/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Allow me to interject, it's actually Wine/Linux.

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install Source Mage

>>62115018
don't tell me this is real

wtf, because of the fiasco with bumblebee I forced to use "hybrid graphics" in the bios to get 1080p when i log in, but it slows my laptop to shit the battery is unplugged

>>62115233
i've reset the bios to the factory default and when i boot up i get a 640x480 display. i can't change the resolution as the display is only recognized has being 640x480.

How do I get spotify web browser to work on Ubuntu? It's either that it won't even work at all (chrome) or that there's no sound (firefox).

>>62114971
I just installed GNU/Linux and created an unencrypted /boot partition and an encrypted with luks + cryptsetup / partition. Why does it ask the password two times? How can I make it to ask it only once? It asks it once before the grub menu is shown yet after it says "welcome to grub" and once after the kernel has loaded.

>>62115580
did you set a bootloader password also? check your grub config file

>>62115615
Nope, I did not. That being said, it seems to refer to resources outside of /boot, at /gnu/store.
I am on GuixSD btw.

>>62115578
stop using spotify

What exactly is the difference between a login and interactive shell? If I load lxterminal or whatever, would that be an interactive or login?

>>62115890
i'll give you the search time i used in startpage, it will give you the answers you want:
'login vs interactive shell'

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I'm new to this whole switching OS thing and I have a question on making partitions for installing Ubuntu along with Windows.
Is this okay? Is dev/sda4 where windows will be kept? And is dev/sda5 how much I will be able to store on the ubuntu portion?

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Can someone help a brainlet out with a script to use ufw to block all IPs contained in a text file?

>>62116154
yeah that's right
you'll still be able to access the files on windows partition from ubuntu, but windows will not be able to read the files on the ubuntu partition. that's probably too little space for such a big distro though, GNOME is quite big.

>>62116182

for ip in $(cat ips.txt); do command-to-block-ip $ip; done

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>>62116222
Thank you, kind /g/entooman. Now India is permanently blocked from my computer.

>>62114971
>I was renaming my files in Debian but now I can't anymore. Every time I try to rename a file this little space where I wrote "test" appears. No matter what I type there, the file doesn't get renamed.

>What can I do to fix it? I already tried to logoff and reboot.

>>>/wsr/371108

Help!

>>62116222
>cat
lmao learn2redirections

>>62115890
It's an artificial distinction for the purpose of executing profile/rc files, and most distros don't even honor it.

Idiomatically you have a profile script that runs once per each login (X session, tty, ssh, ...), which sets up your environment variables once, and then a rc script that only gets sourced by interactive shells where you have things that could fuck with shell scripts like command aliases.

Most distros in their stock config seem to source one or both for every shell and include all the interactive stuff in a block tested against

$- == *i*

>>62116280
isn't that the file search field?
renqming is afaik F2

>>62115890
login loads ~/.profile

Install https://adnauseam.io/

>>62115251
that doesn't work, if anyone could tell me a command that does i'd appreciate it

>>62116529
and to reiterate the question so people don't have to go to last thread

how do i do the equivalent of
>sed '/^$/!s/^/(the tab character)'
in vim? ie prepend all non-empty lines with a tab?

>>62116529
Hit ctrl+v, then hit tab, then ^I should appear, which is the tab character.

>>62116413
I don't think it's a file search field. I type things and nothing happens. Actually this field apears if I type anything in the folder without pressing F2 or whatever.

I also noticed that this is happening only in the Downloads folder. Looks like it's all good now. I opened another Nemo window and it worked in this new window. I don't know wtf happened. Maybe it has to do with the name of the picture with various moons.

>>62115788
instead of deleting files that start with something and end with anything else, he deleted something, and every other file

>>62116565
if all else fails, you could just install a different fm like pcmanfm or thunar

>>62116556
i might not be understanding what you're saying, but i feel like you misinterpreted my question. i don't see how that does what i'm looking for

>>62116548
visual select the whole file and press >

>>62116548
select the whole file
hit :
/^$/!s/^/(the tab character)'

>>62116617
select the whole file? does /g not do what you'd want?

>>62116634
that does it for the whole line only

>>62116610
this works, but i'd also like to know how to do it with the sed style substitution if that's possible
>>62116617
this doesn't work for me

What is the best distro for normies?

>>62116664
ubuntu

>>62116664
Trisquel.

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>>62116664
elementary

I used to run Linux 2 years ago as my main os, since i went to university i got a new laptop and just kept Windows. I want to get back into Linux and I'm thinking about xubuntu since it just works, maybe not the most stable you can get, but i want something with little hassle and a lot of ricing

Any suggestions?

>>62116659
You can always just externally call sed with :! and substitute the current file name with @%

>>62116694
gay macfag in denial

>>62116694
ewww

>>62116698
try ones you like the look of. install virtualbox or use some flash drives, try all the distros you might want to use

>>62116698
>>62116664

Install Debian GNU/Linux.

