/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

First for check the damn Arch wiki before you post

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install SourceMage

What IP should I use if I want to connect my KVM guest to SSH tunnel on my host?

Second for whats the proper way to manage installs and where are programs installed to? I mean why is there nothing similar to command centre? I know how to delete a program but how do i get a list and of what each does?

Also whats with encrypted drives not being able to be set up with most installers? the ubuntu and debian ones are bugged, how do you do it manually or even work it automatically (i dont get partition tables really)

>>60518010
The only one that will get this working

how does wine work for stuff like games that need dx? wanna run my library on linux but idk how well it will run. is reactos a viable chpise for games yet?

>>60518038
I will fucking stab you.

>>60517913
I have seen a great number of poorly Photoshopped images in my time as a photographer and I can tell by the pixels that it is a fake.

>>60518119
Yeah, top of trannies' head is too blurry.

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>>60518119
Please avoid using the term “photoshop” as a verb, meaning any kind of photo manipulation or image editing in general. Photoshop is just the name of one particular image editing program, which should be avoided since it is proprietary. There are plenty of free programs for editing images, such as the GIMP.

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So is infinality still worthwhile? One of the packages in AUR has been flagged out of date for two weeks.

>>60518205
Its been out of day since june 2016
Fontconfig has "similar" settings but it looks nothing like infinaility

There is a github with instructions on how to mimick infinality

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>>60518155
>Photoshop = GIMP
kek

Is Anthy the only alternative to Mozc for Japanese input in Linux?

>>60518294
no

>>60518294
Mozc is the best though, why would you want anything else?

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I want to learn to use linux on another computer but as i don't have a lot of money i plan to buy an old used one.
Is a 1 GB DDR2 with 80 GB hdd enough?Do i need more?
I plan to install Debian or Ubuntu and the requirements are pretty low but i don' want them to be just enough so that it doesn't crash

>>60518321
Well there are most definitely distros you can install and run very comfortably on that machine, I can't really say about Ubuntu though since it does seem to be getting more and more bloated all the time and I haven't used it in 5+yrs

>>60518320
I'm having some troubles with it and I'm unable to find a solution so I thought about giving a shot with other options.
As for the problem, sometimes when I change from English to Japanese input, it doesn't convert consonants, only vowels for some reason.
So it types like this: おrえ wあ bあkあ kあnあ
instead of 俺は馬鹿かな

>>60518368
That is very strange, I've never once had that problem with it.
Maybe your settings are messed up. Are you sure you have it set to "Romaji" input mode?

Also there is a "Romaji table" in the settings. Maybe your table is all messed up. If you click customize at the very bottom-left you can select to reset defaults from the dropdown menu.

>>60518136
That's Sasha Grey, not a tranny

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>60518510

aplay -c 2 -f S16_LE -r 44100 /dev/urandom

>>60518557
Try this:

hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' < /dev/urandom | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i=0; i<1; i+=0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(1382*exp((a[$1%8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | aplay -q -c 4 -f U8 -r 44100

>>60518246
>Its been out of date since june 2016
I don't know about the infinality upstream, but the archies have been patching it into updated versons of fontconfig and cairo, etc. In this case it looks like freetype had something fixed but freetype-infinality hasn't been updated.

I'm more curious whether the current hinting options (accessible via tweak tool or font-manager, for example) in the vanilla fontconfig are as good as the old infinality was.

>>60518448
>>Are you sure you have it set to "Romaji" input mode?
Yes, it's set to Romaji.
>>Also there is a "Romaji table" in the settings.
I never touched the table but checking it now, there's nothing odd there.
The problem is that it recognizes consonants as direct input. It doesn't happen always, and when it does, restarting ibus solves the issue most of the times. But it's still a pain to restart it every time.
I also found that this issue never happens with Gimp, but it does happens with every other program I tried (including ff, mousepad, libreoffice, gjiten and others). So this is another solution I found, which is to open gimp and write there and then copy and paste.

>>60518557
can you make a verson for paplay?

Hello. I have house 1 and house 2. I have the computers at both location connected over openvpn House 2 has RTL-2832u card and tzap converting a channel. I want to stream this over http or anything similar to house 1. I tried ffmpeg -i /dev/dvb/adapter0/dvr0 /srv/http/joseph.mkv but this only makes a big file I don't need. Can I just run a systemd service in the background to periodically delete this file or is there a more proper way to setup streaming terrestrial television?

>>60518510
cd code
cd -
cd -
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cd -
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[...]

