/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

first for stallman is just a fat gay guy

second for ubuntu

welcome back /faglets/

What qualities must something have in order to be part of the botnet?

>>61831422
Hello!

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>61831453
rm

>>61831443
I have no interest in /faglet/ subreddit but have great night or day friendo

>>61831453
sudo apt-get moo

>>61831453
telnet mapscii.me

>>61831387
Under the protection of the almighty GNU. Thank you OP.

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What's a filebrowser for Ubuntu that I can use to sort photos by date taken rather than date modified?
I know the Windows file explorer can, but the standard Ubuntu 16.04 can't.

>>61831432
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Botnet

>>61831483
neat

Searching for a nice tui-irc client. Can't decide between weechat and irssi, which should I choose? Also did I miss some clients? Which does /fglt/ use?

>>61831432
Being disliked by /g/.

>>61831917
weechat

>>61831917
irssi

>>61831403
Came out of the darkness of fedora with minimal i3 into the light of ubuntu and unity yesterday. Feels good.

>>61831917
Discord ;^)

>>61832277
>>61832309
t-thanks.
>>61832567
Nice meme.

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Does /g/ approve LXLE?

I want to build my distro, preferably based on Ubuntu or Debian. I am too lazy to do LFS. What do?

>>61833439
You want a Debian netinstall. Comes barebones like Arch and you can install what you want yourself.

>>61832567
>unity
rip

>>61833377
I really hate this meme.

>>61833472
Are there any other distros that offer minimal installs?

>>61833647
gentoo

>>61833647
Arch

>>61833647
Any distro. Just check the related download page for a netinstall image.

Long time Ubuntu user here. I'd like to switch to Debian (I actually already installed stable), now I'm not sure if I should upgrade to testing or to unstable. Which should one I settle with? Any pro/contra welcome.

>>61833912
Even if you ugrade to unstable, you must upgrade to testing before anyway, so why not try testing and see if it's enough edge for your needs?

Testing is basically frozen unstable, (up-to-date as Ubuntu), more stable than unstable, not stable enough for stable.

Unstable is fresh upstream packages, things can break, just like on any rolling distro. That said, its much babysitting. Breakage is rare, just like on Arch (daily Arch breaking is a meme).

Stable and unstable has best security, since, as said, testing is a frozen unstable. Stable has a security team, unstable gets fixes from upstream and is under active maintence, while on testing you need to wait for the next freeze.

I'd recommend to stick to stable for a rock solid system, or unstable for fresh packages, testing if you're really lazy but want current stuff. For the most important stuff there are also backports for Debian stable.

>>61834081
not much babysitting*

which terminal supports emojis?

>>61834180
>emojis
Why would you want that in the first place

I'd really like to use a tiling window manager. I used i3 and xmonad last night but I hate how sound and brightness controls are absent, and the F keys aren't functional. I know the difference between a DE and a WM but are these things configurable or am I supposed to live without them when using a WM?

>>61834351
xbindkeys

>Upgrade to Firefox 55 the other day
>buggy as fuck (new tabs don't seem to work well because when I switch back and forth, it glitches out and I have to close the new tab for it to work

anybody else having this issue? Should I just downgrade it or what?

>>61834720
Nope. Maybe you're just gay.

>>61834351

"DEs" have a window manager. They also have that functionality you want, but it's not tied in any way to the window manager (the notification part, the keybinds sometimes are). You can install a notification daemon to display volume and brightness notifications (together with a script or a program which triggers them) on any window manager. You can also bind keybinds to change the volume or brightness. Most window managers are directly responsible for keybinds, but you can also use standalone hotkey programs like >>61834606.

I want to die I hate myself.

>>61834180
it depends on installed fonts and font settings, not on the terminal

Is there a way to prevent the sound system stop working? I mean, when listening music or sounds, when it presents a part where the sounds stops or it is very low, the audio module inmediately stops working, producing a crackle/popping sound everytime. On the other hand, Windows usually keeps audio active when using software that is audio dependant, so it is barely noticeable, because audio never stop working until you close the app or intenionally press stop/pause if it is a music player. Also, there is a workaround for people using OSX/Hackintosh that is called "Antipop" that pretty much makes the sound system keep working instead of stopping it at the moment where the system stop making sounds, acting similar to Windows audio. Any idea is welcomed, Don't mind if PulseAudio or ALSA, Ty in advance.

is fedora better than ubuntu or is it a step down?

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lunduke is going 14/88 soon

gnu/linux is White man's operating system

buy a system76 machine today

>>61835783
>lunduke
can't stand that guy
>random topic
>has guest who supports view a
>landuke agrees
>has guest who supports view b
>landuke agrees

>>61835783
install opensuse tumbleweed

>following le free software celebs
pig disgusting

@61835901
>worthless proprietary cuck
>baiting for (You)s
embrassing

What in the system is responsible for running actions when I close the laptop lid and how can I change what happens?

>>61835944
save for the bios firmware my system is entirely free as in freedom.
i wish libreboot worked on t420 but it's still not done.

>>61835975
Depends on the distribution.
on devuan it's acpid but I'm fairly sure systemdicks enabled distros use either some systemd built in feature or a different daemon entirely, but could be wrong.

>>61836020
>I'm fairly sure systemdicks enabled distros use either some systemd built in feature or a different daemon entirely, but could be wrong.

memed-logind handles it IIRC.

