/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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.

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second for DragonFlyBSD

Oi guys. I need to use Excel and Word for Uni but I don't have Windows. I haven't done anything nasty or illegal for years so I'm out of the loop, where do I get a Windows XP image to setup a VM through QEMU?

>>62182293
use Windows XP POS - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11196
works the same as XP, supported till 2019
use one of these keys: KGRMV-TWG8H-43Y2K-7PJBC-PM4CB
KFF8R-TMHF4-GKT2P-KGDHH-FXPMB
XM633-9YG7Y-47JM6-4QMF8-XPKYG

ffs, why does Gnome always have to be such a fucking bitch.
typeing

xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap

works perfectly.
But I've been trying to get it to apply on startup.

Turns out Gnome doesn't run ~/.xinitrc
Tried making a desktop file under ~/.config/autostart/ didn't work either.

[Desktop Entry]
Exec=xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
Name=Xmodmap
Comment=Apply keymaps
Type=Application

What am I doing wrong here?

>>62182339
what's your point?

>>62182330
Put this in .xinitrc

if [ -s ~/.Xmodmap ]; then
    xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
if [ -s ~/.Xresources ]; then
    xmodmap ~/.Xresources
fi

>>62182364
DEs don't run xinit.

>>62182330
Just use xprofile.

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If your gnu\linux is so good, how come there is less than 1% of all steam users that are using it?

>>62182354
Friendly thread.

>>62182421
MS pays devs to use their closed formats > games only work properly on windows > people stick to windows to play games
wooooow that was haaaard

>>62182421
>mom? I posted it again!

>>62182293
Don't they give you a dream spark subscription or something so you can get a win7 iso?

>>62182421
Average gamer IQ is <90

Need at least an IQ of 95 to use linux.

>>62182439
the "no game" argument is fallacy: at one moment, eight of the ten most played steam games were supporting linux.

>>62182421
>gnu\linux
>\
made me kek

>>62182421
dumb spammer

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What are your must-have security/anonymity related programs?

What's the best terminal emulator?

>>62182654
dmcrypt
luks

>>62182654
Learn iptables, tor, firejail.

>>62182736
iTerm2

>>62182736
urxvt, termite, st

how would you save the stream your watchin on mpv
im using livestreamer btw

>>62182736
"hyper" is the new meme terminal

>>62182816
>livestreamer
y u no ytdl

>>62182834
twitch needs authentication cant use yt-dl anymore

>>62182816
Use streamlink instead, it's the active fork of livestreamer which hasn't seen a commit/update since feb 2016

>>62182868
Why use a program which hasn't seen a commit/update since feb 2016?

>>62182867
>using twitch

>>62182878
I fucked up my sentence, I was referring to livestreamer
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/commits/develop

>>62182868
fine, how to save the stream as it goes

Distros which should just disappear: Fedora, Mint, Ubuntu

>>62182973
ubuntu is fine

just installed gentoo
what is the next step

>>62182993
start compiling everything with placebo cflags and useflags

>>62182960
Not that hard to search...
https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink/issues/105

>>62182993
freebsd

Anyone running bunsenlabs? Tried it in VM and it's pretty nice. Basically a beautiful, lightweight, "just works" Debian setup.

>>62183013
debian netinstall?

>>62183013
Bunsen is the successor of CrunchBang. Good for newbs, downside is that it's Debian stable based.

I used to shitpost about Debian's ancient packages but afters years of running mainly bleeding edge distros I can finally appreciate stable. I've been using Debian 9 on my X220 for some time and it's pleasant not having six gorillion updates every week or a new version of an application forcing some UI change/Gnome FOTM paradigm on you. To be honest though it's partly because Stretch is so fresh but then again there are backports for the future needs

>>62182867
What? Works just fine with mpv+youtube-dl here. I uninstalled livestreamer/streamlink over a year ago

>>62183146
That combo doesn't work well when your internet starts going to shit while streamlink will play along just fine reconnecting to the stream

>>62182375

You can start your "DE" session with xinit, you retard.

>>62182997
oh that works
thx

>>62183174
t. retard

>>62183025
Not like it's particularly hard to switch from debian stable to something more modern

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>>62182251
Windrones on suicide watch

>>62182867
>twitch needs authentication
wrong

Ive just installed Ubuntu and my mpv has very shit performance compared to Windows. Like 4X worse. My GPU is Radeon RX470. Latest mesa driver from padoka PPA. Please help!

