/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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>>60199315

So after a few months of deliberating, checking requirements and using a live operating system to make sure everything was water tight I've not successfully moved to lubuntu.

I genuinely didn't realise how much simpler installing something from the terminal is, or how fucking easy everything would be, thanks guys. You're alright anons.

>>60199804
>I've not successfully moved to lubuntu
Typo? Why not?

>>60199837
if you read his post, it's a typo

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thoughts on fedora?

>>60199804
remember
try more extreme autisms when you want to, because you want to, not just because the ones who've already done so say its the best.
ultimately theres nothing wrong with using linux mostly like you'd use windows, without tweaking and ricing, if thats what you want, too.

Doing my first ever install of a distro and I went with debian.
Now I'm posed with the question of which desktop environment to pick, any suggestions?

>>60199919
GNU/Linux*

>>60199912
>shit font rendering

>>60199895
>his
There is nor harm in asking.

>>60199935
KDE if you want filepicker thumbnails.

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CS student looking to get into linux. What distro to start with?

>>60199937
Thank you for your correction. I actually intended to just say gnu.

>>60199912
It's ok.
>>60199960
Did you try to change it?

>>60199960
>thinking font rendering depends on the distro
lmao

I have a really autistic question and I'm too lazy to test it myself.
Can I install a distro to a usb drive, install grub there and boot it without fucking the bootloader on my pc and other random shit that could happen?

>>60199935
I like xfce. It's easy to configure, you can change anything and it's lightweight, but the default config is kinda ugly.

>>60199973
>>60199935
GTK filepicker has a preview pane. its still shit compared to KDEs filepicker though. KDE's has thumbnails and you can resize the preview pane to see the image however big you want to. It also looks and acts more like a normal file manager.

>>60199980
install ubunut

>>60199980
Arch adn LSF are very good to learn the internals. But I suggest you use them in a VM.
Debian and Fedora are entirely free-software and pretty good for desktops.

>>60199935
Do a netinstall a test them all. Or just xfce because it's the best without going too autistic

>>60200028
>Fedora
>entirely free-software
pick one

>>60200005
Yes.

>>60200000

>>60199999
it does you fucking retard
different distros have different default settings

Trying to make mpsyt + mpv look decently on i3, thoughts?

>>60199973
>>60200008
>>60200030
>>60200017
Thanks for the answers lads.

>>60200055
>choosing a distro based the default settings

>>60200041
It only allows some non free firmwares but they don't even come installed by default.

>>60200055
retard
just change the fonts

Redpill me on the relationships between the NSA, Red Hat, RHEL and Fedora.

>>60200150
NSA made SELinux(free software) and RH uses it by default.
Basically memes.

>>60200150
red hat is a company with ties to many gubbermints, projects like selinux are developed by red hat and the nsa

fedora is a community distribution of gnu+linux with support from red hat. it gets the newest red hat software (rawhide), which later goes into rhel, a commercial distribution (with tech support)

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Anyone having trouble building mpv?
It usually takes care of itself if I wait, but I might as well ask in case someone more savvy knows.

../video/decode/vd_lavc.c: In function ‘init_avctx’:
../video/decode/vd_lavc.c:595:22: error: ‘AVCodecContext {aka struct AVCodecContext}’ has no member named ‘hw_device_ctx’; did you mean ‘hw_frames_ctx’?
                 avctx->hw_device_ctx = av_buffer_ref(ctx->hwdec_dev->av_device_ref);
                      ^~

Waf: Leaving directory `/home/anon/mpv/build'
Build failed
 -> task in 'objects' failed (exit status 1): 
    {task 140166340852624: c vd_lavc.c -> vd_lavc.c.14.o}

>>60200204
>>60200178
Is SELinux good software or should it be avoided?

>>60200062
More importantly, why some videos aren't listed but work with the URLs? They're not hidden

>>60200242
It's very very good but it's also very complex. On fedora and rhel it should just werks™

>>60200242
It's good if you can figure it out. Some tinfoil Alex Jones types who think we faked the moon landing also think SELinux is botnet.

Just set it to permissive and you'll be fine.

>>60200241
try an older commit?

Is it worth installing arch on my laptop or should I just go the lazy way with a ubuntu flavor?

>>60200335
If you have the time Arch can be very instructive. If not I recommend Debian or Fedora because free-software.

If you choose Arch, consider Parabola, ita an Arch remix that contain only free software.

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>60200363
nice try

>>60200363
Why do people say arch helps you learn?

>>60200516
because it holds your hand when installing something thanks to the aur

>>60200516
Because it's easy to install and requires little human interaction to be maintained, and it's also systemd™ certified.

>>60200475
The "find"command, my man. It can do some wicked stuff. Study its man page, and be enlightened.

>>60200516
Because you have to read the wiki to do anything which is very well written and broad.
I never used Arch btw, just the wiki.

>>60200586
>>60200475
Search for 'memes' in all files in the current directory.

find . -type f -exec grep -nH -e "memes" {} +

>>60200475
When you need a short beep.

