/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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First for Freedom.

REMOVE GNU FROM THE OP

Gnu project is irrelevant and does more harm than good nowadays

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>>59580984
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you proprietary slave? I’ll have you know I graduated top of my class at Harvard, and I’ve been involved in numerous free software projects, and I have contributed to over 300 core-utils for GNU. I am skilled in Lisp and I’m St. IGNU-cius, saint of the Church of Emacs. You are nothing to me but just another unethical non-free software advocate. I will distribute the fuck out of your source code with freedom the likes of which has never been seen before on this Earth, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying that shit about me and the GPL on the Internet? Think again, fucker. As we speak I am contacting my colleagues at FSF and your binaries are being reversed engineered right now so you better prepare for the storm, maggot. The storm that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your copyright. You're fucking dead, kid. Free software can be anywhere, anytime, and it can ensure your freedom in over four ways, and that’s just with the GPLv2. Not only am I extensively skilled at hacking, but I have access to the source of the entire GNU userland and core-utils and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable proprietary code off the face of the continent, you little shit. If only you could have known what ethical retribution your little “clever” program was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have ensured your users' freedom. But you couldn’t, you didn’t, and now you’re paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will shit free as in freedom all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking dead, kiddo.

>>59581014
TOE JAM

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Pic related is a TUI interface to the transmission-daemon with vim keybinds called stig, similar to transmission-remote-cli, only better.
It also provides a CLI interface that can be used in scripts and the TUI is themeable.
It's really cool imo so I thought I'd share it here.

https://github.com/rndusr/stig
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stig-git/

Be sure to install from the development branch, because it's still being heavily developed and some python3.6 related bugs had been fixed just a few days ago.
Also be sure to have transmission-daemon installed.

>what's wrong with transmission-remote-cli
transmission-remote-cli is broken abandonware (it's been superseded now by tremc, which is the same crap, only in python 3).
https://github.com/fagga/transmission-remote-cli
>transmission-remote-cli is no longer maintained.
>Alternative Transmission TUI clients are tremc (a fork of this project) and stig.
Also, it's ugly.

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>>59581041
file list

>>59581014
Stallman only got his honorary doctorates from literally who tier schools that all have spic names.

>>59581041
Neat will have a look.

>>59581041
>{HorribleSubs}
POST DISCARDED

>>59581055
How many honorary doctorates do you have?

>>59581077
It's the same thing as a participation trophy.

>>59581067
I'm sorry I'm not autistic enough to get into animebytes

>>59581092
I use nyaa though

>>59581099
me too and I download whichever torrent has the most seeds and in most cases it's horriblesubs

>>59581120
I bet you download YIFY too dont you

>>59581127
sometimes

what is /fglt/'s favorite animu?

>>59581147
the cutest

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>>59581147
yuru yuri of course

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>>59581147
Love Live

>>59581228
I love nico simply because makifags are completely insufferable.

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>>59580873

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dpkg/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/apt/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dnf/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/yum/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zypper-git/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xbps/
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/portage-git/

wew

>>59581250
arch is the most universal distro

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>>59581234
Honoka chan is pretty good too but she deserves to be beaten sometimes tbqh.

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>>59581274

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>>59581147
Gabriel Dropout

>>59581285
>>59581274
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XTI3hIGCTk&t=29s

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>>59581294
this

REEEEEEEEEEE FUCKING UNIVERSITY REPOS KILLING MY PORTAGE SPEED.

>>59581228
Anime is 99.9% pure embarrassment and only 0.01% "smile on your heart".

>>59581538
>Portage
>Speed

Pick one desu.

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>>59581615
Nah. It's high quality entertainment devoid of kikery.

>>59581639
>high quality
Whatever.

>kikery
What is kikery?

>>59581626
Portage is fine, University connection timeouts are cancer though.
I'd switch to Funtoo but not as much documentation. Tried arch and didn't like it as a reaction, might go back to it some day.

>>59581626
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>>59581683
pls no bully

>>59581717
It's pronounced "dess" in any good part of Japan anyways.

>>59581250
>B-But I like Debian!
>I can be Debian for u, anon <3
arch confirmed best distro

good thread

>>59581783
good post

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>>59581147
Umaru


>>59581199
>>59581204
>>59581228
>>59581294
WRONG! YOU ARE FAKE NEWS.

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I want to escape from systemd and Gentoo seems to be the most sensible option, but the idea of long compiling times every install/update/upgrade scares me a bit.

Processor is a AMD Athlon II X2 250 and I've only got 2 GB RAM.

Should I go for Gentoo or something like Arch-OpenRC?

>>59581835
install gentoo

>>59581835
Arch would be best for you, I think.

>>59581835
>arch+openrc
don't do this, go for Void

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>>59580873
>>59581238

Is there a guide somewhere for building/buying a PC that is 100% FOSS, including BIOS and all firmware?
Is such a thing even possible today?

