/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Fuck GNU
Fuck RMS

I've been using ubuntu as my first distro and I've been enjoying it a lot, but I have a personal hangup with having shit I don't need and never use on my computer, even if it makes no material difference in performance or anything.

What should I install instead to assuage my autism? I've been thinking void, but I don't know that much about linux yet and don't want to have to go on a frustrating 2-hour-long googling voyage whenever I have a problem. The other option I'm looking at is a minimal ubuntu install.

What do you think?

so i fucked up and want to dual boot windows and linux instead of just run linux.

My question is how do i create a bootable for windows? The normal way to make one for gnu/linux isn't working.

>>61997956
>Fuck RMS
This.
Hard.

>>61997777
Surely, this is bait.

>>61997956
Fuck (You)

>>61997965
install gentoo and right from the start dump all the crap you don't need so you can save precious ram megabytes.

Whats that one command that installs all the 32-bit libs in Ubuntu to get native Linux vidya to run?

>>61997956
What the hell, kid. Seriously.

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>>61997777

Trying to play Tyranny (GOG version that uses Wine), it's coredumping

https://pastebin.com/bEMz0u7x

Any ideas on how to fix it? I already installed all the 32-bit libs it asked for.

Don't hate me for playing vidya on Linux, help me because this is what is keeping people away.

>>61997965
Arch
Best wiki, great install guide and helpful community.
Also their motto: KISS - Keep it simple stupid
Also the distribution where everything just works for me.

>>61998109
try running the executable directly with wine, not using their wrapper shell script and see if it works.

>>61998109
It's Ubuntu 16.04 btw. I don't know if I should ask on gog's forums because I pirated it from the /t/ thread.

>>61998114
>Also their motto: KISS - Keep it simple stupid
then why does it use systemd?

>>61998128

Because it's simple, stupid.

Is it possible to use a GPU only for output and another one to do all the computing (a radeon and an old nvidia card with nouveau driver)?

I've seen a setup like this in a friend's setup (with an intel integrated and a gtx 1050) , but on windows.

Replied in old thread.
>>61996655

No, Void is more of a fortnightly driver. Not sure about the currently best daily driver, but if you want a 3rd day driver, go for Tanglu Linux. For a 7th day driver look into either ConnochaetOS or Linux Mangaka.

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>>61998121
Publishers often refer to copying they don't approve of as “piracy.” In this way, they imply that it is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. Based on such propaganda, they have procured laws in most of the world to forbid copying in most (or sometimes all) circumstances. (They are still pressuring to make these prohibitions more complete.)

If you don't believe that copying not approved by the publisher is just like kidnapping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word “piracy” to describe it. Neutral terms such as “unauthorized copying” (or “prohibited copying” for the situation where it is illegal) are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as “sharing information with your neighbor.”

>>61998141
people say "pirating" because it's gangster style, they know it's not the piracy on the high seas

Is there a way to make 'find' print the results already sorted or do I need to add | sort?

>>61998120
Thanks that worked. All I had to do was install Wine-staging and run the Tyranny (not an exe, just a Linux binary) executable and it ran, but it looks like shit on my GPU.

Why is it that I can use both

apt-get install

&

yum install

when running fedora? I thought apt-get install was exclusive to debian and yum install was exclusive to fedora?

What's the reasoning in jkl; instead of hjkl as default in i3? I'm about to change it, but maybe I'm missing something?

>>61998290

Post output of

which apt-get

>>61998358
even better:

file `which apt-get`

I replaced my hard drive and now my same OS takes longer to boot (30+ seconds).
The drives are the same, SATA2, 7200rpm. Only the new one has less cache, 8MB and is smaller (250GB compared to 500GB).

Does size and less cache make a difference?

>>61998355
Literally just because the keyboard nub is on j. You aren't missing anything, it's personal preference.

>>61998613
Yes they do. You can run hdparm -t on both of them and compare raw read speed. I have two HDDs with same cache size and RPM but one of them is 500G (160 MB/s) and the other is 1000G (199 MB/s).
The more cache, the better. Get the largest drive with the most cache you can afford (and at least 7200RPM) If you don't need the space favour cache.

What's the best filesystem for a 2TB SSD which I plan to use as external backup/storage?

>>61997777
Trying to get Rofi to read my updated $PATH. I added ~/bin to it and symlinked a binary there that is just in a standalone folder that I want to launch easily. I updated my path properly via .profile. I sourced the file from a terminal and verified it could work from there, but I don't know how to do the equivalent of 'source .profile' for rofi. It's not a daemon I can kill and restart. Can I do anything besides logging out and back in or restarting my computer entirely? I tried just typing 'source ~/.profile' into rofi and that didn't work.

>>61997965
Void is not a bad choice. It is more minimal than even Arch is. No pulseaudio and such even. It's pretty nice once you get it setup, too, and it's comforting to have a much lower package count.

>>61998138
what the hell are you talking about

>>61998355
I personally changed it to hjkl in my config, and moved horizontal split to mod-c. It's next to mod-v, so it still makes plenty of sense to me.

Libre AC Wifi cards when?

I'm using Debian 9 in VMware.

I originally set it up with LXDE the way I wanted it.

Over the course of several weeks I installed and compiled a bunch of software that I needed to mess with Go and Neural-Styles (Deep Learning Art Stuff).

I'm pretty much done with this, and I would like to revert Debian back to a more original install.