(seq 99 | aplay -q &)

Stuffing stuff into aplay is always fun and the possibilities are endless.

Listen to yor ram: sudo cat /dev/mem | aplay -q

>>60200657
grep -r memes *

>>60200516
Honestly, I got a boner when I managed to connect to a wireless network on a terminal during the installation

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>>60200687

>>60200475
When out of arguments.

curl -s randominsults.net | sed -n '/<strong>/{s;^.*<i>\(.*\)</i>.*$;\1;p}'

>>60200885
You are down to earth, but not quite far down enough.

>>60200885
Go ahead, tell them everything you know. It'll only take 10 seconds.

>>60200885
You should learn from your parents mistakes - try using some birth control.

For NixOS

are the hashes used to basically say:
"If you don't produce this exact hash from your current runtime environment then you won't even be able to locate this program"
Basically meaning that it's a way to guarantee you're using the same environment every time you run something or it fails?

Or do you just execute a program and the hashes somehow allow the program to locate exact versions of every dependency it needs?

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>tfw to intelligent to successfully install archlinux

>>60200619
Thats no different than any other distro. If you do things yourself, you'll need to read the documentation. The archwiki is good for that but you dont need arch for it.
>>60200690
But thats the same as any other distro you install manually.

what are some lesser known but interesting wms?

>>60201154
try arch-anywhere

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Is there a distro that has package management like Slackware but where I don't have to install literally the entire innernette on my computer?

>>60201168
The Arch wiki is made specifically for arch and arch is made specifically to be build like that.

The learning curve will be much smoother if you are not trying to adapt the arch wiki to, say, debian.

> you'll need to read the documentation
There is no other distro with documentation as good as arch's. The second bests are ubuntu/rhel and they don't even come close.

>>60201203
>package management like Slackware
none?

Did you try to not select everything in the installer?

FreeBSD would probably be what you want but it's not gnu linux.

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>>60200291
It now works.

I installed debian xfce, it's working fine but there's a problem with the resolution. I can't change either the aspect ratio or the resolution, and the display is showing up as "unknown display" for some reason. Any of you guys know what I should do from here? Still new to this whole linux thing.

I'm using a laptop by the way.

what is the best frontend for mpv?
>inb4 just use mpv
i would but I'm that guy who loves to change lots of settings while watching

I just wanna say that Gnome finally has built in redshift/f.lux

>>60201265
Post output of lspci.


Tip:
Check the whiskers-menu, the murrine-gtk-themes and the faenza icon set.

>>60201298
What is this and is this good?

>>60201338
It tints your screen orange at night so you aren't kept awake by the screen as much or something

>>60201193

I don't have a computer. I have a Macintosh.

>>60201365
DELET

>>60201361
ohh sounds useful

>>60201218
>arch is made specifically to be build like that.
no, thats complete bullshit and you know it. Unless you're talking out your ass because you've never installed any distro like that except arch. Debian is the same shit if you use a netinst, for example.
You also know arch's docs are mostly applicable to any other distro, too.
You're also ignoring the gentoo wiki, which is where alot of archwiki was taken from.

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why I can't just install anything on any distro?
why I can't do it?
why? why?

>>60201486
because you're too stupid

>>60201473
>no, thats complete bullshit and you know it.
It is. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux

>Unless you're talking out your ass because you've never installed any distro like that except arch.
I'm not an Arch user.

>Debian is the same shit if you use a netinst, for example.
It's not. Netinst is not made to build a complex system upon. It's made for people that only need a basic set of software. Such as most servers.

>You also know arch's docs are mostly applicable to any other distro, too.
As long as the other distro has somewhat the same packages, versions of the packages and the same package structure/nomenclature.

>You're also ignoring the gentoo wiki, which is where alot of archwiki was taken from.
Gentoo wiki is pretty good and I did forget about it. But it's not even close to Arch's.

>>60201486
You can.

>>60201154
Antergos

>>60201599
Again, bullshit
None of these things being "specifically made for x" matter. Make an actual argument about the practical reality of whatever you're talking about if you're going to say its better for something. Don't appeal to some vague notion of it 'being specifically designed to work with [whatever]' with no further explanation.
Debians normal install is a complex system. Debian stable is literally the same fucking system, just with only the barebones. Debian netinst is exactly the fucking same as arch, gentoo, void, etc in regards to the DIY start with a minimal syystem and set up your own enviornment shit. In my experience with all of those afformentioned distros, at least.
As well, I've only ever rarely had problems with archwikis documentation using void or debian. Most of the time its just as applicable. The hypothetical notion that there could potentially end up being incompatability if it used a different software version or shipped a different configuration never fucking manifested.

