/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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First for Pirate Party!

>>61249308

Because once you've played enough with a toy you grow sick of it.

Linux is just a toy OS and most people have tried it by now and already gone back to the serious stuff.

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Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.

>>61249350
Using linux on business and personal servers/desktops/laptops for 17 years now.

When will i grow out of it?

>>61249391
>replying to obvious bait
when will you grow out of it

>>61249342
Save for the cat that's a pretty good sign.

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HELP ME LADS

I'm on Linux Mint and I just switched to lightdm because I couldn't switch sessions to change desktop and window managers. I finally got booted into Gnome but now my brightness doesn't work and I can't open system settings. I have already tried Gnome on Fedora 25 (I'm not going to switch to Fedora I just want Gnome) and it worked fine.

I was also a pain in the ass to even switch to lightdm because on install it wouldn't tell me if I wanted to switch to it. I had to do sudo dpkg-reconfigure mdm or whatever. And when I booted it would sometimes go back to mdm.

All I want is a working Gnome.

>>61249391
When you stop LARPing online.

>>61249342
What's the pirate party like?

>>61249391
>replying
kek

>>61249438
>All I want is a working Gnome.
use fedora

>>61249324
>switch to sid from stretch
>reboot
>have better font rendering or something, text looks better
a welcome unexpected change, thanks debian

>>61249438
>couldn't switch sessions to change desktop and window managers
gdm allows you to switch DE's as far as I know

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hi, /fglt/.

What's a GTK music player that supports grouping music by Album Artist as opposed to simply Artist?

Otherwise, I don't really care what music player I use.

That functionality, though--to sort in terms of Album Artist--is pretty much the deal breaker for me.

Thanks, guys.

>>61249342
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

>>61249563
Is it infested with SJWs? The description sounds cool, but I don't want to support open borders party.

>>61249575
>I'm a xenophobic racist
Fuck off, you're not welcome.

>>61249575
>>>/pol/

>>61249342
That's actually somewhat cute. I might even go so far as to say the dated-meme-kitschy-ness of the cat image makes it even more endearing.

>>61249443
I've talked my friends' ears off about how I think copyright and piracy are basically two sides of the same coin, but The Pirate party is basically the same as "Anonymous", if that gives you an idea.

Basically, a bunch of naive, pomo, Rand-toting ""anarcho""-capitalists with half-baked opinions pertaining to some juvenile, idyllic image of a free and diverse capitalist market with a lot of competition. E.g. vapid nonsense for sexless, friendless subhumans.

>>61249479
Changed login manager becuase he couldn't figure out you click your user name to get the desktop/wm options

What is the best graphical email client?

>>61249880
>email
Why would you use such ancient form of communication?

>>61249880
Thunderbird.

>>61249880
Seamonkey

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>61250069

fortune | cowsay

I'm still having major screentearing issues with Firefox, very noticeable when watching youtube videos. Chromium doesn't have this problem so it looks like it's isolated to Firefox.

I'm running Arch on my x220. Is anyone else having this problem? I've tried turning hardware acceleration off, but that didn't help.

Very noticeable with this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wVC-ZLhIHI

>>61249601
Fuck off, NSA shill.

>>61250069
sl

>>61250555
upload screenshot with the video tearing, I'm on debian with firefox and have no issues.

>>61250561
What part of what I said is wrong? Are you seriously the type of person that would wear a Guy Fawkes mask unironically?

The nerds over at The Pirate Party have no idea what they're talking about. It's a bunch of childish, masturbatory bullshit, and it's an embarrassment that people like you would even LIKEN The Pirate Party to free software communities.

To paraphrase RMS, hacked proprietary software is still proprietary software. Pirated intellectual property still perpetuates the concept of intellectual property.

>>61250555
Do you even use a compositor

>>61250637
You don't even know what you are taling about. How about you research a bit about the topic?

I installed Gentoo with lvm on luks recently on my T410 and the system is booting slower than expected. This command seems to be the bottleneck. It takes about 30 seconds to finish.

trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs
[\code]

I build the initramfs with
genkernel --firmware --luks --lvm --install initramfs

>>61250700
well apparently I'm too stupid to use code tags properly

>>61250555
Have you enabled sync to vblank in your compositor?

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>>61250637
>"hacked proprietary software is still proprietary software"
>I've never used a disassembler in my life: the post

>need to install AIDS that is apache and other 6 gorillion dependencies to compile PHP from source
why?

>>61250802
Just don't compile the Apache module and all the modules you don't want, you cuck.

>>61250814
lel makes sense. thanks

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>>61249324
Stupid Questions: I know I'm breaking some rules...

1.What windows manager does /g/ recommend? I'm thinking about using bspwm but, i3 doesn't seem that bad either...

2. How can I watch my VN's on Linux?

3.What torrent cilent should I use?

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>>61249582
>It's the current year and he's still not an xenophobic racist

what is the actual way of getting a 13 inch 3k laptop screen to play nice with a 22 inch 1080p monitor? I mean everything sized right, and the computer not shitting itself whenever I unplug the external screen

How to make emojis work in urxvt?

gentoo or funtoo and why

>>61249582
kys

>>61250920
xrandr probably. But it depends on what WM/DE you're using and what you're currently trying (is it just automatic or are you actually doing something)
and what exactly you mean by "shitting itself"

>>61251031
Do you mean cool emojis like ┗┐＼(*´ω｀*) /┌┛
Or those gay facebook tier emojis that come in color?

