/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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First for destroy capitalism!

Second for free software!

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Woohoo!

>>61071384
Socialism and free software are fundamentally incompatible.
Any socialist state requires an authoritarian government, for which free software is a threat. (Just look at Venezuela or read a history book)

Capitalism is the only system, which is more then a fanatics day dream, in which free software (and freedom in general) can exist.

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>>61071454
Well said, but they're not talking about "socialism" and all seriously, they're just trolling.

>>61071454
>which free software is a threat
No it isn't. But free developers, leaded by the party, will stop to be anarchists and will start to gather and fight monopolies correctly.

How do i turn on syntax highlighting for nano? i really like it over vim, but unless it can highlight syntax in config files, it is a dealbreaker for me

>fresh install of Debian 9
>Everything goes smoothly
>set root password
>Reboot
>try to su root
>Authentication failed

I triple checked setting the root password in the installer and triple checked when entering the password. What the fuck? Apparently this is a bug Debian has been having and it is STILL not fixed. Have a made a mistake using Debian?

>>61071370
Is this pic real or image-manipulated?

>>61071552
Install it again and see if the problem persists.

>>61071568
I currently am. If this happens again I'm going to lose my wits.

>>61071552
Which version of Debian are you using? Stable, unstable, testing?

>>61071552
OK, just bypass the root login and reset the root password.

Do not forget to check the language of your keyboard.

>>61071576
File a bug if it happens again https://www.debian.org/Bugs/

trying to mount an ext4 hard drive that is a boot install on a pc running ubuntu. It shows up under fdisk -l as a bunch of mini disks i guess, and not a proper hard drive. Its connected via usb. What do i do?

>>61071552
Try sudo, maybe it was actually asking for your "user with root equivalent sudo access" password?

>>61071578
Debian 9 so stable

>>61071578
>Debian 9
It's the new stable version

>>61071552
i had that problem too lol. i ended up reinstalling

>>61071594
I tried that but apparently I am not in the sudoers file, and I cannot even add myself because the root password is fucked.

>>61071600
You have physical access to your computer? Yes. So you bypass the root login and reset password.

>>61071605
I have to chroot correct?

>>61071610
No, just boot into root directly.

>>61071600
If it happens this time round stop grub at the the menu (just mash up or down arrow keys) and edit the boot line (ctl+e IIRC) to have boot=/bin/bash at the end, then boot into the edited line (ctl+x, maybe). That should get you a shell and you can use passwd or edit sudo.conf or whatever.

Not fixing the problem but it will get you a working system.

Great.... The same fucking thing happens, can't log into root. Fuck this piece of shit distro.

>>61071653
This >>61071646

Learn to bypass login screen. We should put that in the OP message.

>>61071653
install arch

>>61071664
>Learn to bypass login screen. We should put that in the OP message.
I second this.

>>61071646
I added what you said at the end but it still boots straight to lightdm

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>>61071702
See pic related. If that don't work all I have left for you are shrugs. ALso, the keybindings in >>61071646 are wrong, follow the ones at the bottom of the grub menu.

>>61071780
Er, except it says linux now instead of kernel apparantly, but whatever line has vmlinuz on it.

Does anyone else have an issue with copying text from lowriter into the X primary selection by highlighting? If I highlight a paragraph it only the first dozen or so words end up in the primary selection.

>>61071780
Thanks for the help, but I've moved t devawn

>>61071543

printf '%s\n' 'include /usr/share/nano/*.nanorc' | tee -a ~/.nanorc

Enjoy.

>>61071882
Why not use the CLIPBOARD?

Great... I added windows 8 to my grub loader (trying to get a dual boot thats not just switching boot devices from uefi) and now windows wont boot from grub and takes forever to boot on its own. Fucking linux i swear

>>61071937
Because I don't have to use that with any other program and I couldn't be fucked looking up the clipboard register in vim. So I just did it bit by bit, like a loser.

>>61071976
It's +
Just type

"+y

(in normal mode) to paste from it.

>>61071969
This is what my win10 (on it's own drive) looks like:

### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###
menuentry 'Windows 10 (on /dev/sdc1)' --class windows --class os $menuentry_id_option 'osprober-chain-B4A0900FA08FD5F0' {
    insmod part_msdos
    insmod ntfs
    set root='hd2,msdos1'
    if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
      search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root --hint-bios=hd2,msdos1 --hint-efi=hd2,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci2,msdos1  B4A0900FA08FD5F0
    else
      search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root B4A0900FA08FD5F0
    fi
    parttool ${root} hidden-
    drivemap -s (hd0) ${root}
    chainloader +1
}
### END /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober ###

Try running update-grub a couple of times?

