/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Copying from previous:

whats the most up to date and maintained arch install script for a lazy person like me?

>>60645197
https://arch-anywhere.org/ seems to be the most common. No idea how up2date.

>>60645128

You don't need programming knowledge to use software other people wrote.

>>60645197

Kill yourself, you poser. If you actually "needed" Arch, you'd read the one page and install it yourself.

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How do I fix this my fellow gaymers

>>60645232
Thanks

>>60645246
>Kill yourself
Friendly thread.

>>60645247
stop using steam

>>60645296
delete this

Reposting:

I'm having trouble with display power management in debian on my laptop. When the screen blanks, it constantly switches between black and a slight brighter black colour. It's like a light constantly goes on and off inside the screen. It's not that annoying and obvious but if you stare at the screen you can notice the difference. Any help?

>>60645247
Ask Valve to create 64-bit gtk4 version of steam with complete wayland support.

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post your gentoofetch here.

How do i safely delet systemd in xubuntu?

>>60645433
You can't.

>>60645433
Install Gentoo, if you newbie, you cant just replace systemd in existing distro.

>>60645175
How long is the last 4.9 grsec patch supported for?

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>>60645389

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Made a tool to show the cpu usage for a given period.

My english is far from being perfect, please no bully (any help would be welcome)

https://bitbucket.org/Tetsumi/tcrlinuxcpuusage/src

>>60645463
>you cant just replace systemd in existing distro
But you can, init=/bin/bash

>>60645696
what language you're using to wrote that script?

>>60645890
https://crystal-lang.org/

>>60645710
replacing the init executable =/= replacing systemd
replaying systemd as init =/= getting a system rid of it (like installing sysvinit-core+openrc in debian)

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>>60645910
>looks like ruby but fast like C
interesting

>>60645246
I have installed arch twenty times, at least. It's no amount of street cred to say that you spent half an hour as opposed to ten minutes, just because you're too autistic to use tools handed to you.

>>60645973
it's not really production ready for the moment but still quite usable.

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>60646052
what the fuck am i even looking at

What's a redpilled taskbar thingy to use with openbox

>>60646094
You don't need a taskbar.

>>60646052

echo -e \\e#8

Which light distro would have the fastest load time in a VM and can run jdownloader?

>>60646199
arch

>>60645526
Already deprecated friend

Don't know if this fits here, but it's better than /sqt/:

How in the nine hells do you make a windows bootable flash disk in arch? Literally nothing I try works, and dualbooting is the only way for what I'm trying to do to work.

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Reminder to update your kernel.
Do not forget to verify signature.
>https://www.kernel.org/
>git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git

>>60645247
>>60645247
do you have gcc version 7?

>>60646328
for vista and above:

0. install ms-sys from AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=ms-sys
1. find a pendrive you don't need. re-partition it, one large partition, primary, active, type 07 (NTFS/HPFS/exFAT)
2. format the pendrive as NTFS. THIS IS IMPORTANT, other filesystems will not work
3. find your windows ISO and mount it to somewhere, like /media/cdrom
4. mount your pendrive to somewhere
5. copy EVERYTHINGS from the iso to the pendrive. This will take a few minutes.
6. umount your pendrive (also umount the iso as you won't need it anymore)
7. with ms-sys set up microbenis-compatible boot records boot on the pendrive MBR and partition
assuming your pendrive is sdb and the partition is sdb1:

#for all:
ms-sys -n /dev/sdb1
#for vista:
ms-sys -i /dev/sdb
#for 7 and up
ms-sys -7 /dev/sdb

run sync and you are done. The pendrive should be bootable.

>>60646415
Now I have, yesterday I did multiple system updates and didn't get it but today I did it once and now it's working fine, maybe because I used reflector and got a outdated mirrorlist? I have no clue

Can you play steem games in NixOS?

How do I run Gentoo GNU/Linux part 3 from the USB?
It`s on sdb, and I already finished "most" of it.
Still can`t fix the wireless even though the driver is a-ok ( iwlwifi, disconnected ethernet cable and so forth )

is the official repository for mpv good enough or I need to use yaourt and get another one?

>>60646560
>he fell for the arch meme

>>60646522
it might require a few hacks, but as long as it's GNU/Linux I don't see why it wouldn't run.

>>60646560
compile from source

>>60646671
But why

>>60646539
Anyone, I`m samefagging, new to GNU/Linux.

>>60646560
>yaourt
i prefer trizen

>>60646522
>>60646593
Alright, I'm gonna fucken install this shit
I hope the new UT runs in it too. If muh games work then it'll all be daijoubu

>>60646743
By the way, why do some distros not even bother to make a forum?

Is it to deter the noobs and only encourage the elite mailing-list/IRC masters to ever get involved?

