/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Xst for me.

first for nixOS

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https://emailselfdefense.fsf.org
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG

>>60689387
That graphic makes it seem that gpg is only useful for emails, but it's much more powerful tbqh.

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>he doesn't use appimage

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>>60689530
kiss your sister

testing if connection error

Wanted to compile some LaTeX documents I wrote at home, on my work PC. However, the LaTeX distro that comes with Ubuntu seems to be missing some packages I need (for example, the ngerman babel package).
It's been ages since I set up texlive on my personal computer so I'm fuzzy on the details. I checked out the 2017 release from the subversion repo linked on latex-project.org but there's no executable config script and makefiles and shit, just some lua scripts. So do I also have to install fucking lua now and then run those or what?

>>60689603
Folk wisdom has it that "connection error" is a cloudflare filter against SQL injection. Filters some pretty arbitrary shit if you ask me.

>>60689682
In my case it was the output of ls -l from the checked out svn repo.
... and I just got a Connection error just trying to put that in code tags. REEEEE

>>60689682
>>60689701
Addendum: It's ls -l itself that it doesn't like. I literally had to put empty code tags between the - and the l so it would let me post that.

>>60689682
idk what the fuck is going on with these errors
try postin the command "p s a u x" - results in connection error. literally how is this in any way malicious?

the end is near

>“Gamification” in schools teaches children that they should expect their every move to be watched, rated and possibly shared publicly. It makes a lack of privacy appear normal and prepares young people to accept mass surveillance in their adult lives.
https://theconversation.com/how-gaming-in-the-classroom-prepares-children-for-life-in-a-surveillance-state-77287

>>60689707
>I literally had to put empty code tags between the - and the l so it would let me post that.
Nice hack. I usually use \u00c

>>60689707
-l

>>60690128
-l on its own seems to work, just not if it's preceded by ls

>>60690170
Wow, that's a bit overzealous.
ls -a
ls . -l

Installed debian. Any DE recommendations?

>>60690280
XFCE

if i cant find a device driver for debian based systems and its stopping me connect to the internet what should i do? i wish there was a debian that shipped with all the drivers but only installed the needed ones

>>60690280
cinnamon. Although if you did net install set up your own DE, start with a WM, either i3 awesome or gnomeshell

>>60690457

http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/firmware/

>>60690465
as much as I like cinnamon, this shit is too buggy. That's sad considering it's an awesome DE when you look at the customization, features, etc. And it's not much bloated compared to gnome or kde.

>>60690612
buggy? i dont think ive ever had a bug with it on debian cinnamon edition. When i was switching around WMs and they crashed cinnamon always worked

>>60690636
Debian got fucking old packages, maybe I had bugs that were introduced on more recent versions. I had an annoying bug that broke the DE after watching a video in full screen mode. Had to press alt+F2 and type -r to reset the DE, luckily it didn't closed my programs so it wasn't that annoying.
More than that, some extensions / plugins didn't worked flawlessly.
Nowadays I just use xfce that just do the job and have enough customization options for me.

>>60690697
never had that, but whatever is fine. im a bit annoyed by xfce because they keep on adding features to it that are uneeded. lxde or whatever its called remains true to itself it that it uses low system resources. plus it can use openbox themes iirc

>>60690697
>le debian old packages meme
>>60690612
>le bloated meme
/g/ never change

>>60690720
>/g/ never change

>https://packages.debian.org/fr/jessie/cinnamon
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon_(software)
>cinnamon (2.2.16-5)
>2014-05-31

>https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=cinnamon
>3.2.8-1
>2016-11-07

Use what you want I don't really care, but that's a reality. In 2 years cinnamon evolved.

>>60690835
youre a prime example of what hes talking about, even though he speaks like its 2007

>>60690835
I see, you never came out of your Arch sandbox and discovered other distros.

>>60690835
Dumb frogposter.

>>60690835
>jessie
Debian isn't Jessie only. It has three different versions for different purposes. Sid for example is just as up to date. For people who want to stick to Jessie, there are backports.

tl;dr nice meme

>>60690869
>posting anime
>on /g/ - technology

>>60690874
anime website

>>60690883
fuck off maki poster, you have 17 boards dedicated to anime.

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Today I tried to test wayland on fedora. In etc/gdm/custom.conf I commented WaylandEnable=false, rebooted, realised that nothing was fixed, uncommented that line again and rebooted again. The boot stuck on logo. I killed X(?) And it turns out that system boots up components very slow, starting from NFS peers
What happened and what to do?

how do cli people use the internet? like hwo do they even use programs and stuff?|

>>60690991
There are text-only browsers, though with all the flash and animation cancer that's floating around nowadays it's hard to get by.

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Best ((Stable)) Linux distribution for a total noob?