>>61836020
I'm on Arch, so systemd.

>>61831453

$ # Print the kernel name
$ uname -s
Linux
$ # Print the operating system name
$ uname -o
GNU/Linux

>>61836044
look into udev

>>61833584
Answer me niggermonkey.

>>61831453

python3 -m http.server 8080

Shares the current directory on port 8080, comfy for transfering shit in the network.

I'm very conflicted.
I had to drop arch because of some instability I had with the system after a couple of months.

I'm now using deepin, but the packages are way too outdated.
I'm using Ryzen w/ Gigagbyte AB350 Gaming 3 and GTX 1060, a awful combination it seems, since I can't boot any ubuntu-based system, neither Antergos.

What the fuck do I do, I'm considering moving to solus, is it a good choice? maybe tumbleweed

Since it looks like GNOME3 is going to win the desktop war finally, what's the best distro to start out with it?
I'm thinking Fedora since Linus uses it (with GNOME3) and he has decent taste, and since Fedora has had GNOME3 as the main DE for longer.

>>61836085
man, that's pretty awesome

>>61836163
Try ubuntu 17.10 beta. It should ship with a newer kernel and novidya drivers.

>>61836085
You can access it via browser? local.ip:8080?

>>61836278
Yes.

>>61836085
Retard here, is there any chance of getting an android phone or playstation media server detection to pick up on that?

>>61836200
could need a proper filepicker tho

>>61836589
Serious question, is anything technology-related stopping them from implementing this with GTk3/GNOME3? Why haven't they done so yet?

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>>61831387

I could use a little help ricing xfce4. I am trying to change the background color which surrounds the xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin icon on my xfce panel. I simply want to change the color which surrounds the whiskermenu icon (to #333333) so it matches the panel on my desktop.

As you can see from my screenshot, the background color surrounding the whiskermenu icon seems to retain a blue color set by either the Victory-17.04-gtk2dark WM theme, or by the Victory-17.04 [GTK2] theme. (I Don't know which controls this.) After I set 'Custom panel colors' in Theme Configuration (also highlighted in screenshot) I noticed the background color behind the whiskermenu icon does not match the new color I had set for the panel itself. Where can I edit this value? I am not sure which file or property I am looking for. Can I find what I am looking for in /usr/share/themes/Victory-17.04/gtk-2.0/gtkrc? Or maybe add something to ~/.gtkrc-2.0?

Also, two possibilities might be:

1. I need to find an image file somewhere in my theme and edit it to the color I want in GIMP, or something.

2. The color not changing behind my whiskermenu icon by configuring 'Custom panel colors' might actually be a bug that I have discovered.

Your experience is appreciated... th-thanks

What are some good word processors for Linux? Is LibreOffice the best?

>>61836792
probably.

>>61836792
EMACS

>>61836294
Not with typing the ip in manually

>>61836652
No, the devs just don't care enough about that feature.

>>61836792
sed

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>>61836051

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>>61836882
what os are you using

>>61836907
Linux

What are some good stream editors for GNU/Linux?
Is sed the best?

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>>61836911

>>61836803
that's a text editor not a word processor silly anon. how am I supposed to write a report with this?
>>61836844
what does this do I am confused
>>61836927
lol

>>61836927
ed

>>61836943
>64x64
>medium

What are some good line editors for GNU/Linux?
Is ed the best?

>>61836792
but libreoffice is an office suite, anon

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>>61836882

What are some good directory listers for GNU/Linux?
Is ls the best?

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>>61836991
Problem?

>>61837054
echo *

>>61837016
libreoffice writer*
there

>>61837044
I only have >>61837058 and uptime and none of the others installed

>>61837054
find

>>61837054
dir
(sometimes I lie on the internet)

>>61837092
ls is better on Windows because you don't have to type so much.

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>>61837089
Twat did yo say?
I cunt hear you.
I have an ear infucktion.
Tits okay.
I'll finger it out later.

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>>61836792
>>61836927
>>61837014
>>61837054
yo did I just start a meme

how to git gut with ed?

>>61837173
practice and reading ed manual (info ed)

>>61837117
You can dir on linux too.
Just looked at the dir --help for the first time.
It has more options than I realized.

>>61836792
seriously though guys what do I use if I just wanted to type up a short MLA essay or something

New to Linux, I have a few questions:
Why is systemd bad?
Why is Debian bad?
Why should I use Gentoo if, apparently:
>Gentoo includes installation recipes for a number of nonfree programs in its primary package system.

>>61835642
Likely a smoother gnome experience. They're basically the same except for their repos and package manager. I prefer DNF - even though it's slower, it prevents information in a really clean way as opposed to the dependency blocks apt gives you. Additionally, though the Ubuntu repos are straight up better, DNF lets you know where a package is coming from (through separation of free/non-free repos). Still, these differences don't amount to much and Ubuntu has better support so...

>>61837255
yes

>>61837255
Absolutly.

>>61837255
Reply Hazy: Try again later.

What's the easiest way to transfer an existing Linux installation to another, smaller drive?

I have a 250GB SSD I want to move my system to, but it's currently on a 3TB HDD, so I can't do direct clone, because it wouldn't fit. I'm not too familiar with the Linux filesystem yet, so I have no idea how to do this.