>>62116711
mac is also great for normies so what's your point

>>62116698
What's unstable about Ubuntu?

>>62116733
Nobody deserves malware products like macOS. Not even normies.

i need help
i was writing a shell script on windows for deploying on some instances of freebsd
but on upon moving them over they get all fucked up and are filled with ^M's
what are these?

Been using GNU/Linux for some years now and I want to look into BSD for fun and gaining some knowledge. Any tips which I should check out first?

>>62116803
FreeBSD is the only actual usable one.
OpenBSD and NetBSD aren't bad but useless to people who actually want to use their computer, and trueOS is just plain bad.

>>62116781
you may have written them in unicode/utf-8 format which the freebsd console does not support.
>>62116803
begin with freebsd. use that for a while, and once you feel comfortable using it try out open/dragonfly BSD.

>>62116781
Windows newlines.
Should have been obvious.

Instaraider stopped working.

What do I use now to scrap cuties' instagrams to build my "clothed" fap folder?

Yes, I'm being serious.

>>62116854
make a perl/python script to do it for you
remember anon we don't judge here you don't need to attempt to justify it

>>62116827
>>62116831
Thanks.

>>62116742
It's not exactly unstable, it's just that you can add a lot of third party repositories which increase the risk of breaking. But it's more unstable than debian for example, and one reason Debian is more stable is because it has a strict policy of what packages it allows.

But this is how i understand it, could be I'm telling you something false

>>62116803
Openbsd if you want security, freebsd if you're looking for an experience more similar to gnu/linux.

>>62116887
You can add 3rd party repositories to Debian as well, which may fuck your system up just as well.

Just don't add 3rd party repositories, no one forces you.

I have random blinking on my main display. Something randomly flashes once in minute. But it only happens if i set refresh rate to 75Hzm on 60 it works fint, but 60Hz is shit. On windows it works fine. I've tried to make
>A workaround [2] is saving high or low in /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_dpm_force_performance_level.
But it doesn't work. I've R9 380 with amdgpu driver.

>>62116876
That's the hard way. I guess I'll try to do something with wget and try to tweak instaraider when that doesn't work.

>we don't judge here you don't need to attempt to justify it
Thanks. Then I can openly admit that I don't really fap to them, that I just collect them to fill the void and I rarely look them as it just makes things worse.

>>62116854
>>62116876

No luck.

I should have back up those instagrams when instaraider still worked...

>>62116718
I'm very interested in debian, do you think it's something i can easily jump into as an semi experienced ubuntu user?

>>62116984
Yes. You shouldn't have trouble.

>>62117020
Thanks love ;*

>>62117100
It was my first distro. Although I had a friend to hold my hand a bit. Once you get the WiFi working you're golden. If you have ethernet it will be even easier.

What is the best distro for experts?

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>>62117185

>>62117185
OpenIndiana

>>62117185
plain grub + kernel + emacs

Wait a second that hat
> captcha: only Merlin
Oh never mind

Do we still need to run fstrim for a SSD manually on recent versions of Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora or is it done with a cronjob automatically?
How do I check?

x='this is the coolest terminal command ever seen on /g/'; echo ${x:7:5}${x:51:1}${x:33:1}${x:31:1}${x:37:1}

oh-my-zsh or antigen?

>>62117506
/bin/bash

Does everyone here use a riced urxvt?

>>62117519
what else would you use?

>>62117519
yes

>>62117519
No

>>62117526
Something shit and default like GNOME terminal obviously
>>62117545
What do you use?

>>62117519
yep

>>62117555
xterm

>>62117519
hmm perhaps.

Is VFIO audio still fucked up on the guest? Last time I did it was around December and the audio stuttering + latency made me give up on GPU passthrough and go back to Windows.

>>62117586
did you try it again?

>>62117519
downside of urxvt is that it doesn't render true colors correctly

>>62117613
If I did, then why would I ask if it's still fucked?
Do you even reading comprehension?

>>62117675
so you did try it, yet came here to ask if it didn't work, but you already knew it didnt
i'm not sure what to think here anon

is linux is so good, why doesn't it have basic things like filepicker thumbnails?

@62117727
haha wow you sure got them there :DD

>>62117727
Write hatemail to Torvalds and tell him to fix it.

>>62117738
I don't know who hate more , you for the @ or him for the memeing

>>62117757
I'd love to read his response.

>>62117777
the at(@) is ironic anon

>>62117727 (you)
Hahahaha, here's your (you).

>>62117799
>4 you's in one post
Can I get one too?

>>62117834(you)(you)
(y0u)
ok?

>3 bad threads in a row

>>62117890
this one was good

>>62117890
Weekend.

Learn some perl. https://github.com/learnbyexample/Command-line-text-processing/blob/master/perl_the_swiss_knife.md

>>62117497
what does this do

>>62117586
Anyone?