Going to install one on a Chinese spyware, malware, bitcoin mining laptop for my mom to use. She's coming from OSX but only needs her laptop for browsing the webs and watching videos.

I'll need an update manager that lets me update my applications without any sudo magic like Mint.

Needs to run well on a Intel Celeron.

>>60691132
>bitcoin mining laptop
kys youreself

>>60691148
I mean buying a chinese laptop will come with spyware and malware and botnet and bitcoin miners preinstalled.
I'm going to install GNU/Linux over it so I won't get hacked.

>>60691132
>coming from osx
as if it really makes a difference. Give your mommy debian with cinnamon and install the osx theme for gbp

>>60691156
cracked*

I am trying to write a Live USB of the latest KDE Manjaro on winblows.
Win32DiskImager just corrupts my pendrives.
I have tried Rufus with the settings listed in the Manjaro Wiki, it just says error:unknown filesystem when I try to boot it.
Universal USB installer says it can't find a config file and that Manjaro isn't supported even though I selected it in the drop-down menu.
I've tried multiple flash drives, verified that the ISO isn't corrupt, I don't know what else could be wrong. I have an UEFI motherboard if that helps in any way. Please help

>>60691586
use something thats not manjaro, try it

>>60691608
I'm trying to write Ubuntu right now, will report back with how it goes.

Are there any detailed books about iptables because all the guides online only cover the basics.

How can I make gnome-terminal window take the name of the entered command?

>>60691866
a better terminal is a great start!

>>60691608
Ubuntu and Fedora doesn't work either, and I have tested those succesfully in the past. My drives may be dying.

Sup /g/. I have a question for you guys. So I have a laptop with dual boot windows 10 and elementary OS. My elementary version is still freya though, and I am updating to Loki. I already have a bootable usb with Loki. Now my question is: can I just write it over my existing linux partition and old swap? I don't care about losing all my Linux data. I just wanna know if something like this fucks up GRUB or something. Will this work? Will grub update itself somehow?
Sorry, am a Linux noob, but I'm trying my best...

Whats the music bee equivalent for linux-kernal operating systems? gnome-music was dodgy with reading my music folder and lollypop is bloated as hell

I'm always greeted by a large error message. A wall of text concluding with

KERNEL PANIC
KERNEL OFFSET

What can I do? D;
I'm somewhat of a newbie at Linux.

It's like clock-work - on every second startup, and I have to hard-reboot my computer every time.

I'm using kubuntu.

How do I keep my settings and configuration files when upgrading fixed release distros? Won't upgrading them by installing new version format the root?

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docker seems neat but is there any actual reason to install it for hobbyists

>>60693409
Your personal settings are stored in your home directory. This is one reason why it is often recommended to keep /home on a separate partition - that way you can format / without affecting /home.

If you put everything in one partition, your choices are basically making a backup and formatting, or (making a backup anyway because it's good practice and) reinstalling without formatting. Your installer will usually allow that, but you'll have to manually delete the old system's files to avoid conflicts. This approach isn't what I'd recommend a newbie, but some people prefer it.

System-wide configuration lives under /etc. It is rare to mount /etc separately, but it is easy to manually back up the whole directory or the files you've made important changes to. But I think you were talking about your personal settings.

So, in short, just back up. Remember that permissions and ownership are important, so don't just copy files over to an exfat/fat/ntfs volume. Make a tar archive instead. And consider putting /home on a separate partition next time.

>>60693607
not him but i dont keep anything in my home partition, so only preferences i think. i have all my other stuff on other hard drives, how would i move home to one of them? i think my themes and icons are in /etc/, is there no way to not lose them (beside installing afterwards) as well as programmes? funny how windows can update from xp through 10 just fine but gnu/linux you need to start anew

>>60691866
printf '\033]0;%b\007' "$PWD"

>>60692107
hello red dit

>>60692201
>>60692266
GNU/Linux*

>>60693740
the current cmd is stored in the echo $BASH_COMMAND variable, if it matters

>>60693740
Hi /r/eddit, hows it going

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>>60693760

$ echo $BASH_COMMAND
echo $BASH_COMMAND

Well, what did I expect.

>>60693656
>how would i move home to one of them?
1. Make sure the target volume is formatted in a god-fearing filesystem. Don't try to mount /home on a permission-less filesystem.
2. Edit /etc/fstab and tell it to mount that volume at /home. Familiarise yourself with fstab. I recommend using UUID rather than device path, especially in a system that has several internal storage devices.
3. Copy the contents of your your existing /home directory over to the target volume.
4. Reboot. I mean, you could do it on the fly, but just reboot.

