/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

first for freedom

Is there a Debian-based distro as small as Puppy Linux?

>>62315800
what distro would you recommend to someone new to linux that plans on having a bunch of stuff running through wine?
does the distro matter when you're trying to make stuff thats not supported to run on linux?
i like the ability to customize everything and lightness of the OS, but honestly the only thing that stops me from completely switching the software im using. And running windows on virtualbox just for that seems like too much troubles

>>62315873
Well, I mean, I you can do a stage3 install if you really want. Really, I guess what it comes down to is light packages with as few dependencies as possible. I would imagine you could do much more beyond that. Puppy is its own distribution, which is why the devs can make decisions that make it so light.

>>62315900
Literally any distribution whatsoever. Just use PlayOnLinux if you really can't handle reading a man page.

Your whole post is gibberish, by the way.

>>62315900
>This is your brain on Windows

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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

>>62315873
Damn Small Linux was even smaller than Puppy Linux and it was based on Debian but it's basically dead, these general purpose super lightweight distros aren't as popular as they used to be. Either use Debian which can be very lightweight or if you really need something extremely small use something that's built for containers like Alpine (not Debian-based).

hi, when I want to change the user in my virtual machine I need to know the port which connects it to my host, right?
Does anybody know the default port for vmware?

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What's the best distro

>>62316321
The one I'm using

How do I get into tiling window managers?

>>62316357
Do you have a reason to use a tiling WM?

>>62316431
Uh...
Desktop threads?

>>62316440
So you're motivated to do this for the prospect of validation from your anonymous, online peers whom you've never met?

>>62316357
Install i3 aka babbies first tiling wm and read: https://i3wm.org/docs/userguide.html

>>62315800
Next time please make the thread title
>/fst/ - Friendly Stallmanix Thread

>>62316464
>motivated
My motivation dies in like 15 minutes though.

>>62316579
I think there's a much deeper issue here than window managers. Do you have any friends, anon? How is your love life? Do you talk to your mother?

>>62316601
>Do you have any friends, anon?
Yes, some. We get drunk every weekend.
>How is your love life?
Shit
>Do you talk to your mother?
Yes

>>62316533
Yeah, currently trying i3 for the first time and it is not THAT HARD.

>>62316357
Develop severe autism

>>62316630
Do you love your mother?

>>62316675
Yes. Why do you ask?

Reminder!

emacs -nw -f doctor

>>62316681
No reason. What kind of women are you attracted to, anon? Do you like ... well-endowed women?

>>62316688
nice, but h-how to quit?

>>62316713
C-x C-c

>>62316696
>Do you like ... well-endowed women?
Yes.
Ass is better though.

>>62316713
^X-^C

>>62316723
Tell me about more about that. How does "ass" make you feel?

>>62316719
thanks
>tfw not an emacs virgin anymore

>>62316726
>>62316719
My pinky already hurts from looking at this.

>>62316732
I just like looking at girls with nice asses.

>>62315800
>>62316540
>stallman
It's time to face the facts. Richard Stallman is nothing more than a whining, overly obese autistic manbaby who has not done anything beneficial for the computing OR technology world in the past 20 years. Seriously. Name something that RMS has done after 1995 besides bitching, crying, and moaning about bullshit that does not matter, or making some retarded, incomprehensible speech.

He demands that Linux be called GNU/Linux. That is fucking insane. The only reason GNU, GPL, and FSF are still a THING is because of Linus and the invention of Linux. If anything, Stallman should rename GNU to Linux/GNU, because without Linus, the GNU, GPL, and FSF would not be a thing anymore.

Stallman still has the fucking gonads to act like he's superior to everyone else. Saying shit such as "I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone" right after Steve Jobs' death. What an asshole. Stallman has not even programmed a single line of code since 2008, that was AFTER he essentially stopped in 1992.

He should be fucking grateful Linus stepped in to save his ass, and even allowing him to take partial credit for his achievements. If it wasn't for Linus, he would be nothing, he would probably be dead in a Burger King dumpster right now.

Besides, what has he ever even done? He claims to have written eMacs, but in reality he actually cloned gosmacs (the first eMacs that was made for UNIX). He didn't even write 50% of the code in eMacs.

