do you fa/g/s actually like gentoo?

>>59397049
no

https://www.change.org/p/advanced-micro-devices-amd-release-the-source-code-for-the-secure-processor-psp

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Can someone tell me why this default route is set? I really don't get it and its triggering my ocd. It reappears after restarting systemd-networkd

>>59396972

You don't know what you're talking about.
You take memes as serious facts.
You don't know what makes up a distribution.
You are an idiot and there's no point in explaining things to you.

>>59383663
On my hand and knees for a reply from a wine connoisseur

>>59397477
>delet this
>t. buttmad arch kid

>>59397477
Cool it down with the autism, friend. I've been using Arch for ages but I want a rolling release distro that actually works out of the box and it's not like I have many options since Debian Sid is even worse than Arch

>>59380165
>>59380188
use bs=4M for SATA/AF hard drives (just about all drives sold after 1995)

>>59397524
Check out Manjaro if you like Arch. They even have an OpenRC flavor out of the box. Plus pacman and yaourt.

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>arch

Is WINE an emulator?

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>>59385146
? is the anti-greedy operator

Is GNU UNIX?

>>59397629
GNU's Not Unix is not unix

>>59393717
you need to set your root partition and grubroot variable (using the `set` command), then do `insmod linux` and use the `linux` with the root= option and `initrd` commands to load the kernel and initramfs, then the `boot` command to boot.

>>59397602
Wine is not an emulator.

Hello, I just switched from Gentoo to arch and so far everything is running well. I have only one question. Is it possible to tell Pacman to only install packages that have a free license (gpl, bsd, etc)? I know that the pkgbuilds have a license variable.

Thank you

>>59397682
convert it to parabola

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How do I rename multiple files in the terminal?
like if I want to rename a bunch of images like img01, img02... How would I do it?

>>59397866

i=0
for file in *.jpg; do
    mv $file img$i.jpg
    i=$((i + 1))
done

>>59397866
man rename

>>59397866

man rename

>>59397866
try rename

What does /fglt/ like better, screen of tmux?

>>59397913
tmux, but I'm too much of a dweeb to bother making a proper config for it, so I usually default to screen.

>>59397913
screen

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>>59382470
Anyone?

>>59397927
That pic gave me trypophobia.

What does /fglt/ like better, bash of zsh?

>>59397972
I like zsh a little bit more because of its improved autocompletion.
I still write my scripts mostly in bash however.
Mostly because I like to give my scripts to friends and don't want to force them to use another shell.

>>59398190
best reply ever on that topic

>>59397927
Why is that pregnant woman wearing a bikini

>>59397972
I only care about bash just for screenfetch

Is there a usable android emulator?

>>59398256
You should be using neofetch anyway

>>59398404
>>>/r/eddit

>>59398382
Remix OS

what are some things i can do for "maintenance" on arch?

ive been using Arch for the past maybe 8 months and ive recently started experiencing some slowdowns similar to what i'd describe as "memory leaks". IE: the system starts to behave really badly after being on for awhile, corrects itself once its rebooted

i ran pacman -Sy and it says everything is up to date, im on kernel 4.7.5-1

>>59398903
very old kernel.

>>59398903
>falling for the arch meme
why

>>59398903
-Sy only updates the package /lists/, not the packages
4.7.5-1 was made 6 months ago, you have not been updating at all

>>59397913
byobu

>>59398958
whats wrong with arch?

i like pacman/yaourt and i never really felt limited by using arch over a debian distro

how outdated are debian programs?
a week, a month, a year?

Give me 1 (one) reason to not use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed if I want a rolling release distro

>>59399339
gtfo shill

>>59399461
Not an argument

Why is this thread so dead lately.

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>>59399999

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>>59379846
I installed Gentoo

>>59400101
lmao

>>59398976
>>59398903

I thikn that's the joke.

>>59397619

>prompt takes up 40% of his window width
How to spot people that don't really use their shell.