>i think my themes and icons are in /etc/, is there no way to not lose them
The two ways I explained in my previous post. But don't. If those themes were installed through your package manager, don't copy them. It's a bad idea to manually create files that are part of packages that, as far as your package manager knows, aren't installed.

>funny how windows can update from xp through 10 just fine but gnu/linux you need to start anew
Where did you hear that? No, don't tell me. Dank memes are jolly good fun, but you shouldn't believe all of them.

>>60693811
we're onto something big
>

echo $BASH_COMMAND | bash

>>60693850

echo $BASH_COMMAND | bash -c 'echo $BASH_COMMAND | bash'

>>60693876

BASH_COMMAND="$BASH_COMMAND"

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>>60693923
>>60693876
>>60693850
>>60693811
Try creating a true bash quine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29

Not sure if cheating:

HISTTIMEFORMAT= history|tail -n1|cut -c8-

>>60693549
sure. local development that is easy to push up to a remote host and not have to worry about peripheral changes.

>>60693813
permissionless file system? i was thinking of moving it to a ext4 drive

>>60692825

Which hardware do you have?

Does anyone know the difference between 'skype' and 'skypeforlinux' in the AUR?

>>60694648

One is the new beta verison one is the the old client.

>>60694648
skype is the old binary blob
skypeforlinux is the new alpha client.Its basically a wrapper for the web site

>>60694691
>>60694699
I thought so. I'm using skypeforlinux at the moment and it handles quoting poorly among other stuff, is the old skype client better (as in more like the Windows version)?

>>60689387
>when you send normal email, the people you talk to are being exposed as well
No change for that with encrypted mails.

>It's in an online directory, where people can look it up and download it.
People rather ask you to send them your key. And anyone can just upload keys to a server, so there are valid security concerns.

>To the real recipient, it jus opens up like a normal email. Easy!
Only if they actually can use computers, which is a pretty small group of people.

And like already said, it's not just for emails.
Sorry, but can't recommend this info-graphic

This is getting weirder and weirder
>rtorrent+tmux on an rpi 2B
>uploading from a usb drive to some private trackers
>check occasionally, see that it's down
>log onto pi over ssh, check uptime, hasn't gone down
>do nothing else on it, go back to check
>they're uploading again
this doesn't make sense
I wish rtorrent logs weren't such a fucking bitch to set up
>

>>60695235
transient network issues + udp malarky? I used rtorrent for a bit and switched to aria2, try it out if you're looking for options

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How can I start Debian in command line mode? I don't need the desktop environment most of the time because I'm using this machine as a server.

>>60695357
uninstall everything you don't need

>>60695357
why not use net install? im pretty sure you need to edit the list of what launches on boot / user login. with net install you can install a wm and only launch it when need be

So I've been running Arch for about 7 years now and I'm thinking about installing Debian on a spare laptop (Lenovo x201) that I have laying around. What's the difference between Testing and Unstable? Which would be better to use as a general purpose OS on a laptop?

>>60695408
>I've been running Arch for about 7 years now
Wow.

>>60695394
man that itunes is ancient.

>>60695423
It's worked just fine on the 3 laptops and 2 desktops I've had it on, minus some GPU driver fuckery at times when using ATI or Nvidia GPUs.

>>60695408
testing has frozen packages that work on unstable, so it has less breakage but also bad security, I'd recommend sticking to unstable (sid)

>>60695423
9 year vet right here.

>>60695453
Alright, what's the recommend method of installing Debian Sid via netinstall? Do I just download the image for stable and then change some repositories or something during install?

>>60695408
Packages work on unstable? -> Move to testing, do they really really work? -> Move to stable.

>>60695474
>Do I just download the image for stable and then change some repositories or something during install?
Yep.

>>60695474
Just use arch and dont deal with debian fuckery

>>60695497
>Packages work on unstable? -> Move to testing, do they really really work? -> Move to stable.
That's not how it works

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>>60695500

>>60695500
I'm still considering doing just that so I don't have to learn all the idiosyncrasies of another Linux distro... Maybe I'll wait and put Debian on home server when I finally get around to setting one up.

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>>60695539

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>>60695606

>>60695281
It looks like there's a fucked attempt at a daemon for it involved. I'll wait and see now that it's disabled.

what is a good audio player to just play my mpd stream with

>>60696321
sonata

>>60695683
try writing your own .service file for it, they're pretty straight forward.

>>60695539
>>60695606
>>60695661
As somebody who uses Arch day to day for work for over a decade I love these fucking comics.

How can I make feh open screen centered?

>>60690991
Links, Elinks and Lynx are all text based browsers. No one unironically uses just the CLI on their desktop computer though.

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What is best distro for computing very fast? I like fast computing but i want it to be minimal,like arch. Is there any arch like distro? That isnt arch?