You might say he wrote GCC and GDB, but the truth is that he initally wrote the C compiler, but now the vast majority for the same compiler is done by contributors.

He's a washed up, morbidly obese man who tries to stay relevant by having these retarded arguments that are similar to those found in the Soviet Union. Face it GNU/Freetards, Richard Stallman is a fat dickhead, and the only reason his name is still in the books is because of Linus's achievements.

>>62316766

setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps

@62316778
Go away.

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>>62316739
>>62316719
>>62316726
Speaking of Emacs, I'm wondering if any anons could give me some advice here. I would like to use Emacs as a music player frontend but I cant decide which one to use. Bongo? EMMS? What I want specifically is a frontend with which I can navigate my music library via metadata rather than directories. Furthermore, I would like to see album covers the way that pic related does.

>>62316777
Yes, but how does that make you feel? Elated, sad, lonely, angry...?

>>62316778
Ugh. Please stop spamming this shit. We have the same fucking conversation every day with no progression. Just give it a break already.

>>62316809
Good.
I just look at a girl's ass and think "nice".

>>62316809
>be me
>walking down the street
>girl with big ass walks by
>turn to see her ass
>get mad as fuck

>>62316835
So "ass" makes you feel "nice"?

What is the best Linux distro for server use?

So, I want to debug why latex doesn't work right with my current vim configuration and addons so I decided to make a new user and use vim through there since it has zero configuration and a new directory.

I did

su <username>

and ran vim, but I remembered that my latex config previews the pdf documents by displaying xpdf or evince for example.

When I run an X11 application as another user logged in via su, I get this:

No protocol specified
Error: Can't open display: :0

Is there a better way around this?

I either have to:
make a new vim config file and directory,
find a way around the display :0 to :0.0
or figure out how xauth works?

>>62316849
Looking at a fine ass does.

>>62316787
>go away
Only if Linux is called by its rightful name, Linux.

>>62316867
Was your father "nice" to you growing up? Do you have any siblings? Any sisters, brothers?

>>62316854
Longterm 4.9

>>62316854
centos or debian

>>62316878
My father was not with me when I was a kid. He visited once or twice a month. I see him every day now as I work with him on the (small) company he founded.

I have a brother that is being a successfull student (unlike me) studying at the best Uni in my country.

My sister is a total slut and totally broke contact with all of us. (out dad, our brother and her mom, who is not my mom).

>>62316533
If i3 is babbies first tiling wm, what's next?

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>>62316887

>>62316904
Look into wmutils. You can have lots of fun with it.

>>62316901
I think we're getting somewhere. Tell me: in what way does "tiling window manager" relate to "nice", "ass", and your father?

>>62316922
I have no idea.

why is there a therapy session in my linux thread

>>62316935
stallmanix*

>>62316859
try copying the

~/.Xauthority

file to the other user and setting

export DISPLAY=:0

while in the other user's shell

>>62316932
What are the first three words that come to mind when I say "Linux" "Ass" "Stallman"?

>>62316947
Linux sucks sometimes

>>62316904
i3 (or awesome), bspwm and xmonad go in that specific order

>>62316943
I'd just like to interject for a moment, but what I just told you is Stallmanix is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Most computer users who run the entire Linux operating system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "Stallmanix", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.

There really isn't a Stallmanix, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with Stallman accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any Stallman added, or Just Linux. All the so-called "Stallmanix" distributions are really distributions of Linux.

>>62316945
Doesn't work unfortunately.

>>62316973
Does "Linux" make you... "angry"? Or "nice"?

>>62316997
Change permissions/owner for

~other/.Xauthority

?

>>62316998
Sometimes angry. Sometimes acomplished.

>>62316976
>>62316920
Interesting, I got used to i3, but are the configurations for all these wms similar? Like, can I bind keyboard shortcuts for everything within one config?

When I start a program will it go to a specific workspace?

I mean, they do what i3 does, but also more and better I assume?

>>62311392
bumping this

>>62317030
I think I understand.

WELL, that's it for today. I think we really made some progress here, anon. I guess we'll just have to wait until next thread to delve further. Have a good week.