>>61837214
LaTeX

>>61837214

>>61837255
install gentoo

>>61837255
have an actual reply:
no
no
no, gentoo is a zionist conspiracy to force you to use waste more energy ((($))) by forcing you to compile every software you want to use

If I use Wine to gaym on Linux, can I play online with someone who's using Windows?

>>61837988
Yes.

>>61837988
You can, but you might encounter Stallman and he will interject for a moment.

I'm trying to get cool voices for espeak. I have found this one, that sounds like ungarbled Travis from killer7.

Anyone has voice files to share?

http://espeak.sourceforge.net/voices.html
https://github.com/nvaccess/espeak/blob/master/espeak-data/voices/!v/whisper

language variant
name whisper
gender male

pitch 82 117
flutter 20

formant 0 100  0 100
formant 1 100 80 100

voicing 17
breath   75  75  50  40  15  10
breathw 150 150 200 200 400 400

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwre4JstX_A

>>61838238
you could pipe it to sox and add some crazy effects. sox it pretty amazing

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thanks again to the friendly person that pointed me towards Think Penguin a few threads ago, very excited!

>>61837173
I've read the manual and now I can write something, write the text to a file and close ed. I feel so much 1337 right now, holy shit.

>>61838287
I'm very interested in adding effects. Specially garbling, like in the mentioned game. Here's an example.

Do you have any suggestions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y86iPEUh90

>>61838322
think of it as interactive sed

>>61838322
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.txt

>>61838374
Or a vi without gui.

>>61838405
?

How is pure Debian?

>>61838322

alias ed='ed -p:'

and everything makes sense.

>>61838374
>>61838406
How did people even edit so many text back in the days, jesus

>ed
>not cat > file
benis
^D

do you guys even text

>>61838493
They did small applications.

Can someone help me with installing screenfetch on CentOS? Ive tried searching online for the repo and the repo I tried didn't work.

>>61838527
compile from git

>>61838527
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch/wiki/Installation#fedora--rhel--centos--mageia

>>61838527
download
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/master/screenfetch-dev
and execute it

>>61838602
Thanks, yum install neofetch worked like a charm.

http://www.cucumberlinux.com/

Hmm...

>>61838349
Bump.

Which is better, screenfetch or neofetch?
I must know, it's important.

If I perform do-release-upgrade on ubuntu do all the default bloat packages that I've removed (like libreoffice) get reinstalled?

>>61839122
Trolling to hard anon.

>finally come up with a good reason to use ZFS that isn't "because I want it"
>ZFS on Linux is tied to kernel version
Is this as restrictive as it sounds?

lxqt vs xfce?

Do I need gvfs?

>>61839350
I really like lxqt but it's just stripped down xfce without half the functionality.

>>61839393
does lxqt do the windows 7 snap thing? xfce does it but lxde doesn't. i skipped on lubuntu in the past because of that.

I decided I want to dual boot linux/gnu with windows 7 so I can really use loonix and have a full experience with it rather than a limited experience in virtualbox. I'm mostly programming, browsing the web (15-20 tabs), reading documents like pdfs and djvus and sometimes torrenting and watching a movie. I wanted a rolling release and system-d free distro but I just started learning this OS then I'll have to stick with systemd until I'm good enough to install gentoo. would debian testing (rolling release but systemd) be the distro I'm looking for or is there a better option? also how can I get fonts in linux+gnu which is kinda bad and blurry like fonts in windows, better readable? thx in advance

>>61839454
Just install Ubuntu on Windows™. Dedicated Linux partitions are deprecated.

If i wanted to get more into the GNU side of things (as a developer) - is there a resource i should checkout to see what is "needed" or where I should aim first?

>>61839454
If you want to avoid systemd with something sort of simple you can check devuan, void, or archlinux with openrc (you could also check artix, which used to be manjaro-openrc, but now uses arch repositories).

The font rendering depends on your DE, but you could try adding

 
 Xft.dpi: 96
Xft.antialias: true
Xft.hinting: true
Xft.rgba: rgb
Xft.autohint: false
Xft.hintstyle: hintslight
Xft.lcdfilter: lcddefault

to your .Xresources

You could also try infinality, although it's developer is MIA atm. This works on Arch (and it's forks).
https://gist.github.com/cryzed/e002e7057435f02cc7894b9e748c5671

what y'all niggies think of Trisquel the distro?

>>61839597
https://www.gnu.org/help/help.en.html

>>61839752
thank you!

>>61839714
I prefer Debian desu.

>>61839714
I think the problem with those 100% free distros is that most non-techies can't run it because missing drivers. If we had more free drivers, I guess more people would use them (and I think more systems would use Linux-libre). I tried trisquel, liked it, but ended up switching to Debian because my cucked Wifi.

>>61839830
Same here, Debian is cool. Kernel is deblobbed ootb and you basically just add stuff you really need.

>>61839681
I was using manjaro openRC before debian stretch in virtualbox and I really liked it. would you say artix is indicated to a newbie like me? devuan seems to be exactly what I want; is there a way to make it rolling release?

XFCE is the only DE I've used and I love it, how good is its font rendering? if not XFCE what's the best DE that has the best font rendering by default? thx for replying and thx for your tips about font rendering

I'm not sure what the problem is, but I'm running Transmission as a daemon and when I add .torrent files through the webui, certain files in a certain directory don't hashcheck as they should (the files are there) but instead show as not downloaded. I googled a bit and found it may be something to do with the folder's permissions and or owner settings, but I'm not sure what the problem would be, exactly and why it is only the one folder/directory. I am able to add .torrents that are in another directory and they check to 100%.