>>59581884
with a pentium or a core 2 duo, yes

I want Firefox Nightly on Gentoo, how do I get that?
emerge --search firefox gives only 45.8.0 source and binary.
I checked https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Firefox but can't find anything.

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Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.

>>59581901
Can you elaborate?

redpill me on arch

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>>59581954
>Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.
It's definitely one of the few distros that has caught my attention lately. I will probably try it out in a virtual machine soon.

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>>59581976
>redpill me on arch
It has all of the newest stable packages, a great package manager and easy access to the AUR. Any package you can think of you can install stupid easy. I've been on Arch for over a year and never had any problems. The Arch breaking memes are bullshit.

See >>59581870

>>59581974
newer Intel CPU's have this "Management Engine" thing, which is basically another CPU that has access to your machine at hardware level and runs it's own proprietary code
AMD has an equivalent thing
if you want to be truly free, you have to get by with older hardware
also, I don't think libreboot even works with ME
see https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intelme

>>59581990
>The Arch breaking memes are bullshit.
They weren't years ago.

>>59582009
AMD pre-2013 and Intel pre-2006 are safe to go.
Also https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/

>>59582020
can I use this on an x220?
also, how safe is it?

>>59582033
Check the docs.
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/me_cleaner-status
https://github.com/corna/me_cleaner/wiki/How-does-it-work%3F

>>59582009
Thank you for the reply anon. What a fucking time to be alive...
All of the SBCs I can find use some sort of blob for bootstrapping etc., so even my alternative plan of an rPi laptop or something is a non-starter.

Maybe I'll build a SPARC pc or something

So recently I have been having an issue with Chrome. Turns out the RAM it uses is not counted as application usage. So in other words I've been running out of RAM due to Chrome's memory lust. To stem this tide I've added a spare HDD to the device as a swap drive. Unfortunately, it looks like the machine will not use the swap partition for this type of memory usage. Is there a way I can force the machine to use this available space?

 free -h -w
              total        used        free      shared     buffers       cache   available
Mem:            31G         16G        232M        719M        6.2G        8.6G         13G                                                                                                                                                                                    
Swap:           74G          0B         74G                                                 

>>59582084
>Chrome
Back to /v/

>>59582084
>Chrome
stopped reading there

>>59582091
>>59582093
Not everyone wants to use SJWfox.

>>59582097
>Not using the esr superior version

>>59582084
What's your swapiness? If it's zero then it'll never get used.

>>59582097
not everyone wants a botnet

>>59582097
>he thinks there's only two browsers in existence
>>>/v/

>>59582112
>>59582116
>>59582126
>*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

>>59582097
it's better than google cuckware

>>59582097
>caring about le spooky SJWs instead of the code
Eh.

>>59582113
It's set to the default 60.

>>59582138
friendly yes, idiot-friendly no

>>59582084
Why would you install Chrome on Linux?

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>>59582168
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.

>>59582168
GNU/Linux*

>>59582179
>>59582189
My bad.

>>59582210
its ok, but next time you will be thrown into jail

https://stallman.org/archives/2003-may-aug.html
>For necrophilia, it might be necessary to ask the next of kin for permission if the decedent's will did not authorize it. Necrophilia would be my second choice for what should be done with my corpse, the first being scientific or medical use. Once my dead body is no longer of any use to me, it may as well be of some use to someone.
would you a dead Stallman?

here's an ascii gnu

  ,           , 
 /             \ 
((__-^^-,-^^-__)) 
 `-_---' `---_-' 
  `--|o` 'o|--' 
     \  `  / 
      ): :( 
      :o_o: 
       "-" 

>>59581867
>>arch+openrc
>don't do this
What's wrong with it? I've been using it for months and haven't had any problems so far.

>>59581835
Why not try Manjaro?

>>59581912
To answer myself, and anyone else with the problem. You just unmask firefox by adding www-client/firefox to /etc/portage/package.unmask

>>59582234
Here's an ANSI GNU.

curl https://www.gnu.org/graphics/agnuheadterm-xterm.txt

i decided to get back again to the linux world after five years, what is a good distro to install nowadays? something simple that just works, the last distro i used was arch but im not in the mood for 3 hours of config

>>59582744
Antergos is arch without the autism. It's great. It auto installs with the DE of your choice.

>>59582744
install ubuntu gnu/linux

>>59582744

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>>59582771
Antergos is arch with the autism and bloat added.
FTFY

>>59582707
nice

http://ix.io/pgn

>on system
cantarell-fonts
noto-fonts
otf-neris
ttf-aller
ttf-dejavu
ttf-heuristica
ttf-karatdemo-normal
ttf-liberation
ttf-symbola

now that fonts are kaput what do

>>59582265
It's not awful, but you are liable to get shafted by the Arch devs or maintainers, and they will just laugh at you if you try to do anything about it.

If you use the AUR a lot, you should stick with Arch though.

>>59580873

Does anyone have the whole collage of those pictures?