>>62317048
>I think I understand.
But I don't understand anything dude. What do you mean "next thread"?
What the fuck

>>62316979
I'm terribly sorry for interjecting another moment, but what I just told you is Linux is, in fact, just Stallmanix, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just Stallmanix. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Stallmanix system made useful by the Stallmanix corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the Stallmanix system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Stallmanix which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Stallmanix system, developed by the Stallmanix Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the Stallmanix operating system: the whole system is basically Stallmanix with Linux added, or just Stallmanix. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of Stallmanix.

>>62317039
i3 has the simplest configuration.
For bspwm, configuration is a bunch of

bspc ...

ipc calls. Keyboard shortcut management is done via another program, sxhkd, still easy to configure. The example config in their repos work really well, you might not even need to change them. Being able to RTFM is a plus.

Haven't tried it yet, but seems like xmonad is the emacs of window managers, but with Haskell instead of Lisp.

Were to start off with Emacs? Any must-read's? Is there something like vimtutor for Emacs?

>>62317015
Oh, just did that, doesn't work still, weird.

I even removed /home/other/.Xauthority and re copied from my main user, but still doesn't work.

I mean, I can just backup the config dir and just go from there, right? Also maybe actually login to the other user, but for some reason, although I pasted my configs, the terminal's font isn't the same.

Eh, I guess I'll go the easy way out?

>>62317066
I'm not sorry for interjecting another moment, but what I just told you is Stallmanix is, in fact, just Linux, or as I've just now taken to calling it, Just Linux. Linux apparently does happen to be a whole operating system unto itself and comprises a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Most computer users who run the entire Linux operating system every day already realize it. Through a peculiar turn of events, I was misled into calling the system "Stallmanix", and until now, I was unaware that it is basically the Linux system, developed by the Linux project.

There really isn't a Stallmanix, and I really wasn't using it; it is an extraneous misrepresentation of the system that's being used. Linux is the operating system: the entire system made useful by its included corelibs, shell utilities, and other vital system components. The kernel is already an integral part of the Linux operating system, never confined useless by itself; it functions coherently within the context of the complete Linux operating system. Linux is never used in combination with Stallman accessories: the whole system is basically Linux without any Stallman added, or Just Linux. All the so-called "Stallmanix" distributions are really distributions of Linux.

>>62317093
>Is there something like vimtutor
Yes, and it's literally the first thing you see when you open up Emacs. Just click on the fucking link.

How much of a meme is Arch is unstable? I used Manjaro, should I switch to Antergos while I'm doing fresh installs?

>>62317131
only if you don't update in a while

>>62317131
is there such thing as a stable arch?

>>62317093
M-x tutorial

>>62317137
Is there any real benefit to hop from Manjaro?

>>62317131
>arch linux
>fresh installs (multiple)
you're doin' it wrong

>>62317167
I built a new PC and reinstalling Linux and Windows. Yes, I dual boot.

>>62317150
arch is the more popular distro

>>62317180
I mean, that's not a benefit...

>>62317176
b-but anon ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9mXyakv2i8

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What is going on here?

>>62317176
Install windows at one half of the disk, clone your old disk's partitions into the new's blank space, edit windows-created EFI partition to offer booting from the newly cloned partition (or maybe install rEFInd), done.

>>62317218

man sudo

>>62317218
cd ain't a command

>>62317205
This post needs its own thread.
>>62317218
cd is a shell builtin

>>62317222
I mean, its literally easier to just install windows on the shitty Seagate disk I have and then run grub update, what I was asking is whether I should stick with Manjaro or install Antergos

>>62317247
>>62317251
and how can I enter the directory "1000" rhen?

>>62317281
sudo sh
cd 1000

>>62317281

sudo -i
cd 1000

>>62317218

sudo sh -c 'cd 1000; ls '

Since this is retarded, just login as root.

sudo -i

>tfw connection errors
WHAT THE FUCK, LET ME POST LS - L DAMMIT

>>62317260
Antergos I guess, Manjaro had that SSL fuckup, literally no competence in computer security.

Why doesn't 4chan allow postng ls -l?

>>62317322
Manjaro didn't fuck up, the cert deliverer fucked up.