Why does alsamixer default to PulseAudio when I don't even have it installed? If I mute the audio and press unmute it stays muted

>>61071999
update-grub doesnt work on fedora, i used

grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg

>>61071999
>Try running update-grub a couple of times?
Just reinstall grub.

grub-install --target=i386-pc --verbose /dev/sda

Replace /dev/sda with whatever your disk is.

>>61072008
>Why does alsamixer default to PulseAudio when I don't even have it installed?
maybe something installed it?

dpkg -l |grep pulse

>>61072222

pacman -Qs pulse

>>61072222
Nice quads, btw.

How do I change the i3bar color from i3config? I tried

 bar {

color { 
<colorclass> <color>
}
} 

But this gives an error.

how is kubuntu compared to kde neon?

>>61072358
KDE neon is made by the KDE devs, uses Ubuntu LTS as base and ships with the latest KDE. Basically, provides an "as it was intended" KDE experience.

>>61072433
well I tried to install the intel xorg driver on kde neon and it didn't install

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I've Puppy linux on USB flash drive and sometimes I want to test local hosting sites, I know you can run simple HTTP server with python.
But I need more like running email server, owncloud, or running some Socket I/O applications like Chat, Etc...
What do I need to achieve those?

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>>61071454

>>61072348
It's plural: colors

colors{
background #whatever
}

>>61072483
apache

>>61072348
Here's what I have in my config:

general {
        colors = true
        interval = 5
        color_good = "#2AA198"
        color_degraded = "#B58900"
        color_bad = "#D33682"
        color_separator = "#829496"
        separator = "|"
}

>>61072483
You need what's called a LAMP. Basically, install Apache httpd, PHP, and mySQL

I staded isimg a dvprak keunoard. did I fall fur a meme?

>>61072665
And this will allow me to run whatever I need by simply putting the files in the right directory?
What about Node.JS?

>>61072735
>And this will allow me to run whatever I need by simply putting the files in the right directory?
Yes, you have to configure your httpd.conf to tell it where your files are, and what hostnames to use etc., and you can upload your PHP files or whatever and access them in your browser.
>What about Node.JS?
Node.js is independent from the http server. You can install it, and use it to run your JS files without any server.

>>61072756
I see, There doesn't seems to be a single SFS package to download.
How do you convert those into SFS file?

Anyone use Jupyter Notebook? Is there some kind of CLI/TUI interface for it if I don't always want to use the browser? Would be good to quickly gain access to notes from the terminal instead of loading up the site. Could just remote edit files with ssh but it would be good if I didn't have to enter a password every time.

>>61071370
>/fglt/
faglet?

>>61072798
nevermind, this is a sexy solution:

notes() {
    ssh pi -t "vi notes/$1"
}

I am going full cli from now on. Suggest me alternative applications that are cli.

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>>61072860

>>61072884

good luck with lynx

>>61072860
Hehehe xD

>>61072868
Do you even shellcheck bro?

#!/usr/bin/sh

notes() {
    if [ "$#" -ge 1 ]; then
        ssh pi -t "vi 'notes/${1}'"
    fi;
}

>>61072910
Why not just Firefox + VimFX?

>>61072938

>cli

because ramhog fox is a gui

changed from unity to gnome, because unity is being retarded
is there a way to have the CTRL + ALT + NUMPAD resizing and moving windows from unity in gnome? it's very useful

>>61072925
What if i want to start vi in the notes dir? What does ${1} achieve over just $1?

>>61072983

if your resizing windows maybe you want a tiling wm? i3wm is really simple to get in to

>>61072985
In this case, nothing, but the quotes are important because if $1 contains spaces, then the ssh command will expand to

vi notes/name with spaces

and will fail, instead of

vi 'notes/name_with_spaces'

.
The braces are useful in cases like

"$variable""sometext"

is equivalent to

"${variable}sometext"

.

>What if i want to start vi in the notes dir?
That code will work, it'll just expand to

vi 'notes/'

>>61072983
Yes, take a look at dconf-editor. You'll find the shortcuts there, and you can edit them as you like.