>>60518611
just ssh

>>60518603
Sounds like the problem is in ibus, not mozc. Try uim-mozc, scim-mozc or fcitx-mozc (I used to run uim and ibus is certainly better, but it's worth a try in your case).

>>60518581
>upstream
It isnt an upstream package, its a set of patches that boohmii was running,he vanished out of thin air and his domain is gone.

It dosent work with the latest harfbuzz,it is outdated and you should not use it.Go to the fucking infinality fix github and follow instructions to mimic it

Read the fucking forums if you're a retarded denier

what is the difference between linux and unix?
isn't it basically the same?

>>60518603
Are you just using a standard US keyboard?
When it does bug out, if you type successive vowels does it still allow you to do the conversion?

For example say you type: あい
does it allow you to convert it to 愛 or is the conversion line just being completely dropped?

>>60518659
Will give it a try, thanks.

>>60518718
>>Are you just using a standard US keyboard?
Yes.
>>When it does bug out, if you type successive vowels does it still allow you to do the conversion?
When it bugs out, it considers every keystroke as a direct input, so no conversions allowed.

>>60518361
Thanks,i will keep that in mind

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>>60518577
> xxd -r -p

>>60518715
Unix is a system form the 70s, which was pretty cool, but proprietary. The GNU project rewrote it later as Free Software, but they were lacking a working kernel. In the 90s Linux (a Unix compatible kernel) was available and combined with the GNU system. From there lots of software was added, which today makes the GNU/Linux system. We call these systems (there is also BSD, which is also based on the ideas of Unix) "unix-like". There is also the trademark UNIX, which you can get a certificate for. Not many systems have it. macOS for example goes under this treadmark.
Since all these systems are based on the ideas of the original Unix, they share many simliar programs, but they were created independently and their behavior can differ. There were efforts to make standards, but that's a different story.

>>60518682
>It isnt an upstream package, its a set of patches that boohmii was running,he vanished out of thin air and his domain is gone.
I don't know about the jargon, but I basically implied this when I was talking about them patching it into current versions
>It dosent work with the latest harfbuzz,it is outdated and you should not use it.Go to the fucking infinality fix github and follow instructions to mimic it
it seemed like infinality-* packages weren't causing any problems when last I had them installed
>Read the fucking forums if you're a retarded denier
you seem angry and confused desu. I don't know why you're taking a question about font hinting packages and turning it into a flame war.

>>60518755
>When it bugs out, it considers every keystroke as a direct input, so no conversions allowed.
Well that's your problem then. I don't think it's distinguishing between consonants and vowels at all. It's just that the kana starting with consonants require more than 1 keystroke and are getting dropped to just the roman character before it receives the second one.

Not sure what could be causing that though.
Can you try changing the "Embed preedit text in application window" option on the IBus settings general tab?
Or maybe under the Advanced tab changing the "use system keyboard layout" and "share the same input method among all applications" settings

>>60518848
Cause you're a retard wasting my time.Im telling you how to fucking fix it and get the results you want, but you're too fucking dense to understand anything.

thoughts on systemd?

>>60518991
It's for geyboys

>>60518991
People despise it for some reason. I use openrc btw

>>60518902
I'm setting fcixt up to see if it works fine, I can get used to it and it doesn't bug out but I'll give your suggestions a try later.
Thanks.

>>60518991
I dislike Red Hat fags, but I'm not stupid enough for the systemd is a botnet meme. It's fine.

What is /fglt's opnion about games?

>>60518946
I understand it, and I'm even smurt enoughf to find https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671. You're the one who can't answer a simple question without turning into a turbocunt.

>>60519058
Games are fun.

>>60519058
A good way to unwind and source of entertainment

>>60519058
I miss my super nintendo.

>>60519058
install Red Eclipse

>>60519087
Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis when I was dead broke..

>>60519057
But you are stupid enough to think that's the only reason to stay away from it. There's a myriad of other reasons.

For one, it's setting itself up to be irreplaceable. Now that might not sound so bad in our shortsightedness
but have you considered how things would be if all GNU/Linux software was created that way?

Guess what, systemd wouldn't even be able to exist because we'd be stuck with our old busted shit and unable to replace it. Do you see the problem here? What happens 20yrs from now when systemd is old and busted and we want something else? Well you'll be stuck with it and I'll be on Gentoo saying I told you so.

and that's just the start of the issues surrounding systemd.

>>60519073
>>60519076
>>60519087
>>60519128
What games do you play and your OS?