>>59582899
Isn't using the AUR dangerous?

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How do I fix it?
Something with the terminal's background color overriding vim's. Doesn't happen in tmux.

what desktop environment is the least ugly?

give me some more ansi/ascii art for my /etc/issue like this >>59582707

>>59583034
Ugly? That's up to the user to decide. I like mwm. It is in my opinion the most beautiful wm out there.

I'm not sure if I'm asking in the right place but I've been trying to figure it out for a long time and I can't seem to find a clear answer.

I'm trying to boot deepin 15.3 but for some reason when I try to write it to my usb it doesn't take me to ANYTHING just a black screen with a white blinking cursor. The only input I can make is ctl+alt+delete

I noticed that when I try to write the .iso to the usb the FAT32 format becomes "unallocated" in gparted.

Can anyone help me?

>>59582992
try :set t_ut=
then ctrl+L to redraw

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>>59582953

>>59583166
crc check the file

bios or UEFI boot?

Free open source alternative to spotify? It's for my pleb of a bro.

anyone main fish? fine with bash as is, but want to try it out

>>59583187
uefi I think, but I've switched into legacy and disable secure boot and all that gravy.

I've done a checksum on the file if that is what you mean by crc (I'm still pretty new to this, sorry). It is good to go

>>59581661
>What is kikery?
google "kike"

>>59583220
don't do legacy, a lot of OS detect if they get booted in uefi or bios and do certain things. You probably want to be in uefi

Do the screen show you that it's going to boot the ISO or just immediately blank screen?

find your motherboard settings keyboard config, usualy press enter or f12 or something as you boot and make sure it's booting from the usb


If that doesn't work, some ISO just don't like being written through some software to USB. Try rufus and make sure the dropdown for UEFI is selected after selecting the iso.

>>59583256
I have tried both with and without legacy, each time it's instant blank screen. Or if I write the .iso from the terminal it won't detect it "no bootable drive detected -- insert drive and press any key" or something like that.

I've been using unetbootin, I'm working with linux mint. I'll give rufus a shot and get back to you.

What are your free open source pc builds, /fglt/?

Hello friends, with shell wildcards

ls [aZ].dat the same as ls [a-Z].dat

And if they are, does this just display all files with a .dat extension containing any lower and uppercase letters before it?

>>59583289
I always have the best results just using the dd command. Lots of distros have issues being burned with things like unetbootin/rufus but I've never once had a problem with dd.

>>59583289
>each time it's instant blank screen
Are you positive that you're booting from the USB?

>>59583256
This guy is right. No reason to use legacy. Everything is set up for UEFI in the current year.

>>59583348
[aZ] is a or z
[a-Z] is anything between a and z
(1 letter only)

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>>59583183

Neat.

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>>59583171
Wow that worked. You taught me that I should google better next time. Thanks.

>>59583357
I've been using the dd command almost exclusively now, I've been trying to eliminate as many "middle men" as possible. I'm fairly positive I'm booting from the USB because I've been through all the options from the boot select screen. One menu of options always leads to just booting mint as normal, the other either boots to blank screen with cursor, there is no bootable drive inserted.

I'm starting to question if I need to make certain partitions on my usb but I don't fully understand that. I have just done a complete format to fat32 with gparted, then dd'd the iso to the drive and then issues.

>>59583213

Keeping your own music locally.

>>59583435
also, I've been in legacy mode because when I'm not it doesn't show my usb as an option to be selected for booting.

>>59583478
on my pc i have to mess with motherboard options to turn on efi boot from usb/cd

but it could be on and the usb/cd just isn't set-up right and isn't loading the bootloader.

i just peaked through the iso and it should be booting the grub bootloader at the very least

i had this problem last year with another distro and unetbootin was fucking it up until i tried rufus and it worked. So idk, maybe i'll burn the iso myself and see if it works for me.

>>59583521
I'm on an hp laptop if that makes any difference to this?
I read grub supposedly booting, but yeah I'm not seeing any of it. I'm going to fuck around in bios a bit and see what happens.

>>59583618
i justed burned it with rufus and it was blank a lot of times, i kept rebooting it like 5 or 6 times selecting the USB until grub came up with the option to "install deepin".
never had that problem before, so yeah something weird with the iso. or just our machines, maybe just keep trying it

>>59583086
curl https://0x0.st/vNO.txt

>>59583644
I appreciate your help man. If I figure anything out I'll post it

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>>59583671

>speaker-test -c 6
>ALSA lib /var/tmp/portage/media-... PulseAudio: Unable to connect: Access denied
>/etc/init.d/pulseaudio status
>* status: started
>pulseaudio --daemonize=true
>werks

For what purpose?

>>59583404
Thanks buddy.

>>59580873
You know when I see this picture I think "this old man isn't trying to lecture him about it, just to grab some ISOs himself so he needs to know where they are". The fucker gonna try to sell those or even worse, use them.