Is there a way I can remove all the packages I installed/compiled in the past few weeks and go back to a more original install? Without reinstalling Debian & without completely trashing the system?

I understand this wouldn't be that easy, but I would like to learn if it can be done as I often find myself in this position.

Thoughts?

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>>61997777
I finally did it /g/ I pulled the trigger and installed fedora. I was not aware linux/gnome could be this comfy.

One problem I have is that I had set up my bluetooth mouse programmable buttons to control volume and refresh pages etc.

How can I do this on linux given that MadCatz doesn't have any linux support. Am I fucked?

Also is there a dark theme I could install or something along those lines?

Much obliged.

>>61998990
If you installed the packages from command line, you can list your previous commands with the "history" utility and grep info you want, like

history|grep "apt-get install"

Uninstall the packages you manually installed then remove their orphaned dependencies with apt-get autoremove.

>>61999016
>Also is there a dark theme I could install or something along those lines?
I think gnome-tweak-tool has a setting for a global dark theme on gtk apps, it should also enable you to change themes more easily.

as for your mouse buttons, if you're not using Wayland, xbindkeys should make programming your buttons possible.

>>61998768
if you're GNU/linux only EXT4, else NTFS

>>61998932
most likely never

>>61998114
Arch is great.

Anyone know of a way I can send a magnet link from my phone to my Debian@home and have it automatically download?

>>61997965
if you did some apt-get on the command line already, try debian.
It's basically ubuntu, but stable and thus less bugs.
Choose a light-weight DE (I really enjoy LXQt).

Maybe use btrfs, make a snapshot of / after installation, then you can step-by-step disable thinks, see how it affects your system, and revert if it's fatal.

Then, learn how to build the kernel from source and do it, with only the modules that you need enabled, block device and file system built-in. You can disable all the kernel debug features etc for maximum performance in ring 0.

Easier than arch and gentoo, and when you don't want to mess around anymore you can just revert and use your system.

>>61999456
>apt-get

It's just apt now
Don't recommend apt-get, it's unsafe

>>61999424
Use one of various web ui's from one of various torrent clients

>>61999220
Thanks anon.

>>61998138
What if I'm looking for a Sunday driver?

>>61998682

Well, shit. I discarded the old one. I can't believe that the difference in read speeds can be so different when they pretty much have the same specs (RPM).

>>61999791

Sorry, we're God-fearing people and don't use computer on the Sabbath (I had my heathen friend write this after I dictated it to him).
As for a Monday driver, I recommend KANOTIX Linux.

>>61999016
You might be interested in something like sxhkd (simple X hotkey daemon), although I'm not sure it 100% fits your use case. But it could maybe lead you to figuring out how to get your mouse buttons set up.

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>>61997777
Hi /g/

Please recommend me a very slim light-weight laptop that easily runs Linux. Looking for 10" and not much thicker than say 2 tablets. Dont care if its ARM, x86, or something else. Also, specs dont need to be too good; 1GB RAM and say dual-core 1GHz can be an OK minimum. However, I would like some decent resolution, 1280x800 or 1366x768 is OK. Also want real laptop style; I want it to be able to stand upright without needing weird stands to hold the LCD up

I currently have a Toshiba AC100 running Linux. The RAM is too little at only 512MB, and the resolution is too little at 1024x600. Other than that its great

How can i control my fan speed in debian? I have tried fancontrol it doesn't work, can i control it manually?

>>61999998
You need a fan controller to do so

what's your startup script look like?

also nice OP get

>>62000046
yeah, back then when i used ubuntu, my laptop used to run smoothly without any additional software for fan but in debian it goes nuts after couple of minutes.

>>61999474
apt is easier to use, that doesn't make apt-get unsafe.

I'm coming from windows and I plan on installing Fedora for a week to test the waters, any tips, things to be worried about? I'm not entirely new to Linux as I've been using it on servers for years

Finally got the motivation to try it out as my most current install of windows broke after less than 30 days

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>>61997777
Literally no idea where i should post this, but this seems like a good start.

Somebody has been letting their dog shit in our yard since I moved in. Roommate thinks it is to spite her or something, but I'm getting fucking sick of this. I don't think the apartment will do anything either.

I have a spare rPi laying around, and I'm half tempted to turn it into a little security camera I can mount in the kitchen window to try and find out who the fuck is doing this to us. Anybody have tips on getting started and what I'll need? Generally, I could have it delete footage over a day old, but I'm not sure what kind of storage solution I'd need or what else I would need to identify the person. I suppose if I can make out the breed of the dog it would be easy (since they obviously live in the complex and it is NOT a big complex by any stretch)

Any tips?

>>61999900
Jumper EzBook 3 Pro
Intel Apollo Lake 4x 1.1GHz, up to 2.2GHz CPU
RAM 6GB DDR3
Storage 64GB eMMC
Screen size 13.3-inch, Full HD
aluminum body (makes it look like a macbook air)
price somewhere between 200-300$

Can only recommend to experienced linux users though...
> GRUB doesn't boot on it (no bios legacy mode)
> have to use EFI stub.. the only distribution that booted was arch
> so booting arch livecd and rsync other laptop to this one, because I don't want to use arch
> touchpad didn't work, need to adjust driver settings
> tearing on the screen (probably need to file a bug report...)

>>61999016
You could try using a VM running Windows and configure the mouse there

Most mice have on-board memory

>>62000334
that doesnt sound ideal.