>>60519180
Halo Online, Rainbow 6 siege, windows 8.1

>>60519180
>>>/v/

>>60518049
>is reactos a viable chpise for games yet?
No. You can't even install the latest version of Firefox. If React OS were Windows it would be Windows 2000, or maybe XP in 2001-2003

Is there a flat icon theme for Solus?

>>60519271
Ask Kevin

>>60519206
I just want to know if the anons on /fglt play games or not, not that kind of gaming.

>>60519282
i dont get the kevin meme

you mean kevin robinson from school?

>>60519180
Red Eclipse!

>>60519315
No, Kevin the Solus shill

>>60519271
What do you mean? Icon themes are not distro specific. Just find a flat icon theme and install it.

You should be able to just toss the theme in ~/.icons as simple as that.

I'm a newbie in terms of distros and desktops environments. I recently installed Fedora as my first distro and it came with GNOME 3. It seems it is one of the least popular desktop environments, but why all the hate? I don't specially like it but also don't specially hate it so I don't get why a lot of people seem to dislike it.

How up to date and bleeding edge™ is Gentoo compared to, say, Arch?

>>60519413
I took the vertex-maia icon theme from manjaro and put it in my ~/.icons folder in solus, it kinda worked, but nautilus and the start/home/menu button in the corner have generic icons.

>>60519473
It probably just doesn't have icons for those.

You can add a fallback for it though, open up the "index.theme" file inside the icon theme and under the
>[Icon Theme]
section add:
>Inherits=<name of other icon theme to fallback to>
Then it'll fill in any missing icons with the other theme.

>>60519558
thanks

Which FREE distro should I install on my T420?

https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html

>>60519714
Trisquel or Parabola.

>>60519714
I'd say Parabola or Guix if you want to try something new.

>>60519714
Trisquel

What's the best Arch auto installer? Other than Antergos, I mean.

>>60519901
Arch anywhere?

>>60518008
Become a living meme

>>60519901
arch is a meme

>>60519901
Antergos isn't an installer.

>>60519989
I was expecting someone to say "bro just install Antergos and change os-release bro", or something along those lines.

>>60519912
I'll give it a try. I did try Architect (I think) before and it was completely broken.

>>60519901
logos

>>60519929
im running windows

>have a Dazzle DVC90
>remember installing fedora on some old early 2000's and getting it to run flawlessly
>don't remember what I did
>computer doesn't exist anymore

I'd love to use it for streaming, but I don't remember how to install it

>>60520143
Sad to hear that. You should remove it, because it is malware.

>>60520159
Its for real professions though.

What is the best lightweight web browser for 32bit linux?

>>60520325
firefox

>>60520325
>lightweight
surf
>best lightweight
ff nightly or icecat

>>60520365
Actually using it but the performance sucks on my new x60

>>60520396
try http://midori-browser.org/

>>60520325
FF ESR or icecat, pale moon runs smoothly also, usually, but they're furries

>>60520325
https://www.qutebrowser.org

any way to install this shit on arch?
https://www.cloudflare.com/docs/railgun/installation.html

if not what's the most cutting edge, yet reasonably stable deb-based distro suitable for servers? I want to add some nvme disks to my dedi and centOS (my usual go-to) doesn't really work.

>>60519714
Which chipset do you have, are you even able to with an Intel Centrino 6205?

Many people can't use a free distro because of lacking wifi drivers. It could pretty much boost the amont of people who would use a free distro. So, why isn't anyone working on free drivers? Where to start?

>>60520705
>find source
>create pkgbuild
>install
Done

>>60520819
You need to talk to the hardware companies and have them release source.Otherwise its all reverse engineering ,which takes a fuck ton of time and effort

>>60520558
And Pale Meme is outdated as FUCK

>>60520819
it's a pain in the ass, you need to reverse engineer how the driver communicates and based on that write the driver from scratch

then, when you got a driver ready, it may be already outdated

it also wouldn't solve root of the problem: manufracters should give you free drivers, that's what people should focus on

>why isn't anyone working on free drivers
dropping a blob into the kernel is too easy

now, there's nothing holding you back from buying a wifi adapter that does the job

>>60520907
Are there any laptops you can buy that have built in wifi that works with open source drivers?

>>60520976
https://minifree.org/
more here: https://www.gnu.org/links/companies.en.html

>>60521026
>tfw too poor to be free

>>60521045
then just get an adapter for example https://www.thinkpenguin.com/gnu-linux/penguin-wireless-n-usb-adapter-gnu-linux-tpe-n150usb

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I've been using Ubuntu for a year now. Do you think I'm ready for Arch?