How difficult is it to block ads at the firewall level?

Been using KDE Neon on new laptop for 2 weeks:
>sudo apt upgrade this morning while @ uni
>Welcome to emergency mode!
It displays a msg about nouveau and unknow chipset, but I don't recall having messed with the GPU drivers, I was not planning to play on it anyway. GPU is 940MX in case it can help.
What should I do?

>>59400101
Welcome to the last distro you'll ever need
[spoiler](except for maybe nixos or something when they become more developed)[/spoiler]

ALSA or Pulseaudio?

Can someone recommend a cheap wireless n dongle that has kernel support? I have an AC dongle and using it is horrendous, it constantly refuses to work entirely or loses connection and has to be switched between USB ports.

>>59401231
ALSA.

>>59401231
I just use pulse because the entire Linux sound architecture is already so fucked up anyway no matter which you pick.
and you're still going to have ALSA even if you get pulse.

http://tuxradar.com/content/how-it-works-linux-audio-explained

>>59396443
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>59401231
OSS

>>59401231
there is no "alsa or pulse", pulse is a frontend extention that fixes lots of alsa's issues and adds features like per-application volume etc

does pulse depend on systemd?

>>59402193
No. I'm using pulse and openRC

>>59402193

Why don't you check the Pulseaudio website, look for the source files and for a file called INSTALL which usually lists the dependencies? Why do you trust random people on here which might deceive you because this is such a hot topic?

It applies to all software. It takes 2 minutes to find it and see what the dependencies are. Lazy people can even check their distribution's package with the package manager (but that might not be 100% conclusive, because they can choose not to compile it with certain features which would warrant dependencies).

Is there a way to tell keepassx to retain the permissions on a database file when I save changes to it, or a way to always force permissions for it? I want my database to be only readable and writable by me (i.e. 600), but when I open it in keepassx and save, the permissions get changed to 664.

>>59403412
I dont think you understand permissions very well

>>59400196
>thinks 30 characters is 40% of my terminal width
How to spot people with 1366x768

>>59403445
That's why I'm asking about it. All I know is what the permissions do (i.e. when can a user edit a file, when can he read it, look inside a directory etc), but I'm not sure why they are reset like that.

>>59400196
Actually I have been meaning to go in and make it smaller. The problem is I can never remember which install I'm in and they all have the same hostname so the distro name helps. I can kill the dumb mu/lambda thing, but everything else I need.

So i removed i3wm, installed this https://github.com/Airblader/i3 from aur, restarted laptop but nothing changed.
What do i need to do to make my i3 look like the one on github example photo

Hello guys
Lets say i want to change OS from Win to some other.
Is there an OS that supports Photoshop + Skype? (without using WINE/Virtual boot)

>>59404000
Before logging in you need to boot into i3 instead of whatever DE you were using.

>>59404081
lemme explain again
>i had i3wm
>deleted it
>installed this new i3
>restarted laptop
>selected I3
>everything is same, like i never deleted old/installed new

>>59404104
>i3-gaps

>>59404134
Delete your i3 config under .config/i3/config if you want to start new.

>>59404134
i3-gaps if just a i3wm fork

>>59404175
i deleted i3 folder from config, installing it again

>>59404237
If you read the page you linked, it is using gaps not vanilla i3

>>59404237
If you're expecting it to look like the screenshot on github out of the box it wont. i3 just manages the windows. You need a compositor and other programs to set transparency, the background ect.

What are some GNU/Linux projects that are both fun and educational for someone aspiring to work as a sysadmin?

so i just installed fresh i3wm and shit aint using my config file, it is just default one.
I downloaded and putted config file inside i3 folder

>>59404894
It goes in ~/.i3/config or ~/.config/i3/config
You can't forget the periods

I'm a little lost here. Was trying to install arch but my processor is 32 bits. What do I do now? Debian?