>>61251070
Those gay facebook tier emojis.

>>61251070
>color
they're black/white on my machine what proprietary fonts are you guys using

>>61251103
They're black and white for me too because I want it that way. But I'm guessing anyone asking how to make them work wants them in color.

>>61251087
You just gotta install a font that uses them. If they show up in other places, like in your browser but not in the terminal then you should specify the fallback font. Not sure what it is in other terminals, but in urxvt you'd put it in ~/.Xdefaults:
>URxvt*font: xft:YourMainFont:pixelsize=YourFontSize,xft:GayFacebookTierEmojiFont

Welcome to the botnet.
>Google blows $800k on bots to flood the UK
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/07/06/robo_journalism_google/

>>61251189
I'm preferring them black and white too tbqh.

>>61251189
>>61251203
>>61251103
Thanks. Any idea which fallback font I need to use for black and white emojis?

>>61251219
I guess at this point a search engine should just work.

>>61251203
>>61251219
I think "noto-fonts-emoji" comes with both colored and black and white variants. There's also one called "emojione" I think.

>>61251238
>>61251233
Thank you for your help.

>>61250865
>What windows manager does /g/ recommend?
I think the majority of people here who don't use DEs use i3(-gaps)

>muh VNs
I dunno. What format are these things?

> muh torrents
The three most recommended ones are qbittorrent, deluge and transimission. Flip a coin or somtheing.

>>61251193
This is actually a good thing in my opinion.

I'm honestly getting fucking sick of all the newfags online who think they can actually trust shit they read on the internet.

Maybe more stuff like this happening, more spam, more bots, more trolls and eventually one day we might go back to the good ol' days were we actually used to see reminders and even commercials on TV reminding us never to trust anything you read on the internet.

>>61250865
>What windows manager does /g/ recommend?
most people i3, I recommend bspwm

>How can I watch my VN's on Linux?
what are VN's?

>What torrent cilent should I use?
transmission, aria2

>>61251278
Transmission is great.
Transmission is simple and does the torrents.
Transmission did nothing wrong.
Use transmission.
:)

>>61251278
VNs are visual novels. To put it simply they are Vietnamese animated novella.

Also thanks for the recommendations.

I wished rtorrent would work for me. When I let it run for some hours and come back, the TUI is frozen and I need to kill it.

>>61250865
>How can I watch my VN's on Linux?
In WINE.
If you get garbled text just add LANG=ja_JP to the start. If that doesn't work then you'll need to look up a list of variants on ja_JP to try, eventually one will work.

>>61251318
So chinese cartoon porn? mpv

>>61251343
>>61251278
>comes to 4chan
>has no idea about moe
???

So I'm messing around with installing gentoo. Pretty new at this, but I successfully got my machine booting on its own with most devices working, except my ethernet.

I have a realtek gigabit ethernet, and the liveCD successfully uses the r8169 driver to set up the connection, yet I can't manage to even get the module loaded on my own. Googling around, it seems most have resorted to using the r8168 driver, which seems like a hassle.

I don't quite understand why the liveCD can successfully load the driver yet I can't. Do I really have to use the r8168 driver? Is there not a way to load the r8169 one in the same way the LiveCD does?

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>>61251362
Feel free to redpill me, anon-kun.

>>61251259
Thanks for the recommendations

VNs (animated novel games) come in big files such as iso, and bdf (and more.)

>>61251377
Watch and love Lain.

>>61251396
Love lain every day, she is the daughteru of /g/

>>61251401
i thought maki is the /g/ mascott

>>61251410
No, she's the whore of /g/

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>>61251410
>he fell for the 64GiB of RAM meme
That's a forced meme, son.

>>61251426
foreced memes are still memes

>>61251435
Forced memes have no right to be called memes.

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>>61251410
Richard Stallman is /g/'s maskot.

>>61251374
Did you configure your own kernel or use genkernel?

You should probably try building ethernet directly into the kernel instead of making it a module. Ethernet should "just work"

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>>61251455
>not posting the full version

>>61251477
inane

does gcc have a future? or are we /llvm/ now

>>61251499
gcc will live on forever as long as it's required for the linux kernel.

>>61251499
>Falling for the apple jew
No thanks.

>>61250579

It doesn't show up on screenshots

>>61250642

I do not..

>>61250707

Sorry, I have no idea what that is.

>>61251522
What DE or WM are you using?

>>61251469
configured it myself. I tried building it into the kernel already, but that didn't fix the issue. I suspect the genkernel would help fix my issue, but I'd rather stick to manual configuration if I can.
Currently seeing if it is a firmware related issue and reinstalling firmware. Don't quite recall if I did that step or not when I installed in the first place.

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>>61251522
It depends on your DE, but look in the displays menu for a "vsync" or "sync to vblank" option.

here's the compositor screen from kde

>>61251522
>>I do not..
Welcome to tearing. Install compton.