>>62317374
sauce http://manjaro.github.io/expired_SSL_certificate_update/

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>install GNU/Linux
>move mouse
>cursor literally flies
>happens in every single distro
My mouse isn't even a gaymur mouse.

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>>62317374
>>62317389
Whatever, there are things that shouldn't happen.

>>62317322
OK, another one, Antergos or Arch Anywhere? I don't want to do the "arch experience" because it takes too long and I have limited PC time duebto health reasons.

>>62317469
>Use GNU/Linux for a while
>Go back to windows
>Mouse feels slow
Every time.

I added a user with `sudo adduser`. Then I wanted to give him root rights and went to the n/etc/sudoers.d directory. But I only have two files there: mintupdate and Readme. I read before that I should see a file named after my old username which I could just copy and edit. But like I said this file is missing. Can anybody confirm that this is normal in Mint and tell me what I should do now?

>>62316947
>Autism speaks

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I have debian 9 (xfce) on my old laptop that has a separate gpu and an integrated one. What is the easiest way to make my computer use my nvidia gt630m instead of intel HD graphics 3000? And should I use nouveau driver or the proprietary one?

>>62316947
Should be Linus.
>>62317502
Not three words.

>>62316357
Install dwm, but configure it first.

How can I make qt applications less eye-rapey on Cinnamon. I installed Okular and honestly, I would prefer it to look like how it does in KDE.

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>>62317620
Install Source Mage

>>62317620
qt5ct, also export the QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME="qr5ct" environment variable for all your sessions.

Linux Mint or Elementary OS?

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>>62317720
Gentoo

 anon@anon-desktop:~/NAS/Chinese Cartoons/LOGH OVA BD$ mkvextract tracks '/home/anon/NAS/Chinese Cartoons/LOGH OVA BD/Legend.of.the.Galactic.Heroes.019.[x264.720p.10bit.AAC].mkv' 2:subtitles19.srt

If I wanted to execute this for every episode of this show in one command what would I do?

>>62317762
for i in *; do echo "$i"; done

>>62317778
do I put my command where the done is with "$i" for the episode number?

Also would that properly account for the zeros in the title?

>>62317778
I can't see to get it to do anything.

for i in 99; do echo "mkvextract tracks '/home/spencer/NAS/Chinese Cartoons/LOGH OVA BD/Legend.of.the.Galactic.Heroes.0'$i'.[x264.720p.10bit.AAC].mkv' 2:subtitles'$i'.srt";

i dont know where to even start with the quotation marks.

Why doesn't vim have buffer switching as a default key combo

>>62317946
Because you touch yourself at night.

>>62315512

Alright, that command didn't work and I had to install the headers directly. That hasn't helped though. System boots up fine, but I'm stuck on one monitor at low res. When Irun nvidia-xconfig to get an xorg.conf file and restart, lightdm fails to start with a cryptic error message

>>62317873
sorry for deleting my old post, too many mistakes. This should work:

for i in `seq 0 99`; do mkvextract tracks "/home/spencer/NAS/Chinese Cartoons/LOGH OVA BD/Legend.of.the.Galactic.Heroes.0${i}.[x264.720p.10bit.AAC].mkv" 2:subtitles${i}.srt; done

>>62318048
thanks dude saved me lots of effort

>>62317778
Aways use ./* in a for loop. never a bare *

>>62318074
Always remember to learn from these things too. That should be a simple example to learn from and how for loops and variables work which is something really good to know.

Also one thing you might not notice on your own is that double quotes were used instead of single. Because a variable inside of double quotes "${i}" will be replaced with its value, but within single quotes '${i}' it will not be replaced

>>62318099
Why?

>>62317500
I think your memory is fuzzy. You have to edit the *file* /etc/sudoers, copying the line with your username in it.

can someone answer
>>62318550

>>62318591
Transmission. Use transmission-daemon and transmission-remote.

>>62318180
I tried to do what he says in this video by udacity.

>>62318180
>>62319422

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f28nZ2ubYFk

I recently bought a pair of TASCAM TH-02 Headphones. I'm running Xubuntu 17.04, & the headphones won't show up in Pulseaudio. Please help?