>>60521231
Nah just go with Gentoo though, way better than Arch imo

>>60521237
gentoo is a stepping stone

>>60521551
This is all you need: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page

I consider it the GNU/Linux bible

VimFx or Vimperator?

What do you guys use for file explorer/manager? I got really excited about Ranger but remembering all the shortcuts is way too much of a hassle
>inb4 man
Yes I'm doing that but unlike vim, it doesn't feel like it makes much difference for muh productivity

>>60521935
spacefm

>>60521935
Thunar

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Is this really OK? Am I fucked?

>>60522414
what even is this

>>60522414
back up and replace asap

>>60518577
that gave me a heart attack, I don't know what I was expecting.

Is it possible to use KDE file picker on non-KDE desktops as the default file picker?

>>60522741
yes, but you'll have parts of kde's runtime idling so you wont be able to escape the ""bloat""

>>60519180
Stronghold Crusader
Debian Stretch

>>60519714
Just go for trisquel

Is Manjaro secure out of the box? Or what other distro you guys recommend? I am new to geeneeuuolinux and I have tried Arch on my MacBook pro as my main and only OS for the past 3 weels, but since Arch is very barebones I am worried about privacy and security of the overall OS, is there a similar distro or that uses Pacman that has great security like fedora?

Man, I'm using linux lately and it's been pretty fun, but sometimes I have no idea what these guys are thinking.
Why the fuck would they decide that mounting things read only is a good idea? As a power-ish user sure, I can google that shit and solve in a couple minutes, but how do they plan to make not-windows retard friendly if I have to google the simplest of things.

>>60522578
Play with it, this sounds a bit like an 8bit game

hexdump -v -e '/1 "%u\n"' < /dev/urandom | awk '{ split("0,2,4,5,7,9,11,12",a,","); for (i=0; i<1; i+=0.0001) printf("%08X\n", 100*sin(132*exp((a[$1%8]/12)*log(2))*i)) }' | xxd -r -p | aplay -q -c 2 -f U8 -r 113337

>>60522824
Anything you can do on fedora you can do on arch

>>60522850
What are you talking about? My shit mounts as read/write.

>>60522850
GNU/Linux*
Linux is just the kernel.

>>60522850
rw is the default,you have to tell it to be ro
or you have some shitty udev rules you need to fix

>>60522859
So I can use the AUR and Pacman in fedora?

>>60522875
Clearly not the package manager you dumbfuck

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I installed cygwin on Windows 10 since I want to try it instead of using a virtual machine for Debian and I wanna know. Since there's no apt, apt-get


how do I install anything from the CLI? I followed a few tutorials, installed it but I will try again.

But the command <startx> does indeed give me the desktop and it was LXDE as I chose in the install

What's the key to be able to make CLI installs? Thanks

>>60522888
Is there an arch distro with the security of fedora?

>>60522900
Why not stay on Fedora? I migrated from Debian to it and never had a problem with it?

>>60522874
I don't even know what udev rules are yet, that's exactly my point, shit doesn't work out of the box.

>>60522909
It lacks alot of the software that arch does have, for example I find it impossible to find a binary of franz

>>60522900
define your "security". the same packages that are in fedora are on arch.You can configure them the same

>>60522911
It does work out of the box,youre just doing non standard shit and having issues with your fuckery

>>60522928
Well, can't you install it from source on Debian for exampe or finda DEB file of it? Sorry, I'm kind of semi-noob about it

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>>60518022
Different parts of programs are installed to different sub dirs. The man page should tell you at least where the conf file(s) are then you can use the find command to locate all inodes with the program name in dirs like var/docs etc. You can also change installation dirs per program but you will have to source the install dir to be able to run it without a literal path

There are distros that install all prog files to one dir like windows pretty much does but idk much about that

>>60520157

Well linux does recognize it, just not the video portion of the device.

I know that this device doesn't work with windows if its 64-bit, perhaps the same thing is going on here?

Should I try a live CD of manjaro 32-bit to see if it works?

>>60522862
anons probably that mexican whose drive/southbridge is failing

>>60522948
Oh, I figured it out, apparently I can't write to it if it's a live USB because the FS was ISO-something

>>60521867
VimFX. Vimperator is heavy and unless you need all the extra features it offers it isn't worth the weight. VimFX just handles navigation and other keybindings and stays out of the way. Also I find it is more able to see things I would want to click on like JS images that can be zoomed

>>60523107
thanks

I want to automount a bunch of external ntfs and fat32 drives with rw permissions for a specific group. Should I be using policykit rules, systemd-automount, udisks, or some other mechanism to do this?