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Welcome to /fglt/ - Fags, Gays, Lesbians, and Tranny Thread

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How to get thumbnails on dolphin file browser.

Using Gnome 3 on Fedora

Anything similar to this for gnu./linux

https://www.aimp.ru/index.php?do=download

>>59583979
Oh fuck off, I always read /fglt/ as /lgbt/. Over years of research I notice the apple fagwaffles get more pussy than most people who use this for desktops

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guys, can you advise me on some alternative similar to awesome wm?

because awesome wm should in truth be called "dogshit wm" and its developers are enormous fucking faggots that just won't ever fix any of their bugs. i've had enough of this shit.

basically all i need is dwm with windows automatically getting on top when you focus them.

>>59584042
hit preview

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>>59584042

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>>59584180
nice

>>59584165
i have to click it every time i go into a different directory
Also, the thing i circled
>vomitchan,jpg

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>>59584195
>i have to click it every time i go into a different directory
It will leave a hidden file called .directory there so it will recall that you want previews in said folder.

>>59584257
yeah but i want it by default in every folder, Don't wanna click it every time i go into a new folder

>>59584262
Get Thunar and install a thumbnailer plugin.

>>59584267
IS there a plugin to make it not look like shit?

>>59584289
You can change basically everything about it.

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>>59584262
It's in the settings but you may need some additional packages for it to work. Like ffmpegthumbs mplayerthumbs kffmpegthumbnailer.

>>59584289
Yeah go into control -> preferences. There are tons of options.

What's the comfiest distro?

>>59584430
any distro where you
- have installed the software you need
- have checked essential settings about your security like firewall rules and so on
- have customized the look to the extent that you like (at least a custom wallpaper)
- know how to troubleshoot basic problems
- have disabled unused services to speed up your boot time
- have a solid backup strategy in place in order to avoid having to set it up all over again

But really, the comfiest distro is Fedora followed by Debian.

It seems like most of the reason systemd proliferated so much is because sysv is horrible and outdated in comparison- if that's true, why was systemd necessary? Why didn't distros like Debian consider runit or openrc first?

Hey guys, I have a bit of programming experience and I'm trying to learn Bash. Can anyone tell me how I would loop through names of files in the PWD. I want to check two conditions and output the file name if that's the case. The program logic isn't hard I'm just not quite sure how to actually get the names of the files looping through?

>>59584605
for i in *; do echo $i; done

>>59584605
for dir in *
do
echo $dir
done
also, don't learn bash, learn POSIX shell (dash)
don't use any bashisms.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DashAsBinSh http://www.etalabs.net/sh_tricks.html https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/dev-util/checkbashisms
here is example:
https://github.com/DmitryHetman/dash/blob/master/saymyname

>>59582265
sysvinit

use runit if you want to go full freetard

>>59582954
yes it makes mustard gas

>>59584605
>file
Fix
for file in *
do
[ -f $file ] && echo $file
done

>>59584679
>>59584660
>>59584711

#!/bin/bash
for i in *; do
if [[ -x i ]]
then
  echo i; done

Any tips as to why this won't work?

>>59584827
You're missing an fi after the if

Also, I hope you understand that -x means executable.

>>59584874
Yeah it sure does. The idea behind it was to print file name if the file is executable.

>>59584883
You also used i rather than $i

for i in *; do
    if [[ -x "$i" ]]; then
        echo $i
    fi
done

>>59584901
>>59584874

Cheers guys, I'm really shocking at syntax for shell scripting.

i want to install elementary OS next to windows to use darktable. do i have to create a partition with a specific filesystem beforehand or just some free unpartitioned space?

>>59584945
Up to you, if you're not looking to customise anything just boot straight in and install. It will have an option to partition or shrink windows for you.

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>>59584926
>I'm really shocking

>do i have to create a partition with a specific filesystem beforehand or just some free unpartitioned space?
Nope. Just shrink your C drive or whatever and go for it. The elementary installer might make swap for you out of the space but I always do that myself i.e. make another partition = to the amount of RAM and manually choose where the installer installs stuff.

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Part of >>59584975
should be @ >>59584945

I have a Fake RAID0 of 3 SSD's
how do i go about installing Ubuntu 16.04.2, should i expect reading forums and manually creating everything?

>>59584962
>>59584975
ok thanks

>>59581835
There's also Devuan, it's a Debian fork without systemD

>>59584901
Now I'm trying to see if the file name contains a certain character using grep (I imagine there's a better way to do this but the answers on google aren't very helpful, I can't get any of them working.)

#!/bin/bash
for i in *; do
  if $i | grep a; then
    echo $i
  fi
done

The logic here was that I was piping the variable name to the grep command but I get permission denied. I did have it working that if a was contained in the file it would print the file contents but I want to check if a is contained in the file name.