Hi guys, I come to ye with a question.

I am running Debian 9 with i3-gaps and polybar on a Thinkpad X220. The uptime is approx. 6 hours with regular use, but my problem is the CPU temp. When running in approx. 30°C weather, it runs at 41°C. With any small task, it shoots up to 50°C. What do? Should I disable hyperthreading? What can a nigga do to get temps down?

Also, the 6 hrs are on the 6-cell battery. Looking to upgrade to a 9-cell later this year.

Thanks for the advice, guise!

>>61840149

Pre-warning: desktop guy

Is there any way the thermal paste on the CPU may be dried up and inefficient now? If you can get to it and replace it or clean the fan out at all, it may help.

>>61839991
>>>61839681 (You)
>would you say artix is indicated to a newbie like me?
It should, but I haven't fully tested it yet.

> devuan seems to be exactly what I want; is there a way to make it rolling release?
same way as debian, replace 'jessie' with the code for stretch on sources.list, I think it's 'ceres'

>XFCE is the only DE I've used and I love it, how good is its font rendering? if not XFCE what's the best DE that has the best font rendering by default?
To me xfce's fontrendring was okay, now I'm using awesomewm with that infinality fix and it looks good too (rendering before that was awful).

Honestly, you should test and see what looks/feels/ works better for you. I know it sounds like a hassle, but that's the only way you'll be sure you made the right choice.

>>61840054
add your user and transmission's user to the same group and change the ownership of that directory to said group.

>>61840270
yea, you're right, testing everything is the best way to find the best. thx for your replies, anon!

>>61836085
breddy good find, saved

>>61840149
Its fine up to 60C

>>61839525
ironic shitposting is still shitposting

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Thoughts on Greentoo?

>>61841680
I think it's bangin'. Is it a real thing or just a logo design for Gentoo?

>>61839525
I moved from LTSB to Pro, like a fucking idiot because of this meme, it fucking sucks. Everything is ridiculously slower, specially disk access and internet access, it's almost like a VM, but you only get to use a terminal.
Canonical + Microsoft is just as shitty as it sounds

nigs, when you want to speed up some scripts which don't require unicode support, prefix your commands with LC_ALL=C
made some tests with grep and its like 200% faster

>>61841978
>which don't require unicode support
How can that be? I'm pretty sure that option actually adds unicode support. If anything I'd think it would go slower.
What value were you using before?

Whats the best method for transfering files Laptop <-> Phone?

>>61842084
email

>>61842081
Compare

time LC_ALL=C grep -Erw 'shit|fuck' /usr/src/linux*

~1 second
whith

time grep -Erw 'shit|fuck' /usr/src/linux*

~20 seconds

>>61842256
It's actually the exact opposite for me.

I ran it on a different directory though because on /usr/src/linux* they both finished in the blink of an eye (LC_ALL=C was a tiny bit faster at 0.002s while the other was 0.005s)
But when I run it on another directory that takes longer the LC_ALL=C one takes about 3 times longer.

My guess is it probably depends on the files, and one isn't necessarily faster than the other in general.

>>61831387
I support GNU+Linux.

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>>61842656

wow, what the fuck did they do to the UI in ubuntu 17.10? it's fucking garbage compared to the old one and unity was already a pile of cumbersome shit.

I could barely even work out how to switch between two windows.

it's always something

i'm installing arch linux. i'm at the point where i've chrooted into the new system. i ran bootctl install. two successful copies and...
>Failed to move "/boot/loader/loader.conf" into place: Operation not permitted
what. i exit the new system, and there is no loader directory in /boot. did i miss something?

>>61840299
So the owner is currently root. Would it work if I added the transmission user and my user to that group?

drwxrwxrwx   6 bloatmaster bloatmaster  20 Aug 10 03:45 Links
drwxrwxrwx  46 root        root         54 Aug 10 02:45 Programs
drwxrwxrwx 113 bloatmaster bloatmaster 114 Aug  9 23:26 Film
drwxrwxrwx 187 nobody      nogroup     372 Aug  9 19:09 Music
drwxrwxrwx  18 root        root         33 Aug  8 15:24 Books
drwxrwxrwx  28 root        root         28 Aug  5 19:06 Torrents
drwxrwxrwx  68 bloatmaster bloatmaster 119 Jun 24 23:39 TV

Transmission reads files from the Film and Music directories but not Programs. Is it because those also have different groups and owners?

im installing centos 7 on my t43

did i do a mistake

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>>61831917
bitchx
>>61835642
huge step down
>>61831453

while :;do eject;done

>>61841680
i want to put that logo in my mouth
>>61842084
ftp
>>61842656
good
>>61842679
nice gnu
>>61842786
>ubuntu
who gives a fuck
>>61842799
just use grub you dip

What are the best chromebooks/cloudbooks/netbooks/whatever for gnu/linux?

>>61842963
x220

>>61842984
WRONG
>>61842963
x230

>>61842999
>>61842984
both wrong

it's the T530/W530. The x230 and t430 don't have any good displays without botnet chink mods.

>>61842984
>>61842999
>>61843029
Are there any new devices that are also suitable?