>>60690980
live usb, fix stuff, and more trial-error
thats why i always have an up to date recover / live usb

>>60696555
I want it too start in like 5 sec. No login manager only terminal and only i3-wm. My vomputer has i5, 8gig and 250 ssd. But i need to go faster.

>>60696555
sure. Just grab a headless base install from whatever distro you like and then don't put and kruft on it.

Recommend me a good fixed space font, tired of terminus

>>60696620
inconsolata-dz

>>60696575
Why's don't you you want arch? If you are too dumb to install manually just use arch anywhere, if you want a different distro for another reason just use ubuntu/Debian minimal/server

>>60696555
gentoo

>>60696649
I had arch but fucking hell I don't have the time to install it again. Although i really do like it, but wanna try something new in the same scope.

No Derpian or Barack Ubuntu shit.

>>60696659
I'm honestly considering this. Am I becoming crazy?

What about Slackware?

>>60696676
i don't know slackware but gentoo being source based, the programs are compiled for your cpu specifically.

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>>60696676

>>60696719
>the programs are compiled for your cpu specifically.
What does this mean?

>>60696676
If you can't install arch in a timely manner you definitely can't install gentoo in a timely manner. It's great and what I use as my daily, just takes some expertise or ability to follow the wiki. Just make sure you choose systemd profile during installation for quick boot time

it it normal that xorg eats almost always 2-4& cpu?

>>60696620
>fixed space font
What's that?

>>60696750
>>60696725
>>60696719
>>60696659
>>60696649
>>60696579
Alright thanks anons for taking your time, I'll simply take the time to meditate over this one. Might be Slack or Arch again. Thanks guys!

>>60696787
When will these retards fucking die off?

>>60696676
Install Antergos -> basically Arch but with nice presets, minimal bloat.
Otherwise you can get Manjaro which is the official justwerks distro, it's based on Arch, and you have the package managers and user repository from Arch, with the option to have a rolling Arch kernel (Manjaro waits a bit before upgrading, it's more stable. Highly recommend).

>>60696816
>guys
What if I'm a girl?

>>60696830
what did you mean by this?
did I say something stupid?

>>60696833
then you're like a guy but with boobs and a vagina

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>>60696832
p

>>60696833
In this case you should follow the global rule of the internet number 31.

>>60696744
it's optimized to use the specific features of your cpu.

>>60696913
What features especially?

>>60696787
2-4% is OK it has all kinds of displaying shit to do

>>60696846
XYZ IS USING ABC IS THIS LMNOP?

If shit isnt fucking raping your shit causing shit to lock up, its fine.The computer systems and services know how to handle your system way better then you do.Fucking stop

>>60696813
i think it's called monospace i don't know

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>>60696813
It's like what you'd use in a terminal or text editor, every letter takes up the same amount of horizontal space so all your characters line up in neat columns instead of having a varied number of columns per row. It's also known as a monospace font.

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>>60696620

General informations:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

Huge list of font resources:
https://github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts

List of monospaced fonts for programming:
https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface

List of monospaced bitmap fonts for programming:
https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

You may also need to enable bitmap fonts and rebuild the font cache:

rm -v /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
fc-cache -v -f

Fonts patched with shitloads of icon glyphs:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack:
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Premade fontconfigs:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality

Configure your own fontconfig:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Read the documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html

>>60696995
should I be using bitmap fonts? what are the advantages or disavantages?

>>60696950
the fuck is wrong with you
>>60697002
bitmap fonts make your computer look like a computer, they also look crips and beautiful and make your happy

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>KDE 5.10 still not on Arch repos

>>60696928
lel, maybe you should start by telling what is your cpu, no?

>>60697024
The fuck is wrong with you?

>>60696995
>infinality
Infinality is deprecated.The patch author is missing and the patches were merged in to mainline

>>60697031
I'm just wondering if you actually know what you are talking about or just repeat meme phrases.

>>60697051
i know very well, what's your cpu?

>>60697049
>The patch author is missing
what happened???

>>60697068
>>60697051
the size doesn't matter on the internet

Any reason to switch from Arch to Void?

>>60697126
arch has become too mainstream

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I just found out that my system fully supports PCI passthrough via Intel VT-d.

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

Now I really want to throw my old 780 Ti back in the chassis and put Win10 where it belongs. Contained in a virtual cage.
Has anybody here done anything like this? It seems like a dream come true to me, to be honest.

>>60697126
to avoid GNU

>>60697126
No systemd

>>60697170
void isn't a gnu free distro

>>60697153
there's an image guide floating around somewhere, though I had it but I guess I don't.
https://bufferoverflow.io/gpu-passthrough/

TL;DR the process has been pretty well refined at this point, you shouldn't have much issue. Expect a 1-10% performance drop depending on various factors.