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>>59581294

>>59585072

#!/bin/sh -e

ls * | grep -e 'a'

>>59585072
Bash basically replaces your variables with their contents. If you just type $i, you'll try to run whatever is saved in $i as a command.

You can do

echo $i | grep ...

or

grep ... <<< $i

>>59585072
And if you want to do more complex things

#!/bin/sh -e

for f in ls *
do
    if echo "$f" | grep -e "a" >/dev/null
    then
        echo "YES $f"
    else
        echo "NO  $f"
    fi
done

And by the way avoid bash, try to stick to /bin/sh

how do I, using fprint, make sudo and su use fingerprint verification?

My wifi-adapter (DWA-192) has no drivers for linux. Is there anything I can do?

>>59585125
By another wifi adapter.

how do I make my thinkpad stop its ridiculously loud beeping whenever I press tab in a terminal? I turned off beeping in the bios already

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>>59585125

>>59585002
halp
BIOS RAID0 of 3 disks & ubuntu, or i go Win10, i'll do it /g !

>>59585115
>And by the way avoid bash, try to stick to /bin/sh
Why?

>>59585145
more portable, will work on the system even if it does not use bash, such as on macos or bsd.

>>59585165
Mac OS uses bash by default

>>59585115
What does >/dev/null do? The way I read it it echos the matching lines to that file and it being called null just means we are throwing that data away?

#!/bin/sh
for i in *
do
  if [[ -x "$i" ]] && echo "$i" | grep -e "a" >/dev/null
  then
    echo "$i"
  fi
done

Finally this will loop through all files in a given directory and print them if they are executable and contain the character a?

Thanks for the help guys. Fglt really is friendly.

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>>59585169
oopsies

>>59585173
If the name contains the letter a*

>>59585165
portability is not always important and desired

>>59585173
Either write #!/bin/bash or get rid of the bashisms

>>59585173
/dev/null is a special file that will discard any data written to it. > /dev/null is a common way to prevent a command from printing anything to your terminal. In case of grep, you could also just use -q instead.

>>59585219
So pretty handy when checking conditionals

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how do I add a window list panel to fedora 25?

Assuming I'm not too bothered by wintards not being able to read my files, is there any reason not to use a normal Linux filesystem (I was going to use btrfs) on a USB flash drive? Should I use f2fs instead?

yesterday people were talking about using youtube-dl to browse and stream youtube videos

but how the hell do I make my browser actually execute a shell script when I click on a youtube video link?
this doesn't really seem possible

I installed Arch, installed Python, now I need a good text editor. Any recommendation?

>>59585264
both are fine for flash drives

>>59585248
Search https://extensions.gnome.org/ for extensions. On fedora firefox should be all set to install extensions using the website. I'm not aware of any way to do it with gnome-tweak-tool without an extension.

https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/602/window-list/

>>59585272
gedit

>>59585270
there's a few options/methods
just watching them you'd want to use mpv, which has youtube-dl support
you can launch mpv from the browser using "watch with mpv" (firefox-based)
not sure about chrome-based browsers

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>>59585283
huh
I even installed the firefox extension
not my lucky day

>>59585270
Several video players can play youtube videos (some of them will use youtube-dl for that), so I wouldn't recommend using youtube-dl yourself unless you want to save the video as a file.

Personally, I just copy the link and use a keyboard shortcut that makes mpv play what's in my clipboard.

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>>59585296
Weird. I thought Fedora was set up to do that ootb.

>>59585296
Maybe read the page for the extension. It says also need a package. I always use chromium and add the chrome extension and grab the chrome-gnome-shell package and it works fine. I'm on Arch though.

>>59581041
As someone that uses transmission-daemon a LOT, this makes me really happy. Thanks for posting it breh

If my main reason to encrypt is to prevent someone who steals my laptop from looking at my files, encrypting the root partition should be enough?

The only thing which would remain unencrypted would be swap. Can't I just use a swapfile and keep it on the encrypted partition or will that mess with suspend features?

>>59585376
chrome or chromium does not work on wayland fedora at all

>>59585513
>encrypting the root partition should be enough?
Encrypt every partition that has confidential files. If root is encrypted, they won't be able to boot, but they'll still be able to read any unencrypted partitions you have.
>Can't I just use a swapfile and keep it on the encrypted partition or will that mess with suspend features?
Suspend doesn't use swap and will work either way. Afaik hibernate won't work. You can put swap on an encrypted partition and have it ask for a password when you resume from hibernation though.
Whatever you do, you should not leave swap unencrypted.

>>59585585
>chrome or chromium does not work on wayland fedora at all
Weird. No issues at all on a wayland session on Arch. Maybe they'd be better off not fuckiing with packages so much.

Given that gnome is becoming increasingly tied to systemd, how usable is the Gentoo version of it with systemd functionality removed?

>>59581041
seems nice, but the defaults are shit, can only see 2 letters from the torrent names on the main screen

>>59585604

What's the implication of leaving swap unencrypted?