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Whats the best version of linux for this?

Prefer something extremely lightwieght and debian based.

>>61843197
debian netinstall

>>61843197
Void
CRUX
Slackware

>>61843197
loobongo

>>61843242
How is void? looks comfy.

Is DSL still decent?

>>61843369
idk I'm using source mage
I recommended you binary distros

rtorrent
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

pls helpp

I've been using Arch with i3 for a while now and I really like it, but I recently got to wondering about a couple of quality of life things that I had using lxde on another machine but not on this one. Namely windows popping up saying a usb drive was inserted into x usb port with an option to just open the file right up in pcman. Is there any way to get this kind of thing using i3? It's not really a big deal if I can't, but it's kind've a pain in the ass doing it through the terminal if I just need to move something quick.

>>61843509

Well, my terminal's locked up, and I ain't got any mail,
And I can't recall the last time that my program didn't fail;
I've got stacks in my structs, I've got arrays in my queues,
I've got the : Segmentation fault (core dumped) blues.

>>61843554
>Is there any way to get this kind of thing using i3?
yes. see
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Getting_Window_Managers_to_work_properly
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Getting_File_Managers_to_work_properly_in_Window_Managers
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/File_manager_functionality
be sure to install polkit
and the authentication agents listed here https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Polkit#Authentication_agents
that enables the passwd prompt window to pop up when you mount something via filemanager (without it you can't mount anything as a normal user)

>>61843554
>>61843627
one of the authentication agents*
only one

>>61843627
Oh cool thanks.
This actually explains why this works the way it does pretty perfectly thanks a ton.

>>61843667
np

>>61843509
just use transmission, theres a cli client also

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anons how do i fix so i can update my packages

>>61843708
really didn't want to give up, but i guess i might have to do that as a last resort

>>61843754
https://itsfoss.com/apricity-os-dead/

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How can I get Arch Linux to recognize host names? Trying to ping during install and it doesn't recognize any websites I enter. When I try to install, all of the mirrors time out.

>>61843758
you could try searching the error message

>>61843789
n-no way... anon is there any way i can jerry rig so i can update my stuff? or is it not worth it to mess around and instead i should look for another OS to use

>>61843829
why would i have not done that already? didn't really figure it out, so here i am

>>61843789
kek

How do I make a bootable USB from an ISO?

used to dealing with .img shit

should i install linux on my 60 year old moms computer

>>61843883
download http://rufus.akeo.ie/

or if youre on linux just dd

I've been out of the loop for a while. But, does Gnome or KDE have wayland support? If so, do the proprietary nvidia drivers work with it?

>>61838349
Anyone has input on sox effects? The target is to get something like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2y86iPEUh90

I have audio crackling on Ubuntu. How do I get rid of it?

Already tried everything here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.phpt/PulseAudio/Troubleshooting#Glitches.2C_skips_or_crackling

Except for that thing with the fragments and buffer size. I don't get what you're supposed to do there.

I entered:
>pactl list sinks

Then looked up the values:
>device.buffering.buffer_size = "17632"
>device.buffering.fragment_size = "4408"

But then I didn't get what I'm supposed to do with them, but since I have the default pulseaudio settings of 44100Hz @ 16 bits, don't I just have to enter the same values as in the example in the wiki? I did that by changing in
>/etc/pulse/daemon.conf
the values to these:
>default-fragments = 2
>default-fragment-size-msec = 125

Then I restarted pulseaudio.
>pulseaudio -k
>pulseaudio --start

But nothing changed. Still have the crackling, which is especially noticeable at lower volumes.

>>61844473
You have exactly the same problem as me. I haven't managed to solve it yet. I've tried pretty much anything on Arch Wiki without look and it seems not so much people care about it, because there isn't so much information available. I'm using a DAC and is incredibly annoying the crackle and the popping sound.

anyone know any good Midnight-Commander color schemes
feel like learning to use it but it's such an eyesore

>>61843197
Devuan netinstall.

>>61843434
>source mage
My man.

how do i clear cookies and cache on qute, i can't find a command or a folder
i accidentally entered exhentai without logging in

>>61845098
nvm found it
it was in /path/to/qutebrowser/webengine/Cookies
the capital was screwing up my searches

>>61836085
wow, that's cool. made an alias for it called sharedir.

>>61834720
install pale moon

>>61840270
>>61839991

Xfce or any desktop environment have nothing to do with font rendering. The way you setup freetype has.
Nice place effect. Stop giving advice.

>>61844948
it comes with a bunch of color schemes, none of them is good for ya?

>>61846711
how do I set it?

>>61846711
never-mind, think i found it

Fuck you, whoever told me about simple terminal earlier

It's so close to perfection I can't stand urxvt anymore. Character width bugs, terrible line spacing on some fonts, flickers when switching modes in vi-mode.
But st is like butter. Yet the one thing it lacks (the standard ability to fucking scroll up and down) is so essential that the fact the devs didn't include it is borderline mental retardation. You have to apply 2 patches just to get to the point where you can scroll but only if you're holding shift.

What a waste. Fuck this gay earth.
Guess I'll just stick with urxvt for now and try to forget that I tasted heaven.

>>61839441
lxde uses openbox, which supports window snapping

>>61843825
try connecting to the internet

How do i install Steam on debian?I am on 64 bit

I can install minimal ubuntu?
drivers+system files+DE of my choice without any programms like thunderbird, video/audioplayer, etc?