Xfce power manager does not suspend when closing the lid yet I have set it to in settings. What the heck?

>>61073116
>Xfce power manager
b l o a t

/etc/acpi/events/lid

event=button/lid
action=/etc/acpi/suspend.sh

/etc/acpi/suspend.sh

#!/bin/sh

if [ $(awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state) = closed ]
then
    xscreensaver-command -lock; pm-suspend
fi

>>61073198
>acpi
B A L O A T E

Just pull the fucking plug.

>>61073238
I have no clue how pulling the plug achieves the same effect as closing the lid and putting the device to "sleep" but don't ever stop being a retard mom loves you this way.

>>61073258
Why do you need your device to "sleep" anyway? SSD can cold boot in seconds and modern DEs have facilities in place to restore your previous session. Actual hibernate is even slower than cold boot.

using suspend...on linux..lol

>>61073290
And then you have to re-open all your programs that you had open, and stuff.
Personally, I only reboot when there is a kernel upgrade, otherwise, my PC is on 24/7.

>>61073198

$ pm-suspend
-bash: pm-suspend: command not found

>>61073328
>And then you have to re-open all your programs that you had open, and stuff.
see >>61073290
>modern DEs have facilities in place to restore your previous session
You don't.

>>61073328
>Personally, I only reboot when there is a kernel upgrade, otherwise, my PC is on 24/7.
Well, i rather use updated libraries every now and then instead of a security nightmare.

>>61073349
use whatever systembotnet offers as a replacement you dumb cunt

>>61073367
>dumb cunt
Very friendly indeed.

>>61073290
>>61073351
>modern SSDs
>modern DEs
I use neither, what now mr smartass?

>>61073380
Go back to your cave and come again when you have found some gold to buy a 40€ SSD.

>>61073351
>You don't.
Ehh, most of the windows I have open are terminal windows in particular states. Editors open, command history, environment variables, cwd. Pretty sure DEs don't handle any of that shit. Just window positioning.

>>61073378
Yeah lets all pretend you pasting an excerpt from your terminal session was totally-not-a-snarky-comment from a massive faggot trying to point out "lol i don't have this wat do XD" instead.
Because someone genuinely wondering why the script doesn't work would make that clear in a completely different way

>>61073391
>just throw more money at it XD
ok kid

>>61073409
>Using judaism as an excuse to cling to the past

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>>61073401
Wow, it's true, you guys *are* easily triggered.

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>>61073423
>i was just PRETENDING to be retarded
sure they never played this before.

>>61073397
I'm not sure if all programs support it but kde programs had the same shit open the last time i disabled that feature. I rather setup proper work environments in activities so that i can consciously active them with a simple click and pack other things into autostart.

>>61073409
I think hiring a programmer to fix suspending in linux costs more than a simple ssd.

>>61073423
haha, no I was only pretending to be retard >_<

>>61073459
>I think hiring a programmer to fix suspending in linux costs more than a simple ssd.
You need a programmer to type "suspend" into the gentoo wiki/arch wiki search box?

>>61073453
>>61073464
I wasn't "pretending" to be a retard, nor am I a retard. I just posted the output of that command on my machine, jeez.

>>61073478
>You need a programmer to type "suspend" into the gentoo wiki/arch wiki search box?
No i need a programmer to make it work reliably with my hardware and software.

>>61073493
Why exactly? I just told you the easiest way to achieve this, you don't actually need to rewrite Xfce power manager code to make it work friend.

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What's a good alternative to Originpro as I need to produce graphs for scientific papers.

>>61073507
GNU Plot?

>>61073521
Not entirely sure about using it as the graphs don't look all that good.

>>61073506
How should i know what exactly needs fixing to repair broken wifi after suspend and the gpu not responding. That's just basic shit.

>>61073542
I'm fairly sure you can change the look of your graph.

>>61073562
Let me guess, broadcom wlan chip and a switching laptop GPU?
That's just shitty drivers, nothing really you can do other than beg the manufacturer to fix their shit.

>>61073507
rlplot.

>>61073576
I managed to hose my resolv.conf because of it even though i used REISUB to reset the system it turned into a symlink to /etc. I hope it was the only thing that got broken.