I just threw Antergos on my thinkpad and I like it. Is there any advantage/disadvantage to not just using arch like a normal autist?

>>62183645
But it does, try not updating for a long time.
I had to add the http-header-client-id to my livestreamer config before because it was no longer getting any updates

>>62183705
Downstream distros are shit

>>62183758
nothing can be worse than Arch

>>62183774
>what is mint

>>62183756
My youtube-dl version is like 3 months old. Works fine. It doesnt make sense for twitch to need authentication.

>>62183779
kek, got me there

>>62183774
Nice 2012 meme

>>62183774
Windows 10

>>62183801
we are talking about real operating systems, not botnet for the goyim

>>62183782
Twitch changes its api from time to time
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1590
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1578
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1517
https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1496

>>62183563
>he thinks linux is safe
both torvalds and the linux foundation are USA-based. never forget that.

>>62183838
>>62182867
>twitch needs authentication cant use yt-dl anymore
>yt-dl
So you were talking about livesteramer?

>>62183894
Linux is safe.
EVERYONE can read the source code.
If something is found its made notice right away, not behind a microsoft firewall that withholds its exploit for 2 years before patching it

>>62183907
i didnt post those links but i guess livestreamer was the culprit and not twitch

>>62183907
/sigh/
We were talking about authentication right?
https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/10654
Jesus, don't make me google this shit for you

>>62183917
Yes. Everyone can read the 20k new lines of C code that are added every week. And that's only the kernel itself

>>62183917
you are so naive.

>>62183917
Reminder that Linus calls grsecurity patches "garbage". More interested in cool code than in security.

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>62183917
you can read the source but most distributions and devices using linux have a compiled kernel out of the box.

and for any usa based packages mirror servers, the us government can force the hosting provider to do something like
"when that IP want to update the kernel (or something else), sent him this package instead"

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>>62184086

convert https://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/images/small-GnashGnu.png -resize 640x480\> -bordercolor black -border 2%x2% -bordercolor white -border 2x2 -bordercolor black -border 10%x10% -extent 100%x95% -background black -gravity south -fill white -pointsize 42 label:"GNU*" -append -pointsize 16 label:"*with Linux added" -append -gravity north -extent 100%x103% show:

>>62182330
Did you set the permissions for the .desktop file correctly?

>>62184142
There is a mechanism of signatures to prevent that.

How do I make a mount point? I'm trying to make a bootable usb with the command line and I keep getting errors because the mount point doesn't exist.

>>62184182
You are replying to someone arguing about something he has never used, kindly ignore

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Which WM supports rounded corners?

>>62184005
>We were talking about authentication right?
Yes. Its not required for youtube-dl to watch twitch. I dont understand whats the issue.

>>62184182
and who hold the signatures? if X can sign a package and X is an usa resident, then you are vulnerable; they would force him to sign their packages.

Any way to disable inheritance for cgroups v2?

I'm messing around and trying to make a high-priority group (e.g. with disabled swap) and populate it with important stuff including graphical stack, but I don't want any children in it

>>62184226
They don't do that. They work with the hardware makers to implement hardware backdoor. It's easier and safer.

>>62184224
The issue is we're talking about twitch needing authentication.
Unless I replied to the wrong faggot

>>62184200
mkdir folder

>>62184319
Thanks.

>>62184018

>20k lines every week
[citation needed]

They can monitor the new changes and multiple people do. It's easier when the patches are "bitesized" every week.

>>62184270
that's not what the snowden/cia leaked documents say

>>62182736
Konsole.

>>62184205
k tard. when you update the pgp keys on debian, do you know from where this file is downloaded? brown university, USA.

>>62184399
K tard, you surely cannot double check the fingerprint with other gpg servers

>>62184086
I'll bite:

<code>dd if=/dev/zero of=/</code>
<code>rm -rf / --no-preserve-root</code>
<code>:(){:|:&};:</code>

>>62184426
Please go back to 9gag.

>>62184432
No.

>>62184360
They just don't speak about it.

>>62182293
LaTeX

okay so how do i make a script that runs streamlink until it starts playing the stream

>>62184306
>twitch needing authentication
It doesnt need it.