>>62117950

man -P 'less +/Substring\ Expansion' bash

>>62115018
>botnet
no

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>>62118000
go away

>>62117855
People like you prevent me from CTRL+F for yous
I hate you

>>62118021
you can have a genuine you here anon
;)

>>62118048
>;)
>>>/f/acebook

>>62118066
>>>irony
must i spell these things out?

>>62118079
Stop lowercase posting.

>>62118088
oK

How can I remove trailing whitespace from all lines except those which pertain to an existing filename?

sed -i 's/\s*$//'

will remove all whitespace, but suppose I want to keep whitespace if it's a filename?

>>62118108
Find a different way.
Look if the lines you want to mach have something in common and do something like this: sed -i '/benis/s/\s*$//' so the whitespace will only be removed on lines which have benis.

>>62118108
might want to invest in some perl.
perl has an operator for testing if something is a file.

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I finally installed arch on this tablet, but the touchscreen doesn't work. Here's to hoping the mainline kernel fixes this issue.

>>62118231
>install arch
>tell everyone

>>62118250
he's just looking for justification anon. don't bully him - it already isn't working as he wants

>>62118231
>Here's to hoping the mainline kernel fixes this issue.
Why would you even hope that?

>>62118250
>what is tradition
do you even /culture/

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How do we get a FOSS P2P torrent/live stream service that's better than Acestream?

>>62118332
never heard of that

i know it's an oxymoron but is there a fglt approved cloud-based file storage service, or something close to it?

>>62118347
A lot of people used it to watch the fight last night, but it bugged out with extreme volume despite the fact that it should've gotten better with more peers.

>>62118357
Do you host the cloud yourself or do you pay somebody else to manage your data?

>>62118369
what fight? am I out of the loop?

>>62118357
use any cloud, just be sure to pack it into a tar or whatever and encrypt it properly

>>62118347
I'm surprised more people haven't heard of it when it lets you stream torrent files immediately, albeit poorly atm

>>62116929
halp

>>62118423
So something like peerflix?

>>62118409
Are you serious? Mayweather vs McGregor, poor rock dweller

>>62118250
not even hard to install, about as easy as debian desu

>>62118442
never heard of these people, what do they do?

>>62118442
Ah so there are other people doing this?

>>62118369
probably 3rd world connections with less than 300k up

>>62118463
oops
meant to reply to >>62118432

What are some cool ways to display a file other than cat?

>>62117519
i use yakuake

>>62118465
It was working amazingly before it started to get shared around a lot

>>62118496
more / less
echo too i presume?

>>62118496
cat is for concatenating files, not for displaying
use a pager like more or less

>>62118413
God I'm new to linux but I love the possibilty to encrypt anything easily. Really comfy from the command line

>>62117950
[root@6ca25352335a /]# x='this is the coolest terminal command ever seen on /g/'; echo ${x:7:5}${x:51:1}${x:33:1}${x:31:1}${x:37:1}

the game

>>62118496
vimpager is best if you use vim
and hexdump

>>62118555
That should be doable on any OS

>>62118573
What has hexdump got to do with vimpager?

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>>62118496

ul <yourfile>
pg <yourfile>
dd if=<yourfile>
awk 1 <yourfile>
sed '' <yourfile>
grep '' <yourfile>
curl file:<yourfile>

What are some cool terminal commands?

>>62118496
tac

>>62118496
lolcat

>>62118695
>

dd if=<yourfile>

You can shorten if= to <.

>>62118746
Neat, ty.

>>62116664
ubuntu gnome is pretty gud for normies with touch screen laptops.

bunsenlabs is perfect for those normies that failed to at least get the power of a pentium.

Reminder that normies are people too.

how do you test """cool terminal commands""" if they are malicious?

>>62118866
vm, chroot or jails

>>62118866
vgrep

I have 160Gb to work with.
What is an appropriate amount of memory to allocate when assigning swap space and an efi boot partition for boot loader code? When should I go beyond what is "recommended"?

>>62119103
/boot really doesn't need to be big. 512MB - 1GB is more than enough. base the amount of swap space on your available memory.

whats the command that does the inverse of ssh-copy-id i.e. adds the remote server's keys to the local machine's authorized keys?

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Question; Everyone says Windows 10 & OSX are botnets, constantly monitoring you and reporting on your doings.

How significant is the battery life increase when moving to a Linux based OS on a notebook?

Is there a significant difference? If not, why not? Wouldn't all the monitoring and whatever else people claim is going on use up a bit of juice?

tl;dr Will moving to Linux increase battery life on a notebook?

#!/bin/bash
set -e -o pipefail
# Delete duplicates oldest-first from .bash_history while preserving order
# and removing trailing whitespace.
TMPFILE=$(mktemp)
sed 's/\s*$//' "$HOME/.bash_history" | tac | awk '!x[$0]++' | tac >> "$TMPFILE"
mv -f "$TMPFILE" "$HOME/.bash_history"

>>62119209
>Will moving to Linux increase battery life on a notebook?
depends on what software you use and how your kernel is configured

>>62118695
dd

>>62119348
meant for >>62118496

>>62118648
nice way to look at files

old machine, clean linux installation (with only wm) performs worse than windows, by far.
why is this?