If I plug one notebook from the other with the ethernet cable can I install stage3 of Gentoo GNU/Linux that way, or is there a way to install it from the USB, I`m having problems connecting the internet on the notebook I`m installing it.

>>60646859
I'm assuming it's because it costs money to host things like that and nobody makes money for any of this.

>>60646701
But why

What's the best GNU/Linux distro for my USB drive?

>>60646934
look into puppy?

How difficult is it to change a user name?

>>60646933
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_helpers#Comparison_table

Chromium doesn't play flash but it's enabled in the settings. I have flashplugin-installer installed on xubuntu and it works on firefox.

>>60647020
just write something into the name field

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>>60647085
Stop using flash.
Stop using chromium.

>>60647020
I tried changing it in-place once. Assuming there wasn't an easier way to do it, it was really tedious. It worked, but I had some weird bug in the end where changing to my users home directory wouldn't set "~" on the terminal prompt.

If I ever had to do it again I would just create a new user and copy my files over, then delete the old user, which should be pretty simple.

>>60647121
>If I ever had to do it again I would just create a new user and copy my files over, then delete the old user, which should be pretty simple.
Thought about this too. Seems to be the sanest way. Thanks.

>>60645983

If you had to install an operating system 20 times then it means you're a retard. If you are deploying it on multiple computers, learn shell scripting.
One of the core principles of Arch is not to use abstraction layers and you're doing the very thing. Which means you don't need it, if your "requirement" clashes with that.
Kill yourself, poser.

>>60646077
BDSM hook, you stick the ball up the M's ass and tie a rope from the M's neck to the hook's loop.

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>>60647154
What a great time to be alive.

>>60647203
Fun stuff

>>60647145
not him, but it's you who should kill himself

>>60647258
Friendly thread: No death suggestions.

Best linux email client? Terminal would be great but shit like mutt doesnt seem to have pictures which unfortunately far too many places enjoy putting in emails.

I'm not against a GUI but I dont want to bloat like thunderbird or worse like something trying to be outlook

>>60647292
install gentoo

>>60647292
Kernels don't have email clients.

>>60647292
Write one in C.

>>60647292
emacs

>>60647292
telnet

how can you stand the stutters and framedrops? intel 4600 should be enough to handle desktop rendering, but no matter what distro/de i try, none of them is able to maintain stable 60 fps on rendering its UI, be it opening an overview screen or scrolling in a browser.

even xfce started stuttering after i replaced its window manager with compton to fix tearing

it tingles my autism

>>60647042
What about the directory thing and running out of memory here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:AUR_helpers

>>60647417
gnu+linux is far from being ready for desktop computing

>>60647417
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>>60647477
someone explain this meme

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>>60647477
stop it

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Appimages. Linux apps that work on every distro:

http://appimage.org/

https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages

In this modern day and age, what filesystem should I be using on my loonix machines?

Still ext4?

>>60647467

your mum is far from being ready for desktop computing

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>>60647538
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.

>>60645246
Arch has benefits other than posing. Rolling release and AUR really sell it.

>>60647538
>apps
What happend to good ol' programs?

>>60645247
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam#Troubleshooting

Why is manjaro so fucking comfy and why is so fucking bloated
Can I get some "everything fuckiner werks" like manjaro without all the bloat?

>>60647587
the aur isn't a benefit, it simply fixes the lack of official packages by automating git clone make install

>>60647611
None of that works, only updating gcc did it

>>60645197

most recent script i've seen can be found here: https://github.com/benburk/Configs/blob/master/arch_install.sh

however i'm not sure if actually works that well (considering i installed manually)

but i gotta say, im a pretty lazy guy too and arch only takes about 20 minutes to set up if you follow the installation guide on the wiki, give it a shot, you'll learn more :)

also ignore
>>60645246
he's a dick

>>60647621
https://elementary.io/

>>60647621
>bloat
What exactly?

>>60647627
Yeah, and that's why it is great. Everything is centralised and usually works while people continuously supply it with new shit, even if it's another cancer Electron wrapper featured on OMG! Ubuntu.

>>60647665
It needs 2GB ram, it come with libreoffice, vlc and like 200 more packages

>>60647538
>Appimages. Linux programs that work on every distro

Happy now?

>>60647666
>it's shit, and that's why it's great
Nice meme, satan.

>>60647650
https://antergos.com/
Literally a standard Arch installer script wrapped in the beautiful installer. Installs *your favourite DE* in a clean, unbloated way.

>>60647696
what

>>60647685
http://www.linuxatemyram.com/

>>60647538
>read through page
>programs listed are already available on nearly every distribution and also on windows and mac

am i missing something?

>>60647734
Mac is a device.

>>60647713
Will try this

>>60647592
not the something

>>60647734
AppImages are contained and distro-agnostic.