>>61071370

How do I install a minimal version of Debian 9. Just the drivers I need and the packages I want. Netinst simply pulls all the bloat from the mirrors.
I know I can just install like regular and remove packages after, but I was hoping I could simply only install what I want.

>>61072884
wicd-curses
newsbeuter
pulsemixer
rtorrent
ncmpcpp
weechat
ranger
mpsyt
irssi
atool
iftop
vifm
htop
vim
w3m
moc

>>61073652
>but I was hoping I could simply only install what I want.
You'll need to start with compiling everything yourself.

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Hi,
I have lenovo thinkpad E470,
the middle click button (not sure what called) doesn't work as it would on windows, how to do i get it to work on linux my distro is elementary os loki,
Thanks

>>61073709
What do you want it to do?

>>61073652
Look into debootstrap. Start with minbase and then include all the packages you need. Note that minbase doesn't include init or a kernel so you should start with then ;)

>>61073699
Nah. You dont need to do that. Although sometimes there are lots of deps bought down. Like installing network stuff like iproute2 and nfs-common brings in dozens of MBs of crypto shit.

>>61073760
Including crypto shit you don't need and therefore probably don't want.
To get rid of it you need to change the dependencies of your packages, which basically means that yes, if you want to only install what you want you'll have to compile it yourself.

>>61073709
Mine worked without any tinkering.
What did you expect it to do?

>>61073792
Good one Terry.

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>>61071370
How do I make it so that files are always previewed, and I don't have to check this button every time in Dolphin?

>>61073720
>>61073808
when i click it in it would let me scroll up and down with the trackpoint,
what else is it often used for?
currently does nothing at the moment

If "with Arch you can build your own system" is true, why does it have the systemd?

>>61073868
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint

>>61073865
Got to a folder and set it up to the standard you want and now go to the hamburger menu and select Adjust View Properties... now check"Use these view properties as default" and just hit OK. This will now apply to all folders you didn't tinker with before.

>>61073691
Forgot the most important ones:
screen
tmux

>>61073918
Thanks :)

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did it die?

>>61073940
You're welcome, anon.

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I'm saddened.
I have been trying to build package-query cross-compiling with makepkg since yesterday, to see if I can make packages on my PC rather than on my arm device, and everything has failed.
I'm out of ideas.
Is even cross compiling from x86_64 to aarch64 a thing?
I can't make ./config work either.

CC=aarch-64-linux-gnu-gcc CPP='aarch-64-linux-gnu-gcc -E' ./configure --host aarch64-linux-gnu --build x86_64-linux-gnu

throws me an error:

Checking for alpm_version in -lalpm... no
configure: error: pacman is needed to compile package-query

From what I get, it is asking me to install pacman for aarch64 on my x86_64 computer to build package-query. You can't cross-compile like that.

I just installed Fedora 26 beta, let's see what's good.

>>61073948
I know that gentoo can do it because i did it for my old raspberry. It has sys-devel/crossdev for cross compiling that i could install to compile almost any arch gcc supports. Of course this heavily depends on gentoo but perhaps installing gentoo is easier than cross compiling somewhere else. I mean gentoo is literally made for that.

>>61073904
because it's a lie, if you want a "Build blocks" distro install gentoo.

>>61073904
You can configure systemd to work with you. You don't have to set you system up around it. It works with you in makeing something beautiful!

>>61074081
>systemd is beautiful

I tried all the Ubuntu DEs. I like Ubuntu GNOME the most.

But standard Ubuntu is going back to GNOME, and Ubuntu GNOME will be discontinued. I'll be forced to switch back to standard Ubuntu.

I found standard Canonical Ubuntu too restricted, you can't even disable mouse acceleration in the settings menus. Will I end up on a ruined babby Ubuntu if I go with Ubuntu GNOME?

If I install Ubuntu GNOME now will I just end up having to reinstall in a few months when Canonical ruin it?

>>61073948
Use distcc

>>61074095
Are you stupid?

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Regarding post number 61074117

>>61073976
Tell me how it goes. Can you install it through dnf system-upgrade with just releasever=26? I'll probably just wait until the 11th for the full release though.

>>61074166
I did a clean install because I was testing another distro, so far so good, I'm going to test LXD on this later.

In 2012, Red Hat became the first one-billion dollar open source company, reaching US$1.13 billion in annual revenue during its fiscal year.

>>61074221
Red hat is a meme either way.

Tips to maintain my system clean and slim?