>>62000334
I mean, 13.3" is too big. I think ARM Samsung Chromebook is one option. I think its well supported for Linux, and is 11.6". I think I would consider 11.6" the max acceptable screen size

followed this guide to install arch x86_64 on virtualbox
http://wideaperture.net/blog/?p=3851
and at this step
# extlinux --install /boot/syslinux
it fucked up. the guide's for 64 bit, but i followed it with minor changes and got no error messages until then. the only thing i did different was this part

# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/menu.c32 .
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/vesamenu.c32 .
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/chain.c32 .
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/hdt.c32 .
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/reboot.c32 .
# cp /usr/lib/syslinux/poweroff.com .

where the files weren't in that directory and i had to change the path. extlinux told me /boot/syslinux wasn't on of the allowed formats and idk why because i followed the guide exactly until then

>>62000780
>the guide's for 64 bit,
i mean 32 bit. guide = 32 bit, i'm doing 64 bit

>>62000780
Just follow the archwiki install guide.

>>62000826
tried to follow that where i left off but it didn't work out either. just ended up deleting the vm and i'll start over another day. also, look at this

Create mount points for any remaining partitions and mount them accordingly, for example:

# mkdir /mnt/boot
# mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/boot

directly followed by

Install the base packages

Use the pacstrap script to install the base package group:

# pacstrap /mnt base

if you're just following the examples that doesn't work. i'm a noob so idk all of what's going on, but pacstrap complained if you do /mnt but not /mnt/boot. it seems like a guide on installing arch linux for people who already know how to do that

>>62000956
>/mnt
Your mount points are all fucked
/boot should be sda1
/ should be sda2
/home should be sda3
You need to mount /dev/sd2 to /mnt first, then mount /sda1 to /mnt/boot
then pacstrap /mnt base base-devel(youll neeed it later)

Start over from scratch.Use the install guide on the arch wiki to install, not some guide by some pajeet who dosent know how to install it

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>>62001041
>Use the install guide on the arch wiki to install, not some guide by some pajeet who dosent know how to install it
everything in code blocks is copy pasted from the arch wiki guide
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide#Format_the_partitions

so according to you the arch wiki guide you're recommending is written by pajeet who doesn't know how to install it, which i agree with

Why aren't you using native ext4 encryption on your home directory yet?

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>>62001041

>>62001041
FOY

>>62000780
>>62001144
I didn't bother to read your posts closely, but maybe you're running into the VirtualBox-specific issue? VirtualBox is kind of fucked and you have to jump through some special hoops with it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox#Installation_in_EFI_mode
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=158003

>>61999424
ssh and a CLI torrent client

>>62001172
>implying I give a shit about encrypting my memes and rare reaction images I have on my laptop

I have absolutely nothing of significance on my computer. Someone could steal it right now and i would not be concerned about my personal information at all. At best they'd get all my (you)'s.

>>62001209
found one for 64 bit so i'll just follow that tomorrow
http://landoflinux.com/linux_install_archlinux_process.html

>>62001325
Valid if true.

>>62000290
throw around small pieces of poisoned meat

>>62001172
How do I do that? You mean file-based encryption or something else? I think I do have the ecryptfs thing already.

Not sure if it's better to go FDE at some point though. This being a SSD.

>>62001041
>/boot should be sda1
>/ should be sda2
>/home should be sda3
I dont think that is true

what is preventing corps using free software into their proprietary software?
how would rms ever know?

>>61997965
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/alternative-downloads
>Network installer

you'll have a working base system in minutes
>skip last step of installer (don't select additional pkg groups)
reboot and install what you want

I am this >>61998613 guy. This new hard drive is driving me insane.

~ systemd-analyze blame
         12.715s ufw.service
         11.899s systemd-journal-flush.service
         10.079s dev-sda2.device
          2.923s systemd-udevd.service
          2.102s lightdm.service

Critical-chain output:

graphical.target @20.531s
└─lightdm.service @18.428s +2.102s
  └─systemd-user-sessions.service @18.345s +82ms
    └─nss-user-lookup.target @18.680s

Why doesn't that mention the 12s UFW and flushing times?

Aug 20 18:56:19 masina systemd-journald[221]: Journal started
Aug 20 18:56:19 masina systemd-journald[221]: Runtime journal (/run/log/journal/abc7364583d14d91a154137860005395) is 8.0M, max 195.6M, 187.6M 
Aug 20 18:56:20 masina systemd-journald[221]: Time spent on flushing to /var is 10.185197s for 644 entries.
Aug 20 18:56:20 masina systemd-journald[221]: System journal (/var/log/journal/abc7364583d14d91a154137860005395) is 72.0M, max 4.0G, 3.9G free

Is 10 seconds to write to a hard drive too long?

Can someone else using a standard SATA2, 7200rpm hard drive post his output of
>journalctl -u systemd-journald -b 0

My hard drive is pretty full, 60% occupied. My Linux partition also comes after a 50GB partition on the drive. Can that cause slower read speeds?

>>62001426
It is 100% true

>>62001424
It's complicated because there is not yet good userland tooling for it. So you have to manually hack a pam module to unlock your home dir on login. Consider the following:

auth       optional   pam_exec.so          expose_authtok /home/add-ext4-key

#!/usr/bin/bash

/usr/bin/sudo -u $PAM_USER /usr/bin/bash -c '/usr/bin/sleep 10 & disown'
/usr/bin/sudo -u $PAM_USER /usr/bin/e4crypt add_key -k -4 <&0

Anyway, google is working on bringing FBE to the masses: https://github.com/google/fscrypt/

>>62000780

Other have already told you that you're an idiot for following some random article instead of using the Wiki.