>>60201800
ok buddy

Are there any tablets that can run linux? All the ones I've seen have several important features that don't work, also need it to have a sim card slot/3g

>>60201800
>debian stable
debian netinst*

I dont hate arch by the way. Ive used and liked it too. But literally nothing about it makes it "good for learning" compared to any other 'diy' distro, and when people constantly say 'arch helps you learn' it seems like they think those are features of arch, not just features of minimal distributions/minimal installations. Its like fucking calling Ubuntu "Linux," as though there were no other distros and you didnt need to be any more specific.

>>60201822
Not an argument.
>>60201843
My ugee tablet works well with the latest kernel. Though on debian or arch I had to install the digimend kernel drivers. Just werks on void though.

>>60201888
I meant portable tablet not drawing tablet, sorry anon

faggots, install mps-youtube
this shit is amazing
https://github.com/mps-youtube/mps-youtube

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guys, how do you deal with firefox now dopping gtk2?

the fucking filechooser is even more shit than the one in gtk2. there are black flashes whenever any dialog opens https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=771708 and those fucking piece of shit cocksuckers refuse to fix this. gnome is such a pile of dogshit, i just with i had qt5 firefox. anyone else having problems with gtk3 firefox here?

>>60202240
time to find a different browser?

Do any anons know what alsa-plugins-ffmpeg and gst-libav(gstreamer-libav) are needed for?

>>60202240
>anyone else having problems with gtk3 firefox here?
I was until I downgraded just to get gtk2 back. The filepicker is unbelievable shit. I couldn't stand the fact that it automatically initiates an actual search instead of just jumping down the first file beginning with the letter you typed

This sort of shit easily falls into the category of development decisions that really make me question whether the people developing the software even use their own shit or not.
I bet these fags are all running macs or something

>>60202240
weeb pls go

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>>60202345
>>60202378
is this leterally it? switch to chrome or stay on firefox 52(that STILL doesn't even have video acceleration on linux). jesus fuck some open source is just such fucking garbage. literal dog shit. i would literally castrate every gtk faggot myself. this shit is giving me an aneurysm.

why the fuck are linux such trash in desktop department? i don't want any of the gnome shit, i just want a gui kit and acceleration. why is the fucking xorg still having tearing? can't i just have a desktop without tearing? it wasn't an issule back in windows 2000 for fuck's sake. why do they need wayland(that STILL DOESN'T WORK properly) to fix this simple fucking issue of vsync?

i have my programs that i use on linux, but desktop infrastructure that supports them is pure shit.

>>60202550
>chrome
enjoy your botnet

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>>60202550
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.

>>60202747
GNU/Linux*

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>>60202422
Anime website.

>>60202239

this looks awesome! ^_^

>>60202550
>I dont want any of the gnome shit
Gnome devs are irredeemable faggots who want to pretend there is no enviornment other than gnome. They dont like themes because they undermine the gnome "brand."
The KDE filepicker is great and theres a version of firefox that uses it maintained by opensuse I think.
You're supposed to just use a compositor to stop tearing though, arent you, like compton? I dont know if it doesnt totally fix it since I dont use it, since I dont care much about tearing, but thats what I Hear people say.

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>>60202239
>

>>60202959
that isn't a downloader
mps-youtube is like ncmpcpp for youtube
backend is youtube-dl and mpv/mplayer
bookmarked that thing a while back, tried it today, and love it

>>60202959
>gui for youtube-dl
Why though.

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>>60199912
I use it. 8/10. Thinking of switching to Arch because of muh bloat, though.

Can someone give me a quick rundown on what Hardened Gentoo offers?

>>60202991
Normies prefer guis.

>>60202984
>needing babby tools

>>60203008
did you even try it you cum gargling faggot?

>>60203018
mpv does _literally_ better

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GUYS WHAT DO I DO WITH THIS SHIT?!

does anyone have the same problem here? does anyone use gtk3 firefox without gnome compositor?

>>60202895
>like compton
compton doesn't fully fix tearing. and it's constantly having artefacts on intel laptop i'll be forced to use for a few month. my nvidia machine work ok with their latest addition, but still i suffered from tearing for a few years before i even realised there is a problem.

>>60203053
literally nope, but well, your fault for missing a nice program

>>60203088
> a babby program
FTFY

>>60203076
What config did you use for compton?

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>>60203126
all of them. trust me, it never fully works.

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>>60203004
I used youtube-dl from the command line on windows when I was a normie win7 user, without ever having used a command line before.
I wasnt upset or intimidated by having to use a command line. I read the manpage, tested it a few times, then got to downloading videos I wanted. Youtube-dl doesn't need a gui.
Stop treating normies like toddlers. Thats what makes them act like that.
>>60203076
>does anyone use gtk3 firefox without gnome compositor?
I do but Im not having that problem at all. But I'm using different video drivers than you(nouveau)

>>60203289
>But I'm using different video drivers than you(nouveau)
what else do you use? wayland? what compositor?

i doubt this black background shit is due to drivers.

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>>60201486

>>60203346
cwm with no compositor like compton or anything. I figure its due to drivers since im not using any compositor, and im using x11, and I doubt this would depend on the window manager.