>>62319422
>>62319438
Well, like the video says, it's not a directory that's guaranteed to have anything in it because systems can be set up differently. Ubuntu apparently has a filled "/etc/sudoers.d/" directory, but most distros just edit /etc/sudoers itself (using sudo visudo). It doesn't really matter, since it's highly unlikely /etc/sudoers will be overwritten by an upgrade or new program.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUytXWQsng
rate my arch rice

>>62315800
Would it be possible to get a link to libreboot.org added for future /fglt/ threads?

>>62319537
thank you, you really helped me a lot.

I was just about to reformat my PC and install windows 10, but I decided to read the EULA first. Now I feel like installing Linux instead.

What are some things I need to take under consideration?

I've already thought about games, but what else?

What is the best, comfiest terminal browser?

>>62315900
What programs do you want to run? Plenty of things probably have native alternatives.

>>62320553
lynx

>>62320656
but w3m has pictures
Actually, how do they even do that?

>>62320261
Go Ubuntu.

>>62320656
What makes lynx superior to the alternatives? I guess it is the most simple of them?

>>62319800
Holy fuck this is retarded.

>>62320261
Keybinding will feel different at first, but you will notice they are more configurable on linux and you can do more with it unless you extensively used AutoHotkey on windows.

Inform yourself on which Desktop environment you prefer and consider taking this quiz (10 min.) https://distrochooser.de/ in english to find the distro that fits for you. Remember to look at the result to maybe give a different weight to different questions.

You have much more choice which can sometimes be exhausting, as dumb as this sounds.

>>62319800
awesome (dubs)

>>62320789
I was thinking about just getting GNU/Linux. The only problem i have is that my favorite game is not available for linux. Could I install GNU/Linux on a portable harddisk?

Am I still free from the botnet if I just don't use windows for anything but steam?

I want to install a Linux distro on my desktop but my video games are holding me back. I have it on my laptop, my netbook (for a server), and Android. I want to be free of the shackles of Windows but I'm too much of a manchild to give up the few games that don't run well on a distro.

>wanting to dump windows for ages
>finally decide to go through with it and make a live-usb
>Can't boot into it, my Bios only allows certified software

What is this useless feature? As if a hacker with physical Acess couldn't just switch the main board. How is this even legal

>install ubuntu

>download league of legends
>have to install wine and blah blah blah
>works sometimes crashes other times

>have to restore iPhone
>download iTunes
>not supported
>playonlinux doesn't support USB recognition

>try to watch some twitch tv
>blah blah install flash
>install it
>still not working

10/10 would recommend
It just werks

Is it possible to pass -j 2 to make every time without manually doing it?

Does make have a configuration somewhere? Or some sort of env?

>>62320895
alias

>>62320906
Will that also work if there are scripts that run make?

>>62320826
You could install linux on a partition and dual boot along with linux. Less botnet is better than full botnet, besides my KDE setup is really comfy and I don't even use it for more than a month.

>>62320831
Same thing for me. I still dualboot but I only buy games now that run on Linux too so I hope in the future when I played all my games enough and my linux library is bigger I make the full switch

>>62320826
What game is it? Try looking it up on wines appdb and see how well it works.

>>62320950
It's a fighting game so any degeneration of the netcode / FPS would make me not even consider it. How does it work?

How do I memorize commands I don't use frequently but don't always want to look up?

>>62321002
Basically wine translates windows system calls into linux system calls.

Linux takes world class smarts like firefox. Win 10 pwn

>>62321014
make a txt with them

Really need help on this one.

I'm trying to install a linux distro on my laptop, but I dont have a usb for install, is there anyway that I can make the laptop hard drive bootable by plugging it into my desktop?

>>62321100
no

>>62321100
do you have access to CD-roms?

>>62321100
I told you yesterday. VM.

>>62321133
No, the only storage devices i have is a sd card, but i can't boot from it
>>62321139
Wasn't me dude, but I am interested

>>62321100
depends, it would be possible if you are on linux already and want to switch distro. On windows, it becomes harder, involves a VM and letting it use the normal FS (create a minimal linux distro on it to install normally from that)

Never succeeded at pxe install, but it is possible- usb so cheap tho

>>62321157
Try to give to a vm raw access to your hard drive.