>>61251531

I'm using Gnome

How about a good FAQ with all these standard questions newfriend of GNU/Linux have? Anyone up for maininging one or any suggestions what to include?
>how can I copy paste from vim
>how to enable middle click scrolling in firefox
etc

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>>61251415

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>>61251597
We already have such a FAQ, it's called Arch Wiki.
>>61251602

>>61251534
firmware didn't help anything.
I can't even tell if the kernel startup even attempts to load the driver. Using
>dmesg | grep "8169"
doesn't come up with anything, yet it pulls stuff up for the liveCD. I figure it must be some kernel build settings I need to mess with, but I can't figure out exactly what.

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>>61251622
no bully

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>>61251639
Is she even over 18?

What are some /fglt/ approved chinese cartoons?

>>61251669
Serial experiments lain

>>61251513
>falling for the monolithic unmaintainable codebase & monopolization meme when linux isn't even a part of GNU
plus llvm's code analysis / passes implementation is almost orgasmic. I wish it had better optimization passes.

>>61251669
Hidamari Sketch

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>>61251669

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>>61251654
>everyone lives in the same place as I do

>>61251669
Gabriel Dropout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2aMLgV38Mg

>>61251669
the /g/ """classics""":
welcome to the nhk
lain
umaru
steins gate

>>61251548

Doesn't look like gnome has that option. That, or I'm too stupid to find it

>>61251569

Tried installing it, but it looks like it can't be used with Gnome due to Gnome already having one?

>>61251782
If you're using NVidia then this is the answer:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

>>61251818

One of the first links I searched lol.
Wouldn't work though, it's on my x220 so internal intel GPU.

so theres this bug where you cant install Debian without an internet connection
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=866629

and im at a total loss how to get Debian on a mac air (no ether, prop broadcom wifi)

I have a .deb file that works if the system is installed, it works in the live environment
http://ftp.wa.co.za/pub/ubuntu/ubuntu/pool/restricted/b/bcmwl/

so where im at is I can only install wifi on a installed system, and I cant install a system without wifi
>thanks systemd, I know you dont want people installing offline machines
Can anyone figure this out for me?

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>>61249324
How good is pic related?
I've been distro hopping for about 2 years and LM is one of the only distros I haven't properly tried yet.
Xubuntu was almost perfect for me but there's certain parts about it that feel unpolished and XFCE, as much as I love it, is starting to get dated.
I basically want an ubuntu based distro that Just Werks™ when I haven't got time to tweak things, has a big install base, is as polished as Solus and doesn't have a bunch of bloat / advertising like stock Ubuntu.
Being lightweight is a bonus but not a priority.
I'd most likely be going with cinnamon which I believe is lighter than Unity anyway.

>>61251866
>mint
looks comfy for beginners
is trash under the hood

that said, it's still 1000% better than windows, so no worries

>>61251916
Mint doesn't suck corporate cock like Ubuntu.

>>61251669
Little Witch Academia

>>61251916
>is trash under the hood
How so anon?

>>61252018
https://lwn.net/Articles/676664/

>>61251866
just install cinnamon on a good distro

>>61251952
it is ubuntu you fucking idiot

>>61249391

When the brain trauma wears off

>>61252068
Thanks anon, I see your point now.
I'll probably just stick with xubuntu for now then.

>>61252343
>le brogramming benguin XD

>>61251952
kill yourself.
but before you do check out who works on the kernel you presumably use, since you are in fglt

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>mfw face when I found out 80% of the games I own on steam offer linux support

why haven't windblow users committed sudoku yet?

>>61249488
1. Use cmus
2. if you don't like cmus use quodlibet

>>61252343
>Steven WOW, WOW, I JUST, WOW bonnell
Lost every bit of allure when he left SC2.

>>61251831
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/intel_graphics#Tear-free_video
use this and make sure hardware acceleration is on. do ALT-F2 and r (press enter) to restart the shell. It should work

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Guys, when ubuntu 18.04 comes out I don't want to move to gnome nor anything other than unity 7.4, will I be able to keep using this specific version of unity? how?

>>61252508
dude, unity is absolute ass.
Just install "dmenu" or "rofi" on literally any other WM or DE and you'll have the same menu efficiency with like 1/100th of the resource consumption of unity.

>>61252508

No. You'll be able to use yunit though:

https://yunit.io/

>>61252508
ugh, of course this would come from an animeposter

>>61252559
>>61252581
>>61252594
I can use unity flawlessly keyboard-only and it only consumes 1.1~1.2 GB of RAM while no programs are open (just like gnome 3.22 for me). It doesn't lag at all on my system so idk wtf you guys are talking about, you guys probably just have older computers.
I mean, if I just update the kernel and avoid installing newer gnome versions and removing unity packages/installing the newer ones won't it just work?

>>61252640
shut up slut don't >> me ever again.

>>61252640
I've never used Unity. But I still know it's ass. It was made for phones.

>>61252640

You didn't read my reply. I'll post it again.

No, you won't be able to keep using Unity 7. You'll be able to use yunit though:

https://yunit.io/

>>61252672
boo
>>61252678
>it was made for phones
because of the dash? dude, you can use it without a mouse nor touch screen display, literally just WInkey -> type the name of the program and bam, you can even use the keyboard arrows to pick what program you want to launch
>>61252690
but unity 8 is trash ffs it's just bad no...