>>60647685
>it come with libreoffice, vlc and like 200 more packages

That's the best part of it and it's not bloat, it's the whole reason operating systems exist.

>>60646052

:(){ :|: & };:

>>60647538
>"As a user, I want to download an application from the original author, and run it on my Linux desktop system just like I would do with a Windows or Mac application."

please no
package managers exist for a reason, the last thing we need are kids downloading old ass precompiled binaries from god knows where

>>60647762
>>>/k/indergarten

>>60647755
there are many programs that are distributed as prebuilt environments.

>>60647538
cancer

This it what comes out when you create retard friendly distros; they want to have everything retard friendly and as much like Windows as it gets.

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>>60647766
>Linux desktop system

>>60647538
This is excellent and will give more power to both the developers and to the end users. fuck maintainers who decide what you should install on "their" distribution.This is like AUR but globalized.

>>60647886
>This is like AUR but globalized.
Anything arch related should not be a posterchild.

>>60647886
It's not like AUR at all

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>>60647538
>mounting goddamn dependencies to run a single program

Even though I set everything right on net-setup, I think I`m screwing up when I need to put the PW of my wifi as ASCII.
Otherwise I`m doing something really wrong, I tried to boot with ethernet cable as well and it didn`t worked.
>Gentoo GNU/Linux

>>60647538
Nobody uses this shit, there is no point to do so.

If you want something that IS actually used, at least refer to Docker or rkt containers.

>>60648089
>Even though I set everything right
Where does this confidence even come from?

>>60648118
Watching a tutorial on jewtube of some user named "snowfoundry media"

>>60647538
looked through the page
lots of proprietary software
ctrl+w

Why my Ubuntu sucks my laptop batteries faster than a thai prostitute?

>>60647886

Exactly. System relevant parts of an OS install will be controlled by package manager. Applications will be free like in freedom for the user to use what he wants, when he wants, and where he wants to use it.

>>60648117
>Docker or rkt containers.

Nobody uses this shit. If you want something that IS actually used, at least refer to appimages.

>>60648171
gnu+linux is far from being ready for laptop computing.

>>60648171
I guess it didn't set up CPU or GPU throttling or something?

Or maybe you are using some DE/WM that constantly puts more load on your GPU than Windows or OSX or whatever you compared it with.

>>60648212
Tell me how to set those things
Also if i click on impostation Ubuntu only let me set the lightness of the screen, wtf

>>60648206
Heh, funny guy.

But no, it is Docker and its 100k app sized repository covering millions of machines and cloud nodes.

Though even rkt will probably have like 100 times more user than AppImage.

Appimage -like a dozen prior "retarded Windows method of application management, now for Linux"- is just another tool nobody uses.

>>60648312
I don't use Ubuntu, but perhaps you can use powertop to find out what is draining power first?

Requires some kernel options to be supported and IDK if Ubuntu has them or the utility, but it could maybe pinpoint the approximate problem for you in one step.

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>>60648324
>cloud nodes


topkek

I wish I had started at GNU/Linux 11 years ago when I started browsing, and not wait until Snowden and Assange became mainstream to see how much of the government spy on everyone to then start worrying about privacy.

>>60648408
Call them something less specific like "production servers" if it helps to calm your SaaS induced autism.

>>60648467
At least I would know what the fuck I`m doing getting into GNU/Linux.

>>60648467
You know, the government is tapping the wires and Linux doesn't fix this.

It's just a bit better protection against every software maker and advertisement company and just your OS' creator (be it Apple, MS or Google) gathering "marketing data" and so on from everything you do.

>>60645247
1. uninstall steam
2. install different video card driver (an old proprietary one, i think)
3. install steam

it sucks, but somehow steam doesn't know how to use the libraries in certain video card drivers, so you have to tinker a little.

hope it helps

>>60648499
That`s my point exactly, I already don`t have any wiring at the farm.

>>60647538
"""
AppImage does not install the application in the traditional Linux sense by putting its various files in the distro's appropriated places in the file system. Instead, like its predecessors klik and portablelinuxapps, no such installation actually takes place. The AppImage file is just its compressed image; this is mounted when it runs.

It uses one file per application. Each one is self-contained: it includes all libraries the application depends on that are not already part of the targeted base-system. An AppImage is an ISO 9660 file with zisofs compression containing a minimal AppDir and a tiny runtime. An AppImage applications can be added to a live CD by adding only one file to the live CD.

AppImage files are simpler than installing an application. No extraction tools are needed, nor is it necessary to modify the operating system or user environment. Regular users on the common Linux distributions can download it, make it executable, and run it.
"""

So every app has it's own virtual file system? What a genius way to make any app portable.

>>60648467
it's easier to tap a linux system

>>60648637
It's even easier to tap your mum

>>60648604
But you are "browsing" and posting here...? These involve wires... tubes... fiber.