Just one stupidity, why are you using some shitty Syslinux bootloader and not GRUB?

>>61997965
Doesn't ubuntu have a netinstall?

>>62001437
i really dont think it is

you should use blkid (aka UUID), not "sda1" or whatever

>>62001479
>Syslinux bootloader and not GRUB
Not the anon you're posting too. But syslinux is way more simple, you dont need 500 paragraphs worth of pointless config options to just fucking do a basic /boot mount

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A screw has fallen out somewhere in my laptop and I can't hear it rattling around. Both times I've opened it up to try and retrive it the screw has gone stealth mode and i can't fucking hear it. Fucking linus.

>>62001479
i already blew the arch wiki guide tfo previously in the thread though

>>62001492
For anon to get the basic understanding of mount points and partitioning, yes it is. And the layout is exactly how it should be. He is also doing it in a vm where there are no other hdd's

>>62001468
>bringing FBE to the masses
Its called dmcrypt/luks, weve had it for years.

>>62001497

Typical meme spreader who gets his knowledge from 4chan or other internet idiots.
Neither do you need it for GRUB. You can write a manual config that's 5 lines long. Also there is no reason not to just use the automatic config generator. The only reason not to do it is if you have a 1MB hard drive and you can't spare the 10KB of config space.

>>62001517

No, you didn't. You just admitted that you're an idiot.

>>62001526
it literally doesnt matter what partition any of that stuff is on. and there is no right way of doing it. you can have home on sda1, boot on sda7, and / on sdb2; it doesnt fucking matter

if you have evidence to the contrary, present it immediately

>>62001562
i think an objective person would agree that it got btfo but if you don't agree that's your onus

What happened to the desktop threads?

>>62001562
>5 lines long.
Now you're just lying.Default grub.cfg is 279 lines long

>>62001585
You want /boot at the start of the hdd for seek times.You want system to be the second partition so you can maximize space for your /home partition. Its been this way for over 40 years.

>>62001553
>block layer encryption
>file system layer encryption
study the difference

>>62001595

Enjoy your non-working computer because the guide you used is from some idiot.

>>62001609

>default
Who mentioned default? The point is if you want to write your own config. The "big" one comes from the auto-generator which does a lot of things to make sure it works on every setup.

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>>62001658
Post your 5 line grub.cfg, you cant

>>62001687

insmod efi_gop
insmod efi_uga
insmod font

if loadfont ${prefix}/fonts/unicode.pf2
then
    insmod gfxterm
    set gfxmode=auto
    set gfxpayload=keep
    terminal_output console
fi

menuentry "Arch Linux" {
    set root=(hd0,2)
    linux    /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=UUID=e792525c-8505-494e-bf8a-731f6fb5dd48 ro add_efi_memmap init=/usr/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite
    initrd    /boot/initramfs-linux.img
}

Not mine. You can probably leave out the if statement too.

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>>61999474
>it's unsafe

>>62001727
That's 17 lines, clearly more then 5 lines

Post 5 line grub.cfg.

>>61999998
run this fist:
yes | sudo sensors-detect

>>62001633
everything you mentioned is incredibly optional and trivial.

>>62001745

>babby got his ridiculous "grub config is bloated and complicated" meme proven wrong
>resorts to pretending he doesn't understand hyperbole

Keep posting those memes, it will surely make you look smart. Your idiocy will never be called out, it's not like this is a technology related forum.

>>62001787
You clearly said you could make a 5 line grub.cfg, you clearly cant.

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>>62001799

I'd take a 20 line config file for the ability to use UEFI or an encrypted boot. Any non-idiot would as well.

>>62000093
Start lurking dotfiles on github.
>>62000175
aptitude is easier
>>62001607
Banned because some retard spammed desktop threads, it's not "screenfetch thread".

>>62001874 | s/not/now/

>>62001607
>>62001874

You can find desktop threads on wg, where they belong.
Only retarded children want them on g, so they can feel smart and like they use "technology".

>>62001904
>You can find desktop threads on wg, where they belong.
You must suffer brain damage. The topic on /wg/ is Wallpapers, not Computer Desktops, which is clearly /g/ related.

>>62001904
>You can find desktop threads on wg, where they belong.
till the day you write a wallpaper scraper in bash, which takes a random /wg/ pape and sets it as desktop background and you get presented with some fags rice

>>62001904
anime website

>>62001952

Yeah, it's not like you could have gotten broken images from the image manipulation threads or the homepage threads.

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>>62001904
>my desktop doesnt need to look good, it just needs to be professional, e.g.: functional, transparent, modular. industry standards > hobbyism

>>62001984
Homepage threads are pretty much /g/ aswell. It's all about web development, html, css, js, etc.

>>62001928
>>62001972
>>62002023

I understand. You are desperately clinging onto something, just so you can feel like grown ups. You do the absolutely pathetic and retarded thing of feeling pride for using software other people wrote.
I understand, not everyone can be normal, i.e.: not retarded.

>>62002080
Well, my girlfriend will probably delete this comment because she has my 4chan password, but anyways: computers are technology.

>>62001928
>>62001952
>>62002023
>autistic dontop turd kids in full damage control mode

How your shit LOOKS is not technology, even if you slap some script (that you cuntpasted from the internet) on it.
>functional, transparent, modular. industry standards
nice stack of memes right there, none of you fags care about that. Just the anime girl wallpaer and the worthless rice.
Nobody who gets shit done on his PC does the 4chan sperglord tier ricing.