>>62119479
Install GNU.

what window manager do i want?

im mainly just going to run the browser fullscreen in one workspace and a terminal fullscreen in another on my laptop

should i just use xfce?

>>62119497
hahaha hilarious response, i have gentoo let me interject xD
fuck off neet, asking an actual question.

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>>62119523
>what window manager do i want?
>what do i want?

>>62119523
yes, If you don't want to customize just choose the most lightweight

>>62119523
If you really just use a terminal and a browser, you don't need anything. Just start the browser as X session and use tt2 for your terminal work.

>>62119579
i'm autistic and do want to use the base16 terminal theme but i guess i could just use urxvt

>>62119479
what did you try doing and what was slow?

>>62115788

rm -rf be*is/ will delete all directories called beais, bebis, becis, etc
rm -rf be* is/ will delete all files and directories starting with "be" and the directory "is".

>>62119741
everything from browsing to streaming content. anything above 360p is slow, granted it's an old machine, but running windows it does not run into any of these issues, not even at 720p. yes, i know i can use mpv for most things and that works fine, but it's pretty ridiculous to do that for every piece of media. tried chromium/firefox/some ff forks.

>>62119789
did you enable hardware acceleration?

whats the point of linux when you cant even play games on it? why not getting a real os which supports industry standard software? do you even have a job?

>>62119853
stop
this thread has had enough

>>62119816
As far as i know, it's not supported for Intel GMA X3100, only 4500+.

62119853
barely even qualifies as bait

>>62119853
>why not getting
good one

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>>62119853
ur cute

>>62116664
SOLUS

>>62119892
y-you too

well Fedora is a total non-starter for i3, comparatively, Debian does everything for you, or at least does a lot.

Copying my chromium profile from my backup location(which i was running it on while i was restoring data) no longer works.It presents this error message.I checked for any lock files in the profile, and there are none.However if i point via command line to my backup profile, it works as expected.How do i restore my profile? There are no zombie or background chromium processes.

Failed to create a ProcessSinzgleton for your profile directory. This means that running multiple instances would start multiple browser processes rather than opening a new window in the existing process. Aborting now to avoid profile corruption.

>install ubuntu
>restart
>computer boots to nothing
>reinstall with usb
>says ubuntu is already installed
>reinstall
>restart
>nothing again
Help please.

>>62120138
are you sure you set the boot order properly in the bios/uefi?
if so, do you have a uefi board? you may want to install it for legacy bios instead - if you do, make sure you enable legacy boot

Why do normalfags blame GNU/Linux for user error?

>>62115578

Don't worry about the web version of it. Just go into your terminal and enter

sudo apt-get install -y spotify-client

Then insert your password and you're good.

>>62120222
>spotify
>reddit spacing
>apt-get, not apt
>-y

>>62120215
they come from a system where they are spoonfed and their hands are held all the time. windows is designed to be simplistic for the user - whereas unix-like is more designed at giving the user freedom, at the cost of complexity for a beginner.

>>62120249
>they
come on man, all of us were winshits at one point, every noob starts somewhere. nothing to be ashamed of.

I have this tar.gz file on a server with a movie inside, is there a way to stream it with mpv directly?

how do i connect to wpa2 wifi via wpa_supplicant?

>>62115890

The easiest way to think of those two and differentiate between the two is an interactive shell is done in a window through the gui, and the login shell you would mess to log in through the shell before you can use it. The best way to see this is hit the key combination ctrl+alt+F1 (or any of the function keys going up to F8. It really depends on what you have installed. One of them will bring you to your Xwindows environment and if you have vmware installed, it takes a function key)

>>62120275
they used as a plural pronoun? i don't get your point here anon. what should i have used to address the group?
>>62120289
why not extract the contents?

>>62120289
lol this belongs in /sqt/, maybe not even there.

>>62120291
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/WPA_supplicant
This applies to any distro

do you tape your laptop camera?

>>62120327
yes

>>62120327
Of course

>>62120289
curl the file | tar options | mpv -

>>62120318
whats so funny?

>mint was backdoored
Is it safe to use now?

>>62120289
mpv has archive support, you just need to compile it yourself and enable it when ./configure. Then you can just mpv <url>

>>62120351
>using tar.gz to zip a single file
>not funny

>>62117519
was using tilix for gnome integration and built in splitting but recently got into urxvt and ricing of it.
it's pretty neat, was only ever using screen then tmux for panes so it's an easy transition. playing around with color schemes to find one i like.

>>62120356
no

GPU passthrough: How the fuck does it work?
Asus Z97-E
i5-4690K
780 Ti
Everything is (was) set up and configured correctly. I used QEMU with OVMF, and whenever I would boot my Windows iso I got stuck at the UEFI shell. No fs0, just BLK0, 1, 2. I'm not an expert at this shit, but I read somewhere that I need to use OVMF to get it to work. Would SeaBIOS suffice? Or was it just because my Windows iso was shit?