>>62184667
Your thinking about shit like logging in, I'm talking about shit like api. But whatever I'm out, I've pretty much laid out everything that needs to be said

>>62184200

man mount

>>62184217
FVWM does, if you use a module. Also, doesn't GNOME have rounded edges.

what the fuck, literally, 10 years ago I tried linux, tried it today again, and it STILL DOES NOT HAVE THUMBNAIL VIEW IN THE FILE UPLOADER???

what the fuck are linux developers thinking not to implement such a basic feature in all the years?

>>62184745
>using GTK

>>62184745
>raging about something you get for free

>>62184777
It's only free if your time is free

Recommend me some GNU+Linux related news feeds for my new newsreader.

I want to install a program. It is available in GTK and QT. Which should i chose?

>>62184882
hackernews, subreddits
all you need

>>62184890
The same as your desktop normally uses. (GTK for GNOME and Qt for KDE)

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>>62184882
stallman.org/rss/rss.xml

>>62184745
Eh. Most upload boxes allow drag-and-drop, so you can just use your favorite file manager with a thumbnail view and drag it in.

Reminder to install https://github.com/dhowe/AdNauseam

How do i apply an icc profile for my monitor in Ubuntu?

>>62184890
Assuming you don't have GNOME or KDE installed, I'd probably go with GTK. My experience is that more shit uses GTK+ tools, so you'll more likely than not already have most dependencies installed.

>>62182736
Terminator

>>62184377
I use this one. What are the advantages of the other ones mentioned?

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>>62184745
This pasta is stale as fuck

>>62184745
>being a gui nub

>>62184798
Tell this to my boss.

why should I use linux if I have nothing to hide and like to play games?

>>62185010
i have ublock origin.

Anyone familiar with Void's package manager?

I'm trying to install it, but the default base-system package is full of bloated shit my puny 16gb SSD doesn't need (e. g. man + manpages). I tried removing that shit after the install forcefully, and now I've ended up in dependency hell. What is the appropriate way to install a la arch where you can pick packages from the base group, so I don't have to install a bunch of useless shit I don't need? Should I just manually install the packages I need instead of going through the installer, or do I have to rebuild base-system and strip it of some of the useless dependencies?

>>62185697
ricing
programming without an IDE
did I mention ricing?

>>62185701
ublock doesn't generate fake clicks in order to destroy the advertising business model

>>62185697
If playing games is all you do then there's no point

>>62185697
>having spare computational power to run botnet
My job is a daily reminder how shit is the windows, at least at home i don't have to use it.

>>62185736
why i would do that? the current advertising business model is why so many great things like youtube, gmail, twitch, 4chan, ... are free.

>>62185697
I have Linux and play games.

This team has made for promoting Linux than all the stallman memes.
https://www.feralinteractive.com/en/upcoming/

Linux is an actual OS. You're not tied to the stupid decisions of microsoft executives. Besides, W10 comes bundled with spyware that you can't entirely disable. It's been getting worse with every release.

At least try it out.

>>62185804
GNU/Linux*

>>62185787
Selling user data as business model is terrible and must die.

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So i had to reinstall windows 10. Now my super block on my ssd is corrupted. I haven't had time to try ALL the backups but when i try replacing with a backup i get the error that the super block can't be read.

Is it toast, or is there something else i can do?

>>62185912
>>>/g/dgt

>>62185912
>no nose
>small eyes
>huge eyebrows
why are anime figures always crippled like this?

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>>62185828
Congrats. You achieved your objective.

>>62186016
autism

>>62186053
Filtered autism.

>>62186016
>not using 4chanx
hownew.ru?

>>62186016
You should filter macfag too just to make clean and shiny your thin skin.

>>62186087
I don't spend enought time to optimise it that much.

>>62186110
>Reply sound pops up.
>Check the reply.
>It's a tired and old meme.
>Filter that meme.
>"WHAAAAAA!!! STOP IGNORING ME!!"
Sorry if I hurt your feelings, shitposter.

>>62185697
>why should I have the right to say something if I have nothing to say?

>>62186016
anime website

>>62186153
>gnu/linux
>meme
Have you seen OP?

>>62186156
free speech is a right. Linux isn't a right, it's exercising rights.
rights =/= exercising rights

>>62186016
>literally using filters
>literally censoring yourself
literally >>>/r/eddit

>>62184147
lmao this is great
how to git gut with imagemagick

>>62186215
They're actually quite useful. Some boards become bearable with just a few magic words that only retards use and don't ever add anything of value.

If I want to see retarded posts I just go to /pol/. On the rest of the boards I expect something different. I'm sorry my improved browsing experience triggered you, anon. Take a minute to breathe and calm yourself.