>>61252729
>type the name of the program and bam, you can even use the keyboard arrows to pick what program you want to launch
Like I said: dmenu or rofi
Does unity even have more than 1 desktop?

>>61252760
multiple workspaces? yes, it even lets you easily drag windows from one workspace to another.

>>61252809
Sounds like ass

>>61252729
>WInkey
what did he mean by this

>>61252454

Tired that already, doesn't work. :(

>>61253147

I've tried FF in safe mode with accleration on and off. Still tearing.

No tearing in chromium. Man, I recently switch to FF and I was just started getting comfy with it.

>>61253121
noobspeak for mod4

>>61253121
Super

>>61253241
>>61253255
It has the Windows logo on it so it's the Windows key, aka Winkey. Deal with it.

>>61252729
>but unity 8 is trash ffs it's just bad no...
Sorry, but Unity 7 isn't going to remain being supported and no community picked it up...

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Tried to boot fedora 26 live and got this. What do I even do?

>>61253460
install gentoo

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Anyone here uses one of the RMS-approved distros?
Such as Trisquel or Parabola?

I'd like to know how the free drivers for your GPUs (dedicated or integrated) perform.
Does an up-to-date list of supported hardware exist somewhere that one can look up before picking GPU for a new build?

>>61253733
>Intel only offers free drivers
>AMD free drivers perform similarly to proprietary ones in the only benchmark I could ever find
>Nvidia free drivers perform poorly and have poor OpenGL support

look on the project webpages for the list of supported hardware

>>61253733
A lot of people here and on the desktop threads use Parabola.

I use debian and never had problems with any integrated intel/ati drivers.
Intel distributes free drivers.
Ati distribute free drivers with a small firmware blob.
Nvidia is gay.

http://www.linux-drivers.org/

>>61253460
esc?

>>61251034
Cloveros

>>61254134
>>61254129

Ok, thanks.

I did find a couple sites that have some information regarding free GPU drivers.
h-node org lists hardware that supposedly work with only free drivers. Not a large database though.
free3D org has a huge list of GPUs' performance with free drivers, but there is no indication anywhere how outdated the information is or how it compares to the proprietary driver performance. Also, it basically only shows fps in glxgears which doesn't seem all that convincing.

Phoronix appears to have recent GPU benchmarks using only free drivers. I'll have to check that out.

>desktop thread people use Parabola
Good to know. I might ask around over there too.

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When is Linux 4.12 expected to land for Arch?
I want to try some shit.

>>61249324

Is it possible to reset and android phone's password via the jewgle account connected to it?

Short story is I changed my phone password while I was drunk in the middle of the night and I can't remember what I set it to. I have access to the google account still.

I'd really appreciate if you could help me out.

>>61254472

1 to 30 days.

>>61249575
Get out of this board, we don't want you here.

>>61249880
Inbox by Gmail. Who needs a desktop appplication for something that works better as a web app?

>>61249342

Perspective makes that sign look super huge, but it's probably tiny.

Try proving that mpv is better than MPC-HC wit madVR.

>>>/t/779451
Posting this here where there's more traffic.

How well will my VNs and Japanese porn games run on GNU+Linux?

Also, I have two PlayStation 4 controllers that work on Windows. Would they work on GNU+Linux?

>>61255245
Your (windows) VNs *should* run pretty well with wine (playonlinux for easymode), eroge probably won't work without *major* tweaks, and PS4 controllers work like a dream.

Where is that file on linux where i can place commands to run after boot? i want to put the iptables-restore command there

>>61255377
It depends on what init system you're using.
systemd is /etc/systemd/system

>>61255392
>>61255377
all distros have /etc/rc.local brehs

put it there

>>61255412

$ ls /etc/rc.local
ls: cannot access '/etc/rc.local': No such file or directory

>>61255435
i should be more specific, my bad, any NON-SHIT distros have that file

Kek.
http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/60754/intelligence/bothanspy-gyrfalcon-implants.html
>WikiLeaks leaked documents detailing BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon CIA implants designed to steal SSH credentials from Windows and Linux OSs.
>Gyrfalcon was designed to target the OpenSSH client on various Linux distros, including CentOS, Debian, RHEL (Red Hat), openSUSE and Ubuntu.

Don't deamons run as users who launched them? I am trying to download a torrent with transmission deamon and it says it can't write into my home directory

>>61255522

That's a vague question with no details what you're using to start it and how you're starting it.

>>61255510
I'm sorry, are you shilling for gentoo right now?

>>61255547
It's ubuntu and the deamon starts itself i always just connect to the web interface and add torrents
I used to use it from desktop and it worked fine but then i installed transmission-daemon so i could use it from my remote computers without having to run the gui

Do I need ECC memory if I want to use FreeNAS? I feel for shitter stuff like backing up my media with redundancy wouldn't need it since it's just home use, not enterprise level.

>>61250784
Even if you disassemble it you're not allowed to redistribute it. It's still proprietary.

>>61255510
>CentOS, Debian, RHEL (Red Hat), openSUSE and Ubuntu.
>tfw use arch

Hi,
If i have a directory /etc/me, how do i make all new files and directories in that directory be chmod 0770 and chown me:group1?