>>62116280

If you are pushing alt+f2, that's a run command window. It is like pushing windows key+r in windows. To rename, just push f2, or right click and click rename.

You can also rename a file using the move command in the terminal. Just go to where the file is at (ex. /home/user/Documents) and then type in without the quotes "mv (name of file) (new name of file)" so if I wanted to rename a file named "file" to "file2" it will look like this (again, without the quotes) "mv file file2"

>>62120356
mint's safe, it's just shit.

Guys im dual booting again after a long time.
Thing is im a poorfag in 3rd world southern yurop and lately im dire need of a free wifi connection. I've "hacked" neighbors in the past when Backtrack 4 was a thing. Now im gonna be using Kali. Is there anything much different between these two or i can go back to reading the documentation for all kinds of attacks and make it work?

Also how can i remove Kali and its boot manager when im done and go back to my current 2 windows installations ? Will it fuck the windows boot selection screen? I want to remove Kali later and install OpenSUSE or something similar to use it for practise on simpler things without having the risk of fucking up the system

>>62120327
my laptop doesn't have one

>ubuntu gets spyware
>ubuntu becomes the most popular distro
>mint gets backdoored
>mint becomes the most popular distro

how does this work?

>>62120531
ubuntu never got spyware. read on the topic before making such retarded claims
>using mint
a worse version of ubuntu - no reason to use mint, ever, really...

>>62120531
Curious people, distrowatch counting clicks.

>>62120531
>>62120559
this, ubuntu had forced adware, not really spyware. i don't like to stick up for canonical because they are shitheads and niggers, but it's far less worse than people say.

>>62120499

I'm running mint cinnamon version and I'm liking it. I'm thinking about changing my environment to gnome 3 or something. But it's doing what I need it too. Was mint in danger for a time?

>>62120559
so tell me how would you discribe a program which sends your keystrokes to some server and makes money with it?

>>62120531
because it got popular it got backdoored, and it was just one of the many isos on their site.
still wouldn't use it since they selectively disable updates so that their ramshackle distro doesn't disintegrate.

>>62120590
ahah what that's not even what it did
it was sending search queries to amazon for ads
this is not 'sending keystrokes' but rather 'sending requests made by the user that could be disabled and was only enabled in unity which no-one liked'
big difference

>>62120635
>ahaha you can just disable the botnet
you've used windows too much

>>62120635
>Unless you have opted out, we will also send your keystrokes as a search term to productsearch.ubuntu.com and selected third parties so that we may complement your search results with online search results from such third parties including: Facebook, Twitter, BBC and Amazon. Canonical and these selected third parties will collect your search terms and use them to provide you with search results while using Ubuntu.

>>62120581
i'm too tired and don't care enough to go into it, some other anon might. but basically there is a trail of bad decisions in almost every aspect where they have veered away from debians/ubuntus way of doing things. the devs, being the fucking french idiots they are have fucked it up.
i'm currently ubuntu and going back to debian anyway, enough of all the gnome shit.

How do you manage your cli snippets?

>>62120790
gist.github.com set to public, don't give a fuck who reads them, hopefully they will come in handy

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What gnu/linux distro works best with gtx 1050 ti? I tried mint but I had to manually install drivers after turning off X, and everything worked fine except for the fact that the screen wouldn't turn on after waking up the computer.
Should I go with vanilla ubuntu? Fedora? I need it to have an easy auto install to dual boot with windows 10.

>>62120164
I do have a uefi board and everything is set up properly, still not loading.

>>62120855
>everything is set up properly
>still not loading
I'm getting conflicting signals here

is there a systemd-free distro that 'just werks out of the box' and is not very hard to install?

i know gentoo but thats out of the question

was looking into void and slackware. are they too hard to install/configure? I saw void is a bit like arch to install, but even easier

also know PCLinuxOS but don't know if it is good, very unpopular

>>62120919
Budgie worked, but now I'm trying to install Gnome.

>>62120947
alpine

>>62120947
Ubuntu LTS 14.04

>>62120790
what do you mean? like commands you'll use in the future?
have an md file with a bunch since while i keep my history on all machines, too lazy to go back or grep for what i used before.

>>62120451
Anyone? I'm sick of Windows. I don't play a lot of games, only Tekken 7 at the moment. Or can I just use Wine?

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https://sourceforge.net/projects/uknow4kids/

>>62120947
Yes. Devuan.

I've been testing out new fonts and finally decided on Terminus. However, for some reason, missing characters are being replaced by ones from other fonts. I don't like this.
As an example, when I use the :digraph command in vim, I can see a lot of the available characters, and missing ones have and empty rectangle. However, some of the missing ones are from fonts I've since removed. They're an eyesore since they're blurry and I'd rather have the square rectangles to tell me the character is not present. How do I fix this? I don't think it's a vim issue, maybe a fontconfig or xorg issue.