Well, I only have 2 partitions. 1 boot and one for everything else (the root partition). I'm still new to encryption and I'm trying to find a balance between ease of use and "safety" (as in encrypting everything).

>>59585775
>key gets put into swap
>swap isnt encrypted
:(

>>59585775
Any data in your ram can be moved to swap. Any program data, the contents of your files or in the worst case your encryption keys.

Unless you need hibernation, putting a swapfile on an encrypted partition is fine and probably the easiest solution.

>1 boot and one for everything else (the root partition)
Boot doesn't contain any of your personal files and usually isn't encrypted, it could be used for some attacks though if someone has physical access to your machine. If you're paranoid about that, you could figure out how to encrypt it or use one of those scripts that check it on every reboot.

What distro is the best for grandpa? He would use it on an ancient laptop and needs codecs out of the box.

>>59586016
Something Arch-based, except Manjaro.

Ignored the fuckhead.

>>59586016
I've had good experience with lubuntu for my family / friends with old pcs.
Just make sure to use LTS if you use an ubuntu derivative. You don't want them to deal with updates every 6 months.

>>59585721
you can change them however you like in ~/.config/stig/rc

>>59586034
what's wrong with manjaro?

>>59586252
What's not wrong with Manjaro?

>>59586252
The design.

>>59586281
design of what exactly?

>>59586279
you tell me

>>59586285
The design of the distribution.
>lol let's take packages form Arch, wait a month and release them as our
>let's completely ignore security updates
I would continue, but the topic was beaten to death, you're free to look at the archive and check out Allan McRae's blog.

>>59586338
I understand

>>59581041
the documentation is severely lacking. it doesn't fucking tell you shit. like how the fuck do you connect to a password protected transmission-daemon? there's no documentation on the goddamn rc settings at all, so no way to know how to set a username and password (srv,user, srv,username do not work.) without digging through the source to find out everything it tries to read from the rc, which i'm about to do.

When editing configuration files does the spacing matter? For example:

Section "Device"
   Identifier  "Intel Graphics"
   Driver      "intel"
Option "TearFree" "true"
EndSection

Do I have to add the spaces before
>Option "TearFree" "true"
Does the number of spaces matter at all?

>>59586561
Depends on the interpreter of these configuration files. Most will ignore whitespace just fine.

>>59586502
I don't password protect my transmission-daemon, so I wouldn't know, but you can always open an issue
I did a couple of days a go and the guy fixed the issue right away

>arch users are still asshurt that manjaro is using them as beta testers

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>>59586716
this is a friendly thread anon

>>59586716
>manjaro users don't even get backported security updates

>>59586716
>Let's wait for a month and check the Arch forums
>for any issues before releasing a package
t. Memejaro testing and security

>>59586744
There is nothing wrong with this to be honest

It's shit that they sleep on security updates though, if that's true

>>59586734
yeah except when people talk about manjaro
then it's shitflinging galore

>>59586744
>implying security updates can't open 10 new holes

>>59581014
lmao I'm dying

what's a good RSS reader?

bonus points for non-web/botnet based

>>59581835
lmao get ubuntu. It's just well kept debian. And it supports everything. you'll be a "propietary slave" as stallman would put it but at least it works.

>>59581976
It's like using assembly when you have access to C++ and python.

>>59586829
>people actually believe this

redpill me on yaourt

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>>59582168
This is repost but absolutely relevent

>>59586852
Only faggots and frenchies who install from an "installer" uses yaourt. Arch normies use pacaur and patricians use cower.

>>59586881
but is there anything actually wrong with it?

>>59586945
This has been discussed to death multiple fucking times. Don't be a normie and learn to spoonfeed yourself.

>>59586980
okay

>>59586838
I use arch, it's easier just to use ubuntu than use arch.

What would be your recommendations for creating a "pc-on-a-stick" type install on a USB drive, the purpose being the ability to plug it into any computer that can boot from USB and have my system ready to go?

Puppy Linux is the braindead choice because that's literally what it was designed for, but assuming I'm not particularly targeting hyper-low-end machines and thus have some leeway on space and power, what are other good options?

128GB sticks are really cheap nowadays so space isn't really an issue either.

>>59587083
Tails?

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How do I make my desktop look like this?

>>59587083
you'll wear out the flash memory very quickly if you use it like that. puppy is much better for use, loading into ram stops it from hammering the drive. puppy is really the only choice

>>59587164
i3 with gaps, font with icons.

no keyboard control after putting this in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/30-touchpad.conf for touchpad settings

Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "touchpad"
    Driver     "libinput"
    Option     "Device"      "/dev/input/event10"
    Option     "Tapping"     "on"
    Option     "ClickMethod" "clickfinger"
EndSection

help

>>59587164
Move into your mothers basement

so why exactly are desktop threads not allowed anymore

what is even the point of linux if not for ricing

>>59587285
looked in `/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/40-libinput.conf` and copied the touchpad section, works fine now.