Fedora 25 w/ MATE

>>60523290
udev

good thread

>>60523445
good post

>>60519133

Man, I couldn't picture this.

>>60523290
why not looking at the block id and put that on the fstab? how many drives can you have?

Serious question, please no memes:
Is Arch the best distro to settle on after all distro hopping and enough experience?

>>60524007
The best distro is the distro that suits your needs best.

>>60524007
at this point probably not, think about it, the best it has is the AUR, which other distros have similar stuff including devuan/debian, and the minimalism is neither an excuse as you can do a netinstall

>>60523965
Some of the drives are just random hdds from other labs that I won't have access to

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Babby's first Linux here. Managed to install Debian/Xfce and even got Ardour compiled. Now, where do I start looking to get some rice going? Not trying to go nuts, just want to pretty it up a bit so it doesn't look so... free. A little bit of negative space would go a long way.

>>60524103
>Ardour compiled
but it is in the package manager?

>>60524116
What is?
Note:
>babby's first

So maybe I worded that wrong.

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>>60524103
GNU slash Linux*

>rice
https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme
https://rizonrice.github.io/resources
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
https://np.reddit.com/r/unixporn/search?q=xfce&restrict_sr=on&sort=relevance&t=all
https://www.xfce-look.org/browse/ord/latest/

>>60524184
compiling is not that, you get stuff from the package manager, install synaptic and it'll help you

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What is the best cursor theme and why will it always be DMZ white?

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>>60524274
bloat

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>>60524274
Amiga Classic Red for me

>>60524298
I like the newer Amiga cursors, but never found a theme for my GNU. ;_;

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>>60524311
>

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>>60524290
kek

>>60524311
wouldn't dare to use it but maybe you want it https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1079369/

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>>60524338
Damn, thanks anon.

>>60524334
To let people know you use Arch when you don't have your screenfetch open

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>>60517913
r8 my fully free desktop.

>>60524365
10/10, wifi works?

>>60524356
np

>>60524365
vanilla/10

>>60524373
No. But it doesn't matter because its a desktop and I just use ethernet.

>>60524399
yeah just installed it.

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hehe

>>60524365
install xfce


(seriously, idk how i managed to used gnome 3 for so long)

My notebook is old as fuck and windows is too heavy, so I guess I'm gonna try linux. Which distro would you recommend? The notebook uses an amd 450-e with integrated graphics with 2gb ram.

I'd rather get a beginner friendly distro as light as possible. I'm just gonna use it to browse the internet and occasionaly use the linux equivalent of word.

I've used linux mint on a usb stick in another pc for a time but I don't really know if mint is heavy or not.

What's the difference between /dev/mem and /proc/kcore? I read its both memory.

>>60524930
GNU/Linux*
Linux is just the kernel.

Try Ubuntu or
>lightweight
Xubuntu

what is the best vm? is virualbox ok?

>>60525405
Yeah it'll get the job done

>>60525538
thanks

>>60525543
Np. Are you looking to try out GNU/linux?

I just found out that now the i915 Intel graphics module contain proprietary blobs (they have since skylake and broxton.) Is there any option for 100% libre 3D graphics acceleration left? Aren't the Radeon/AMDGPU kernel modules completely crippled without the blobs?

What distro to use? dont really like Arch, and Gentoo takes too long to compile, help me.

>>60525616
Debian ofc.

>>60525557
Intel free drivers are good, and amd radeon only develops free drivers now IIRC.

Currently using Xubuntu 17.04 on a Xiaomi Air 13", followed this:

>https://github.com/Golovin-Andrey/xiaomi-mi-13-ubuntu

Wondering if I would get better battery life if I disable the Nvidia card entirely and use integrated? I don't do anything graphically intensive.

newfag here need to change the name@pcname that appears in the terminal. Is it possible without reinstalling ?

>>60525878

PS1='install gentoo '

Done

>>60525878
PS1='faggot@faggotpc:\w$ '

How do i put debian net install on a usb? im on windows. Unetbootin wont work

>>60525878

PS1='$(awk "/ma/{print\"\[\x1b[31m\]\"\"`tr '\!-~' 'P-~\!-O'<<<D9:E`\"\$2\"\[\x1b[m\]\";exit}" /etc/aliases)$ '

>>60525955
Use Rufus instead. It's always worked for me

>>60525962
thanks

>>60517913
is that a tranny?