>>60201203
NixOS

>>60203608
fail

>>60201285
GNOME-MPV or SMPlayer.

>>60201285
Bomi is a fork, not quite a frontend, but its really nice.

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well guys can you at least throw me a decent theme for gtk3/gtk2? no overthetop shit or le black edgy backgrounds, just something with pastel neutral colors.

zuwikto went to shit with the last update.

Do you guys also get sad when certain bugs that allowed you to do cool shit are fixed?

My bilingual desktop just became monolingual after a MATE update.

Thoughts on PureOS? https://pureos.net/

>>60203925
It looks like yet another "Debian with pre-installed stuff" derivative distribution.

>>60203925
>https download
>freedom
>gnu/linux
would buy

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>>60203925
>>60203978


>PureOS is a derivative of Debian GNU/Linux main, with added emphasis on privacy protection, where we have preinstalled the best privacy-protecting software applications and allow you to easily encrypt your hard drive.

>PureOS takes the guesswork out of protecting your privacy and helps you surf the web safely, without being tracked by advertisers or marketers. It comes with the best Free/Libre privacy and security software and apps for privacy “out of the box”—including the Tor browser, the Duck Duck Go search engine, EFF Privacy Badger, and HTTPS: Everywhere bundled into our official web browser, PureBrowser.

>PureOS is entirely free/libre software, meaning that you can freely use it for any purpose, study its source code, share it and even modify it.

You don’t have to trust our word that it respects and protects you—it is independently verifiable by security experts and software developers around the world. Should you find ways to improve its security further, please get in touch with us!

By the way, how do I change titlebar colour for MATE 1.18? In 1.16 "customize theme" had a place to select colours, but now it's missing. (It allows you to select which titlebar+window border theme you want, but not colours for them)

>>60203978
Yeah, its made by these guys: https://puri.sm
They also sell libre laptops and stuff.

>>60204014
t. shill

>>60204023
>asking about opinions on distro xy
>shilling
???

>>60201193
>>60201377
>>60201627

nvm fixed it.
Deleting MacOS partitions and installing normally instead of trying to dualboot made it so easy.

posted from archlinux on my macbook air =^)

Guys, been using the Nix package manager on my Fedora 25 system for a while now, my only gripe is the inability to get the programs into the menu. Currently my solution is to run them from the terminal.

>>60204268
Just to add, I only use the Nix package manager for software that is unavailable in the Fedora repo's, e.g. MPV.

what are some good mini pcs? (like raspberry pi)

gotta be powerful though cause im gonna run gentoo lol

>>60200475
curl -sL z3bra.org/tits

>>60200128
That doesn't fix anything though

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>>60203669
>le edgy black backgrounds
Dark backgrounds are easier on the eyes at night. They're not trying to invoke the dark colors=DARK LIKE MY SOUL shit. You're almost as big a faggot as 12 year olds who want 'edgy' themes if you're turned off by anything with blacks for some reason like that.
if theres any reason dark themes are bad its because they're sort of boring and mostly look alike. I Just gave up on trying to find one that looked particulalry good and like the rest of my colors after a while. Adapta is alright.
also https://www.gnome-look.org/browse/cat/135/ord/latest/

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

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>>60204941

>>60204918

https://i.4cdn.org/wsg/1493259750609.webm

What can I install so I can add an embedded terminal to my desktop in KDE Plasma?

NOT
>NOT
NOT a drop-down one. I mean something that's always there ready to type in, which gets keyboard focus, when I have all applications minimized to show the desktop.

>>60205136
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Terminal_as_a_transparent_wallpaper

>>60205039
>how can people even read these moon runes?
What do you mean? They show up crystal clear

>>60205183
o. tilda defaults to not behaving like a normal application. To sitting on the desktop.
I just need to make it transparent and to focus when I hit a key when the desktop is focused. Ok.

will i break anything by deleting the old linux kernel after an upgrade?

>>60206047
No, but it's always a good idea to keep at least 1 old version

>>60206047
no but a new kernel version might be unstable or not boot at all so don't clean them entirely

How do i get a desktop like his:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKWGOhiN68I

trusty tahr 14.04
with the kali linux on it?

>>60201203
Salix?

>>60206332
>links to tutorial video
>HOW TO DO

install source mage

>>60206527
he doesnt say in the vid how to get kali on the trusty tahr, nor how to create that part of the desktop....

>>60206332
> installing Kali as a day-to-day setup

Kill yourself, you retarded gorilla nigger. People like you come in here, fucking watching Mr. Robot or some shit and want to be a bunch of leet haxors, and you ask shit like how do I fucking set up a computer with fucking kali linux installed. Are you so fucking retarded you can't comprehend the concept of a live CD, or a special-purpose distribution? Or do you actually just not know that there are distributions besides Kali? I bet you fucking think that GNOME and KDE are distributions, you little faggot. Honest to fucking god people like you fucking ruined /g/. Well, scratch that, subhuman gorilla nigger chimpanzees like you ruined /g/. Kill yourself, you ignorant cattle.