>>61847513
1. download the latest steam-launcher deb from http://repo.steampowered.com/steam/pool/steam/s/steam/?C=M;O=A
2. install it using dpkg -i
3. you will most likely see errors about missing packages. fix it using

apt-get intall -f

4. start steam as a normal user. It will prompt for sudo/root password as it will want to install more packages.

>>61847521
yes, search for "ubuntu mini.iso" using your search engine

>>61847581
yet I forget: steam adds the repo I posted to your sources.list so you don't have to worry about installing updates to the base package. Steam will update itself as usual.

>>61847581
>mini.iso
installer doesnt have icewm

>>61847611
Oh, then allow me to answer your original question.
>I can install minimal ubuntu?
No, you are too dumb for this task.

>>61847611
if you want to do a custom install, you're also saying you don't want to do something the normal installer does
so what you're saying makes no sense

>>61847626
/fglt/
Friendly Gnu Linux Topic
You're not friendly anon

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>>61847646
i want ubuntu with icewm and without pic.

>>61847713
so install the base packages and then whatever you want on top of that yourself

>>61847581
STEAM_RUNTIME is enabled automatically
Installing breakpad exception handler for appid(steam)/version(0)
libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: unable to load driver: nouveau_dri.so
libGL error: driver pointer missing
libGL error: failed to load driver: nouveau
libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast

>>61847730
>install the base packages
how?

>>61847756
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/17.04/release/
or use;
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/17.04/
and only install the base packages, skipping further package groups (note: haven't used ubuntu for a while, so i can only assume this is still possible with their net/alt installers)

>>61847788
>>61847756
if you like, i can look into doing a basic icewm-only installation to help you

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>>61847744
>nVidia
Please go away.

>>61847744
i also try to install Viber following these commands and after them it tells me viber command not found
wget http://download.cdn.viber.com/cdn/desktop/Linux/viber.deb
~$ sudo dpkg -i viber.deb
~$ sudo apt-get -f install

Why is linux so fucking thrasy???

>>61847860

/opt/viber/Viber

>>61847895
its not because after i run apt-get install -f it tells me it will remove Viber ,instead of adding the required libraries.
If i were on windows i would have got it by now

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>>61847788
>>61847815
>>61847756
looks like the expert installer hasn't changed since i last used it
all you need to do to get a base installation is to skip "Select and install software"

>>61847956
>expert installer hasn't changed
It's the same as the installer of Debian in 2000 (my first GNU/Linux).

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>>61847956
alright, done with just these added after installation;
icewm, xinit, rxvt-unicode, slim

tried to go without slim, but i'm unsure how to run X without root on modern ubuntu

looks like they didn't bother changing the debian theming for slim/icewm

>>61847995
yea, just didn't want to assume it wasn't changed
last time i touched ubuntu was with 10.10

dEBIAN 9.0.1
viber depends on libssl1.0.0; however:
Package libssl1.0.0 is not installed.

Best way to change use flags if I'm using the desktop profile on Gentoo?

>>61848258
if it's something you always want, such as "jpeg", place it in make.conf, if it's something you just want on one or a few packages, set it in a file under package.use/

>>61848268
I meant for removing use flags applied by the profile, not apply additional ones.

>>61848301
put a minus before them, like "-jpeg"

>>61848312
Thanks!

Who does GNOME best? Fedora, Debian or Ubuntu? Ideally want to stick with a stable version of whatever distro, don't need my desktop tarding out every 2 minutes like Arch.

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Help, what do i do now

Just how do i install Viber on debian latest??

>>61848595
how did you discover /g/, pajeet?

>>61848641
idiot,i followed first guides and they dont work,errors after erors.
found were where it said you cant install it on debian latest.

Got it to work,shit /g/ you suck.

>>61848950
Pooinloo

How can i change pacman cache directory?

how come when i upgrade and dist upgrade on ubuntu it fills my boot space with shit. Why does it keep upgrading old kernels?

>>61847264
if you love it so much, check github
pretty sure some guy added this functionality
there's also a fork called "xst" with added patches

>>61848530
Check /var to see if there are any things you can clear out. e.g. copies of old packages.
Uninstall some packages you don't need, especially large ones.

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>>61849607
is it safe to delete files from this folder?

>>61849798
do

pacman -Sc

or even

pacman -Scc

Why doesn't GNOME3 make it easier to customise it out of the box? The icon and font sizes are totally retarded for this laptop. It's like everything is super huge. People must have complained about this by now?

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What's a good program launcher?

I'm a Win 10 user who's been trying to migrate to Ubuntu 17.04 but the setup always fails and returns IRQ trap messages. I use a Ryzen CPU and a Gigabyte motherboard and I've heard of widespread issues with those.

Is there anything to do in this situation? Is there any kind of newer Ubuntu with a fix out there?

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why should I go through the pain of installing arch manually when there is manjaro?

>>61848146

Slim is deprecated and doesn't work well with logind that sets up user sessions.
Why do you idiots insist on using old, unmaintained niche software when there is similar modern software still being updated to work with the latest "standards" (LightDM with a greeter of your choice)?

>>61848530

>having a separate partition for home
This is exactly what happens when idiots follow the memes and myths spread around here. "Just get multiple partitions bro".
Servers you right, budalo.