>>60525959
kek, nice

>>60526009
That's Richard Stallman.

>>60526009
>he doesn't know the most well known porn star ever
do you even fap, bro

>>60526029
she looks so boring though? the only time i masturbate to 3d is to fetish JAV

>>60526029
>Watching "normal" porn

Is the Centrino Advanced-N 6205 just a piece of shit and there is nothing I can do about it?

>>60525955
Etcher or Rufus. Never use Unetbootin

>>60518321
You can run something like puppy linux on something that low spec'd. You'd actually learn a lot trying to get that old stuff to work.

too many passwords to remember. root, encryption and user. ive had to reinstall a few times from forgetting

>>60526443
lol

>>60526443
LOL

>>60526443
what kinda linux experience you want senpai?

Could anyone help me fix x.org? Tried to pacman -Syu after not using laptop for months

>running a free linux distro on my free laptop using a mouse I found

>>60526575
LOL

>>60526537
just encrypt my shit up

>>60526672
escuse me this is the FRIENDLY general!

>>60526575
just open /var/log/Xorg.0.log and start from there senpai

>>60526681
Fuck you and yo friendliness niBBa

>>60517913
Is that Sasha Grey?

>>60526685
Struggling tbqh bruv not sure what to do I'm reading thro it

>>60526711
pastebin it somewhere. there are so many reasons Xorg wont start that guessing will take forever

>>60517913
Poor photoshop, the grain is clearly not the same one the book

>>60526728
Here, pls take a look.

termbin.com/2pmh

I currently run Linux mint and am considering switching to gentoo. My observation is that Linux mint has issues with WiFi connectivity, but I've adapted to that. Is Gentoo better? Also, when I'm at home, I dont have WiFi (long story) so I need to tether my cellphone to my laptop for internet. I have never been able to do this on mint. Not saying its impossible, I'm saying I can't (usually) keep my laptop in a hotspot long enough to install everything it needs to make this work. Meaning I need to be able to download packages on my phone, transfer them to the laptop, and go from there. I can do this with clockworkmod for tethering, but it will not configure because it needs to install other shit directly through CLI which can't happen because I never have WiFi. See my problem? Does anyone have a solution or am I trying to spin straw into gold here?

>>60526768
H-hello?

>>60526877
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.

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>>60526739
Please avoid using the term “photoshop” as a verb, meaning any kind of photo manipulation or image editing in general. Photoshop is just the name of one particular image editing program, which should be avoided since it is proprietary. There are plenty of free programs for editing images, such as the GIMP.

>>60526768
Please can anyone help

what de should i use? i was thinking kde but i want that super riced desktop thread look

>>60527033
GNU/Linux*

>>60527017
Openbox + tint2.

>>60526912
>the GIMP
More like gimped.
That shit makes my blood boil whenever I have to use it.
Then again, paing+Paint.net do the job for me.

>>60526768
>>60526947
I know little about X, but I can't see anything that looks like a fatal error. Only some of the NVIDIA(0) lines sound worrying, like

NVIDIA(0): No enabled display devices found; starting anyway because
NVIDIA(0):     AllowEmptyInitialConfiguration is enabled

and then later on

NVIDIA(0): ACPI: failed to connect to the ACPI event daemon; [...]
NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "NULL"

Sounds a bit like "everything's fine, just letting you know I'm not going to display anything kbye". But I'd expect to see a big fatal error afterwards if that were the case.

>>60526768
Hello? Can someone please help? What is wrong with you fucking fags seriously

>>60527063
GIMP is great when you take the time to learn how to use it.

>>60527070
So what am I suppose to do? Reinstall everything?

Linux is fucking shit, especially arch

>>60527071
>>60527033
>>60526947
stop

>>60527081
You are fucking shit, especially your post.

>>60527075
The multi window system is infuriating and useful at the same time.
I sometimes close the wrong window and lose all the tools I had.

>>60527098
No wonder no one uses this garbage except for NEETs. No surprise here.

>>60527105
Windows -> Single window mode
@60527108
Kiss your sister.

>>60527131
>there is a single window mode
I want to kill myself now

>Try to update your computer
>X server breaks
>Impossible to fix

Seriously arch is trash and you can't prove me wrong.

>>60527149
A computer just does what the user tells it to do.