I've finally figured out something that has been bothering me a lot on linux.

I'll represent it like this:

bool capslock_key_pressed;
bool capslock_on;

if(capslock_on || capslock_key_pressed){
    //write everything upper case
} else {
    //write everything lower case
}

This fucks me all the time when I'm writing passwords that contain upper case letters, because I press some keys that should be lower case before releasing the capslock key. Fuck whoever did this.

>>62002111

Yes, computers are technology.
Can I also post my poetry on g? Because I am writing it on my computer. According to you it's appropriate for g and doesn't have to go on lit.
Retard.

>>62001849
Working as intended.

>>62002160
You can write poety with pen and paper; not technology. >>>/lit/

On the other hannd, you can only use programming languages in order to add beauty and functionality to something on computers.

>>61999900
>Toshiba AC100
Oh shit, I remember you from years ago. My ARM system was one of those little Sheevaplugs at the time. I'm actually using a Pixel C with a kickstand and a third party (read: vi keys) keyboard for my ARM laptoppan needs now.

>>62002023
idk why but I just imagine a fedora users, too "serious" for ubuntu, too "adult" for beauty

am I falling for stereotypes?

>>62000956
The question is, do you even have a remaining partition to mount?

My entire arch install is just one partition.

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Which distro:
>is lightweight
>easy to use
>perfect as daily driver
>doesn't have the systemd
>doesn't suffer gnu communism
>has a large community and support
>supports all hardware and proprietary drivers
>best for gaming
>rolling release
>customizable
>has latest software
>no sjw develpers
>doesn't break
>just works
?

>>62002376
>communism
Found the burger.

>>62002376
>rolling release
>doesn't break
>no GNU
>just works
You're asking for a bunch of contradictory shit, which makes me think this is a bait post.

>>62002376
Gentoo

>>62002376
Microsoft Windows.

>>62002321
>My entire arch install is just one partition.
Bad.Bad

>>62002398
I always wondered, is this
>le gommies
an american-only thing?

>>62002244
are you the guy I introduced to Conky?
:)

>>62002446
Yes. Take some history lession on the cold war in the usa. It explains the whole communism paranoia.

>>62002441
Why?

What do you get from having a boot partition?
I have arch running on a small SSD and all the actual stuff I do on a separate harddrive I mount into my home folder.

>>62002473
>Conky
oh dear lord, I remember ricing it in my first days on gnu+linux 24/7
then I realized that I never see my desktop without any windows and just installed lemonbar

>>62002561
Look into polybar, it's the new thing.
>>62002495
Makes sense.

How do you disable libinput and use synaptics for touchpad input instead?
Putting synaptics configuration files into /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ does not switches back to the driver

>>62002584
>>62002561
>lemonbar
>polybar

ill look into it. can it display all of the following at the same time?

cpu load of each core
cpu frequency
cpu temp
ram use
disk read and write
network up and down

Post your distro birthday.

$ date '+%F %T %:z %Z' -r /lost+found/
2011-01-11 17:39:15 +02:00 CEST

Distro hoppers dont need to apply.

>>62002645
Those bars just display the output of shell scripts, so yes. Write the proper script yourself.

>>62002705
well, you can easily configure conky as a bar

>>62002645
Yes.
>lemonbar
needs shell scripting skills, but is lightweight (literally just a bar you pipe input into)
>polybar
whole shit made easy for people who dont have a black belt in shell scripting

>>62002699

$ date '+%F %T %:z %Z' -r /lost+found/
date: /lost+found/: No such file or directory

>>62002699
Who the fuck dosent delete this pointless folder?

>>62002859
me
>>62002699
>2016-07-07 11:19:01 +02:00 CEST

>>62002859
Also, if you don't use an ext filesystem you never even had this folder.

>>62002859
Tell a better and portable way to find the age of a distro.

>>62002950
Its a pointless folder.
Only if you're shit is corrupt.It should be deleted upond mfks

>>62002959
package manager log of first program installed,most likely from the base group

>>62002976
>portable
>package manager
pick one

What method do you guys use to compress your initramfs? .xz, bzip2, lzma gzip, lzop?

>>62003161
None. No need to compress it just wasted cycles decompressing on boot

>>61997777
I'm currently running Linux Mint 64-bit on my Acer Aspire 5051, a c. 2006 laptop with 3GB ram.

I went as far as replacing Windows 7 with it, but except for shutdown speeds, I find it's hardly any faster.

What is the best lightweight OS for it?

>>62003312
arch+fluxbox

Why are there so many beginners who install Linux Mint, which is IMHO the worst distro around? Is there some serious trolling going on?

>>62003333
>fluxbox
That sounds interesting, new to me.

I'm hesitant with Arch, only because I've been using an Ubuntu-based OS so far and the wireless driver (a rather Linux-unfriendly Broadcom card) works on it.

why does openbox have this retarded xhtml config style shit?

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>>62003362
Currently using it (I'm the one asking the question three posts before you) as it's the most accessible UI-wise to Windows 7/10.

It may be shite (I have no experience with other distros) but it's familiar at least.

>>62003370
Arch isn;t like how it was years ago. Shit "just werks" with it now, and breakages rarely happen. It's a good stepping stone away from the ubuntus. But if youre happy with ubuntu, and looking for lightweight, check out debian testing. Save your wifi driver to USB first.