>>60206700
pls go have sex

>>60206700
is this some hot new copypasta?

>>60206700
i dotn install it as a day to day set up, my name calling friend.

I want to have it NEXT to the trusty.

>>60206700
kek

>>60206700
You're so stupid, you bought a solar-powered flashlight.

Best distro for 1440p resolution???

>>60206784
install ubunut

>>60206784
kali

>>60206784
Pentoo.

>>60206784
DSL

>>60206784
Source Mage.

>>60206784
GuixSD

>>60206700
I don't know why eeryone is laughing at this guy because he is right

>>60206700
>Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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>>60203525
Does anyone have a higher resolution of the frog in that picture

>>60203669

What changed with Zukitwo or Zukitre?

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>>60206886
This is the source

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>>60203669

Zukitre spin-off
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1157818/

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>>60206958
Adwaita with Greybird borders

What are the reasons to use Linux Mint instead of just sticking with Ubuntu?

>>60207020
excuses*

>>60207020
Cinnamon would be the only excuse to use Mint instead of Ubuntu and even it's available on Ubuntu.

>>60207017

Adwaita is nice and neutral, but I can't stand the pure white background. I'd prefer something grayer. The bright highlight color is also distracting.

Is that Nemo in the screenshot? I can tell by the retarded developers adding custom styles to widgets which causes that ugly grey box on the bottom left in the pane with the default theme and pretty much every other theme that's not theirs.

>>60199315
What is the status of Nvidia-DRM-Wayland on 3.24?
Last time I tried it pooped itself.

>>60202240

>refuse to fix this
Yes, because fixing it is as simple as saying "okay, we fix this now".
Idiot.

>>60207058
divorced

>>60206784
nothing but shit replies... thanks a lot /g/

>>60207050
Yes, I'm trying out Cinnamon today. It's not awful but I'm probably going back to MATE soon.

>>60207058
Give up on wayland, it still has a decade before it has basic functionality of xorg

>>60207063
Sit down, give your mind a rest - it obviously needs it.

>>60207063

Display resolution has nothing to do with distributions, you idiot. There isn't a perfect distribution for every little, retarded, niche use case, idiot.
If you can't figure that out using common sense I wonder how you can manage to use a computer at all.

>>60207063
Literally any of them. Why the fuck would you think something as simple as screen resolution is going to be different? You're going to be using xorg, which every fucking distro has.

>>60207108
>>60207100
>>60207097

you guys obviously only use 1366x768 or some bullshit, a lot of distros use wm and de that DON'T scale well

>>60207134
You're just incompetent.

>>60207134

Your window manger has nothing to do with scaling. GUI toolkits have and all of the distributions use the same. All of your programs are written to use the same toolkits across distributions. They all work the same.
Retarded idiot.

>>60207134
There is literally nothing wrong with 1366x768.

>>60207050
What about Minwaita? It's an objectively superior version of Adwaita with a slightly more gray background.

>>60202996
>Thinking of switching to Arch because of muh bloat, though.
>bloat
Fedora is pretty fucking bare bones ootb. And Arch doesn't split packages, if you install all of the same programs on both, Arch will be more bloated even though it will show fewer packages. Due to not splitting. You get a lot of stuff that you don't really need with Arch. I don't care personally, I use it but that's how it is.

Is there any modern botnet free cpu?

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>>60207271

Not a fan of the elaborate, street light colored window buttons.
It's getting more and more harder to find constant and updated plain GTK themes.

>>60207329
Just use Greybird borders.

Does Wayland do some fuckery with fonts? I can get the fonts to look extremely beautiful on Xorg but on Wayland the look like shit.

>>60207472
Cause wayland is underdeveloped shit.
There is literally zero reasons to use it

>>60207215
>16:9
>nothing wrong

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>Gnu/Linux/Windows
i never knew qemu could do the same as virtualbox

>>60208338
qemu can not do full screen on my 16/9 screen

>>60208377
nothing can

>>60208403
vbox can do it

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Hello /fglt/, suggest me a distribution.
>I'm fairly experienced with Linux
>I'm looking for a "daily driver" (retarded word)
>I'd be mostly programming and learning to program
>Don't give a shit if games work or not
>Spotify has to work (I have a tiny disk and cba maintain a collection)
>Xfce4, MATE or LXQt preferred
>Wide variety of available software would be a plus (don't care if repo or compiling myself)
>Minimal install would be a plus
>Something a bit more "challenging" to learn more about Linux would be nice

>>60208502
Any of them

>>60200259
Found the problem yesterday, had to disable the music only toggle. Still have to rice it properly.

>>60208511
I just realized this as soon as I posted. I'm retarded.

Anyways, I just can't seem to quit distrohopping. Fml.

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When updating or installing via console I repeatedly get the messages:
sudo apt-get install numix-gtk-theme numix-icon-theme-circleE: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11: Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?