>>62185912
Try testdisk, if that can't help you nothing can.

>>62186240
Fred's imagemagick scripts.

>>62186240
Just google like crazy when you need something, it's that simple. Although of course you might lose a lot of time. It's really just worth it when you want to do something general that you'll reuse a lot

>>62184981
>>62185048
I use Kubuntu! Should i go with QT? Thanks!

>>62186773
Theming should in theory look better with the Qt version but in practice this is mostly a solved problem now with both GTK and Qt themes looking the same if not similar (at least with the Breeze theme).

Tldr; Yes install the Qt version but if it doesn't work out for some reason feel free to uninstall it and use the GTK version. GTK apps work perfectly fine with KDE Plasma.

>>62186686
>google
no

>>62186548
The official documentation is great. Start here and pick a topic. https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

>>62187003
meant to quote >>62186240

Best encryption cipher for SSH?

Let's say you're a college professor in charge of a functional programming class, how would you advertise the wonders of gunu/loonix to first year students?

>>62187148
Whatever the default is (unless your running an ancient distro it should be more than adequate).

>>62187162
You have a lab and force them to use it.

>>62187202
They bring their own laptops.
Also, 99% of them use WinGHCi, using linux means losing the GUI

>>62187221
>using linux means losing the GUI
That's the point.

I guess you could create an .ova file and tell them to run it in Virtualbox.

>>62187188
RSA? I thought that was weak?

>>62182251
I would listen to a band with this photo

>>62187261
Your distro shouldn't be shipping with an insecure sshd config but hey, if you know better ;)

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>uninstall Microsoft Office (TM) on my mothers laptop
>takes 5 minutes
>"Would you like to reboot now to complete the uninstallation?"

>>62187397
>windows

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Newfag here. Anything out of place or look odd in pic related? My mpv player has very bad performance and i dont know why.

What is the best firewall for someone new to GNU/Linux?

>>62182736
iTerm2, xfce4-terminal

>>62184217
OS X

I started using Guake Terminal in Ubuntu 17.04. Mostly to pin certain commands that change my monitor resolution on the go.

The thing is. It works perfect and now I would love to have an indicator icon that shows me the current refresh rate of my screen and the size too.

I'm no good at programming. Any help? Thanks!

How do I browse the 4chan archives looking for older /fglt/, for instance?

What's the proper site? Archived.moe doesn't allow that kind of searches for /g/

I am looking at Artix, seems comfy.
I am completely lost on getting it installed via .iso
Do you literally just install some sort of Arch then follow their migration tutorial on the site? Or am I a shitty normie who doesn't understand how to install from a live terminal? Because I just get a terminal (and a message about a CPU core hanging but that could be the graphics card).

I wanna go balls deep.

>>62187162
I would just be a cynical professor who teaches by the book but constantly make snide comments under my breath about how GNU/Linux is superior and everything they're being forced to learn in my class is basically trash by comparison.
That should stir up some interest

>>62187444
Maybe configure hw decoding in mpv?
I usually use VDPAU with AMD graphics.
What distro do you have?

>>62184552
Is that an Excel replacement I haven't heard of?

>>62187615
Looks like you essentially do an arch install and modify the repos that pacman uses. This should be done before the <pacman -S base> step. The Arch install process is just a chroot install, which can be used for any distro anyway.

>>62187781
Bless, Anon.

>>62187714
I always disable HW decoding, its not the issue here. I use Kubuntu and the playback is much worse compared to Windows. Like 4X worse.

>>62187766
It's a mark-up language. It's what people usually use to make their theses. I made my cv with it as well.

It's different from word in the sense that you compile a text (.tex) file and a pdf document is generated. Not sure if it's what you're looking for.

So, I'm trying to install a theme for xfce and it's pulling in a ton of dependencies. One of them happens to be gnome-shell and I'm trying to get around installing systemd by using that systemd stripped gnome overlay...and it's kind of a pain. Gnome shell is pulling in gdm which is pulling in a hardlinked pambase version with systemd, and I'm not sure how to get around this. What do?

I've seen some stuff regarding faking the gdm installation and trying to proceed, but I don't even have the profile directory in /etc/portage so I'm not sure the advice even applies to me.