>>62121148
read arch wiki

>>62121183
Add a fallback font which fits nicely with terminus .

>>62121216
I've read just about every tutorial, guide and how-to there is on the subject. But I'll give it another shot.

>>62121288
Also read arch wiki before you read anything else

>>62121222
Okay, but first I want to get rid of the current fallback font. I think it might be an st issue, since I'm not having this problem with xterm.

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>>62121300
I've read through that one as well. I'm currently downloading an official MSDN Windows 10 iso that I'll try it with. I had a feeling that my pre-cracked iso was the culprit last time. I'll report back with my findings.

what are some cool terminal commands that make me look like a hacker to normies

all I know is neofetch and cmatrix

>>62121431
Normies are retarded. Even editing a text file in nano will freak them out if it's green on black.

>>62121431
literally anything

>>62120242

From the looks of things, you don't like anything that I said. Yes, apt-get instead of apt, don't know how old his debian/ubuntu system is, it works just the same. The only difference that I have seen after years of using apt-get then moving to apt is a progress bar with apt. And yes that spacing it makes it easier for people to figure out what to type into the terminal. and -y to automatically say yes when it asks if you want to install. And you pointed out Spotify, yes Spotify, that is what he was asking about. Hell, Spotify is leaps and bounds better than Pandora.

>>62117506
Make your own prompt in .zshrc

>>62121431
>look like a hacker to normies
you dont even need the terminal for that.
1. go to hackertyper.com
2. press f11
3. hammer away at your keyboard
4. normies ask you to hack their friends facebook account

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>>62121431

while :; do head -1337 /dev/urandom; done | hexdump -C | grep 13\ 37

>>62121628
lern2hack, the while loop is completly useless

hexdump -C /dev/urandom | grep 13\ 37

but it looks nice

>>62121670
Oh, t-thanks.

>>62121670
I'm new to linux

how do I run this in a terminal safely

I don't trust you guys not to deletethis to my linux version of system32

>>62121504
>Spotify
proprietary malware

>>62121780
It's just reading data from your system's RNG, pretty-printing it as ASCII, and searching for lines that contain "13 37".

>>62121780

rm -rf /*

to delete system32
That other is safe.

>>62120500
Kali is basically the same with some newer tools. If you want to uninstall later anyway then just use the live CD and save yourself some hassle.

>>62121806
don't do this ur motherboard explodes

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>>62121780

>>62121833
Best PS1.

>>62121780
type: man followed by the command

example:
man hexdump
or
man grep

q to quit the manual - this 'man' command opens the manual page for the specified command which tells you what they do.

I think there's also a shorthand version that gives you a quick one-line summary instead of the whole manual, but I can't remember what it is

>>62121780

You can always go into a terminal and type "man hexdump" the man command as a manual help page then type the command after that. It will bring up a manual page that you can scroll through and see what each flag "-C" is. Then what he is doing is piping it into another command using "|" (shift slash button above your enter button) and what that does is using a secondary command on top of the first one. The "grep" command is like a "find" option. So it is like pushing ctrl+f in a program to look for a word or sentence. If you don't know what a command is just keep using "man (command)" and you should get a hang of what the commands are.

>>62121866
>but I can't remember what it is
"whatis"

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>>62121866
Help.

>>62121670
>>62121833
>>62121866
okay, so from what I can discern:

hexdump looks at the hex values
-C prints them
/dev/urandom picks a random file to be printed
| separates commands
grep highlights text
13\ 37 are the two hex values that will get highlighted by grep

>>62121892
uninstall alpine

>>62121866

This guy beat me to my post (>>62121874), and made it sound better. >>62121874

>>62121874
Very nice explained.

>>62121791

I am curious if you understand what malware is. In case you don't, it is something that is malicious to your system. I have been using Spotify for quite a while and nothing bad is happening with my system, and when on my Windows system my antivirus came up with a positive. Go look it all up, it's out there explaining why antiviruses are coming up with false positives.

Just switched to zsh.
Show me some cool prompts, anons

>>62121918

Thank you very much. I am always worried that I put things is such a difficult way that it will make things sound more complicated than they actually are and push new people away. That is what happened to me a long time ago. But since I started doing linuxacademy .com I started to become very comfortable with Linux.

>>62121967
drm and snooping may not be detecable by antivirus software, but it still harms you

>>62121999
shit trips

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>>62117506
>>62121507
>>62121999
I've made some observations about people who use zsh and I know why most of them think it's better than bash.

People switch to zsh either to be special snowflakes or because they see cool zsh prompts in desktop threads or because they hear it has better completion (I personally don't think it does).
Most of them have no idea that the same look can be achieved with bash, that you can embed commands into your PS1, they probably haven't heard of PS2, PS3 and PS4 and they probably don't even know what readline is.
They haven't heard of inputrc, they don't know how to add custom keybinds to macros in bash, they don't know that you can change the editing mode of the interactive shell to be Vi-like.
They don't know about incremental search nor do they know about different completion settings.