2017 and Fedora still haven't got compton on the repos, no even on rpmfusion.

>>61074250
>using memedora

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dumb ubuntu user here. When a page in firefox loads, where does it store thumbnails and images loaded? Does it stores everything somewhere in /home or somewhere in /, and where?

who tried gobolinux?

>>61074281
/.cache/mozilla/firefox

>>61074282
nobody

redpill me on docker
what is it
what is it good for

>>61074331
What is that thin white line that shows up recently on many images?

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Who here rocks Debian Sid?
Thinking of going there but I am scared. How often do things break? Is it about the same experience as using Arch or is it even less stable?

>>61074372
>falling for the solarized meme this hard

>>61074305
thanks, so it's in home then. ~/.cache/...

>>61074250
So? I compiled it with no problems.

>>61074416
yes, but it has became the defacto compositor for anything that's not gnome/kde, so it's surprising that's not in the repos.

>>61074250
Too lazy for

tar -xzf compton*.tar.gz && cd compton* && ./configure && make && sudo make install

?

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Thoughts?

>>61074438
True. Perhaps it goes against their rigid definition of open source, or else there's not a maintainer as most of them use GNOME.

>>61074461
Didn't read it all but it's the same criticism as always. Valid I'm sure, but does it affect me? Not really. I can't think of any real frustrations I have with my system these days.

>>61074095
That was because ubuntu sat on an old as fuck gnome version caused by the heavy patching they needed to do for all that global menu nonsense.

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Just filter the damn tripfag

>>61074450
>Tainting your system with untracked files.
I would rather you fuckers learn how to package for your meme distro instead of doing everything the windows way.

>>61074547
> what is /usr/local

How free is OpenSUSE?
They have a free only repo, weirdly named OSS (not FOSS or FLOSS), so I don't know how serious they are with it.
If I wanted to use only free software on that distro, is the OSS repo the way to go?

what is the best distro for gaming?

>>61074566
if you don't install Non-OSS repo is as free as debian without non-free.

>>61074562
>What is OBS
>What are desktop files
>What is $PATH
Seriously, why use the GNU userland at all if you just ignore ignore the freedesktop standards and throw everything into a shitty folder that was intended for developers.

>>61074578
Any. Don't fall for the "Ubuntu is the only distro with steam support" shill meme.

>>61074566
>weirdly named OSS (not FOSS or FLOSS), so I don't know how serious they are with it.
They're a corporation, those usually don't adhere to stallman's preaching. They're here to make money, not spreading particular philosophy.

I'm applying for a job as a loonix server admin, do you think putting GNU/Linux into my resumé instead of linux would be going to far?

>>61074590
If freedesktop standards are trying to prevent me from compiling what I want, then It's no better than M$ or Apple.

>>61074609
Yes.

>>61074604
OpenSUSE is a community distro, SUSE is just sponsoring them in a same way RedHat has Fedora.

Also, no one except GNU/Zealots and retards uses the term FLOSS.

>>61074609
No, it would show them that you actually have an opinion on the matter, and are not just sheep, calling Linux an operating system when it is in fact only a kernel.

>>61074590
you could also use ~/.local
desktop files are in ~/.local/share/applications.
same with /usr/local/share/applications
./configure --prefix=/usr/local; make; make install it's simpler that making an rpm.
coincidentally, most AUR packages are just that, main reason why the AUR has so many packages.

>>61074609
Your employer will probably be more interested which one of the "enterprise big three" you're familiar with, ie. rhel, sles and ubanto.
Putting GNU/Linux just narrows your specialisation to GNU/Linux. It's basically saying "I'm familiar with Linux distributions that use glibc and gnu coreutils, I'm not familiar with alpine and other specific-purpose distributions"

>>61074623
>Also, no one except GNU/Zealots and retards uses the term FLOSS.
FLOSS is a neutral term, retard.

>>61074578
basically >>61074592
But if you wanna be specific I'd say Manjaro, or Solus because the developers actually claim to focus on the gaming experience on those distros (among other things). Ubuntu's focus is on everything so things should work there fine, and Ubuntu has a fuckton of packaged games (see playdeb).

Hello, I've added an entry to hosts file like this

0.0.0.0 somedomain.com

but I still can ping somedomain.com,
what did I do wrong?

>>61074655
Nothing, you can ping 0.0.0.0

>>61074655
host somedomain.com
that's how you test dns, not ping.