Gnome overlay: https://github.com/dantrell/gentoo-project-gnome-without-systemd

Some output (emerge and emerge --info): https://ghostbin.com/paste/zdtvz

>>62187839
I know what it is. I was just being a sarcastic dick because I'm looking for a spreadsheet program on par with Excel and you suggested LaTeX. Might replace word with LaTeX unless it's pain to setup in order to meet university's standards.

>>62187865
What kind of retarded theme is it? Paste the output of emerging that theme instead

>>62187891
It wasn't me who answered. I know what the 'f' in /fglt/' stands for.

>>62187865
There's no way a GTK theme should pull in gnome-shell and gdm. It's some USE flag that you have enabled or a faulty ebuild with fucked up depends. Is the theme's ebuild from some overlay? Changing your profile to dantrell's is a retarded "fix" that'll just cause more problems

>>62187917
>>62187995
>faulty ebuild

You got it. I removed it, and I'm building it right now from github without gnome.

>>62187518
Bump.

>>62187831
No, you have to enable HW decoding, else all the work has to be done by the CPU.
Anyway, make sure mesa-vdpau-drivers package is installed and then try running mpv from command line to test it:

mpv --vo=vdpau --hwdec=vdpau movie.mp4

If it works without errors, create or edit the config file in ~/.config/mpv/mpv.conf

vo=vdpau
hwdec=vdpau

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Just installed ubuntu server on my desktop because I'm a neet and have nothing better to do with my time, What de/wm should I try?

pic not related

I installed Ubuntu on my xps 15 9560, and installed nvidia-prime for optimus, and after rebooting to switch from nvidia to intel, My system hangs at 'Recovering journal' It's totally hung like a horse, Capslock light wont even turn on. I can get into recovery, but It's not letting me remove the nvidia packages. any suggestions?

>>62188525
>nvidia
Do not use the N word.

>>62187571
https://rbt.asia/g/
>>62188304
just use iptables or ufw, or if you insist in a gui solution, gufw
>>62186016
GNU operating system with Linux added as its kernel

>>62187518
ufw (user friendly firewall) it has a graphical frontend called gufw.

fuck GNU!

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>>62189006
What the hell kid.

why taping your camera when you can just rmod the camera module?

Is it worth to format everything as ext4? It will require quiet some work to move everything from ntfs partitions to another hard drive and then back to ext4.

>>62189210
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#intel
https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd

Do i need to install proprietary Intel driver on Ubuntu?

should i bother trying ubuntu 17.10 if i want a buntu gnome desktop or is it too unstable

i don't have much experience using beta ubuntu versions so i'm not sure

>>62189300
no

>>62189330
no

>>62189360
My performance wont be inferior without it?

>>62189330
Ubuntu is beta.
If you want a specific version of a package or need a newer kernel for any reason, jump to the 17.10

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I have a weird issue with KDE.

The leftmost 1-pixel-border of the screen doesn't respond to clicks. If I have a window focused over full-screened Chrome for example, if I move the mouse all the way to the left and click anywhere on that border it won't refocus Chrome - but move it 1 pixel to the right and that does the trick.

Any easy way to turn this off?

>>62188537
It's a laptop nigga what do you want me to do.

>>62189895
WTF

What's the systemd modprobe equivalent? I'm trying to fix a couple of thermal issues on my Thinkpad x220 tablet, but all of the fixes talk about files in modprobe.d that I need to edit that don't exist on Ubuntu 16.04. I think I can figure this out myself, I just need to be pointed in the right direction

>>62185943
Retard

I've heard that installing Gentoo only requires you to read the guide and not be terminally retarded. Can I as an Ubuntu noob set it up?

does /g/ hate elementary?

>>62184086

curl http://ipecho.net/plain

>>62190692

I dunno about /g/, but I do.

>>62190754
reported for ip steal

>>62190754

dig +short myip.opendns.com @resolver1.opendns.com

dns is faster

Finally moving beyond just installing programs with pacman -S. I went ahead and fetched a zip of the mist wallet from github, unzipped it and ran it. Now it's setting up a node, etc.

Is there a recommended place to install programs to? How do you guys manage this when you're not working with pacman.

>>62185767
>how shit is the windows
get bent pajeet

>>62183025
whats wrong with stable software if you're not actively trying to test new features and you just need an OS to do what you want? I havent seen this meme before

>>62191929
Depends on the type of system you run. Best practice is to follow the FHS
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
Honestly though, if it's just you using the system I'd just slap them all in a folder within your home directory.

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shell script files or shell script functions?