>>61255510
BothanSyp requires the targets to be using "xshell" and Gyrfalcon is a rootkit, both are to be run an a system you already have access to. It is entirely expected for someone who already has root access to your system to be able to get this stuff, especially with the resources of a goverment agency.

>>61249582

Don't speak for me, you scum

assuming most games are aimed at cis white males, how come there are very few women using loonix? We should have them on our side.

>>61255642
For inheriting permissions (overriding umask) you can use `setfacl`. Use -d or d:... to set default perms. For inheriting group use chgrp to set group ownership and then `chmod g+s` to set thie setgid bit.

>>61255916
women are simply not interested in computers. Stop forcing them to do what they don't want to do.

>>61255937
Thanks that worked. But won't it be confusing to use two separate access systems? like for example what if the file is 0777 but the facl says its 0000?

>>61255978
I don't think that makes sense. If you are just setting normal fs perms that is the same as the acl normal perms. You use setfacl -d to set the defaults for new files so you don't have to constantly manually set it. If you do change it with chmod or whatever things will use that.

>>61255564

Most likely it's a systemd service file. Check that one and see under which user it runs. Maybe it creates a separate transmission user.

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So I'm trying to install Linux, but how the fuck do I boot from the usb on an HP computer? (Before anyone asks why do I have a prebuilt computer, someone else bought this PC) I searched online but none of the instructions I found are applying to this menu (pic related)

>>61256080
Nearly always if you mash F10 you can get into the BIOS (looks like you did). There's a guide here: https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c00364979

Also try mashing F11 and see if it gives you a boot menu. If it doesn't detect the USB then go into the BIOS and make sure the ports are ON. If it still won't boot, the USB is probably not set up right and needs to be re-written with unetbootin or whatever.

Let me know, I've had this problem on HPs before.

>>61256080
if that computer is some old piece of shit then it doesn't support usb boot and you need to boot from a dvd, it it doesn't have a dvd rom you will have to install via network

>>61253460
ssh into your computer and disable plymouth.
Something like

sudo systemd disable plymouth

or something.

how do I make a bash script accessible anywhere?

>>61256444
put it in /usr/local/bin and set it executable for everyone

>>61256444
Put it in your PATH.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PATH_(variable)

Anyone here running a truly 100% free system? Including all firmware?

So I've got an external hard drive plugged into a raspberry pi and use that as a seedbox. Now this drive is almost full and I need some space.
What I usually do is just move the files that have a ratio over 2 from the raspi's drive to a drive attached to my desktop over NFS. I want to automate that.
I already have rtorrent stop seeding files when they reach a ratio of 2, what would you guys recommend in order to have the files be automatically transferred?
I thought about having my desktop drives shared with the raspberry pi over NFS and just adding a rule to rtorrent to have it move the files automatically but the idea doesn't appeal to me.

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Is it possible to auto play gif thumbnail images on a gtk3 file chooser window?

>>61256675
Unfortunately No is the only answer :(

It's funny. In windows when i do something like add a printed i am shocked when it doesn't work because in almost 100% of cases it just werks, fuck i don't even have to install drivers and shit usually, the printer just adds itself

In loonix, i had to download the drivers manually, fair enough... but i was actually shocked, that when i executed the install script, it actually worked without any errors, because i already mentally prepared myself for hours upon hours of tedious googling to fix all of the issues which would surely emerge, as per usual, but they were none this time

It made me think that linux isn't actually very good OS, when things break so often that i am actually genuinely shocked when something works without any problems at all

>>61254843
>Gmail
never go fuck cuckold

>>61256789
>le loonix is le shit because I had problem with a printer
>when printing is managed by CUPS a software developed by apple and shared by GNU/Linux, BSDs, Mac OS etc

Please for the love of god pick up a knife and stab yourself in the fucking neck.

Which arm tablet to run debian on as a lightweight portable dev station?

>>61256898
>tablet
>dev station

????

>>61256917

I don't need anything powerful to run:
- Neovim
- Compilers
- Lynx with the occasional firefox tab for complex pages
- IRC clients
- etc

>>61256931
My point is the keyboard you need for dev. You aren't seriously trying to program from a touchscreen right?

Yes I know there are bluetooth keyboards, if 1. the tablet has BT 2. if debian can operate the BT chip and it's not some obscure, patented shit.

>>61256953
I figured BT keyboard was implied, my mistake.

Yeah I'm not sure about BT compatibility with debian specifically.

I've read that ubuntu works with bluetooth on some tablets (Teclast X98 i believe is one model)

https://www.blakewatson.com/journal/why-i-left-facebook/

>>61256978
If you don't mind a netbook, there are a few ARM netbooks running android. They are usually can run plain GNU/Linux distros (booting from SDcard with u-boot), and have keyboard, touchpad, ethernet, some kind of monitor output (vga or hdmi).

>>61256953
Another option I was looking at was the GPD pocket, which seems pretty nice.

>>61256988
I used to use a eeepc 1000he as my daily driver, so I don't mind the reduced power (really the most intense thing I do is firefox or work on a django application (most other development I do is less intensive).

Most netbooks are a bit larger/heavier than what I'm looking for specifically.