How difficult is it to get kvm running with a windows vm with gpu passthrough (and normal vm's with windows and linux). The gpu passthrough one will only be used for video games and 4k netflix a few times a month or so. Plan was to run xfce on the host and then easily swap between fulls screen vm's with shortcuts.

>>60697191
>1-10%
That would be so incredibly worth it to me.
I have a GTX1070 card now that I really rarely push to its limit. For the heck of it, though, I will do some benchmarks before and after virtualizing Win10. Then I will see for myself, though I hardly believe I will regret it anyway.
I have been wanting to use Arch as my main OS for so long, but muh gayms has kept me from it. Installing Windows 10 has really been the last drop, though. It just does not feel like it is my own machine anymore, more like I am borrowing it or something.

Man how do I disable this fucking mouse acceleration? I already added what the wiki says but it feels no different

xorg.conf

[...]
##############################################
#
# MOUSE ACCEL
#
##############################################
Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "USB OPTICAL MOUSE"
    # libinput
    # have to add yourself to "input" group
    # https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Mouse_acceleration
    Driver "libinput"
    MatchIsPointer "yes"
    #Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
    Option "AccelSpeed" "0.0"
    Option "AccelProfile" "flat"

    # default
    #MatchIsPointer "yes"
    #Option "AccelerationProfile" "-1"
    #Option "AccelerationScheme" "none"
    #Option "AccelSpeed" "-1"
EndSection
[...]

>>60697179
busybox + musl

>>60697246
it wont be that hard if:
>you have more than one gpu
>your mobo and cpu support gpu pass through
>your distro has documentation on the process (this one doesn't really matter, gentoo has a guide which may be overall universal)

L1T had a video about a amd graphics card that doesn't play well with pass through, i don't use amd cards so if you do maybe look for that

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GNUfriends, I have more troubles with my ThinkPad that /g/ memed me into buying. It used to dual-boot into Windows 10 and Mageia, but I tried to clean up the hard drive while I was in Windows 10 and I accidentally the Mageia partition. Now, whenever I switch the laptop on, I get
>Grub2 error
>Error code 22

And, to really fuck up my day, when I insert my USB with the Mageia image so I can reinstall it, it tells me
>I can't find a Mageia image on this CD-ROM drive

I try to proceed, to tell it to look at the USB instead (USB is the first thing in the boot order in the BIOS), and it says
>Choose a file to insmod

However, whichever one I choose, I just get
>insmod failed


What the fuck have I done, and how can I undo it?

>>60697374
>>you have more than one gpu
Yeah have one over that I can install and will get a USB card to pass through too.
>>your mobo and cpu support gpu pass through
x99a with a 5820k so it should work.
>>your distro has documentation on the process (this one doesn't really matter, gentoo has a guide which may be overall universal)
Good to know. Trying to find a good distro to use as host.
>L1T had a video about a amd graphics card that doesn't play well with pass through, i don't use amd cards so if you do maybe look for that
I use nvidia and will do the stuff required to prevent blacklisting so I guess I'm good to go.

>>60697428
download a new iso and use rufus on it.

https://youtu.be/z3WS-oasikI

thoughts on my channel intro?

>>60697428
reinstall with a real distro

>>60697510
>>60697374
a quick thought on this: one desirable function of the host OS is having a super up to date kernel. this passthru+virtualization stuff gets updates all the time, particularly related to performance and stability. having an OS that keeps your kernel close to upstream is a huge benefit. arch, gentoo, debian testing come to mind.

>>60697560
I did that, except I might have just downloaded the same one again. I definitely used Rufus, though, and it's definitely Mageia 5.1. Will I need to download a different version of Mageia?

>>60697631
Went on the arch train some 10 years ago and never again. They have pretty good documentation but shit just breaks too often or well did. Debian testing is not my kind of cup of tea even though I enjoy apt. Maybe I'll give gentoo a spin.

What's your shortcut for opening the terminal

>>60697715
some media key on my keyboard. xev says

keycode 152 (keysym 0x1008ff5d, XF86Explorer)

>>60697668
either mess with the boot order settings, the settings in rufus, or try another distro's iso.
In that order.

>>60697715
Super + Enter

>>60697715
on my chinkpad the thinkvantage button.
if i have the quake style terminal setup, it will be F12 for my desktop.

>>60697793
>>60697793
Sugoi~~~~

Thank you <3

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>>60697881
>Sugoi~~~~

>>60697715
>>60697840
Super + t here.

How resource intensive is KDE? What amount of RAM would one require to run it comfortably and how much of a CPU hog is it?