>>62192749
gentoo

>>62191709
thanks sweetie, i'll drop mine for yours

>>62192749
Files. As someone who thought once "just keep your shit organized in your bashrc", I now have the problem that all my shit is only accessable via terminal and I'm busy exporting everything into single scripts. There are many situations where you want to run something without opening a shell, also what when you change your main shell, ur fucked.

Because experience, rule other the thumb:
Is it only terminal/shell related? Function
Everything else: File

is WinE a botnet?

>>62193364
No.

I have been fucking around with Ubuntu through a VM for about a month now, I tried to dual boot today with a hard drive I had lying around, all was fine but once it was fully installed it I realized I had forgotten what I did to find my wireless connection - anyone have any idea how to go about finding what i did to get it to work on the VM?

'history' doesn't show it for some reason.

>>62190688
Probably not

>>62193675
>dual boot
Don't. Loonix host, Wendys guest VM. That's the right way.

>>62193769
Can't, really need windows as my host as my job requires it.

note: I know nothing about computer science apart from matlab 101 in uni 9 yrs ago.

Does it matter whether I do the following "calculation" in my [bash] script vs bc or some other tool to do floating-point arithmetic? In other words, "mostly bash or not" is an argument for debate? On macOS.


x=37 # x actually captures the output from another tool
var=$((2049 * x / 100))
var="${var:0:1}.${var:1:2}"

echo $var
#7.58

padre, I have sinned
>get call
>"anon ur good with computers, can you fix my slow pc"
>didn't use windows in ages
>propably some malware or bloat problem
>tell just to reinstall
>feel bad for failing to be good tech support
>feel bad for suggesting a windows reinstall

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>>62193860
Suggesting a GNU+Linux install to normies isn't as bad as it was years ago. Normies understand how distros like Mint, Ubuntu, etc work pretty fast. There even was some Anon some months ago who turned his grandma into a Linux Mint user.

All you need is a usb stick with a live distro, boot from it and place a normie in front of it for a while and all the fear and prejudices will fall in seconds. If not, you still have tried.

In nomine Patris et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.

>>62193675
You likely just used a pass through connection. (The VM emulated your wireless as a wired ethernet connection) All you need to do is configure your wireless.
https://help.ubuntu.com/stable/ubuntu-help/net-wireless-connect.html

How can I inverse the color of my monitor? Basically want to use this feature since I have a dark theme for my editor, and when it's sunny outside, I can just use this instead of editing the config file to change it to the light theme.

>>62194948
I mean, can you do this with a built-in command? Or do you have to download some third party software?

>>62194948

 xcalib -a -i

>>62195060
Cool, had to download it though. It works fine. Thanks!

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>install lxqt
>dick around for a few hours
>return to xfce
>gtk is fucked
>wipe all lxqt shit
>still fucked
>clear cache and configs for gtk, xfwm and xfce
>reinstall gtk themes
>still fucked

The fresh fuck have I done?

>>62195142
You decided to use a server OS as a desktop OS and tried to do desktop-y things. It won't end well.

>>62195161
you're a retard

>>62195142
Fresh install my friend

>>62195142
Check if it left any configs in your .config directory.

Or, make a new user, go to its home directory, start xfce from a-new, then copy the new default configs to your user. But that will mean you gotta re-rice your shit or something.

Xfce had this weird config in there, can't remember what it was called. It has a directory under .config as Xfce4 or something. Try finding these and debugging them. Or remove the lxqt config dir from the .config dir.

>>62195142
Nobody can help you without know what the hell you mean by "fucked"

Do windows just not look pretty anymore? Or did your PC catch on fire?

>>62195203
Tried straight wiping all user configs, didn't do anything. Also did a fresh reinstall of xfce4 and nothing changed, so def a gtk2 problem.

Of note, MATE is working fine, so the problem is exclusively with gtk2 and not 3. Can't exactly nuke gtk2, though.

To those of you who have left the google ecosystem I have a question! If you still watch youtube, how do you manage your subscriptions?

>>62195824
Either follow them on other platforms, or use DDG's video tab.

How can you run a sikret command via xxd again?

I wanna do the pranks by running

xrandr -o inverted

but I don't want them to see what it is.

I tried it, but it doesn't seem to work right. Is there another method to run a hexed command?

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>>62195931

$(xxd -p -r <<< 7872616e6472202d6f20696e7665727465640a)

xxd -p <<< 'xrandr -o inverted'

Gives you the hex.