Anyhow. Doesn't protect you from much that people have worried / been annoyed about.

Just from many other things that they ALSO have been worried / annoyed about. But it's not a cure-all.

>>60648654
Still better than nothing and cellphones that tape you even though they`re off.
I`m not a criminal.

>>60647292
Claws-Mail is fantastic, and the plugins for pgp are pretty great.

>>60648686
> cellphones that tape you even though they`re off
Technically feasible but I do not think that has been seen in the wild.

It's not really the bulk surveillance people worry most about.

I mean, we have generally accepted that individual surveillance may happen with a valid court order and stuff and maybe some entity might theoretically use that technique - but they'll more likely just use a sensitive microphone or dedicated "bugs".

lmao, mpv appimage issue
https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv/issues/4056
>wontfixclosed

>>60648686
>cellphones that tape you even though they`re off.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Intel_Active_Management_Technology#/Features

Intel AMT uses a hardware-based out-of-band (OOB) communication channel[1] that operates regardless of the presence of a working operating system. The communication channel is independent of the PC's power state, the presence of a management agent, and the state of many hardware components such as hard disk drives and memory.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Intel_Active_Management_Technology#/Hardware

The ME has its own MAC and IP address for the out-of-band interface, with direct access to the Ethernet controller; one portion of the Ethernet traffic is diverted to the ME even before reaching the host's operating system

>>60647713
I just installed it, nice and light

Too bad it can't execute/install stuff with right click by defaukt, I'm lazy

This is my first time attempting to install Linux and I wanted Devuan because it's a new distro. Is there a guide I can use? The Devuan guide redirects me to the Debian guide, but that one talks about the graphical installer and Devuan Minimal (my internet connection is third world garbage, so I grabbed the 300 MB .iso) doesn't have one.

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I have a netbook server that originally ran crunchbang statler and I in-place upgraded it to debian wheezy and then jessie about 2 years ago.

Should I clean-install again with debian stretch?
It has something like 2700 packages after snowballing the leftover shit from 3 distributions.

>>60648944
Also, looks like it uses literally the same ram as manjaro (320MB) so meh

>>60649020
install debian

>>60648764
>>60648919
Bravo, you`re only free inside your head.

>>60649074
This, and if you still want devin it's easy to switch the apt sources.

What's the open-source drivers like for a card like the 1080ti in Gentoo? Installing the proprietary drivers in Gentoo is apparently also an option but I haven't read up on it. Anyone had any experience with Gentoo and some of the newer GPUs?

>>60649078
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/On_the_Freedom_of_the_Will

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Unconscious_mind

>>60649113
From what I've read novideo proprietary drivers tie you to an outdated kernel and the free ones don't perform as well. Phoronix has benchmarks for that stuff.

>>60649061

It uses the "same RAM as Manjaro" because you're using the same software under the same environment, you idiot. You will have the same results on any distribution because you are running the same software, idiot.
If you want to save your RAM, don't run X at all, just keep a TTY and keep typing "free -h" if that's what you want.
Idiot.

>>60649078
Well, no. I'm free in a society that sometimes has weird as fuck ideas on how to run society.

And I'm trying not to waste my time on placebo measures originating from not understanding technology.

If you want to throw sand into some illegal surveillance's gears, it'll be best to prove it exists and document it or something like that.

>>60649113
foss drivers for nvidia are shit and unusable.

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Nouveau_(software)
https://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Nouveau

Where can I find old versions of the Android-sdk?
This version ideally:
android-sdk_r24.3.3-linux.tgz

Android offers only the full IDE now and I can't seem to find this one in the archives.

>>60649144
I`ve read all of the authors bibliographies, Samual Taylor Coleridge in particular had a problem with "anonymous criticism", because they didn`t showed up to debate nor attached their name at deed.

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I want to try Loonix. Debian is asking me to select a distribution for my processor, but I don't know which one to select. I have an i5 6600k.
Why does my processor architecture matter anyway?

>>60649215
https://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.3.3-linux.tgz

>>60649181
This is the reason not even your mom liked you in your entire life

>>60649242
You have an amd64 architecture processor, so pick that one.

>>60649242
install gentoo

>>60649242
i386 = x86_32
amd64 = x86_64
The name comes because AMD invented x86_64 when Intel was trying to push ia64/Itanium/"Itanic."

>>60649198
I`m not a revolutionary, I don`t have a secret measure in my mind to solve everybody else`s problems, neither do I have some secret system to shove down everybody else`s lives that, in my opinion, would be better.
There`s wikileaks doing what you`ve mentioned about sand, I don`t think anyone, except a handful of people bothered about it though.