>>62003376
cause its retarded

Use fluxbox

>>62003362
Mint gained popularity doe to bad security, which resulted in clicks in distrowatch, which again resulted in many people thinking Linux Mint is the most popular distro, which again raised clicks even more.

>>62003461
Which again made Linux Mint the most popular distro. Deal with it.

>>62003489
popularity != quality
deal with it

>>62001484
Ubuntu minimal

>>62003724
>spyware linux

>>62002376
Alpine notGNU/Linux

>>62002127
Does Windows use key press to change state?
Just grow up and use shift.

>>62003415
>Save your wifi driver to USB first.

Will the Ubuntu-based driver work on Arch too? Also, how would I save the driver, senpai?

I'll try Arch desu.

>>62002959
lost+found is created when the filesystem is. If you copied your system over to new storage it won't get what you want.

>>62003735
Stupid FUD poster

>>62003880
>ubuntu doesn't spy

What can i use in linux to make mp3 song louder? Preferably gtk.

>>62003910
nothing

>>62003312
Also, my laptop has a AMD Turion 64 Mobile MK36, it's apparently 64-bit but should I go for 32-bit instead?

>>62003910
Audacity

How can I regain control of the terminal when I open an application? For example "mupdf file" will not allow to use the terminal and if I close the terminal, pdf viewer closes as well

>>62003889
They dropped the Amazon thing a long time ago.

>>62003940
Read up on job control, and learn tmux.

>>62003940
program & disown

>>62003910
For just making music louder on GNU/Linux, read into ffmpeg or sox (CLI).

>>62003941
No they didn't. Not enabled != dropped.
Shit's still there, waiting for newfriends and accidentally clicks.

>>62003983
Only in Unity

>>62003910
normalize-audio?
Description: adjusts the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files to a standard volume level
normalize-audio is a tool for adjusting the volume of WAV, MP3 and OGG files
to a standard volume level. This is useful for things like creating mix CDs
and MP3 databases, where different recording levels on different albums
can cause the volume to vary greatly from song to song.

>>62003991
Which is made by Canonical.
>trusting software made by people who implemented malware before

>>62004021
just dont use unity and ubuntu is nice

>>62004050
>trusting software made by people who implemented who made "Linux on Windows" a thing

>trusting software made by people who who support microsoft and with it prism and the nsa

>trusting software made by people who only care about shekles instead of the users

>>62003940
just put a & on the end
&> /dev/null
will suppress error messages etc.
It's a shorter form of > /dev/null 2>&1
Also I got this from an old /g/ thread.
werks real nice, thanks Anonymous.

gui()
{
    ("${@:?}" > /dev/null 2>&1 &)
 }

>>62004050
Just install Debian, which is basically Ubuntu without all the babby-friendly cuckoldy.

>>62004102
>It's a shorter form of > /dev/null 2>&1

Autist here, &> is actually a bashism, > /dev/null 2>&1 works in both, bash and POSIX shells (just in case you're trying this stuff in a sh-script in the future).

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Mageia is a pretty damn great distro

>>62004152
never heard of this distro

>>62004163
shitty downstream distro,nothing to worry bout

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>gtk will get filepicker thumbnail preview soon

>>62004199
But i already have a gtk filepicker?

>>62002473

>feeling pride for telling someone to use some software that you didn't even write

Holy fucking shit, your'e the most pathetic person on the planet.
Stop posting, unsubscribe from your ISP provider and never use an online computer again.

>>62004188
>everything I don't like is a shitty downstream distro

>>62003445

>using a different window manager just because of the config file that you edit once and then never again

You don't even use a Linux distribution, you idiot. Go back to Windows.

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>>62004235
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.

>>62004235
>have to learn a scripting language to do basic configuration changes
Nah
fluxbox is comfy. If i want to change how it looks i just edit the plain text config and be on by way, no need to find special scripting tags.

>>62004235
>recommedning windows
>insulting people
Friendly thread.

>>62004199
S O O N
O
O
N

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>>62004188
Mageia is a fork of Mandriva Linux formed in September 2010 by former employees and contributors to the popular French Linux distribution. Unlike Mandriva, which is a commercial entity, the Mageia project is a community project and a non-profit organisation whose goal is to develop a free Linux-based operating system.
>Just like fedora is a shitty downstream of red hat and opensuse of suse enterprise.

>>62004266

XML isn't a scripting language you utter retard. It's in its name, it's a markup language. You don't have to learn it, it's self-explanatory, like any other configuration file.

You already tried to be retarded and insisted on it. How come you're still alive?

>>62004307
>Just like fedora is a shitty downstream of red hat and opensuse of suse enterprise.
But they are :^)

>>62004326
So's your mom.

>>62004199
why is this even still a thing

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>>62004163

>>62004307

Basically french fedora

Windows nerd here, really want to give Linux a spin just to get away from the botnet. Is Ubuntu OK for babies first try? I'd still need to duel boot for muh video games but i'd keep the Win10 install locked down as much as I can.

I also want to do google myself as well, what is the option to use besides Chrome?

>>62004531
read the OP

>>62004531
Firefox57+ (currently Nightly) is fantastic on Linux. FF58 gets a few more goodies like client side decorations for more space efficiency. Chrome is still good if you don't mind the botnet, or Chromium if you do.

>>62004575
I know i'm a retard but what is the fundamental difference Chromium and Chrome?

Why no one usually recommends Gnome DE? Only KDE and XFCE.