>>62182251
A question for you GNUtards.
Do you actually say GNU/Linux in a normal conversation or do you drop the GNU part?
I'm a GNUtard but most of the time I just say Linux.

>>62196129
I say "GNU Linux" (rms suggests to pronounce the slash so people don't think Linux is part of the GNU system like GNU Linux-libre, but it hurts the tongue).

>>62196129
yes

how to git gut with iptables
can anyone suggest a good guide to read?

>>62196129
GNU slash Linux as preached by our lord and savior.

>>62196187
Read the manpage. Don't copy paste commands you don't understand. If you just need something easy, get ufw.

>>62184217
JWM!

>>62188357
Is there a way to enable HW decoding with nouveau driver?

>install Ubuntu
>install AMD GPU pro drivers
>system updates automatically (new kernel etc..)
>reboot
>system won't run anymore (low graphics mode or some shit with black screen and not mouse/keyboard)

So, this is the power of Linux?

>>62191929
/opt/ + link the executable to /usr/local/bin
or
~/opt/ + link to the ~/bin/

>>62196129
That's a problem, true. I prefer to just say GNU.

>>62196372
nice beat

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>>62184142
>>62184042
>>62184022
>>62184018

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> how to fix this

>>62196779
You hold it wrong.

How do I install Linux on my abacus?

>>62196993
Install Solus

>>62196993
install gentoo

>>62196993
download: http://kernel.org/
dd on floppy disk
get some glue
combine

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>>62197072

wget http://kernel.org/ 

.

Why is dbus absolute trash? I've tried using a variety of networking programs to connect to wifi and they all throw me some kind of error. This so called simple program to make my life easier is just headache after headache.

Figlet or Toilet?

>>62196320
Thats what you get for installing proprietary shit. Free driver is pretty good nowadays, no need to install AMDGPU-PRO.

How to easily update Ubuntu kernel?

>>62197330
Kernel updates will be available with all other updates. If you mean install a different version because for example you're on LTS ubuntu and it uses the LTS kernel, do it manually.

>>62197252
>dbus
>wifi
It's wpa_supplicant that handles wifi, not dbus. That some kinda crazy IPC daemon.

>>62197465
Well a fresh install of wicd or connman throws a dbus related error so dbus must be doing something wrong. Funny how this never happens when I manually connect with wpa_supplicant and my dhcp client of choice.

Can anyone recommend a good book on how to learn major networking aspects working in a Linux environment?

>>62197407
Im on 16.04 LTS! The kernel is 4.10 something. How do i do it manually?

>>62197606
Go to the kernel website, there is a guide there about downloading, verifying, compiling, and installing your own kernel update.

Pretty new-ish to Linux here:

I want to create a dual boot with Win10 and Fedore or Xubuntu

Can I partition my SSD and install Win10 now and configure the dual boot later
or
do I have to install a Linux distro first and Win10 later?

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>>62197743
Windows first is easier, as installing windows overwrites the MBR for some stupid reason

https://www.eworm.de/download/data/TB.bz2.bz2

That 200 byte file decompresses into a 1TB file.
That got me thinking. There's the -C option with tar. What happens when someone runs a script and it untars bogus files into your home directory, overwriting your files like shell config or other files? That seems like a devilish thing to do.

>>62197743
>>62197849
Windows 7 lets you manage partitions during installation so you can install Linux first.

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>>62187891
>>62187766
You can assemble spreadsheets in LaTeX.

What a typical Wintard thing for you to do to automatically assume that every piece of free software is perfectly analogous to a piece of proprietary software, no more no less, as though there can't be multiple implementations for a single solution.

>>62197252
Are you getting UUID errors?

>>62197902
But thats not how it works. Windows will overwrite the bootloader when you install it. That why you install windows first, then linux and install grub, use os-probe and it will recognize the windows install and set it up

How can I download my "favourited" songs from spotify? My company blocks it and youtube is not the same.

I'd rather not look up torrents for every artist in there. Any ideas?

>>62198602
Really? Fug, I left a 30GB partition when I installed Gentoo so I could install Windows 7 later. Oh well.

>>62198789
Well you can install Windows, then just chroot into your Linux install and run the grub config again

>>62198756

>using streaming services
>having to redownload songs every time you listen to them
>wasting precious internet bandwidth

>>62182251
im pretty sure i have a driver issue. im on fedora 26 and two things happen.

when i first boot i have to restard my monitor and cmoputer to get video out. Then on boot i get an edid error (remainder 222) yet it all goes as normal after that.