>>59587193
I tried to look into tails like the other anon recommended but I can't find any explicit info about it using RAM in the same way Puppy does. Do you know if that's the case? (I would assume so, because it was designed as a USB OS after all, but I'd like to be sure before proceeding with my choice.)

>>59587360
not entirely sure i'm afraid anon. might want to email a dev over it or look around

>>59587389
Alright, I'll do some research then. Thanks for the suggestions.

Can air Xpand2 work with Linux?

should I bother with a tiling WM on 1366x768?

>>59587533
Why not?

>>59587360
Every linux live distro will only use ram unless you set up persistence (afaik only ubuntu can do that) or explicitly tell it to do write files somewhere else. If you actually bothered to read anything on the tails website, you would also immediately find the explicit info you were looking for.

>>59587566
because having more than 2 windows on the scree n is gonna be completely pointless
they're gonna end up tiny

>>59587594
and?

>>59581976
Arch is difficult/tedious to setup -- not just with installing, but creating a usable workflow if you're not using a DE. However, if you have the time/patience, it's worth the effort. It's frequently an end-of-the-road distro for a distrohopper simply because 1) it does exactly what they want it to do, 2) between official packages and the AUR, it has most of what they'd want, 3) pacman is still one of best package managers, and 4) one of the greatest documentation sources for desktop Linux is written primarily with them in mind (the Arch Linux wiki).

Nowadays, Arch is a lot less prone to crashes and other bad behavior, even if you fully update your system and restart every few days. So, realistically, you'd only not use Arch because you don't want to go through the setup process -- and I'm honestly not sure I'd do it again, either, even if I just copied off my current system.

>>59587594
>More than 2 windows
>Tiny
The fuck? How big do you need your shit to be? Are you blind?

>>59587622
>can only see 1-2 posts at a time when reading a thread
why the fuck would I subject myself to this scrolling nightmare

>>59587644
Quit exaggerating, I use 1366x768. Unless the poster is reddit spacing a fuck ton of lines, it's fine.

>>59587622

>browsing the internet in a 700×300 window
Yeah, that's really amazing.

>>59587692
>What are workspaces?
Obviously, you wouldn't constrain your browser to such a small size. Learn some common sense neo /g/

>>59587746

Workspaces aren't an exclusive feature for tiling window managers, idiot.

>>59587815
>???
Your point being?
I was replying to this: "browsing the internet in a 700x300 window"
Gtfo of my board retard

>>59587815
he never said it was, anon

>>59587746
Non-tiling WMs also have workspaces, WTF are you talking about?

>>59587904
>facepalm
I give up. Have a /fucking/ nice day

>>59587848

The point was weather or not he should use tiling window managers with a small screen resolution and having multiple tiny windows on 1 desktop. If he wanted workspaces for each of his windows, he wouldn't be asking for tiled windows.

>my board
Wow, the cringe is big.

>>59587941
You just don't get it do you?
Pro tip: you can have 1 window open on a tiling wm.

>>59587963
what's even the point then
why the fuck would I ask about a tiling WM in the first place if I don't want to utilize its tiling feature

>>59588048
>Sigh
1 window, in this case a browser, in workspace n. Other windows tiling in workspace n.

Fucking retards

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guys this is a friendly thread
:(

>>59588085
dumb frogposter

what bar is used here >>59587148 ?

>>59585173
What the fuck am I reading. Did you guys ever hear of "find"? Also why redirecting grep to /dev/null when there's a -q flag? Why using bash syntax [[ in a sh script?

>>59586795
cli: newsbeuter, it's really nice, but faster and more comfy is the ff addon "brief"

>>59588332
Maybe lemonbar or polybar on the top.
Bottom is dmenu.

>>59588634
find is recursive, you don't always want that. Also find commands tend to be longer / more complicated to type so I wouldn't use it unless I have to.

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>>59588634
>someone on /g/ actually knows sh/bash

>>59588725
find has maxdepth. It's the better option in this case.

>>59588725
>find is recursive
It has a depth flag.

find -maxdepth 1 -name '*a*'

>longer
ls *a* lists all files containing an 'a'.
You can go much more complex with globbing when you enable extglob and globstar.

>>59588804
Yes, because

find -maxdepth 1 -exec ...{} \;

is so much easier to type than

for i in *

>>59588842
This was for a script, typing doesn't really factor in here.
Also see above your post, you can include the shit you'd do in the loop into the find command.

Freebsd is fun.

>>59588842
>Yes, because

find . -maxdepth 1 -perm -u+x -exec grep -q a {} \; -print

>is so much easier to type than

for i in *
do
  if [[ -x "$i" ]] && echo "$i" | grep -e "a" >/dev/null
  then
    echo "$i"
  fi
done


Yes, exactly.

how do i install this https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting

>>59589051
read this page: https://github.com/zsh-users/zsh-syntax-highlighting/blob/master/INSTALL.md
it says so in the readme anon.