>>61074623
What you refer to as “GNU/Zealots” actually are against using the term “open source,” because software can be open source while still not be free software.

>>61074623
FLOSS is just slightly more specific than FOSS.
OSS is a weird term imo, because open source software doesn't have to be free (under GPL). All FOSS is OSS but not vice versa.

>>61074655
That's normal. Read the ping answers carefully. It should print something like

ping google-analytics.com
PING google-analytics.com (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=1 ttl=64 time=0.047 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=2 ttl=64 time=0.039 ms
64 bytes from localhost (127.0.0.1): icmp_req=3 ttl=64 time=0.065 ms

Where 127.0.0.1 is your machine.

>>61074681
>redirecting google botnet to 0.0.0.0
I like you.

https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

>>61074461
FUD
A lot of half-truths and some outright lies.
The existence of RHEL invalidates 7 of the 8 points. The remaining one - hardware compatibility - has improved tremendously in recent years although there are still pretty bad spots (Broadcom networking chips, nVidia graphics, ...). Those are easy to bypass since there's always competition with better drivers.

>>61074633
You still have to manually manipulate your $PATH to include the bin directory of local. ~/.local/share is something completely different from /usr/local, btw. No need to lump them together just because they share a word.

I have never seen an AUR package that uses /usr/local. That's just shitty design and cries for problems of users not knowing how to execute programs from it.

>>61074711
/usr/local is in you PATH by default in most distro.
what I said about the aur is not /usr/local is that the packages are basically ./configure;make;make install.

>>61074681
Okay thanks anons I thought it shouldn't have been able to ping at all.

>>61074711
The bin directory is the easy part. The hard part is the lib directory: You'll have to edit $LIBRARY, $LD_LIBRARY and some other environment variables if you want your installed libraries to work.
And if you use your own libraries to build other software, then you're gonna be in deep trouble if you ever remove them for some reason.

>>61074732
Every package manager is basically ./configure;make;make install when it gets down to it. aur and gentoo are just more accessible.

>>61074741
Reminder that somedomain.com isn't enough; you need also block all subdomains, for instance:

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com

>>61074732
Some have patches, but basically most are like you said.
>>61074754
No, most package managers (even pacman when you use the official repos) distribute binary packages, already compiled, the package manager just downloads them and the puts them in /usr and /etc

>>61074759
Are there no wildcards?

>>61074640
>>61074675
>>61074679
The term FLOSS is reactionary bullshit created because Stallman had to be a special snowflake and hate the term OSS.
Stop spreading GNU/Propaganda. No one except the Cult of Stallman is interested in gluing additional labels onto a perfectly working thing just because one man can't handle his ego.

>>61074772
Sadly no.
>>61074695
!

>>61074754
yes and every software it's just 0 and 1 when it come to it.
compare this https://slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/14.2/desktop/compton/compton.SlackBuild to rpm/deb packages.
it's the same thing that you would do if you were building it yourself plus /sbin/makepkg
arch/crux/gentoo works the same way.

>>61074780
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#FLOSS

When encoding with ffmpeg the CPU temps reach 80-90 C.
How do I prevent that? it's Core i5 2520M.

>>61074780
Actually Open Source Software (OSS) is the new term, coined to make people care less about freedom. "Free Software" worked perfectly fine. No need to add additional labels to make it more convenient for people who only care about practical benefits.

>>61073760

Thanks.

It's funny because WC literally means toilet (water closet).

will there ever be a linux distro that can play back videos through a browser without stuttering hardcore? for example: https://youtu.be/lCCae9B-50A

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>>61074825
Forgot pic

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#PC

>>61074837
This looks fine to me (Debian 9), with the exception of that thin black vertical line flickering a bit. The color ones are smooth af.

>>61074784
Wow, what an ugly mess. I'm glad gentoo has the eclasse system and just requires me to provide the URI and description of a program I want.

>>61074837
no, but you could have luck with a GNU/Linux distro

>>61074855
Gotta love this man, his jokes are so innocent.

>>61074862
they use this template https://slackbuilds.org/templates/autotools-template.SlackBuild
that's where most ugliness comes.

>>61074868
Yeah, also the one where he refers to Facebook users as "useds" because they are being used by the service.
I love him <3

>>61074868
>>61074898
You should follow his RSS, it follows this glossary: https://stallman.org/glossary.html

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When will gtk get a proper filepicker?