I recently had some problems with Windows as well with memory positions unable to be written. Someone suggested to run a memtest, but I can't get the damn thing to run properly. I reinstalled Ubuntu after those issues started appearing.
But I AM using two ~5 year old Memory sticks as well as two very new ones.
Should I just throw out my old ones and see iof that fixes it? or is my installation of Ubuntu fucked too due to the issue?

>>60208530
Tried Void?

>>60207061
>>60207082
I will never give up!

>>60208545
fuck off shill

>>60208553
>recommeding $random_distro
>shilling

Guys, srsly. Try GuixSD. Have it running in VM and it's just too comfy. I really hope when it's out of beta it will gain some popularity. The package manager does so many things right.

>>60208545
Yes, I've tried Void. It's actually the distribution I'm considering right now.

>>60208576
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/
Make sure to check the video: https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/misc/2016-07__GNU_Guix_Demo_2.webm
>inb4 fuck off shill

>>60208553
The shill meme has no place in a thread about free software. Actually promoting free software and makeing people aware of it is good practice.

#stopthebully

/r/ing /fglt/ friendship tank

>>60208659
I saved it somewhere in my never ending incoming directory and it will take weeks to find it.

How does /fglt/ organize it's 4chan files? Are you using some tagging software, special filenames or directory structures? Please share.

>>60204513
bump

>>60208679
4chan dir:
topic dir:
subtopic_originalunixtime.png

which results in something like

~/4chan/tech/rms_1493892026176.png

>>60208716
>not saving the original filename
what is wrong with you

>>60208727
How can you know the time order in which it was posted?

>>60208553
What the fuck is wrong with you son

>>60208780
this
>>60208727
nigga, the chan unix time is sacred, you don't simple rename it

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>>60202239
I love you. Just sayin'.

>>60208841
inb4 100 unixporn posts featuring mps-youtube on plebbit. Mark my words. They're posing amoung us.

>>60200062
Is it possible to browse videos while there's already one open without starting another session of mps?

>>60208914
Who gives a shit. Also see: >>60208641

>>60208920
Afaik no.

>>60208920
fill an issue on its github
my idea: adding a & to a play command makes it start in the background

>>60208953
That's a shame. Really nice program though, found it because the youtube player was eating all my CPU and I can't imagine going back to it.

>>60208965
Great idea, I don't have a gitgud account, but someone should report it, background playing is a great addition

>>60208914
>They're posing amoung us.
the majority as of late tb-h

>>60208841
what is this? yet another copy of a copy of some tui player?

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Best distro to install for me and my tech illiterate mom?

She only uses it for checking emails, online shopping, facebook and watching videos.

>>60209007
Ubuntu probably
Maybe Debian

>>60209007
what ever is visually appealing and has maintained security

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>>60209039
>>60209024
how about linux mint since it has an update manager!
How do I make it look like AppleOS?

>>60209047
Mint is good too
You don't, just use the KDE version for muh eyecandy

>>60209007
Debian stable

>>60209007
install ubunut
>>60208990
the original poster literally linked to the github page, you fucking retard

>>60209080
Friendly thread.

>>60209057
>recommending mint
bet you fell on the floor when you were a toddler

Why is my fresh ubuntu install 3 times slower than my fresh windows 7 install? What am i doing wrong?

>>60209099
Nvidia gpu with nuveau?

>>60209099
>using gnu/linux unironically

>>60209099
If I were you (an MS shill), I would think about suicide.

>>60209092
He asked for linux for retards

>>60209122
GNU/Linux*

>>60209092
>>60209121
Friendly thread.

>>60209122
don't use the r word

>>60209122
Yeah, yeah, keep talking, someday you might say something intelligent.

>>60209152
Friendly thread, hotboi.

>>60209099
define fresh. what version are you running? did you go with default installation instructions?

>>60209110
Ah you mean nouvideou?

>>60209238
No, i meant nouvideo4u

>>60209208
16.04
>fresh
playing tutorials from youtube,reading PDF's, codeblocks, Qt
>default installation instructions
i am afraid i don't know how to do that, i just inserted the usb tip in the laptop and hurr durr next next
Do i have to read a book or something? This is like learning how to walk all over again.

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I want to be cool too (curl git.io/something) so I made some ansi art, but every time when I try to paste it on gist gif related happens. What do?

>>60209275
well, have you curl'd it to see if it displays correctly?

>>60209273
wew, you're lucky to be in the friendly thread

>>60209289
Yeah, I paste it, github converts it one seconds after ^v to one line. When I save it and curl it, I get a single line instead of what I paste into it.

>>60200008
Need XFCE with KDE's file picker.

>>60209299
add some printf "\n" s or something

>>60209275
>>60209287
Posted it from cli to 0x0, curling it works: curl https://0x0.st/YXn.txt
Could anyone ITT turn it into git.io/hal to be cool? I literally spent 10 minutes on it.