>>59589028
Why executing grep instead of -name -iname or -regex?
Why the -print at the end?

>>59589097
thanks, looks like i've been stupid

>>59588815
>-name '*a*'
That's another example why I avoid using find, or at least its -name and -iname options.
"| grep a" only requires one special character while with find I need - * and '

>>59588912
You can, I'm just saying that it's not necessary. Even if it's for a script, it's a pain in the ass to type.

>>59589028
Fair enough, find does make sense here.
Although that grep wouldn't even work. You should use -name or pipe the whole thing to grep.

>>59589126
>"| grep a" only requires one special character while with find I need - * and '
It spawns 1 addition grep process for all files in the directory. If using -regex you just have a single process which does everything, which isn't only faster, but also COOLER

>>59588671
yeah I've been thinking about trying that one

I also stumbled upon Liferea and FeedReader
latter one definitely LOOKS the best but not much info about it

>>59589126
The loop setup that was suggested earlier requires more special characters than the find aproach.

>>59589178
I really think an FF addon is the best thing for reading RSS. You just middleclick to open some interesting links as background tabs and move on to the next article, which is much more comfy than using an external newsreader in a different window. That's at least how I'm doing it.

>>59589173
grep is pretty fast m8. Also, who cares about one more process in the age of 4GHz CPUs and 16GB+ RAM? It's instant either way, but with grep I save a second or two of typing.

>there are people reading rss feeds

>>59589256
Try it and you'll see the light.

>>59589225
tried that, but nah, I like keeping internet browsing and RSS reading separate

I also use chromium so yea

>>59589256
as opposed to what? a facebook news feed?

RSS doesn't really have any viable alternatives or replacements

>>59589318
but chromium is botnet anon

>>59589331
I'm using the de-botnetted type
just too used to the chrome formula to switch

>>59589331
is ungoogled chromium save?

>>59589331
>implying firefox is nowaday less botnet that google
Firefox comes with lots of crap enabled by default. It even contacts google safebrowsing servers. Some stuff: https://gist.github.com/haasn/69e19fc2fe0e25f3cff5

>>59589574
https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/

anybody here use Icecat?

it's a ganoo thing but not very popular it seems

>>59589574
this is good for sorting that out anon, and to any others wanting better privacy from firefox too:
https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/
>>59589681
not really any reason to use it when its the same thing as firefox

>>59589741
>>59589681

It's the same browser but debotnetted and with privacy features added. see >>59589670

>>59589670
>>59589681
>>59589776
>gnu

-> >>59589798

>>59589809
Here's your (You).

>>59589741
>https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/
thanks looks useful

>>59581014

Stallman was MIT, wasn't he?

>>59590047
yes

>>59590047
But he didn't graduate there

I have seen here before that there is some other debian user with this bug, maybe a poop in the repository.
The binutils file is shown as seriously bugged during the apt-get upgrade
>answered "p"
So I upgraded without it by restarting the apt-get upgrade
>done
But now i wonder how to fix this problem...It will appear again and it's important, i take a risk of crashing my system no? My system is already crashing since few days by rebootin itself after grub.
So just to be sure i've done:
>recovery
>grub-update
>mv etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorgmeh.backup
It starts, has not crashed (yet?) but i have to find what to do exactly with this binutils cause it will appear again in apt-get processus.

>>59590690
i remember you asking before.
ask on the debian mailing lists, this one is probably beyond what we can help with.

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>>59590753
I will do that thx. t b h i've seen many people all over the web with this issue (and they have not found how to fix it) but i have not asked debian yet. It's like:
>mummy halp meee
I feel bad to have to do so, feel like pic related.

/g/uys. I have a problem. My monitor's EDID is fucked up and I have to xrandr up everything again each time I log into my session so I can use the proper monitor's resolution instead of the failsafe VGA eye cancer.

I have Fedora 25 installed with X11, Wayland can't even let me use xrandr. How do I make Fedora override the EDID detection and just make it use the resolution I want permanently?

>>59591421
>>59589798

>>59591421
Xorg.conf?

>Wayland can't even let me use xrandr
Shit

What is the any vim like music player recommended for linux?

>>59591525
cmus

>>59591475
>Xorg.conf?
Not him but i have a question.
Why it is not here by default on some systems? And why does it makes the system crash when created? Mine is running without xorg since the beggining to avoid that, but driver works with it's initial conf so it's not really a problem, i juste can't configure a shit.

>>59587310
What if she doesn't have a basement?!?

>>59591586
xorg conf is deprecated

>>59591525
GNU/Linux*

>>59591586
Because then it will just autodetect things, which is more likely to work ootb.
It's also xorg.conf.d now.

>>59589798
>>59589798

>>59591626
>>59591656
Shieet!
Thank you guys, i will take a look:
>xorg.conf.nvidia-xconfig-original
Hum...?
Don't find anything which looks like conf.d.