>>61256878
It's funny because the issue that finally caused rms to found the gnu project was non-free printer software.

>>61256985
good article, but
>ghostery
ublock with antisocial lists enabled does to job

>>61256931
use netbook retardcake

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the fuck is this?

>>61257252
>the fuck is this?
an install prompt.

>>61257302
>install gcc
>it wants to remove desktop
im asking about this

I'm trying to convert gif to webm using

ffmpeg -i your_gif.gif -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 500K output.webm

but I keep getting this error

Transparency encoding with auto_alt_ref does not work
Error initializing output stream 0:0 -- Error while opening encoder for output stream #0:0 - maybe incorrect parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height

if I add -auto-alt-ref 0 it works but I lose the last frames of the gif


any help?

>>61257325
>Converting GIFs to WebM
This isn't answering your question, but don't do this.
Go back to the source of the GIF.

when will the systemd mess finally get dropped from the major distros?

>>61257342

why not?

>>61257354
Original quality a best quality.

>>61257325
>

-b:v 500K

as dumb as it sounds, try it with lowercase k

>>61257252
>>61257314
It looks like your package dependency manager is playing tricks on you. Look at this zypper documentation and see if you can mark Desktop as a manually installed package so it doesn't remove it.

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>>61257371
this is literally fresh install, first use of zypper, why does this happen? this isnt friendly at all

>tfw closed all ports except ssh and started tunneling everything through it
feels good man, no more exposed web interfaces and file transfers and shit, now i can securely log into my bank account over some shitty african starbucks hotspot

>>61257348
Probably never.
You need to learn to embrace the future, anon.

>>61257325
Check the wiki https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php?title=WebM there's a gif convert command you can try

>>61257348
needs more negative press
https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/6277

hello fellow programming penguins :)

everyone enjoying their foss implemented operating systems?

stay GNU bros!

I have a Debian live image on a USB drive, but when I'm running the installer it says "your installation CD-ROM couldn't be mounted" what am I supposed to do about this?

>>61257395
What distro is it? I've never seen a zypper package manager. Also are out sure it wants to uninstall everything Desktop and not only the metapackage?


>>61257348
Realistically? Never
It's already doing so much things connected to Gnome, it would take too much to come up with an alternative.

The only sensible thing to do is to make it better.

>>61257609
Is it the netinstaller? I had the same problem years ago and switched to the full installer and it worked.

Also, how are you putting it in the USB? Don't use unetbootin if you are, try something else.

i fell for the seperate /home partition meme and made a 30gb / and a 120gb /home partitions
problem is / is now getting full so i cant install shit
how do i make it so that apt installs stuff to /home?

>>61257712
Is your /var/cache/apt/archives directory empty?

>>61257712
What are you filling / with? My Debian Installations never go above 15Gb.

Check if /var is too large. Maybe you are holding logs or stuff from years ago.

Installing arch is getting too easy.
How to hard mode?

>>61257745
Don't read the wiki

>>61257745
try updating it

>>61257737
>>61257727
/var/log had several GBs worth of stuff in it, deleted some of them and now i have 15 of 30 gb free again. How do I turn of these logs or auto delete them after a while?

>>61257785
>/var/log had several GBs worth of stuff in it

[screams externally]

You can set up logrotate then write a script that deletes something.log.<number bigger than 2>.gz files then run it with cron once a week/month.

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Guys I need your help. I'm the faggot that was complaining about broken boot for no reason with pic related, if you remember me.

Now I went to reinstall it and when it comes to partitioning the disk from the installer it just shows a whole bunch of "not a block device" errors and then shows a whole bunch of weird /dev devices.

Is my ssd fucked? I can mount and browse my existing partitions just fine from the live image, it only breaks when trying to boot from that disk or install to it.

>>61257810
i checked them logs briefly before deleting
i think they were mostly caused by wine

>>61257785
From which programs where them?

If simple log files, check if you have logrotate. It should zip logs and delete very old ones. Most programs come with logrotate configuration.

One that bite me in the ass as a mongodb installation. I just installed it and left it there. 1 Month later my disk was full with it's backups in /var.

So check what you have installed.

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>>61257821
Managed to snap a pic of the error message

sudo sh -c 'cat /dev/sdb >/dev/sdc'

is this what I want to mirror a broken disk?

>>61257663
>>61257536
>>61257431
>>61257348
Please find another place to troll, thank you.
*locked and limited conversation to collaborators*

>>61257850
just use dd

>>61257849
somethings wants to mount /dev/ , the fucking DIRECTORY to somewhere. Looks like a broken fstab. See if you can fix it from a live system.

>>61257852
he's not wrong most of the time
issue trackers should stay technical

>>61257679
No it's the live install one and I used Rufus, but I think I'll download the complete installer and see if it works then

Where can I learn iptables? Any good guide? I hearded ufw isn't good enough so I want to make it right.

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>>61257877
This IS a live image, it's the official install script. It shows that when I get to the step where I can create filesystems after partitioning the disk, then shows pic related.

>>61257936
that's a bug them. Go report it to the devs. If you have access to older/newer (beta) install images, try one of those

It's been a couple of years since I kept up with the Linux scene at all, been working on Winblows machines all day for work which has kind of taken the fun out of computers for me.