So I read that the "file upload"/"file chooser" window like in browsers and shit doesn't use your file manager (thunar in my case), I have webm thumbnails and image thumbnails in thunar but this fucking gtk file chooser doesn't, how do I make it use thunar instead or something to fix this? I can't even choose what it's sorting by or view mode (detail, big icons etc)

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>>60697962
found a pic of your hand

>>60697992
there are github fixes

>>60697715
Super + Return my friend.

>>60698013
what?

>>60698019
there are fixes on github.

>>60697964
Uses between 550mb - 590mb of ram on idle without any extras like Akonadi. It's not really CPU intensive even with the animations but you could just disable those if they're a problem. If resources are an problem and you're running some shitbox from 2005, look at LXQT instead.

>>60698013
>>60698028
Yeah let me just magically guess what I have to search for to find it

>>60697964
It's probably the most resource intensive desktop you can get out of the box.

I tried to use it on a 2007 core2duo shitbox with 2G of memory and I'm far from describing the experience as "comfortable". I'd say double the memory and a CPU made after 2011 is bare minimum.

>>60698066
If you're using debian stable I can help you out friend.

>>60698066
you have all the keywords.

>>60698058
>>60698068

I'm wanting to try it out on my x201 with a i5 M560 and only 4GB of RAM.

>>60698077
Sadly I'm not using that

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1) Are Linux Mint's security problems a deal breaker? Is not updating the kernal with every release going to make you more vulnerable? [spoiler]If I don't torrent, do I need to worry?[/spoiler]

2) Does anyone have any experience with CAELinux? Is it just Ubuntu with CAD software, or is it different enough to warrant dual booting?

3) If Wine compatibility is a must, are my only choices Ubuntu, Mint, and Debian?

>>60698146
Well, then you're on your own friend.
If you were using debian stable all you'd have to do is download and install packages
I wrote a tutorial for the process, depending on what you're using you might want to change it. No matter what distro you will still have to patch and rebuild packages.

https://jkisielewicz.fedorapeople.org/#org9ba33c6

Good luck

>>60697271

> # have to add yourself to "input" group
No, you don't.

>>60698205
libinput didn't work until I did that

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>>60698160
>"kernal"
>spoiler tags in /g/

>>60697715
u is for urxvt
mod4+u

>>60698220

Then you fucked something up and you should be concerned about that.

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>>60698356
>4+u

What's your shortcut to copy the interjection pasta into your clipboard?

Does anyone know where Cinnamon stores settings like display/mouse sensitivity etc.? I'm looking to switch to i3 and I don't want to manually tweak the mouse settings in a config file

>>60698430
just use i3 with cinnamon

Why is i3 so popular?

>>60698160
1) Yes

2) No

3) No, preety much any distro will do

>>60698470
light as a bird, keyboard driven, no login wait

>>60698470
>Why is Arch so popular?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_meme

>>60698470
It tiles and the configuration is extremely easy due to bash-like syntax.
Both features make newbies to ricing go crazy

>>60698503

so just like every other tiling wm?

>>60698532
yes
but i3 also is the most stable.

>>60698470
>>60698532

Because it's easy to configure for beginners, compared to other tiling WMs.

>>60698367
Nah I think you're just wrong

Is there any way to fit more shit into the screen if I have a low resolution without making the fonts look like utter trash? I want to use a tiling WM but with 1280x720 or 1366x768 it's awful

>>60697271
xset m 0 0?

I have a problem, i installed Devuan in my Thinkpad T41 and got no wifi.
i managed to find download and install the ipw2100 driver. but the wifi doest work yet.
What can i do to fix it? Thanks for any reply.

>>60697572
It was fine up until you let that mongoloid start speaking. It's kinda rude to exploit the disabled, too.

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linux

>>60697715
F12 or alt+D

>>60697715
Ctrl + Alt + T on desktop
Ctrl + Alt + T or Thinkvantage on thinkpad

>>60689387
more proof that free software is fucking amazing

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>>60698707
Linux-libre

>>60698697
>What can i do to fix it? Thanks for any reply.

kick yourself in your dumb fucking face for using an intel wifi crap and spamming the le no wifi maymay.

you're welcome.

gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view-2.24.30-3 has been flagged out of date on Sun 13 Nov 2016 08:03:08 PM -02

LLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLL

Is Wayland ready for everyday use or does it still have a ways to go?

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>>60698775
>>60698707
Arch Linux

>>60698815
>>>/f/unnyjunk

>>60698834
no

>>60698674
No noticeable difference

>>60698815
Just get the patch from upstream and build it yourself lol

>>60698697
I can help you since I managed to successfuly migrate to Devuan this week but you need to provide me more details on the problem.

>>60698896
hahahahahahahahaha

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>>60698932
I thought you archniggers were supposed to be linux gurus.