Some may say that it's better for scripting, but scripting in a non standard shell is pointless, since you still need to know POSIX scripting and in most cases bash, since it has more features than sh and unlike zsh it's everywhere.
If you want to use a sane language for scripting, use python or if you're working on a larger project, you might also want to consider using a non interpreted programming language like C.

Zsh users are mostly ignorant impresionable people, hipsters of all sorts including nu-male macfag webdev sitting at starbucks types and most of them like to pretend to be cool for using a non standard shell while barely having scratched the surface of bash/readline and I do not want to be associated with them in any way.
In order to make an informed decision about which shell to use, you've got to at least know the basics of both shells and what readline is and what you can do with it.

I personally don't see a valid reason to switch to zsh. I think zsh is bloat mostly for the sake of it.
There might be valid reasons to use zsh, but most people certainly don't do it for valid reasons.

>>62122005
>presenting false unbacked claims.

Are ubuntu boot times supposed to be really fucking slow?
WIndows 8 took me 3 seconds. I have ubuntu now and this shit takes like over 30 seconds.

>>62122005

No, DRM is Digital Rights Management and that is on every "legal" media file that you buy. It isn't there to harm anything (aka delete files, hogging system resources etc. etc.). And the snooping thing, I have never witnessed or seen anyone that the program has snooped more than just what you listen to through the program. So both of those I will agree with >>62122049. "False unbacked claims."

>>62122049
https://web.archive.org/web/20160313214751/http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/21/spotify_worse_than_the_nsa/

>>62122077
>Digital Restrictions Management.

>>62122090
OH NO BIG GOBMENT KNOWS I LIKE TO LISTEN TO TAY TAY OCCASIONALLY BETWEEN MY DEATH METAL
OH NO!!!!!!!!!!1

>>62122047
This, honestly. I used to be one of those types, but as I became more experienced I learned that zsh doesn't really offer anything significant over bash.

>>62122110

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&q=what+is+drm&oq=what+is+drm&gs_l=psy-ab.3..0l4.153.4143.0.4422.17.15.2.0.0.0.100.932.13j1.14.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.16.943...0i131k1.BMwVKw1on04

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>>62122205
>google
ain't clickin' that shit nigga

how do I becum teh beast

>>62122215
There's nothing to be scared of if you have nothing to hide. :^)

>>62122090

https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/?language=en&country=us#s3

From the things that I am reading, the aren't anything like what you posted. They don't get into anything that they don't ask for your consent. I enjoy linking up with my friends on spotify so we can share what we are listening to, so we connected it through facebook. The information that you posted seemed like they are selling every bit of information you have left and even you social security number, credit card number and will come to your house and sell your dog. Do some research, look at the EULA of a service or program before you just start reading something and believing it is true.

Did anyone know that they found a whole root system underneath Devil's Tower? It is a freaking tree guys!!! I saw it facebook!!

>>62122240
Drink Monster Energy™

>>62122118
>[10 years later]
>oh no, we're heading to a total desaster where everything snoops on us, backdoor'd and drm'd! why didn't we care, we could have prevented this!

>>62122215

Sorry, I will bring up another one.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=what+is+drm&t=hw&ia=web

>>62122259
No one is FORCING you to use Spotify, it is a voluntary premium subscription based service.
Dont like how they do things? DONT FUCKING USE IT.

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>>62122267

>>62122077
drm criminalizes attemps to own what you bought, it must die

I have a computer with both debian 8 and windows 7 installed. I also have a stack of hard drives from my past deployments to Afghanistan, that may or may not be filthy with computer viruses. Is there a tool I can use on debian to check to see what is clean to use on my windows side?

>>62122308

Christ... Just go to what you prefer and type in, "what is drm" and do some research.

>>62122322
And wrong, it proves that you have the rights to own/play the content. It is a means to prevent piracy. It isn't working well because there are loads of drm stripping software out there. But with spotify, you don't buy the songs, you pay to be able to stream them through their premium packages. And with the premium packages allows you do download the songs. So why wouldn't they put drm on the songs when I am sure people are smart enough to go "Oh if I buy a month of streaming through Spotify, download a bunch of eventually "free" music then cancel the subscription." It isn't there to screw you over, it is there to make sure you don't go walking off with something you didn't buy.

>>62122374
Would you like to watch your legally bought movies on different devices? Would you like to backup your DVDs? Or would you like to convert your e-books into different formats?

Digital Restrictions Management systems place restrictions on your right to do all of these things. Your movies or e-books may even stop working alltogether if the vendor goes bankrupt, or no longer maintains a particular DRM system.

>>62122364
Just mount them in Debian and go through the contents.