>>61849798

Let me guess, you installed "Arch" using one of those shitty abstraction, bug introducing installers?

>>61849940

Do you have a high DPI screen? Check if you turned on UI scaling.

While installing Arch, I did the following:

# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
# mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt

Then I realized I hadn't mounted sdb1 and sdb4 (/boot and /home) correctly, so I did this:

# mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/boot
# mkdir -p /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/boot

I then installed the base system, and generated and checked my fstab, which shows four partitions with "/" under <dump>, followed by three more partitions ("/boot", "/home" and "none" (my swap)).

Running "mount" also shows the extra partitions. I fucked up. What do I do?

>>61850568

>if you're a fucking retarded poser
Install it using Manjaro

>if you're a normal person that actually needs that distribution and who isn't a meme idiot spreader and who knows what makes up a distribution
Install and use Arch.

>>61850611
Not sure about either of those 2bh, how would I find out? I have 2 laptops and the same GNOME problem happens on both of them (the dumb huge fonts and icons).

One is a Dell Vostro 3300.
Other is a HP g6-2205sa.

>>61850614

Reinstall again. You're literally 10 minutes into the installation process.
Stop making extra partitions for home and swap (use a swapfile).

>>61850614
To clarify, "mount" produces this (among other things):

/dev/sdb2 on /mnt type ext4
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt type ext4
/dev/sdb4 on /mnt type ext4
/dev/sdb2 on /mnt type ext4
/dev/sdb1 on /mnt/boot type ext4
/dev/sdb4 on /mnt/home type ext4

>>61850640
Stop recommending swap at all

If anyone has less than 3GB they need to use an lite distro like Lubuntu or Xfeces or they need to get a better computer.
Swap is pointless these days, especially with SSDs.

>>61850640
Fair enough.

>>61850665
I have 8GB and an SSD, so would swap really have no value at all?

>>61850634

Look at your screen size and the screen resolution. Calculate the DPI. Since it's a laptop, I'm pretty sure you're not sporting a 21 inch screen, so what's your screen's resolution?
Go to where GNOME keeps its settings and see if you turned on scaling (look for things named in a similar vein) and try tweaking it.

Alternatively, look at how to show what the DPI is of your environment (check first if you're using X or Wayland), then try changing it manually and see if it fixes anything.

>>61850665

You're just asking for trouble. There's literally no reason not to have swap. It takes up 2% of your hard drive space. If you happen to run out of RAM, it will swap and save your work instead of just killing the process.

>lite distro like Lubuntu or Xfeces
Stop spreading memes and blatnatly wrong information. Stop posting in these threads.

>>61850703

Read >>61850705. What does it cost you? If you never need to swap, it just sits there. If you do, it saves you.

>>61850718
If you have a 64GB SSD, and you create a 8gb swap, then that's 1/8 of your fucking drive. not 2%. I clearly referred to SSDs.

>>61850750

Don't keep it on your SSD then.

>>61850705
Where would creating a swap file come in during installation? Before, I was creating partitions one after another, end-to-end. Where would the file go?

where is /flt/ gone?

>>61850793
OP realized the mistake and deleted it.

>>61850396
dmenu, rofi, gmrum, etc

>>61850582
i don't use slim, like i said, i tried to just do a plain 'startx' setup, but was unsure how to get it going under current ubuntu, so i picked a small dm i was familiar with
i also said i had not used ubuntu since 10.10, which is before ubuntu got systemd

>>61850785

Depends on the installer (distribution) you use. If it doesn't allow you to create a swap file, don't create a swap partition and create a swap file manually after you install it.

>>61850973
Thanks a lot. I'll do that.

I'm using urxvt with terminus and I'm searching for a nice fallback font for displaying moonrunes. Any recommendations? Preferable bitmap font so it matches terminus.

>>61851091
how does the fallback font know when to chip in, in cases where terminus can display moonrunes, but barely properly

>>61851091
Try WenQuanYi Bitmap Song.

Hello boys i have one question
Im using app Stremio for movie/tvshows
I downloaded its .tar.gz file, extracted it. When i want to run app i do
cd Programs/Stremio
./Stremio-runtime
My question is:
How can i make this app run from dmenu, i just want to type Stremio + Enter and app starts?
I dont want to have terminal opened just for it

Why doesn't Chromium support arbitrary refresh rates on Linux like it does on Windows? I have a 144Hz monitor and at 144 and 120Hz both Chrome and Firefox work fine. (Edge doesn't) On Linux, any Chromium-based browser only supports 60Hz, I tried Chromium,. Chrome and Brave. Firefox works fine though. Is this a configure setting issue, or is this unfixable? I looked around and it seems other people have noticed this bug since 2015.

>>61851118
you can define specific codepages for this situation, don't ask me how exactly, but check the manpage

I have two questions:
1. Is there any reason why I shouldn't be using Ubuntu?
2. If so, are there any other distros that are compatible with Intel Cherry Trail CPUs?