>>62321164
That sounds obvious i actually feel retarted
>>62321194
I'll give it a try, thanks guys

>>62320895
>>62320916
It's probably best to do something like

alias make2="make -j 2"

The other option is doing

export MAKEFLAGS="-j 2"

and/or putting it somewhere in your startup rc files. But there might be times when you don't want it to be the default, so consider that.

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How do I fix this stupid ass ugly chromium tray icon? I can't get hardcode-tray to fix it, Can't Tell if I'm using it right.

>>62321401
Well, I'm on Slackware, and upgrading packages always uses one core, iirc.

Thanks for the env variable.

>>62321100
If you can change sata to usb, You might be able to use software to write the iso to the drive, As the other anon said PXE might work too. though that involves a lot of footwork, You can also try finding out how to run DD on windows, and brute forcing it.

>>62321002
just google the name of the game and wine. The wine-db page will tell you if the game runs well (no degeneration of netcode / FPS) or not.

I was messing around with xvfb and xpra (which ended in total failure) to try to bypass x11's significant and constant failures (here, I hoped to at least be able to temporarily run a program I need to iterate on through xpra/xvfb and have it work, as after running x11 for a while, newly started programs stop updating their display unless they're fullscreen, and if running x11 for even longer, they stop updating their display except for a few milliseconds after switching between fullscreen and non-fullscreen).
Now X programs run on display :1 but not on :0 (except I have no output on :1). X programs trying to run on :0 (the default display) complain about:

No protocol specified
Error: couldn't open display :0

What do?

Hi guys, I installed Fedora 26 and can't seem to change the gamma of my monitor. I tried xgamma and wayland, both seem to do nothing. Thanks in advance.

>>62322679
Yeah, I also have the same problem. Different monitors use different ways to change settings.

I guess you have to do some googling as it is unlikely that anybody here will know the specific steps to help you find out your type of monitor settings and how to change them

>>62322051
Uhhh, Graphics drivers maybe
You didn't touch anything involving that did you?
You can still get to TTY Right? Try removing and reinstalling X Maybem Or wait for another annon that knows more then I do.

>>62322816
this seems so much work it would be easier at this point to just write a script that converts all .png files to .bmp

>>62322843

Why would he be doing that?
He's having an issue with Programs in x11 not Pngs/bmp

>>62316696
>Do you like ... well-endowed women?
omg anon, do you mean a woman with a benis?

>>62322878
fck me wrong thread sorry

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>>62322912

>>62322816
Already-running applications still work as before, it's not related to the driver. Moreover the driver hasn't been updated in the past few weeks so it's not related to any possible conflict either.
Fuck, why are all the alternate X servers dead. Y had the right idea. It let you update your graphic card driver without restarting the server. Plus it was so fast. Now we're all stuck with Xorg's cancer, or waybroken.

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Is the embedded controller firmware on the Thinkpad X60 open source? From what I've seen it seems proprietary, would that mean Richard Stallman is running proprietary code?

>look for alternative non-dead X servers
>check out directfb for shits and giggles
>github page: "see directfb.com for more up-to-date info"
>click link
My sides!

why cant i mount my efi partition
pls help i have severe autism

>>62318153
Sp filenames can't hightjack program options.

>>62323146
No, it is not. And yes, you are correct. One of the main flaws of Libreboot at this point is that your machine still runs proprietary software! Albeit, partitioned away from the main hardware in a way that it can't interact with it. It only controls specific hardware, like LEDs and battery management.

Sorry if I'm wording this poorly I'm getting used the using Arch,
Is there a way to install a package that is telling you it's missing dependencies? I have made sure they are all properly installed and it insists I am still missing one.

>>62323523
Chromebooks have open source EC firmware and some can runny libreboot too

>>62323628
Yes, the Asus C201 is the only Libreboot hardware with free EC firmware. However, it's also equipped with a GPU lacking FOSS firmware, and wireless that requires signed proprietary blobs! Woohoo!

Pick your poison.