>having to manually build aegisub on ubuntu to get an up to date build
Kill me now. The version on the repos is from 2014

>>60209273
>i am afraid i don't know how to do that, i just inserted the usb tip in the laptop and hurr durr next next
>Do i have to read a book or something? This is like learning how to walk all over again.
Okay, let's start slowly. Did you actually install it or do you use a live version? Can you tell the difference?
Did you install it alongside your fresh windows 7 installation or did you replace one with the other?
Did the installation process ask you about SWAP? What did you choose?
Can you tell what GPU driver you're running with? If you changed nothing, you're probably running with nouveau (the other guys called it nouvideou/nouvideo4u as a joke) which might be a bit slower than a proprietary driver. You might have to replace that one to speed it up.

>>60209328
Tried that too, no luck.
Can anyone confirm that pasting https://0x0.st/YXn.txt turns everyone into a single line so I can be sure my browser isn't the problem?

>Be on the verge of bankruptcy
>Intentionally become bankrupt by getting a new PC build

Starting from ground zero again.
How is /fglt/ doing?

With 8GB ram, do i need a swap partition?

>>60209299
I think you replied to >>60209289 instead of >>60209287

>>60209384
You don't. Unless you like to hibernate your PC

>>60208545

What do you get out of it when other people use "your" distribution? I put "your" into quotation marks, because you are in no way affiliated with it. You didn't contribute to it. You are just a leech leeching off other people's work.
Kill yourself. You and everyone else doing the same.

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>>60209357
srsly nigga, get off of the git.io/github meme

github is cancer, it stand for censorship (see webfor retards, cpluseuqality, etc), and its a nasty botnet, the worst kind of it (canvas fingerprinting) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_fingerprinting

>>60209397
Your? What the fuck are you saying? Did you smoke something?

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>>60209399
webm for retards*

Why would you use a swap partition instead of a swap file if the fs supports it?

>>60208914

>feeling smug and superior for using a piece of software other people wrote allegedly before other people started using it
Kill yourself.

>>60209435
this

>>60209397
Is it so incomprehensible for you that there are people in the world who discover good stuff and try to share this with other people? Not for monetary gain, but for the sake that more people enjoy the good stuff? Have commercialism and shill marketing ruined you as a person?

>>60209435
>Kill yourself.
>Friendly Thread.

>>60209462
you're missing the point faggot
you're at /fglt/, which means gnu/linux, which again means kill is nothing but stop (man kill) yourself is a reference to yourself.

do you even high tech?

>the post among us

>>60209457

This has nothing to do with shills, marketing or people sharing their new discoveries.
This is solely someone trying to get people to use what they are using so they can feel better about themselves. You see it with everything in here. Distributions and certain pieces of software (window managers, terminal emulators, music players, etc).

>>60209486
Nice try, but he said Kill, not kill.
Kill yourself is not what /fglt/ is meant to be, which is being friendly to
>users of all levels

When you spot a stupid person, educate it; don't call it out and make it staying away.

>>60209488
wew lad, you're fucked up right into the head if you're serious. I first mentioned mps in this thread and didn't try to force anyone using it for example. Nor I did make the thread about void. I'm not the only user and I only suggested it because I'm already happy with it. I don't care how many people use it, hell I hate things too famous. What the fuck are you trying to prove, I don't know.

>>60209539

The youtube-mps discussion is a whole different reply chain. Learn to use 4chan.

>>60209588
Well then, nice baiting, you got me there

>>60209488
> so they can feel better about themselves
Yeah, but you're making up their motivation for your own explanation, don't you? But I'm with you, so let's roll with that assumption. Where you see need for confirmation as a bad thing, I see it as a good one. This guy has something he wants you to use in order to confirm his own "right" choice and feel good about it. If he himself thought it's hot garbage, he wouldn't offer it to you unironically. He'd have to hide it instead, like a dirty secret.

Sure, the offer can be annoying to you, but that's your response. Unless proven otherwise, the offer didn't happen out of malice. He wants you to use the not shit stuff he uses too and offers it. So my question is what's bugging you so much about this process that you can't blend it out? Should he restrain himself more? Should he not mention it at all? Under what circumstances is it okay to advertise the free stuff he didn't even make himself?

>>60209539
Please stay civil and friendly.

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>tfw coworker finally made the switch from Winblows 7 to Noobuntu
>tfw I can finally feel knowledgeable by helping someone set up their GNU/Linux system

>>60209827
Wished I had a job where I could use my GNU/Linux skills. Everywhere I try, people want all sorts of credentials, which I do not have. Fuck this gay earth.

>>60209891
What qualifications do you have?

>>60209827
explain the fucking pepper meme please. I really don't get it.

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>>60210170

>>60210016
None, droped out of school when I was 16. Made #yolo till 20 and then gnu/linux joined my life.
I'm skilled with shell, perl, python, c, but every job I apply, people want to see cerificates I do not have so I drop out even before having an actual inteview. ;_;

>>60210219
maybe get one of these gay ass red hat certs
they dont care about school shit, just bout your skill and wallet

>>60210219
>None, droped out of school when I was 16. Made #yolo till 20
Well, you're fucked I guess. Shouldn't have dropped out and expected to land anything but a McDonald's job.