>>61850705
>Look at your screen size and the screen resolution. Calculate the DPI

The Dell (the main one I use) is 13.3" and 1366x768

The HP (on which I'm running GNOME with Wayland) is 15.6" and also 1366x768

The DPI calculator I found online says

Display size: 13.6" × 7.65" = 103.96in2 (34.54cm × 19.42cm = 670.72cm2) at 100.45 PPI, 0.2529mm dot pitch, 10091 PPI2

for the HP

Display size: 11.59" × 6.52" = 75.57in2 (29.45cm × 16.56cm = 487.52cm2) at 117.83 PPI, 0.2156mm dot pitch, 13883 PPI2

for the Dell

GNOME doesn't seem to have any settings as far as I can see, this is the first time I've used it for ages (Ubuntu GNOME 17.10 daily build) and the settings seem to be MacOS tier.

>>61851165
Create a symlink somewhere in your $PATH to the Stremio-runtime executable. dmenu should pick it up from there after a reload.
There might be a way to add items a la carte to dmenu, but I am not familiar enough with the application to say.

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I'm trying to get my secondary HD to mount as writable so I can install a library for steam gaymes.

I've already got my Windows installation on the beginning of the drive, but no matter what now if I create an ext4 partition (i've tried primary and LVM) it never lets me write to it.

Weird too because a few days ago I had no problem writing to it without root. How the fuck does this work? pic related.

Also, when I ran dmesg I got:

[38877.331590] EXT4-fs (sdb5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[38933.969473] EXT4-fs (sdb5): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)
[39032.213703]  sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3
[39139.956971] EXT4-fs (sdb3): mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Opts: (null)

>>61851489
Also, those 2 lines with sdb5 are probably from a few minutes ago when I tried deleting & recreating the logical partitions. I gave up on that and tried making a primary instead as you can see in the pic, but no dice.

>>61851489
a newly created *nix filesystem like ext4 is owned by root, so only root can write to the root directory
if you want to write to the root directory with a user other than root, you need to change it's permissions/ownership

>>61851542
Thanks, I actually just fixed it with the second reply here:
https://classicforum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=27698.0

Did it a minute ago but realized I was using the windows partition rather than the linux one. lol.

But can I get an explanation of those commands? chown changes owners right, and chmod changes permissions but what do the numbers refer to (1000:100, and 755)?

>>61851583
Also, now that I've run those, will the drive be mounted automatically, and with those permissions, on boot? Is that determined by fstab?

>>61850448 here
Anyone?
>tried debian yesterday
>installed fine but screen wouldn't show image on boot
>tried ubuntu 17.04
>IRQ trap 07
>installed fedora 26 just now
>showed artifacts and froze once during installation
>later showed black screen + cursor on first boot after successful installation
>now shows the desktop environment but colors are inverted and the computer freezes after a short while
Any other people who've had similar experiences with Linux? Is this normal?

Also yes I verified the USB before installing Fedora

>>61851583
"1000:100" is probably referring to user 1000 (typically the first real user uid), and group 100 (typically the "users" group)
you can also specify user/group by name, such as "john:users" (though it will be translated to uid/gid numbers and stored as those)

"755" refers to the basic unix permissions for read/write/execute, for owner/group/other
first number is owner, second group, third other
the number value is octal, and defines the 3 bits used to toggle read, write, and execute, 7 being "111", or everything, and 5 being "101", or read and write (but not execute)

>>61851607
permissions and ownership information is stored in the filesystem itself, aka, on the disk

>>61851743
Right, alright I remember that from babby's first CS class in college.

And that's good to know that it's stored on the disk, really interesting. Muchos gracias

>>61851743
>and 5 being "101", or read and write (but not execute)
read and execute, no write*
you might have also seen "rwxr-xr-x" before, this is another way to represent "755"

>>61851679
Your video drivers are fucking up, what's your gpu?

>>61851799
Nvidia GTX 960

Completely stable and no video issues in Windows, though.

best terminal?

>>61851416

That's not a high DPI screen, so it shouldn't have problems with scaling. First of all make sure that it's not just a simple "I set it to display huge icon sizes and increased the font size" issue.

>GNOME doesn't seem to have any settings as far as I can see
There must be. Look up online where to change GNOME's display scaling.

If it still doesn't work, are you using X or Wayland? You can verify that with loginctl (look up online how). If it's X, check what DPI is set (find out online how). Then see if it's set to something crazy automatically because that sometimes apparently happens. If it is, you can then look up online how to fix it.

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>>61851829

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>>61851820
I have that exact same card and I haven't had any issues with debian nor fedora (although I tried those last year), I tried Ubuntu 15.04 and it booted fine. Now I'm using arch with openrc and again, no problems at all.


First of all, try installing the proprietary nvidia drivers. If that doesn't work:
-Are you using the same DE in all of those distros? Maybe try a different one
-Check an older ubuntu/fedora live session for a while and see if you have any troubles with those
-Also, try a devuan or atrix, or hell, even a gentoo LIVE usb and check if those work fine, I'm suspecting systemd is fucking up something

>>61851835
posted reply in new thread, it's Wayland. The other laptop I'm using doesn't have a Wayland driver (nvidia legacy shit) so I'm gonna keep using X for a while.

>>61835892
He is an interviewer and a good one at that. His job is to get a maximum amount of interesting information out of the guest and show guests personality NOT to argue about everything and trying to shove his opinion in everybodies mounth. You should study how things work before you can criticize them.
>>61847956
WTF? I can install Lilo in Ubuntu? Time to rice Ubuntu into Slackware!
>>61848146
am I strange if I find it comfy?

>>61836792
latex

For https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF#Isolating_the_GPU Does the gpu still need to be plugged into the monitor or does it feedback through the host card?