>>60527169
I told it to update itself. Do you people even have jobs?

>>60527199
I don't have a job and what you just said hurts, please don't do it anymore. ;_;

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>>60527199
Yeah wtf man, don't hurt >>60527221 this is a
>Friendly
thread.

>>60527149
Cool

>>60527149
LOL!

>>60527081
>Linux is fucking shit, especially arch
blame torvalds and when you write hatemail, let him know that especially arch linux is fucking trash and that he should fix it already

How do I make gnome function a bit more like i3, with keyboard centric controls? Or just a way to make i3 more like gnome/a proper DE, where I can use a settings program to control external monitors, wifi and bluetooth etc. The default tiling in gnome works well, but it really needs quarter/corner tiling, vertical tiling and more options for tile sizes than 50/50.

>>60527324
The font rendering could also be a bit better if you ask me.

>>60527404
Why not run i3 in gnome?

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>>60527081

Just looking at a brief glance of the kernel's languages, it's 95.9% C, 2.1% C++ and 1.6% asm. It's also got .1% objective c and perl. What's the c++ and assembly stuff? Doesn't Linus hate c++ and refuse to use it in the kernel? And what is objective c and perl doing there?

Anyone using Aimtux?
I need good configs.

>>60527421
I'd unironically side with the Arch guy. Canonical and M'distro guy are lying to Windws guy. Arch guy actually provides help. Saldy Windows guy is too lazy to learn.

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>>60527413
>run i3 inside gnome
>run a DE inside a DE

asdfghjkl

>>60527404

I'm fairly sure GNOME has keyboard controls.

Adding functionality to i3 for wifi and bluetooth info is literally just making custom edits and additions to i3bar. Any ricer is familiar with the config file, and its not that hard to edit.

>>60527459
You are fucking stupid. i3 isn't a DE. i3 is a window manager. When you run GNOME, you also run a window manager. When you run GNOME and i3, you still run GNOME.

>>60527413
Is this possible? Can I replace mutter with i3 and still have a functioning DE?

>considered getting ryzen
>realized GPU passthrough isn't possible

SAD! Another victim of Intel here.

>>60527451
They're just speaking Normie so that the guy doesn't implode. It's called "marketing" and you can't get people to undergo the Normie-Deconversion process unless you ease them into it.

The whole point is that the Arch guy, thinking Linux is about doing things the hard way as a hobby, totally turns off the normie. All you have to tell Normies is that Linux is an operating system, similar to Mac, but with more customization and freedums and they'll latch onto that.

What's the best security sandbox? From what I've seen it's still selinux. The only complaints are it's learning curve and that it's made by the NSA. Do you guys have any evidence that it's botnet?

>>60527484
i3-gnome-git (AUR) automates that, but basically you just start a custom gnome session.

>>60527491
Skim through the source
>Nobody's going to do it for you

>>60527487
Valid point.

>>60527491
apparmor is a comfy selinux replacement
>sandbox
non of these are sandboxes, read on secure jails, try firejail, etc
>botnet
free software*

>>60527491
AppArmor and SELinux are both snake oil. Read the code, they literally do nothing. SELinux is 2 million lines of C hello world boilerplate.

>>60527404
When you like shell scripting and setting up hotkeys, look into these:
http://twily.info/scripts/tiling/grid
https://github.com/wmutils

>>60527572
They are if you don't set up your own rules. Granted, 90% of the users don't even know they're running it.

Hey guys. What is the best distro currently? Please tell so I can just install it and move on with my life.

>>60527657
Sorry friendo, there is no objectively best distro. Every distro has a different use case. It depends on how new/old your hardware is, if you want newer or slower/more stable packages, if you demand entirely free software, if it's for server or desktop, and if you want to compile stuff from source or not, among other factors.

>>60527657
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>60527657
We're trying to figure this out since 30 years.

>>60524400
>No.
This is so depressing.

What was the meme involving xscreensaver and Debian a while ago? What happened?

>>60527769
developer was upset that his updated version didn't go into debian stable fast enough, so he dropped a timebomb: after a specific time, the user was presented with a notification window, telling that his version is outdated and he should upgrade

>>60527535
I thought apparmor development has stopped. Also, firejail doesn't offer good protection.

>>60527572
Why do so many professionals recommend it? Did they all get suckered?

>>60527813
>professionals
who?

>>60527821

Well, RH made selinux better integrated in their OS, the Debian Administrator's Book has sections written on selinux. These are clearly endorsements of selinux.