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Arch Linux or Gentoo?

>>61074981
There's absolutely nothing wrong with the GTK2 one

>>61074994
wtf is he doing?

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>>61074994
Source Mage GNU/Linux

>>61075009
trying to grow a few centimeters presumably

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>61075009
using the machine wrong

nice, lxd works fine on fedora.

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What's your favorite DE lads

>>61075139
weirdly enough, my favorite is unity, but I don't use ubuntu neither a DE.

>>61075139
kde

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>>61075139
XFCE for life

I have to say, ranger is really cool once you got used to it.

>>61075139
XFCE nigga

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>>61075082
moon-buggy

>>61075309
current state of linux gaming

>>61075349
GNU/Linux*

>>61075139
>using a DE

Theres a way to increase saturation on ubuntu? I'm use to high saturation and now everything looks weird

>>61075387
What do you mean?
Isn't that a monitor setting?

>>61075454
No,the buttons on my monitor can change only the light not the colors,on windows theres the intel graphics control panel that you can change the saturation,but no on linux :(

>>61073906
Nice job helping that guy out!

Please tell me what im doing wrong anon

I want to remove everything that is output from a find command, this is what I tried:

for i in find / -name (searchTerm); rm -rf i; done

But I am getting the following error:

syntax error near unexpected token `ls'

>>61075575
Is that sarcasm? or genuine compliment?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint#Scrolling

>>61073946
>hurr durr I "installed" Arch, I'm a haxx0r.

>>61075608
find / -name (searchterm) -exec rm -rf \{\}

>>61075675
find / -name (searchterm) -delete

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>>61071454

>>61075675
>>61075696

Yeah, realised the for loop was unnecessary, cheers lads

>>61073946
No, it's called antergOS.

>>61075309

Looks buggy.

>>61073709
I had this issue on Debian 8.
There was a way to enable that functionality with a few commands.

xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation" 1
xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Button" 2
xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout" 200

Try just entering those commands through the terminal (make sure xinput is installed) before you put them into xsessionrc so that if something goes wrong it will just revert back to normal when you reboot.

More info:
https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Thinkpad/Trackpoint

>>61075719
TIL -delete is recursive; thanks anon!

is gentoo a meme? how is it better than something like mint in customisation or even security?

>>61074633

>coincidentally, most AUR packages are just that, main reason why the AUR has so many packages.
Except they're not, idiot. Do you even know what you're talking about? Just because you stumbled upon some idiot who didn't follow common sense and the guidelines for Arch packaging, doesn't mean that every package should be like that.

im having issues with unity
neofetch says that the resolution on my screen is 1920x1080i, which makes it look all shitty
how do i set it to normal 1920x1080? im downscaling from 4k

>>61075813
Have you done a single minute of research on the topic or did you just regurgitate this stupid fucking post like gorillion people before you expecting to be spoonfed?

>>61075848

>1080i
>i
How do you get interlaced video on a computer/desktop?

>>61075869
i dont know, it just does it automatically but mate and cinnamon do this aswell and i want to gas myself

>>61075856
>Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.
>Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
not only did i do no research, i dont know what posts youre referring to

>>61075896
Gentoo is better in customisation than Mint.

>>61075608
would still be interested if someone could explain what was causing this error though

>>61075883

Stop using neofetch to verify your resolution information.
Use xrandr. You can also use it to change your resolution. Alternatively install a front-end for it, like lxrandr or arandr.
Also, which drivers are you using and which videocard?

>>61075908

Nice meme, idiot. You can compile the same software the same way on any distribution.

>>61075639
Genuine, I thought it was strange how he got what he asked for, and then just said nothing. Just thought I'd give due credit.

>>61076031
>Nice meme, idiot. You can compile the same software the same way on any distribution.
Gentoo makes it easier because it's whole package management was designed as a framework to make changes to the way software is compiled a single-line command.

Next time, use your brain before posting.

>>61076057
Thanks anon.