I'm setting up a Linux PC and I want it to be pretty. What desktop environments are out now that are really good for eye candy? Last I remember it was just Compiz but nothing supported it very well. I'm at an intermediate skill level with Linux but I don't have hours of time to sink into making it work, it needs to work mostly out of the box. I still want it to be customizable, and quick to navigate with the keyboard. My preferred distro is Manjaro if that makes a difference.

>>61257974
I know it worked before though, I used this exact image to install my system a couple months ago.

It could be a badly written fragile script but coupled with the fact that I could boot perfectly for weeks, then suddenly started consistently getting the kernel panic on boot shown above, it makes me think it's an issue on my end. Any ideas as to where I could look to check that?

maybe fglt knows better:
what's a free alternative to stuff like whatsapp?

>>61257996
AwesomeWM

Or just rice xfce, it's not hard per se but you need to find or come up with a good theme for it which could take some time to get right

Or use KDE like a pleb, I haven't tried it myself but I heard they went all-out on eye candy

>>61257850
I don't think so. That's not how I'd do it, anyway.

Try:

sudo dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc bs=64M status=progress

Usual disclaimer: DD is called "Disk Destroyer" for a reason. One typo and your hard drive is FUBAR. Triple-check everything.

>>61258030
Tox (personally my favourite), Matrix/Riot, good old IRC using a client that supports encryption

>>61257996
Hi there!

You seem to have made a bit of a mis take in your post. Luckily, the users of GNU/Linux are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have referred to the GNU/Linux system as "Linux", but Linux is just a part of the system! Whoops! 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. You should always remember to say or write "GNU/Linux", unless you are referring to the kernel "Linux" alone!

Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bit to help you get used to your new operating system!

>>61258089
*Linux

>>61258053
Is Signal ok? How's Ring?

>>61258047
>status=progress
Is this new?

>>61257974
>>61258010
More fun stuff. Trying to use less and vi on any files gives the same result.

What do? Throw away disk? I can still manually mount and read (using cat) files from every single partition though. Interestingly enough, /mnt/bin/less works. Fuck, does that mean the live image is borked too? I guess I'll go reinstall it to be sure, although having something in my main system's boot AND something in my live usb fuck up would be pretty bad luck.

>>61258206
Relatively. If your distro doesn't have it updated yet it'll throw an error, just delete that part and it'll work.

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>>61258241
Whee forgot pic of the "more fun stuff"

>>61258257
Linux breaks all the time. Try to install windows, it works anywhere, so if it doesnt work you will truly know the disk is fucked.

>>61258116
Signal looks ok at first glance.
>open-source
>all the standard encryption schticks
Only thing is that it requires your phone number. Tox generates a unique hash, and it can also be used on any device - the only problem being there's no straightforward way to sync several devices together.

Why are both X and wayland so fucking shit?
>wayland
Barely any wm/de avaialble
The ones that are available are so shit they crash without 5 minutes of usage, guaranteed, nevermind the ridiculous amount of graphical glitches, like window content rendering outside the window frame and window size being completely wrong.
Only sway is remotely usable.
SDDM is the only viable DM.

Several years-old well-known critical bugs which cause complete system freezes with no possibility of recovery because lol ctrl+alt+f# don't exist anymore and lol sysrq are for faggots.

>X11
several critical flaws including a bad match being able to break X until its state is purged and it is restarted, which is not possible in many environments.
Constant few-seconds freezes.
Insecure as all fuck.

What the fuck. How do we get free of this hell? Can't write graphical programs that run in fullscreen without breaking X, can't use wayland because it breaks on its own. Genius!

>>61258379
My sides!
>mfw nfw there are people who actually believe this

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Dayum. I want to switch to loonix so much but the games man, linux ain't got shit on windows in gaming, and dualbooting is pointless and obnoxious and shit like wine is a joke.
If only only loonix was the main gaming platform on pc like windows is, it would be the perfect OS, but being a heavy gamer, i guess i'm stuck with windows for the rest of my life ;_;

>>61258771
xorg vs. wayland is literally sysv vs systemd.

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So it seems to be that I have a number of issues after installing KDE Neon. I've moved back to Windows for now but I'd really like to use Linux if I can but similar issues pop up on every distro I try. These are some specific to KDE Neon

>Cannot log out/switch user/shutdown since ksmservice stops working and need to use power button to turn my comuter off and on (I think this is Nvidia related?)
>Booting into the OS is dodgy and might not even work at all
>Secondary monitor will not be detected by either display settings or Nvidia X Server Settings (I have a GTX 980), only my primary monitor is detected
>After installing graphics drivers and restarting, my desktop seemed to scale up to about 125%-150% size regardless of what I change my scaling to.
>There still seems to be screen tearing issues no matter what drivers, backend render I choose, or other compositor options.
>After installing graphics drivers, window decorations on Breezemite seem to have gigantic borders like this (Pic Related)

I really like KDE Neon and I want to use Linux on my desktop but I always seem to have issues installing it on my desktop. How do you /g/oys manage to fucking have linux work on your desktops so flawlessly.