How do I type in japanese (anthy) on Elementary Loki?

>>60518638
kek

Is there a nice material design theme for qt? Preferably something like Adapta. a way to have adapta on qt would be nice.

Guys, installing arch but seems like I need internet connection for some steps, I tried wifi-menu but even though it recognized my network it got me an error.
>Job for #####.service failed because the control process exited with error code
What do?

Is Cinnamon buggy or am I doing something wrong? I just installed it and upon trying to edit the panel at the bottom I've got 6 right click context menus that are stuck open and not receiving input. Also if you prefer something else recommend it to me since I'm a noob.

How would I use sed to remove the last / and everything before it? For example

/usr/bin/mksh

becomes just mksh

>>60528838

sed 's#.*/##' <<< '/usr/bin/mksh'

>>60528838
As >>60528851 says, but it sounds like what you really want is 'basename'.

>>60528863
>basename
that's exactly what I'm looking for, thanks

Debian or Arch?

>>60529086
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>60529086
yes

Does vim have a function that lets me replace all matches of a regex with some string? I get tired of closing vim, calling sed, then reponening the file in vim:

$ vim myfile # exit with :wq
$ sed -i 's/oldregex/replacement/g' myfile
$ vim myfile # reopen file to keep editing

>>60529529
- select some text
- hit :
- type s/oldregex/replacement/g

>>60529544
Nice, thanks. So for the entire file:
<Esc>ggVG:s/oldregex/replacement/g<Enter>

>>60529577
Actually, you can just do
<Esc>:%s/oldregex/replacement/g<Enter>

>>60529577
>>60529772
Alternatively
<Esc>:!sed -i 's/oldregex/replacement/g' %<Enter>

good thread

>>60529772
Even better, thank you.

>>60529787
good post

>>60529086

Antergos

Got arch installed on an old laptop my brother wasn't using, not really liking i3 all that much. How much of a performance hit would switching to openbox + tint be? I'd imagine not very much but I wouldn't wanna switch if it's too big.

So I went balls deep and installed Antergos on my new PC, but now I want to dual boot because fucking with Wine for Overwatch is just annoying. Planning on Windows 7 for my other OS on a separate drive. Will it kill and rape my Antergos? I've looked around and most say to install linux distro of choice second but I'm already in too deep.

>>60529086
Debian's minimal install is smaller than Arch, but Arch has the user repos. If you want something easy and functional use Debian, something slightly more of a pain in the ass to install but has some great benefits use Arch. AUR's not really all that worth it IMO since you probably compile a lot of shit already from source that you'd probably just do it again rather than using yaourt or something. Debian is really easy to install and most problems can be googled but the solutions can sometimes be really outdated. Pros and cons, I like both.

>>60530385
>overbotch
If you're installing on another drive you should be fine, don't see why windows would suddenly overwrite your antergos install.

Which version of java should i use?
I have this installed

openjdk version "1.8.0_121"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_121-b13)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.121-b13, mixed mode)

>>60530483
none

>>60530483
Should be fine.

You could also be using Oracles distribution or Icedtea, but it doesn't matter so much as long right now as it's somewhat up-to-date Java 8.

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>>60527657
Do you want to be a wizard?

>>60530385
Just make sure that you don't touch the partition that Linux is already on and it'll be fine.

how to record audio with mpv while streaming an audio live stream

mpv --no-video --stream-capture=test "youtube link"
is this right?

>>60527062
well it looks nice but ive never used a window manager without a DE before, is it just a case of installaling a few extra programs for stuff like backgrounds?

>>60517913
what is her name?

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>>60524274
>>60524290

Alkano-White master race

How necessary is a firewall for security? I recently installed Arch and the wiki writes about all this complicated networking stuff that I don't want to spend a week studying.

>>60531532
just install ufw and enable

>>60527441
assembly is obviously the hardware platform specific code.

my bets: perl is most likely 1-2 script and cpp/objc are for bindings only.

Qubes or VM?

>>60531735
Why not "Xen or VM"?

>>60531750
I don't want to bother several configuration settings.
I just want something to run windows only application and VNs that some how can't run under WINE and to test suspicious windows binaries from potential malware.

Sup guys, im looking for some good software to simulate electronic circuits with, any recommendations?

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>>60531327
I prefer this one.

>>60531872
OpenModelica

>>60531872
isnt that the whole point of fedora electronic lab?

make a new thread reeeeeeeeee

>>60531611
Thanks.

Please /part
>>60532449
>>60532449
>>60532449