>>60649261
Okay, thanks. Will my regular network card still work in Virtualbox? I recall reading that you sometimes need to connect a wifi USB adapter for some reason.
The network card in question is just the integrated one in my motherboard. It's using ethernet, not wifi.

>>60649291
Thanks. I was wondering about the name.

>>60649291
yes but they should says x86_64 because amd64 is for x86_64 + amd extensions like intel64 is for x64 + intel extensions.

>>60649248
How did you find it so quickly?
Never-mind...I'm just going to kill myself.

>>60649332
Wrong. ia64 is completely x86 incompatible. It was a RISC chip for servers and workstations that Intel pushed right around the turn of the millenium. It's only major marketing bux from Intel that kept Microsoft and Apple from keeping the "amd64" name.

>>60649310
Virtualbox networking has always worked for me with the motherboard nic/wifi.

>>60649291
Itanium wasn't bad, jsut doomed

>>60649310
I think that's referring to passing your onboard NIC directly through to a VM, which you should never do in VirtualBox because if you're running a server in a VM you should really be using a Linux host with KVM. It craps all over Hyper-V and ESXi for hardcore server virtualization.

What is the best distro currently?

>>60649418
the one i'm using

>>60649354
intel64 and ia64 are two different things !

intel64 is also know as em64t (Extended Memory 64-bit Technology)

When amd released amd64, intel made its own implementation named em64t which has its own extensions but lacks some amd64 features.

The common subset from both amd64 and intel64 is x64 (or x86-64).

If you restrict your code to that subset, you program is assured to run on all x64 compliant processors (amd, intel, via, ...)

>>60649354
>>60649430

https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-extended-memory-64-technology-faq

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>>60649418

>>60649463
gentoo is a meme

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>>60649466

>>60649504
Following the rules of English, in the construction "Gentoo Linux" the word "Gentoo" modifies "Linux".

This basically means "Gentoo's version of Linux", but a Gentoo GNU/Linux system includes more than just a modified kernel.

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>>60649418

>>60649463
>>60649504
Compiling individually from source instead of distributing binaries is a huge waste of energy and unethical due to the ecological impact. Have fun using Gentoo in a postapocalyptic world of your own doing!

>>60649593
>making your CPU work hard is ecologically irresponsible

i'm sure all the electricity wasted in rendering your post as a webpage and not plaintext in a tty is much worse

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How is Gentoo's mascot, Larry the Cow, a cow? He's a fucking male, he should be a bull.

How did this go for over a decade without anyone noticing something so obvious? Someone make a bug report

>>60649613
>not browsing the internet exclusively through Lynx
Philistine.

>>60649622
cant unsee

>>60649622
what if larry simply feelt like he's born in the wrong body and decided to be a cow herself? did you even check your privilegue before posting?

>>60649622
You're not a native speaker right? In English 'cow' can be used to designate a male or female. Also, if it were a bull you would be able to see it's penis.

>>60645175
Can i install arch linux onto a usb,plug it into different systems (and work)

>>60649622
>>60649662
Gentoo confirmed lgbt distro.

>>60649694
no

>>60649300
> neither do I have some secret system to shove down everybody else`s lives that, in my opinion, would be better.
It's a democracy and the call for privacy is completely justifiable - why would it need to be secret?

> Wikileaks
> I don`t think anyone, except a handful of people bothered about it though.
Interesting view for something that influences your and so many other people's actions.

>>60649694
yes

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>>60649622
You are not the first to complain. Here, over a decade old.

>>60649715
>>60649737
this is supposed to be the friendly GNU/Linux thread, pls no bully

(maybe)

>>60649753 (cont'd)
Some background story on the wiki:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Artwork/Artwork

>>60649694
Probably.

>>60649784
LOL!

a lot of autism in this thread tonight

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>>60649940
Business as usual then.

How do I remove the tiny icon to the left of the window title in openbox? what's the themerc property name or whatever

>>60649418
Fedora

>>60650017
is shit

How can I use xrandr to downsample kinda like a virtual resolution? mine is 1360x768 but I want 1920x1080

>>60645175
be me
>Use my ubuntu based distro happily for years
>Hardware fails on main pc
>Move hdd to another machine
>Boot up
>Continue

Master OS

hey installed ubuntu, updated my graphics drivers for my 970 to nvidia 375.39 and my second monitor isn't being displayed. Is there an issue with the driver or could it be something else?

>>60650245
The proprietary drivers have "nvidia-settings" to help you set up the configuration for xorg.

Xorg has a log in /var/log/Xorg.0.log that also may show whether the second monitor was detected.

>>60650277
yeah never mind im just retarded and the hdmi cable wasn't plugged in...

>>60649242
Debian is asking me if I want to install GRUB. I allocated 10gb for the distro in Vitualbox. I should be safe to do that, right?