Minor fuckup:
I have a T420, I installed Xubuntu on it a couple months ago and I've been using i3 for a while. I use redshift because I find it less stressful for my eyes.
Until now I could adjust the screen brightness using the hardware brightness keys (Fn+Home, Fn+End).

I was looking for a way to set the brightness to a certain value on startup and to that end installed xbacklight. From that moment on, the brightness buttons stopped working. In xev, I can see that they are still being recognized:

KeyPress event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0xc4, subw 0x0, time 58127705, (-635,530), root:(169,550),
    state 0x10, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XmbLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

KeyRelease event, serial 32, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    root 0xc4, subw 0x0, time 58127705, (-635,530), root:(169,550),
    state 0x10, keycode 233 (keysym 0x1008ff02, XF86MonBrightnessUp), same_screen YES,
    XLookupString gives 0 bytes: 
    XFilterEvent returns: False

RRNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property Backlight, timestamp 58127774, state NewValue

RRNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0xe00001,
    subtype XRROutputPropertyChangeNotifyEvent
    output LVDS1, property BACKLIGHT, timestamp 58127774, state NewValue

xgamma doesn't do what I want, redshift's brightness setting seems to have no effect, xrandr doesn't affect the actual backlight and xbacklight seems to have no effect at all (aside from breaking my brightness buttons).

So my questions are:
>How do I get my brightness buttons to set backlight brightness again?
>How do I set backlight brightness on startup?

>>59406054
What command are you using for xbacklight?

>>59406117
I tried

xbacklight -set <#>

with <#> being some numbers between 0 and 100. Brightness did not change.
I found out that I could write different values into /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness. I guess I'll have to write a script, unless someone has already made one...?

>>59406184
xbacklight is what I use. There's a couple brightness scripts on github that do what you need though.

I made a new user, like so:

sudo useradd newuser
sudo passwd newuser
sudo usermod -s /bin/bash newuser
sudo usermod -g oldgroup newuser
sudo mkdir /home/newuser && chown newuser:oldgroup /home/newuser

When I tried to play back a video file in mpv logged in as that user, the first frame was shown and then mpv became unresponsive. I eventually killed the X session and logged back in as my old user. Now mpv hangs every time I try to play a video. I can hear the audio but the video doesn't do jack. What's going on?

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What terminal is this?

>>59406308
Read my post, xbacklight has no discernible effect on my machine. I'll look around on github.

Update:
I purged mpv and rebuilt it from the latest sources. No change. No matter what video I play, no matter what format, whether it's a local file or youtube link using the youtube-dl hook, the video freezes on the first frame. When I try skipping the audio stops as well. I have to press [q] ^C ^C to exit, and I have to close the terminal I used to start mpv before the playback window will close.

Audio playback via mpd + ncmpcpp works fine; in fact, as far as I can tell, everything but mpv seems to work, yet I am not sure mpv is to blame.

Any ideas?

>>59406368

>>59407294
does it work with ffmpeg?
what happens when you do:

ffplay video.webm

>>59407413
I can convert videos with ffmpeg, they have the same problem as any other video I tried playing with mpv.
ffplay was not found, I'm not sure I have it. I installed ffmpeg from source, I only put the ffmpeg executable in my /usr/local/bin/.

>>59407487
i dont know if ffmpeg is maybe mvp dependence (i think i read something about mpv+ffmpeg), if it is maybe you fucked something while installing it.
try to install ffmpeg like normal person, via terminal.

>>59407714
I did. I checked out the git repo, configured it and compiled it.
Both ffmpeg and mpv worked just as they should until I decided to create another user, started an X session as him and played back a video in mpv. Therefore I doubt that something went wrong during the installation.

>>59399339
There are none, it is simply the best, yet under represented. It is just as bleeding edge as Arch and Sid yet it comes with the OpenSUSE security team (Microfocus/SUSE) and Apparmor/Firewall configured and locked down as the default.