Then in a game i booted (native linux game) it says "you are using software renderering" although i dont get how it could be because i have an fx cpu (8350). gpu is hd7970

>>62196993
go to linux.com, click download button, run the setup.exe and follow the simple instructions.

>>62196122
Cool thanks!

My 4chan settings keep getting reversed to default. Why could that be?

Also, is there a way to set the settings globally instead of for each particular board?

I've heard about 4chanx, but for Firefox I don't know how I should proceed exactly.

https://github.com/ccd0/4chan-x

>Firefox

>You will first need to install a userscript manager such as Greasemonkey. Unfortunately, Firefox's transition to WebExtensions has forced a complete rewrite of Greasemonkey, leaving the current version of Greasemonkey unmaintained and unreliable. Until the WebExtensions version of Greasemonkey is complete, your options are:

>1. Use Firefox ESR, which should continue to work with the current version of Greasemonkey until a new one is ready.
>2. If you're using a freedom-respecting build/fork of Firefox, you can try this build of Greasemonkey based on this pull request which may fix the issues some people are having.
>3. Install Violentmonkey or Tampermonkey. These are already WebExtensions, but due to the current limitations of WebExtensions, they offer less functionality than Greasemonkey.
>4. Use Greasemonkey with the current version of Firefox, but don't be surprised when things break.

>>62199572
does your browser clear cookies on shutdown or not accept cookies?

I haven't configured anything of the sort.

Can anyone explain to me the difference between Gentoo and Funtoo? Is Funtoo better?

>>62199874
Why dont you read the funtoo website since it tells you the exact differences

>>62198789
Just install windows and then use "super grub2 disk" to boot into gentoo and reinstall grub
Or boot into a gentoo live system, chroot into your install and reinstall grub

>>62199890
Because /g/ will give me a more neutral opinion

>>62200033
How are LITERAL differences in how things are done an opinion?

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>>62200033
>implying /g/'s opinion is worth shit

why is this thred so ded

>>62200354
Because nobody wants to explain the difference between Gentoo and Funtoo.

>>62200377
fuark you

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Anyone using NixOS willing to give me their opinion on how well it works ?

Does Solus work well on a laptop with Windows dual boot?

>>62200377
Probably because no one here uses funtoo

>>62200451
>Solus
use a REAL OS like Arch

>>62200517
>dual boot with Windows
I'm clearly not leethaxxor enough to be running Arch.

>>62199874
The original Gentoo main developer made Funtoo in order to make some fundamental things more modern. Today many things of Funtoo are also implemented in Gentoo.

>>62200449
It really is great for my autism. Everything in one file, no mess in /etc/. The only problem is that to compile any program you need to modify the Makefile and use a nix chroot, or write your own package.

>>62200558
>I'm clearly not leethaxxor enough to be running Arch.
you're only making yourself believe that

new thread

>>62200610
>>62200610
>>62200610

>>62200589
Mostly, i'm simply not interested the level of effort it takes to configure an Arch distro. I need to buy a new laptop, and i need Linux for work. I just want something that works with no fuss.
I suppose Ubuntu is the goto distribution for this case, but i saw a thread about Solus some time ago and i thought it seemed nice.

>>62200691
>level of effort
>implying there's actual effort in installing Arch

>configure
you don't need to configure anything if you install DE

>>62200716
I thought the whole point of Arch is to have detailed control and customization over you installation.

>>62200755
aha where did you read that shit
you can do this on any distro
arch gives you nothing more than any other distro - it just paints it up in a 'special club' with 'install via command line' which every distro can do, and even the BSDs have documentation on how to do CLI installs
you've fallen for memes my friend

>>62200775
So why should i use Arch then?

>>62200808
duno anon, you tell me :^)
if ubuntu serves your needs, why use something different?

>>62200820
Because i liked Solus marketing slogan of being centred around the desktop experience. I just don't know if it'll cause me headache with laptop compatibility and similar nonsense.

I'm just assuming Ubuntu will have the most compatibility support, being the most popular distribution.

>>62200888
just use ubuntu mate or some ubuntu spin if you don't like gnome/unity

>>62189210
not using a proprietary camera I never had the driver for in the first place

>>62200775
Arch makes customization easier than Ubuntu. Why install a shitton of bloat that you don't need or want?

>>62201350
epic meme