>>60650350
Happens. I spent like 15 minutes trying to figure out why a NAS attached backup drive wasn't responding. After I had enabled ssh and gone through dmesg of course it turned out that I had forgotten to turn it on.

Can't rely on (your) human intelligence for much.

>>60650277
that xorg thing is useless. I tried changing it on arch and got a black screen

In xfce non-focused windows add [ ] around the name. Any way to stop that?

>>60650394
Yea, install grub2. It will just install it to the virtual disk image that I assume you're using.

>>60650402
> that xorg thing is useless
Eh? No, that's just the log file.

And nvidia-settings is for when you're using the proprietary nvidia drivers, if you're using open sauce drivers it won't help.

>>60650422
>No, that's just the log file.
exactly

>>60650430
I had .conf in my mind. never mind

>>60650430
Yes, so of course changing it does nothing.

It just has the Xorg log if your distro runs Xorg and logs to the most standard location.

If you mean it's empty, then I guess either your distro doesn't log to that location, or maybe it's not even using Xorg (Wayland exists now).

>>60650048
>Up to date software
>Stable
>Competent developers
>Community project funded by multi billion dollar company
>Secure by default

Care to explain how it is bad?

>>60649113
>>60649166
>>60649207
What about AMD then. Any newer GPUs that perform well?

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>>60649622
Because Larry is an alien hybrid

I'm trying to get mpd working but every time it switches tracks there's no more sound output even though it goes on to play other tracks. I've tried messing with different encoding formats, toggling the gapless playback flag and using different clients, but it still happens.

Has anyone had this before?

Does wayland compile under gentoo much quicker than xorg does?

Is the Debian Security team comprised of professionals or just hobbyists? I've heard a mixture of opinions on this, with most people preferring to receive security updates directly from the developer of the software.

>>60649622
>>60649753

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=27727

>>60650102
Can Archlinux do this?

>>60649753
dont sexualize the cow. hide those tits

I'm having issues dualbooting arch and windows where GRUB2 loads to the command prompt instead of OS selection. What do I do to restore booting?

>>60650811
>GRUB2
I had issues using grub with arch and just used systemd-boot or w/e that came with it and everything works fine. I get prompted to pick arch or Windows upon start up.

>>60650839
How would I go about switching out grub from a livedisk?

>>60650870
Before you do, do you have a UEFI boot system or whatever? And does it already have an EFI partition or w/e that Windows boots with?

>>60650964
No, mine is BIOS, and I just used a gparted bootable drive to make unassigned room for the windows installation.

>>60650811
Are you sure your grub config file contains a windows entry?

It should be able to auto detect it with something like
>grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
Or wherever your config file is located

>>60650989
Oh okay. I'm only familiar with UEFI so I can't help you, sorry.

>>60650811
did you set GRUB_TIMEOUT and/or GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT to 0 in /etc/default/grub

>>60650558
Anecdotally, the RX 480 and probably 580 work well with open drivers.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/6a85hm/amd_gpu_experiences

>>60647538
>>60647886
I hope Flowblade has an appimage because the solus devs dont want to put it in their repository, and I cannot get it to compile either

I want to get a new ssd for my laptop. if I were to get an ssd with enough space for my windows partition (but smaller than the original hard drive), could I just

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/newssd

and have it work?

something tells me it wouldn't be that simple

>>60650996
Thank you, this worked enough to get windows to appear on the list

Trying to install atom on gentoo, I get the error:

 * There is NOT at least 10 GiB disk space at "/var/tmp/portage/dev-util/electron-1.3.13-r1/temp"

Not sure why, but my root only has 6.2GB free. Is there some way to free up space in root on gentoo that I just haven't been doing? I'm pretty new to gentoo.

>>60650091
pls

>>60651445
>atom takes 10gb to build
kek
You could try making a symlink and moving the portage dir or that specific dir to another partition.

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>>60650729
I remember seeing that one a long time ago.

>>60650739
First variant was best variant, but okay, here's confused larry.

>>60651445
> Is there some way to free up space in root on gentoo that I just haven't been doing? I'm pretty new to gentoo.
How much would you have in total?

Also, if you have a bunch over 10GB RAM you could mount a tmpfs over /var/tmp/portage (with the right parameters so that the tmpfs ends up being large enough).

>>60651223
You can shrink Windows filesystems to an extent, definitely should do that first.

Not sure if dd works. It worked with some older versions of Windows, but I haven't tried it lately.

Anyone here using the "ck-piledriver" (linux-ck) kernel? is high CPU usage normal? when resizing windows it goes up to 50% (if I keep non-stop resizing) and steam is ranging from 10 to 40 all the time

>>60651568
Thats not a kernel issue.
Could be gfx drivers
wm issue
cpu is shit

>>60645389
What font plz

>>60651584
My CPU is a FX6300, using openbox and amdgpu (not pro), I have mesa-git and using compton.