Can anyone try installing Blackmagic DaVinci Resolve on their OS?

I tried Ubuntu, Manjaro, Fedora, and Solus, and all gave me the same issues, something about libssl.

Here's two different "guides" if you would like to try.

https://www.thefanclub.co.za/how-to/how-install-blackmagic-design-davinci-resolve-125-ubuntu-1604-lts
https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=56878&start=50

The installer is a shell file.

>>60698815
>>60698932
>>60698950
desu, if you're downloading a gtk or qt lib, you probably don't fit into that category friendos.

>>60698448
How do I do that? I can't seem to find any information about it. I would prefer to just use i3 but if I can just use cinnamon's settings that may be easier to manage.

>>60698907
What do you need to know exactly to help me?

>>60699081
Describe the problem.
"Wifi worky but now no worky" isn't very descriptive.

After you migrated to Devuan, what were the steps you tried to connect to a wifi network?

>>60698820
Just tried out Wayland + KDE

Looks like it still needs a lot of work before it's suitable for daily use.

Just so I get this right

amdgpu = amdgpu also known as radeonsi
radeon = radeon
amdgpu-pro = amdgpu-pro

right?

>>60699166
i installed devuan. ran lspci to find the right driver. Downloaded the ipw2100. then dpkg -i driver.deb to install. Rebooted and wifi still no worki

>>60698950
GNU/Linux*

>>60699250
https://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

What are the best terminal emulators to use? I want THE BEST

Warning: Do NOT suggest shitty terminal emulators

>>60699777
>wat r le best

for you? assisted suicide. That'd fix your shitty attitude for things.

>>60699777
urxvt in daemon mode is fly

>>60699796
Summerfag

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Anons,
I just finished installing GuixSD this morning and Richard Stallman showed up to my house. I invited him in for breakfast but he's been here all day, he won't leave. I finally got some time alone since he decided to take a nap just now.
What do I do?

>>60700099
Install gentoo on it

>>60698660
I assume no then

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>>60700099
Is rms a couch surfer?

>>60700257
depends on the types of fonts your are using, etc. if you use something like a fixed space font it'll eventually be too squat to be comfy i'd imagine.

>>60700257
Install a higher resolution

>>60700287
:^)
>>60700272
You mean like just changing the font size or what?

>>60700314
yeah just try out some different font sizes until you find one you can tolerate. you could also think about getting a WM with the concept of workspaces (most of them have them) dwm comes with 9 by default (ctrl+(1-9))

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>>60700316

>>60700314
>>60700397
sorry, alt not ctrl

what's the correct way to start a second x session, so I can have gnome on tty7 and i3 on tty8?

>>60700489
startx -- :0 vt7
startx -- :1 vt8

For the first one you obviously can just do "startx" by itself, but notice how you also want to increase the display number to :1 for the next session. If you started a 3rd one you'd want it to be :2 etc.

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>>60700316

>>60700608
thanks

Why do I keep getting "Not a directory" when trying to get to my C source code in the terminal. I'll even copy and paste its location from my file manager and still get the same error.

>>60698974
I am going to be friendly with you by saying that no one is capable of doing that in this thread

How can I make GNOME stop "stealing" my GPG sessions?

For example, I generate a key using

gpg --gen-key

GNOME will fire up a dialog asking for a password. I do not like this behavior, and I would rather enter it at the terminal manually.

I've disabled similar behavior with SSH keys, but I cannot find any documentation for GPG. Is there a way to remove gnome-keyring without breaking everything because Ubuntu is retarded?

>>60700711
it's probably gksudo

>>60700734
Why would generating a GPG key require root access? Also, I don't have gksudo installed on my system.

>>60697072
boohmii's website is 404 and he is missing on the forums since june last year

>>60700789
I'm just remembering that it's the same dialogue window.

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If I like Linux Mint, is Peppermint OS a more secure alternative?

>The new i9 now comes with an RFID tag
kek I'm glad I switched to AMD last month

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About to jump to Fedora from Debian Stretch, I noticed in the live CD that it has wayland by default, is there a drawback in that?

Am I going to miss something from Debian?

>>60700665
You you rephrase your question?

>>60701294
That would be a downgrade tbqh familia.

Hey /g/, i'm gonna sit for the linux+ in a couple weeks and i was wondering if anyone that's taken it recently can tell me if these dumps are current/accurate
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306377504_Free_LX0-103_Dumps_VCE_PDF_Dumps_1-30

>>60701599
>linux+
The hell is this shit

>>60701652
Comptia's linux certification exam.

>>60701708
accurate as in the questions are accurate but shitty, or accurate to the exam?

Hey /fglt/. I really fell in love working with GNU/Linux machines, are there some good jobs where I can sit allday in front of a GNU/Linux system hacking around?