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I work at a language centre and have been trying to get the mgmt to allow me to install a lite distro like linux on all the PCs. These generic Dell PCs are slow as it is on Winblows, and the tech illiterate teachers get viruses on 'em all the fucking time. I don't see why it'd be a bad idea considering they only use the PCs to open audio/video files and surf the internet.

>>60210219
The magic, son, is to have good connections. Get good friends who recommend you to (random jew company chief). Join lots of IRC channels.

>>60210251
Distro like xubuntu*

>>60210251
I think it's a great idea. I like suggesting GNU/Linux to my apex normie friends and family, because if literally all they do is use a browser and play movies or something, and literally never install new programs, gnu/linux works much better than windows. Plus, they have freedom and no more windows botnet.

>>60210300
Except for maximum normie conformity they also need Flash Player, access to Netflix etc which take away their freedoms again.
Also normies play video games now, what about that? It's what's keeping my sister from switching to Xubuntu right now.

Anyone tried Manjaro i3? Is it worth it or should I just go for Arch?

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>>60210323
>need

>>60210323
GNU/linux is pretty bad for mainstream games like GTA, ubisoft games and other "AAA" $60 games with good graphics, but they're all shit now anyway. It has a ton of games on steam and gog, as well as a huge array of emulators allowing you to play basically any game from older consoles.

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>>60210323
GNU+Linux has many fully libre/free games, such as Tux Racer!

>>60210364
Hey, *I* don't need it, but normies "need" it badly enough that for them, it's a dealbreaker when they consider switching to GNU/Linux. It's stupid but hey, we're talking about normies here.

>>60210392
>>>>>>>>consoles
If you're into older PC games like my sister is, you're stuck with either Windows or Wine (just as cancerous and too inconvenient for normies). Game bugs out in Windows? Oh well, the game is just badly programmed. Game bugs out in Wine? LINUX IS BAD AND ANON SHOULD FEEL BAD FOR RECOMMENDING ME THIS JUNK.

>>60210452
Hey, I'm fully content with Nethack, Anonymine, 2048, supertuxkart and OpenMW. But normies want to play [mainstream game only available on Windows here].

>>60210589
see >>60203289
this guy is right

normies want and deserve better

>>60210589
oh wow i havent played nethack in a long time. this post makes me sad but ill probably start a new character today

GNU (with thread added): >>60210732

>>60210672
>implying normies care
they want a linux that just werks

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>>60210748
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.

>>60210765
thanks dr stalman

I have a script named myscript that does

exec myprogram $@

How do I prevent

./myscript "hello world"

from doing

exec myprogram "hello" "world"

instead of

 exec myprogram "hello world"

?

>>60210999
a) >>60210739
b) use quotes "$@"
c) alway use quotes
d) whatever happens, even when you're just using numbers, use quotes
e) use quotes, always

>>60211023
Wouldn't using

exec myprogram "$@"

turn

./myscript hello world

into

exec myprogram "hello world"

?

>>60211044
Yes, and that's precisely what you want right?

>>60211073
Nope. I want

./myscript hello world

to be

 exec myprogram hello world

and

./myscript "hello world"

to be

exec myprogram "hello world"

.
I can't seem to find the right keywords to find what I want on searx.

how do i make gnome behave like windows?

>>60211102
How about you start with the basics of shell scripting and what arguments are.

>>60211211
What exactly do you think is wrong in my reasonning?

>>60211198
Install KDE

>>60211253
no i dont want to install x

>>60211243

$ cd /tmp
$ echo '#!/bin/bash
#myscript
exec touch /tmp/"$@"' >> myscript
$ cat myscript 
#!/bin/bash
#myscript
exec touch /tmp/"$@"
$ chmod u+x myscript
$ ./myscript "hello world"
$ ls -l hello*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anon anon 0 Mai  4 16:25 hello world
$ rm "hello world"
$ ./myscript hello world
$ ls -l hello* && ls -l world*$ ls -l hello* && ls -l world*
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anon anon 0 Mai  4 16:27 hello
-rw-rw-r-- 1 anon anon 0 Mai  4 16:27 world

Use quotes.
Why? When you call

$ ./myscript "hello world"

the shell substitutes hello world (as a single word) for "$@" which gets passed to (in this case) touch. When you call

./myscript hello world

the shell substitutes hello world (as two words) for "$@" which get passed to touch.

>>60211515
Thanks anon. It doesn't make sense to me but I'll try to remember this behavior.

>>60211590
I recommend reading up on the basics of substitution on http://wiki.bash-hackers.org.
Also I just realized that my script here >>60211515 will actually only create the first file in /tmp, and all following files in the current working directory. In the example it didn't matter because /tmp WAS the pwd but it would make a difference in other directories.

>>60211329
You'll instantly regret your life if you use wayland