>>60651604
>compton
There's your problem maker

>>60651615
The resizing problem was already there before installing compton, in fact I installed it because I thought not having a compositor was the problem. What else can I do

>>60651628
Im running -ck,not piledriver though.
You dont need a compositor.

Your system is responding to the things you a re doing.As long as it isnt 100% locking the system out its a non issue

You could try changing your amd drivers around but thats about i

I want to install Debian and have a 16GB USB drive to use as installation media, but the official page gives me 3 different downloads to burn 3 DVDs. What do?

>>60651718
Pick the right one for your situation

>>60651762
There is no installation image for my situation, or at least I can't seem to find it.

>>60651780
Just went there,there are 2 options.
Read

>>60651643
Fuck

>>60651793
Found this after looking around, I hope it's what I'm looking for...

https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/

>>60651853
From the front page its 3 clicks to get a download.

What the fuck are you doing

>>60651891
It is, but I was getting only to the 3 ISO images which I can't use (USB) or the netinst. I'm looking for a single, full installation image.

Is it normal to have multiple xorg-server running? htop lists at least 4

>>60651977
Only if you're running xorg on multiple tty's

>>60651977
Are they sub-processes of Xorg, or are they separate?
The first is normal.

>>60652007
I mean they have different colors, one is white and the rest is another color

>>60652028
What tty are the others running on?
Its part of the command it shows on htop

>>60647629
Why wouldn't you update everything before installing steam to begin with?

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>>60652028
Yeah, if it looks like this, it's normal.
Lots of programs fork themselves and run in multiple processes or threads.

>>60652045
Same args on all of them

>>60652048
I did it multiple times during all the shit I had to install, I don't know why it didn't show up

>>60652056
How can I make it have that tree-like view?

>>60652077
<F2>, then fuck around in the options for a bit.

How many PhD's do I need to create a GTK3 theme?

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>>60651568
Here, tried making a webm to show the resizing problem but ffmpeg completely dominated the CPU usage, any other methods I can record this?

>>60652584
Its a non issue

G-guys, I`ve made it... after 3 hours I found out how to connect using the ethernet cable using the setup, am I a hax0r yet?
It made me remember in `96 when I had a pentium 2 64, I used to launch a counter-strike game and go to the park, after 30 minutes or 1 hour the game was launched, and then I add the bots and went out for more 30 minutes until the game had loaded - when it did not crashed - so I could play a little.

When I exit the openbox session there's a bunch of errors on the screen which I assume come from xorg but when I check Xorg.0.log they're not there, where can I find a log of those errors?

>>60653122
Those errors are just running in the tty session,they arent being logged anytwhere,they arent errors just warnings

>>60652833
> after 3 hours I found out how to connect using the ethernet cable using the setup
I am not even sure I get what you're talking about.

You mean you managed to get a networked connection in "only" 3 hours? Ehm, that's really not fast on most distros.

>>60653141
There are alot of warnings and errors but if I can't read them how can I fix them then, is there any way to make them be logged?

>>60653242
I think you can probably just "openbox --debug > /path/to/desired/logfile.log" if you can't observe the terminal the openbox ---debug command runs in directly

>>60653225
I was being ironic, it`s the first time ever I`m doing this.

>>60652584
>>60651568
The window resizing CPU usage is most likely present for everyone. It is for me. It makes sense considering every mouse move event it resizes the window and has to re-draw all of the contents & recalculate things like text positioning, etc. depending on what's in it.

I'm helping my friend set up arch and we're having trouble setting up wifi. Running ip link doesn't list a wlp*. Help?

Planning to move from Windows 10 to Debian 9 soon, I can't decide between Cinnamon and KDE. Exactly how heavy is KDE? Shouldn't 8 GB of RAM (and an i3-4170) be more than fine for a KDE system?

>>60653667
Read the arch wiki about wifi

>>60653667
Be certain you have the right wireless drivers installed, and also make sure you don't have a hardware switch blocking it (like a wifi-button on a laptop that's switched off)

>>60649622
Gentoo needs a new mascot.

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>>60653725

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>>60653725
It already has an alternative

>>60653693
KDE takes up around 600MB cold. Pretty smooth even with all the fancy desktop effects on. Not really a resource hog unless you're running on some ancient hardware.

>>60653712
Looked up the drivers, all of the ones for this manufacturer say that this PCI-ID say not supported.

>>60653773
>KDE takes up around 600MB cold.
Okay, well, Windows 10 is using twice more with nothing but task manager, so I guess you convinced me. Thanks.

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I'm going to college in the fall. What's the best distro for me to look like a total elitist on my laptop for lectures?