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>>60701738
Whatever you do, make sure to interject for a moment and explain the difference between a complete GNU/Linux system and Linux, the kernel.

>>60701749
https://www.fsf.org/resources/jobs

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Should I main NixOS?

>>60701919
could you give me a quick rundown on guixsd and nixos? what makes them different from other distros?

I want to completely understand how fonts work, where do I start
Using gentoo btw

>>60701652
>>60701738
I take it you failed the Linux+ cert...
I use Linux as my daily and thought it was rather tough... at least a little bit tougher than the Sec+ or Net+ exams

>>60701979
The package managers

>>60702000
Haven't taken it yet. I just finished the classes for it at my local comunity college and if these questions are accurate they didn't cover JACK SHIT in the class.

>>60702056
fyi my community college classes taught me SHIT which helped out on my comptia exams.

You are much better off looking up something called VCE's for your exam and studying those.

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How can I tell gentoo to go to sleep (for example, pm-suspend) after emerging and compiling upgraded system packages?

>>60702123
easy.

just use the terminal and append

; pm-suspend

to your command

>>60702120
This allegedly is the contents of the VCE. I just wanted to know if it was the same questions as the exam or if i'm wasting my time memorizing them.

>>60702137
thanks.

>>60702139
you are much better using the VCE.

Ive passed 3 comptia exams so far, no fails. and imho the VCE helped out waaay more than stuff in school.

stuff in ComCollege was extremely simple and dumbed down when I learned it. the linux course was a joke so was most of the security courses.

The VCE questions are tough (at first) but once you get used to them (they try to trick you with seemingly correct answers a lot) they will help you much more on the cert exam than your CC classes will

>>60702179
Again, this is litterally just a dump of the VCE questions to a PDF. And the CC class was sufficient for the A+, CCNA, and CCNA:Security; it's just the linux class that they didn't do shit for.

>>60702203
I havent done any A+ or CCNA.

Is CCNA really that much different than just standard networking?

What are some IO and CPU benchmarks I can do to check if MuQSS and BFQ are better on my machine or not

>>60702229
The CCNA exam is about 30% vender neutral netowrking (VSLM, IP/IPv6, OSI model) and 70% iOS configuration and commands.

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>>60702000
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.

>>60698408
Mod4+I

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>too tired to teach myself some new stuff tonight
>just watching anime and lazily browsing /g/ on my comfy KDE desktop

Who else comfy this evening?

>>60702360
noob question,
it this an actual quote or just a meme?

>>60702402
About 90% real: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html. The "as defined by POSIX" part isn't an actual quote.

>>60694699
>not using telegram

>>60702397
I've been productive and reorganized my directory structure, optimized pictures, deleted old kernels, removed unused packages, etc. Saved about 10 GB overall.

my benis > your benis

>>60702397
I did a fresh Linux install on an old laptop and then went on a 100 mile motorcycle ride through the countryside. Pretty comfy.

https://automatetheboringstuff.com/
learn python

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>>60702558
Android, GNU/Linux, or are your running the a kernel?

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>>60702585
GNU/Linux you autist.

>>60702585
s/a/bare/

damn coefvfe booze

>>60702615
>coefvfe
The fuck is this shit and why is everyone posting it completly unelated to literally anything?

>>60702630
It's the next meme word from the same people who can't stop saying "Drumpf." It's a typo from one of Trump's tweet in which he was trying to say he needed coffee.

>>60702630
https://searx.me/?q=covfefe

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>>60702645
>Drumpf
It's actually just `troll': https://stallman.org/glossary.html

>>60702689
What a delusional commie.

>>60702645
what if covfefe was on purpose and is actually a pr campain?

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here's my situation I have a old PC, 256 RAM, AMD processor, still with windows XP on it

I plan on installing LINUX on it
What distro should I install ?
Should i get more RAM or is this enough ?

>>60702708
Stay in school, in some years when you're ready, they'll teach you about communism.

>>60702735
puppy

Post your RARE stallmans here: >>60702772

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>>60702735

>>60702735
install GNU instead
I'd recommend a lightweight Debian system with Openbox + tint2, or, if lazy, Bunsenlabs
also look into >>60702748

>>60702740
I graduated 4 years ago, m8. I know a commie when I see one. I'm pretty sure if I email and ask him what he thinks about communism, he'll have positive things to say.

>>60702817
DO IT FAGGOT

>>60702817
http://www.politicsforum.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=38018

>>60702845
See, told you he was a commie.

>>60702824
Maybe I will.

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>>60702630

>>60702879
idk what the heck is wrong with americans

>>60702913
Our country is one gigantic meme being fueled by smaller memes at this point.

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>>60702913
memes keep the ball rolling

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>>60702604