>>61075813
Gentoo is pretty different from Mint. For starters, it's source based so you need to compile your own packages, which uses more CPU power and takes longer than normal installations of packages, however it gives you more freedom to customize programs before you actually compile and install them.
Another difference would be in the installation process. Most of the distros have an installer which installs the sistem for you. Gentoo however is a bit more complex and requires you to manually compile and configure everything, including the kernel itself, so it takes much longer and is a more involved process than regular installers. However this means that you can set your system up however you want, making it as minimal as it can be, thus providing much more customization options.
But when it comes to desktop environments, the choice of programs, and just regular daily use, there's not much difference (once you fully install and configure Gentoo). In the end both can run the same stuff. Gentoo just gives you more freedom during installation.

>>61075856
>hurr i am so smart and advanced i already know all the answers. you dumb newbies need to educate yourselves lol

>>61076094
>hurrrr i'm so helpful writing the same beat-down answer to the same beat-down question answered in every single /fglt/ thread
Teach a man how to fish etc.

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I installed a dark gtk theme and occasionally text fields in browsers will display as black text on a black background. How do I fix this so that there's at least some contrast?

>>61076031
>xrandr
it showed as 1080 interlaced, but i changed it as you recommended and it fixed it
weird that in the display settings this was theonly 1080 option
many thanks my dude

and also i'm using an AMD R5 M255 with generic drivers but that probably is no longer relevant

>>61075742
architect and antergos are complete different things, retard

sudo kill -9 1

what would happen?

>>61074994
both

>>61071384
That should say 'POSIX for the masses'.

>>61074837
works fine for me on Arch

>>61076085

No one mentioned "ease".

There was this site where you could run some distros online. Anyone got the link?

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>up to date
>relatively stable while having new packages
>commited to free software
>fast packet manager

Fedora would be the perfect distro if it wasn't just a playground for RHEL.
Even though it's community driven they pretty much just focus on testing new enterprise technologies to be able to implement them to RHEL later.
Who even uses this as a daily driver?

>>61076734

>playground for RHEL.
Nice meme, idiot.
Every distribution is a "playground for RHEL" according to you, because every distribution uses the same software and they all contribute upstream with bugreports.

>>61071384
fuck the masses
The individual shall reign

>>61076763
But isn't it true?
Is RedHat not directly involved with Fedora, effectively making it a "RHEL beta" for some of their stuff?
Or am I just paranoid and Fedora is just as independent as something like Debian?

>>61071370
based Stallman

>>61076833

You're an idiot who fell prey to memes. If you were any smarter you'd be able to see it for what it is.

Red Hat isn't involved in Firefox, yet you use it. Red Hat isn't involved in your music player, yet you use it. Red hat isn't involved in your wallpaper setter program, yet you use it.
Red Hat might be involved in your kernel, but you use the same kernel with the same feature on other distributions too.

New thread:
>>61076899
>>61076899
>>61076899

>>61075082
man <some command>

>>61076734
literally systemd; the distro

>>61077170
To be honest, as long as it's free software, I don't care what the init system is.

>>61076763
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux#Relationship_with_Fedora

>>61077191
Fedora isn't a free distro.

>>61076734
I use it. I never get the impression I'm part of some beta testing programme and if I was... so what? It just works bro.

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>>61071454

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Should I install Kali Linux on my main system ? Is it functional for regular use and stable ?

>>61075813
Gentoo is the ultimate freedom distribution. It's so free, it's even too free for RMS and his goons. Comparing it with crap like mint is a bit funny though. So yeah, absolutely more customisation than mint. Aside from the fact that pretty much any properly maintained distribution is more secure than Mint, distros like Gentoo or Arch let you go full paranoid pretty easily. But you have to make it secure yourself. This is good, because you can't achieve real protection from a complex system you don't even understand.

>>61079750
Too many arms!

>>61080008
>Too free
They know, shut it down!

I'm struggling to write a bash ffmpeg screen recording tool.
Full screen capture is easy, but how the fuck would I go about parsing -video_size and -i 0.0:[value,value] or whatever, as if I'm dragging a rectangle?
Finding a tool that will grab that data from interacting with X using a scrot -s style thing...

It's all just boggling me at the moment. Does anyone have any advice on where to go? I can't even phrase my question properly, as you can probably tell, so Google won't help

>>61080250
Do you have to keep it in bash?

>>61080294
Well, for myself, I'd like to keep it in bash. Bash is my most favorite tool for chaining other tools together, obviously.

I was having thoughts of, "maybe I should make it solely GNU-tools compatible?" but then again FFMPEG is not in that, I don't reckon.

It's for myself, but I'd love to be able to figure this out with bash exclusivity.