>>60653831
Guixos

>>60653831
Headless Arch so people can glance at you slave away at completing a simple task for a split second before they get back to paying attention to the lecutre.

>>60653712
You need wifi drivers? I'm on Arch on a laptop and I didn't install any drivers. I just started on ethernet, installed cinnamon and connected to wifi through it. Maybe it came with drivers or something.

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Newfag here

>NOTE: Requires the project to be built with i3 support;-DENABLE_I3=ON

Does this mean I have to compile Polybar from source and use that as a make option for i3 support?

>>60653884
>Requires the project to be built
>Does this mean I have to compile
99% of the time, yeah, unless someone else built it with that flag and it's downloadable somewhere

>>60653878
Yeah I know, on my own PC it worked right off the bat. My friend has a weird wireless card I guess.

>>60653912
Do lspci and find the name of the card
>inb4 its broadcom

>>60653910
Thx m8

Good excuse for me to do that for a first time then.

>>60653921
You guessed it.

Fedora or Ubuntu ? And why

My /etc/fstab disappeared and doing sudo genfstab gives me permission denied, send help

>>60654084
>disappeared
Don't lie anon: you deleted it.
>genfstab gives me permission denied
Are you running it as root?

>>60654161
With sudo and my own account it used to just give me "permission denied", now it says command not found, as root it always said command not found and still does

>>60653930
I'm this guy, just wanted to say it's [14e4:43b1]

>>60654176
If you run a command like

sudo somecommand > output

, the sudo only applies to 'somecommand' and not the part where you write the output to the file. Since a normal user won't have write access to /etc, you'll get permission denied.
You'll either have to have a proper root shell open (use su), or do

sudo bash -c "somecommand > output"

>now it says command not found
I don't even think arch ships most of the install scripts in the actual distribution. I think the 'arch-install-scripts' package contains it, but I'm not certain.

>>60645175
>Failed to start gnome-settings-daemon.service: Unit gnome-settings-daemon.service not found.

Anyone know how to fix this?

>>60654236
Based anon, arch-install-scripts and that bash command did it

cat /etc/fstab           
# /dev/sda7
UUID=zxczxczxczc    /             ext4          rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 1

# gvfsd-fuse
gvfsd-fuse              /run/user/1000/gvfs    fuse.gvfsd-fuse    rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_id=1000,group_id=100    0 0

# /dev/sda8
UUID=zxzxzxzzzx    /home         ext4          rw,relatime,data=ordered    0 2

# /dev/sda6
UUID=zxzxzxzxzx    none          swap          defaults      0 0

I found my old acer aspire 4736 laptop with a dead HDD and optical drive, now considering putting GNU/linux OS on it.
Which version would be recommended for starters?

Devuan sounds like a black male's name, LOL.

How can I install ubuntu (from fedora) without a USB? Is it possible to install it while in fedora? My USB ports are fucked on the machine I'm using so a livecd/usb isn't an option.

What's a good distribution with non shitty Bluetooth support? Ubuntu fucking sucks, mint is 2edgyR@z3rGreen4me, I just need something that works and is stable.

>can't get my cintiq calibrated with arch
reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

>>60654386
>ubuntu
>mint
Nothing you'd be willing to install.

>>60654386
gentoo

>>60654371
I picked Arch as my first distro like 2-3 weeks ago and it's been great, but if you don't have tons of free time maybe pick Debian

Anyone willing to share their compton config if it's simple lightweight and uses glx/opengl

>>60654420
So all Linux has to offer is edgy and autistic distributions?
Debian is great but I hate working on gnome desktops, fedora is just fedora. Makes me really consider switching to OS X but then again I'm not a CS cuck so I still need access to software only available on Linux or windows and I'm definitely not going windows.

Fucking Wayland overheating my amd graphics card with 6-8 celsius degrees more then under X11, no matter the compositor, i tried weston 1.12 a few month ago without xwayland and now sway 1.13 with one, maybe problem with mpv?

>>60654809
You know that DEs are separate from distros, right?

>>60654848
Unity wasn't, but now it's dead

I'm trying to install Arch and I'm getting an error when trying to install the base system files.

I know I've got an internet connection and I can ping out.

Error: gpgme error: no data
Error: gpgme error: no data
Error: gpgme error: no data

Error: failed to synchronize any databases
error: failed to install packages to new root

>>60654848
Yea I need to switch away from ubuntu because the Bluetooth support sucks ass. But I don't want to be bothered installing mate or xfce with any of the other edge distros. I just need something that just werks.

How can I update the "*-git" AUR packages with pacaur? for instance when I do

pacaur -Syua --devel --aur

it finds "numix-icon-theme-git" but tells me it's going to download "numix-icon-theme-git-latest", is this going to be a NEW package on top of the "numix-icon-theme-git"?

-> >>60655106

>>60654962
Install Antergos