>>62004662
Because GNOME is complete shit

>>62004591
Chrome is full proprietary botnet.
Parts of Chromium are open source, but still botnet.

>>62004731
My want is to get away from the botnet as much as possible. Right now i'm thinking Debian is the way to go, Ubuntu might be easier but it has some questionable botnet stuff in it

>>62004531
do ubuntu on virtualbox. you can do pretty much everything you need to, it's not gimped in any way. when you get a laptop for work/school just put pure linux on it, ubuntu probably. because performance matters more then

>>62004575
>0.00000057 rupees have been added to your mozilla account

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best pdf viewer with scroll-click autoscrolling?

>>61999378
Why is that?

>>62004899
The one I'm using.

What the fuck is "fluendo mp3 codec" ? Why do you even need to install codecs like that on Linux? Isnt your audio player supposed to play mp3 out of the box or am i missing something?

>>62005264
Works on my machine.

>>62005264
stop clicking on every shit on the web you fucking retard

>>61997777
Any lemonbar users in this this thread?

>>62005304
yeah

>>62005264
>Isnt your audio player supposed to play mp3 out of the box or am i missing something?
What? No.
What you're calling an "audio player" is likely a front-end to gstremaer.

>>62005310
have you ever tried to use siji icons with it?

>>62005316
>being this new

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>>62005319
I'm using it right now.

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>>62005338
Nice I'm trying to set mine up at the minute but the icons won't display this is my call to lemonbar
bash example.sh | ./lemonbar -f '-wuncon-siji-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1' -f 'FreeMono'

And example.sh is just
#!/usr/bin/bash
CLOCK_ICON='\ue2ff'

while true; do
echo -e "%{c} %{F#FFFF00}%{B#0000FF} testtesttest $CLOCK_ICON %{B-}%{F-}"
sleep 1
done

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>>62005320
Nice maymay, my fellow redditor.

>>62005297
Ubuntu asks me at installation if i want to install "mp3 codec". Im trying to understand what is that shit because you dont need to install any codecs on Windows.
>>62005316
Wait what. So, lets say, i install deadbeef player, or some other one. It wont play music if "mp3 codec" is not installed on my system? On windows audio/video players play everything out of the box.

>>62005363
I've set my fonts in this order:

[..]
    -f '-wuncon-siji-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1' \
    -f '-xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-c-60-iso10646-1' \
    -f '-wenquanyi-wenquanyi bitmap song-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-119-iso10646-1' \

Try setting FreeMono first, and then siji.

>>62005363
afaik vanilla lemonbar doesn't suffort xft, so use a bitmap font like terminus with siji

>>62005396
Yeah I tried that and no luck even tried just using the wuncon font but whatever I try nothing seems to make the icons display

>>62005363
>CLOCK_ICON='\ue2ff'
Try this:

CLOCK_ICON=$'\ue2ff'

How can I tell which sound card is the default one?
Got a DAC, HDMI and Onboard Sound and would like to switch between them.

What do?

>>62005383
that's because ms pays a license fee to include that shit in their iso/install

>>62005456
Nah this made no difference

>>62005550
Just tested your clock code and it didn't display an icon for me, checked the font again and this works:

while sleep 1.0; do echo -e "%{r}\ue015 $(date +%H:%M:%S) "; done | lemonbar -F '#ffdddddd' -B '#cc111111' -b -f '-*-siji-*' -f '-*-terminus-*'

Does it for you, too?

i'm looking for a FOSS code analyzer in the likes of Locmetrics, any recommendations?

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>62005562
yeah that worked thanks anon I have no idea why but it works!

>>62005668
Nice to hear, just in case you don't know, you can get a nice overview for the icon codes by running.

xfd -fn '-*-siji-*'

Happy hacking.

>>61997777
I'm trying out Lubuntu on a persistent flash drive. (made with https://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/)
I've gotten everything else to work, (dvorak, since I like it, settings, etc) except for wifi. Whenever I try to use it, it starts to connect, goes through, and then suddenly disconnects. Could you help me with this? Please and thank you.

>>62005666
Literally nobody writes with correct upper/lowercase when sending messages. Staged as fuck.

how do i boot into a command line with arch linux? all i want is a shell, trying to use GNOME fucked things up

Stallmans political notes are enlightening.
Y'all should follow his rss. http://stallman.org/rss/rss.xml

>>62005786
>how do i boot into a command line with arch linux
Thats literally the default on Arch. Are you using a downstream fork?

>>62005737
Guess I'm retarded as fuck then.

>>62005737
I do. GTFO, fucking normie.

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it says something kernel failed which zips past at lightning speed to this
>>62005786

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>>62005737
>>62005831
>>62005842
You don't understand.
Cool terminal commands.
Not bombs.

>>62005857
>arch
found your problem

>>62005813
Following rms' feed for a while makes me fucking depressive. There's so much wrong in the world, I don't even want to know about it. How does this guy even handle all that horror.

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Okay, I installed Ubuntu and set up all of my programs that I like (was a bit harder than I had expected).

Now how do toggle the option to show thumbnails in Firefox when I upload a picture?

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>>62005971
reddit/10

>>62005998
why does it say "colour" when its actually "color"?

>>62000334
Dude just set Shimx64.efi as the boot file instead of Grubx64.efi, and GRUB should work fine in EFI mode

finally pulled the trigger and installed arch today, it works fine, but every time I try to start screenfetch it jus prints
>zsh: command not found: screenfetch
how2fix

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>>62006057
>>62006015
>>62005971

>>62006057
you didnt install screenfetch you mung

>>62006057
>Not using glorious Neofetch
>kys

What codecs uses Firefox on Ubuntu?