>>61258850
No, it's more like openbsd vs freebsd (both are absolute garbage but at least freebsd is kinda usable if you don't mind hobo-tier conditions)

>>61258811
two computers

plug them both into the same peripherals

>>61258889
Linux is intended for servers, GUI in linux is just a poorly executed afterthought, don't listen to autists and use this simple chart:
are you building a server? use linux
are you building a dekstop? use windows

>>61258889
First is KDE related.
Second is systemd related.
Third could be quite a few different issues, including pebcak, nouveau drivers (if applicable), or KDE.
Fourth is KDE again. It's a well-known bug.
Fifth is strange. If you had the compositor disabled that would be it but you say you still see it with the compositor. Try setting vsync somewhere? Not really sure abut this one.
Sixth is once again a KDE issue.

Your biggest problem is that you're trying to use KDE. Don't do that.
Your second problem is that systemd is a thing. But try fixing the first issue first.

>>61258940
Literally the opposite of the truth.

>>61258811
VGA passthrough lad.

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>>61258940
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.

>>61258850
So what are the OpenRC and runit of graphical systems then?

>>61258953
I get many of the same issues with Ubuntu Gnome as well

>>61251624
>>61251534
>>61251469
>>61251374
Figured it out, network cards that require firmware have to be loaded as modules else they won't load the firmware properly.

Guess I'll make it a habit to module network devices.

>>61259080
>many
So, 2 3 and 5 only?

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holy crap, look at this https://github.com/athityakumar/colorls

>>61259179
You could also include the firmware in the kernel image, it's in the kernel options.

>>61259204
Just use terminology and stop advertising your garbage.

>>61258257
I had a similar issue about a year ago.
Plugging in a usb device would cause drives to remount read-only and would spam I/O errors.
Turned out my southbridge was dying and a few days later the Mobo wouldn't post anymore.

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>>61259204
I quit.

>>61259022
Who's the thoty

Help me out, whats a really stable linux distro my father can use?
Does MS Office support linux through wine?

One thing i hate about linux is that heavy customization is required, but new distros and versions come out all the time, so you have to redo it all the time. windoze requires almost none, apart from setting a new wallpapper and new versions come out twice in a decade

>>61259273
My mom has used ubuntu for 3 years with little issue, but i have to update for her. She uses Libreoffice with M$ fonts and its configured to default export in .docx format.

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I've installed Ubuntu 16.04 along side with Windows 7 in legacy mode. Each time I restart and try to boot windows, mouse does not work. I have to restart, unplug mouse, plug into different usb port, and then win may recognize it (maybe after two restarts). What gives? How do I solve this?

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>4.11 kernel now on Debian Sid
Jesus fuck, why did they take so long. 4.12 is already out, I thought Sid was the "oh lol my system broke after an upgrade wakarimasen".

>>61259194
pretty much

>>61259374
>I thought Sid was the "oh lol my system broke after an upgrade wakarimasen".

thats "experimental". Try it out by adding

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ experimental main

to sources.list New experimental kernels should appear then in apt-cache search.

>>61259236
Fug.

It fucks up even with no usb device though, doesn't let me boot (see first picture I posted).

>>61259454
I only had kernel panics in the last days of the motherboard.
The major problem was whenever i would shutdown/reboot fsck would have to repair the drive on the next boot.

try using another computer to install the os, then load the drive back into that system

>>61259273
Gentoo. The only actually stable distro out there.

>>61259389
That's still obviously an improvement. 2 as mentioned is systemd-related, use openrc instead (in particular, try void, slackware or gentoo).
5 would be more easily solved if we could have a demonstration of what you mean. For example, you could be referring to actual tearing or instead to greyed out first-fills (an inherent X problem, not fixable).
3 is most likely pebcak if it didn't work in either kde or gnome, however, since it's all completely plug-and-play for me and everyone at work.

>>61259374
It is, according to debian shills who try to pretend their OS is not antiquated by design while at the same time maintaining that it's totally stable while their X server crashes.

>>61259581
I reinstalled the liveusb and that part seems to work now.

I'll go blindly back up my /etc before overwriting / because I can't be bothered to sift through deciding what files I need, try to export a list of packages if I can actually find some usable documentation for xbps, then reinstall and report back.

It'd suck if my mobo died

>>61259653
>>>/r/eddit

>>61259895
>>>/s4s/

>>61259895
>>>/tumblr/

>>61259926
>>>/p/lebbit
>>61259903
>>>/trash/

>>61259965
>>>/pol/

>>61259895
>>61259903
>>61259926
>>61259965
>>61259990

>>61260019

>>61259926
>>>/t/watter
>>61259990
>>>/lgbt/

>>61260052
>>>/mlp/

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>>61260075

So I've got a bad journal on one ext4 encrypted disk. I want to dd the data to another disk to recover it. It's capable of unlocking, but not mounting. Should I run sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/luks-eac7b048-2581-4d92-a7c9-8803c2542bdc of=/dev/sdc conv=noerror,sync ? minus the question mark, or write the disk unencrypted?

I think the next step for recovering whines about it or something, idk

Should I choose ubuntu, opensuse or arch?

Should I choose debian, fedora or gentoo?

arch

>>61260075
/mlp/ is a great place!

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>tfw I realise I'm a fucking idiot