>>62122308
suggest you burn your machines or at least the internet connections to them, they release all sorts of info out to any other machine they connect to.
not to mention the new owner of this site has the same sort of murky past that should make you wary of even connecting to these servers.

>>62122388

I never had any problems with any of those things. Now I know that the drm system isn't perfect, but I haven't had or seen any of these problems.

>>62122388
You arent buying the right to the data, you are buying a right to license the data. You would know this if you read any sort of documentation provided by the host you are renting from.

GNU HURD when

>>62122616
50 years

>>62122639
oh no

>>62122436
>I'll show you this cool drawing I made, but DON'T draw it yourself or I'll tell the teacher on you
lol, literally the logic of all informational copyrights.

>You wouldn't steal a car; don't steal digital information
If we could truly "steal" physical objects in the same way that we "steal" digital information then we would be living in a world where everybody shared things freely. Why wouldn't I want to let starving people copy my food? Them feeding themselves with a copy doesn't affect me in any way but makes all the difference in the world to them.

In fact, in such a world it would be clear that those who wish to prevent you from sharing with others are the criminals.

It's no wonder that they're trying very hard to associate digital information with physical objects. Because the more people think information is like a physical object the less likely they are to realize how loony the idea of "stealing" it is so that they can continue to profit from things they shouldn't be able to profit from.

>>62122651
Send me your SSID,ID,bank account,credit/debit cards.Let me borrow your identity

Lads, I can't install linux.
I'm trying to install manjaro 17.0, on a SD card while keeping my windows hard drive. This is a uefi computer.

I'm running through the calamares installer, and it completes successfully. I even got the calamares log, and there were no critical errors. The live-cd image have doesn't seem to include the command line installer.

When I reboot, I go into boot devices, and select the manjaro sd card, but I'm immediately kicked back to the boot menu, not even seeing the grub menu.

I've run through the Manjaro guide to restoring GRUB, but I haven't had any success.

Please help me!

More thread here:
>>62122712
>>62122712

is there a way to get stuff from a pipe and edit it in vim?

something | vim - | more something

>>62122651
What kind of information should people not be allowed to profit from? Are you talking about movies and ebook like the previous post?

>>62122680
You're missing the point.

There is nothing wrong with keeping information secret if you can. There is something wrong with pretending you can keep information for yourself and make it public at the same time.

I'm not "renting" out my social security number to people. If I make that information public then I deserve what's coming to me.

Today we're allowing people to "copyright" combinations of 1's and 0's (information that gets interpreted by your hardware) that they can give away but still have you arrested if you save it.
Where does it end? Tomorrow will we allow people to "copyright" ideas (information that gets interpreted by your brain) and arrest people who simply remember the ideas?

Obviously decisions about whether we can "own" public information are not made by cold hard technical logic. They are made by politicians and businessmen with private interests. You look at information as a physical object that can be owned because you live in a world where people put effort into making it and want to get paid. That's it. There's nothing natural about it.

>>62122774
>"copyright" ideas
Patents

>>62122744
of course, just look it up on startpage.com

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I'm an Arch user thinking about trying Fedora. Why is it better than Arch?

>>62122774
>Tomorrow will we allow people to "copyright" ideas (information that gets interpreted by your brain) and arrest people who simply remember the ideas?
I already feel bad for the cyborgs of the future ;_;

>>62122839
Bleeding edge as fuck without being crazy ass unstable, onky the better from two worlds.

>>62119209
>tl;dr Will moving to Linux increase battery life on a notebook?
No, it will decrease. Linux doesn't have battery optimizations like windows or macos.

>>62122933
What about repos? The AUR is a big selling point for Arch

>>62122710
is this your first time installing a linux distro?

>>62123029
nothing can ever be more extensive than the AUR

>>62123078
I know. It sucks because I really want to try other distros, but the AUR has spoiled me

>>62123029
>>62123078
>>62123102
>the lack of official packages is a big selling point

wtf? Something broke, now I can set the brightness of my screen to 0. How can I set the minimum brightness?

>>62123155
wrong, even the official packages are more plentiful than in many other distros

>>62123210
>lying on the internet

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So... THIS... is the power of Linux...

>>62123231
GNU/Linux*

>>62123231
>help, help
lol wtf, seeing this the first time

>>62123231
Neat.

>>62123231
p-please don't hack me.

>>62123231
>mint
wouldn't even spit on you if you were on fire

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Ok guys I've decided to 100% trash windows and move myself to Linux, I'll definitely install Ubuntu right now because I have to get really really really familiarized before I venture on more - I've decided to remove windows entirely so.. yea.

I'm going to google and research first optimizations now for ssd and so on - but please guys, please you would help me a lot if you start replying now and give me guidelines I would appreciate a lot as I will spend my time going trough them and apply / read what you guys give me.

>>62123572
seconding this, I'm also interested in some SSD optimizations

>>62124278
>>62124673
You cannot bump after a thread reaches 305 replies

>>62124680
310*

>>62124680
sad

>>62125134
look here : >>62122719