>>62006220
All of them you have installed.

>>62006247
Impossible.

>>62006220
>>62006285

Check if your Firefox is compiled with ffmpeg support. Latest versions should be, I don't know if they still support gstreamer or whatever else.
Then it supports everything ffmpeg (libavcodec) does.

>>62006356

Broken mouse. Check if it works on another computer (Windows preferably). If yes, check more logs.
Look into dmesg or Xorg logs. See what it says when it starts going out of control (especially dmesg).

video of the problem
https://a.pomf.cat/cesvss.ogv (embed)

My touchpad has started to act really crazy, I have been using xubuntu for several months and there was no problem for a long period of time, then like once a day the touchpad started to act really crazy, impossible to control, acting on its own. But I sorta solved it by using a command every time it happened

modprobe -r psmouse
modprobe psmouse


But the problem has only kept getting worse, now it happens like every ten minutes or less even if i activate the command

I have tried two other live distros and the same proble

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>>62005532

>>62005532
Pavucontrol

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>put Linux distro (Mint) on USB as usual
>check it with my PC
>it loads the OS as normal

>so I try it on another PC
>the pre-Menu loads, I choose to start Mint
>bunch of lines about things I don't understand
>then nothing, "Unsupported signal" error
What gives?

It seems that Firefox uses ffmpeg. Is it built into Firefox or has to be installed separately? Also is ffmpeg proprietary or not, i dont get it.

>>62006544
>i dont get it
you r dumb

>>62006522
install gentoo

>>62006181
>using redditfetch

>>62006598
Im a winfag trying to migrate. But yeah.

>there are "people" ITT RIGHT NOW using pulseaudio
anime_girl_puking_her_guts_out.webm

>>62006623
>objectively better
>b-b-b-but r-r-reddit

kys

>>62006643
>using crippled audio because le poettering is evil meme
systemd may be shite, but pulse clearly gives you better audio and features
fucking retard memer

>>62006649
"""""objectively"""""

>>62006668
>defending broken poetteringware
so this is the new /g/

>>62006683
Name a single thing screenfetch does better.

Ubuntu installer is asking:

>"Install third-part sofware for graphics and wi-fi hardware, flash, mp3 and other media

>"This software is subject to license terms included with it's documentation, SOME IS PROPRIETARY"

Yay or nay? Wouldnt all codecs be pulled by the apps i will install anyway?

>>62006698
Don't fall for the freedom meme. Just install the codecs and enjoy life.

>>62006696
>supports more distros
>no gay config files
>no gay temp files
>lightweight

>>62006726
cuck spotted

>>62005857
I don't know if you can simply ctrl alt F1 at this point and log in to that tty. That might be what you want. You can use systemctl isolate multiuser.target what was runlevel 3 before systemd. Or create a symlink to make non-gui the default. If not...
If you're using systemd you want to boot to multiuser.target or possibly runlevel3.target.
Maybe theres some edit you can make at the grub screen [press e] to add some param to one of the lines.
If your on a bios instead of uefi setup, it's different again.
Hope something there helps you find what you need on the wiki.
Don't actually even use arch myself kek.

>>62006668
What are these features? And in what way is the audio "better"?

>>62005786
>press "c" in GRUB
>find the line starting with "linux"
>add systemd.unit=multi-user.target after linux
this will make it boot into nongraphical mode

>>62006792
Better volume control and range, per app volumes, better output quality, better control of directing I/O.

>>62006982
Oh, so its just better. Thank you poettering for blessing us with such great software.

>>62007036
You can always spot the really good software by the number of /g/tards who shit on it.
(more is better)

>>62007080
If you can provide evidence to prove that any of those things are better, and that alsa cannot also do those things, go ahead.

>>62006958
maybe you meant press e?

>>62007126
yes, sorry

>>62004662
Gnome is total shit. It has almost zero features, a terrible design, is slow and bloated which is actually impressive considering it has no features, and the entire Gnome/GTK team refuse to cooperate with other people.

>>62007110
>>62006982 already beat me to it.

>>62007136
Yes, if there is evidence to support those claims, I would gladly read and educate myself.

>>62006668
>but pulse clearly gives you better audio and features
>fucking retard memer
I thought people suggested to use ALSA instead of Pulseaudio for bit perfect playback and maximum audio quality.

>>62007176
>requires evidence for what is common knowledge.

>>62007220
In my experience, having switched from pulse to alsa only, none of those things were better with pulse (aside from per app volumes). If its really better I'd love to find out but if nobody can back it up that's fine by me.

>>62007220
>if everyone knows it then it must be true

2 hours installing arch vs 10 installing debian

>>62007598
2ft epeen vs 2in.

>>62007598
10 minutes*

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>>62007647

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>>62007598
booting arch and typing 10 commands(if even that amount for your setup)
vs
mindlessly pressing "OK" until you cant press "OK" anymore and its configured in way you dont want/understand

>>62007695
MOAR

>>62004223
I wasnt feeling pride you cunt. I met him in IRC like 5 years ago and thats the only thing I could think of to verify if it was him or not.

If I listed software that he or I have written, then that would easily expose our identities, which is something I was explicitly trying to avoid

>>62004235
>not primarily picking your window manager based on its config file