>>62323619
>Is there a way to install a package that is telling you it's missing dependencies?
don't ever do this
>I have made sure they are all properly installed and it insists I am still missing one.
if you are missing a dependencie pacman will try to install it
please provide the command you ran and the output it produced

>>62323697
>gpu
software rendering at the cost of performance

>wifi
usb dongle

>>62323721
If horrible video performance, extra hardware hanging off your device, and plastic that'll instantly explode when it hits the floor is your cup of tea, by all means. However, I like my X200 and W500. They perform well and can take a beating!

>>62323699
So I'm trying to install HAL, I ran makepkg in the right directory and got this

==> Making package: hal 0.5.15-2 (Sat Sep 9 00:39:40 UTC 2017)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
-> hal-info
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

==> ERROR: An unknown error has occurred. Exiting...

I tried running makepkg -s and got this

==> Making package: hal 0.5.15-2 (Sat Sep 9 00:40:39 UTC 2017)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Installing missing dependencies...
error: target not found: hal-info
==> ERROR: 'pacman' failed to install missing dependencies.

Thanks for your help

>>62323699
I should mention I've manually installed Hal-info already and everything went fine.

Sorry for this stupid question, I'm just starting to use vim. The only issue I have is that when I create a file from within the directory, I can't save it probably due to permissions. I have to go to the terminal and sudo touch example.txt. Is there a way to circumvent this?

>>62323619
>Is there a way to install a package that is telling you it's missing dependencies
pacman -Sdd

>I have made sure they are all properly installed and it insists I am still missing one
Then you clearly missed one, take the one you're missing and do pacman -S <package>, if its on the aur use your favorite wrapper and install it the same way using the wrapepr

>>62323767
By change are yo using yaourt?
If you are, dont, use pacaur it wont have these shitty dep issues

>>62323767
>>62323775
>I should mention I've manually installed Hal-info already and everything went fine.
i hope manually means with the aur package. If you did not use the hal-info aur package remove hal-info and install it using the aur package. If you did install it with the aur package make sure you actually instaleld it ad did not only make the package

pacman -Q hal-info

. if you only made the package and did not install it you can install it with

pacman -U /path/to/package.pkg.tar.gz

usually making the package installing its dependencies and installing the package is done in one go with

makepkg -sri

>>62315800
How do you access windows networked PCs from linux? My laptop is on fedora atm and I cannot figure out how to do it.

>>62323757
where are /desktop thread/ people now?

>>62323864
>>>/wg/

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>62323890
sudo emerge -v gentoo

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>>62323911

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>>62323922

When I click on "Files" or "Browse..." to upload an image on 4chan, a window to select a file is opened. On Xfce, that window's view mode is on detailed view and I cannot change it in that window.
I managed to change it for normal browsing through folders, but with detailed view when selecting an image, it's useless because I need to see the thumbnails to know which cute anime girl to upload. Also, I make heavy use of folders, but folders are shown after all other files.

Can you change the view mode and sort order in Xfce's file manager?

Also, it doesn't seem to make thumbnails for WebMs. I can do all that by defualt on KDE's Dolphin, but Dolphin doesn't work right on xubuntu.

>>62323922
Good thing he was kicked out of gentoo for being a faggot.

>>62323955
nah, he left gentoo to make funtoo

>>62323890

zopflipng -m file.png file.png

>>62323922
>implying gentoo devs aren't faggots
they are the people who discourage ricing cflags. it's not like we listen to them anyways.

>>62323948
See GNOME filepicker meme

>>62323955
>homophobia
>>>/pol/

>>62323948
>humbnails
You will need to install a patched gtk2/3 to get thumbnail

>>62323967
faggot is 4chan slang, newfag. go back to tumblr

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>>62323922

>>62323890
telnet kirjava.xyz

>>62323966
The real sad part is that >>62323922 is right, yet at the same time gentoo is unironically the only linux distro that's still physically usable, and no other OS I'm aware of is even remotely viable.

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>>62323966
>>62323978
>See GNOME filepicker meme
Holy cow, is this for real?

https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme

>>62323841
Well this was exactly the issue, thank you so much. I'm starting to be less bad at this I think maybe a little tiny bit!

>>62324010
Yup. By the way, gtk on windows has been broken in many ways for years, preventing critical pieces of the trash (like gstreamer) to work whatsoever.

>>62323794
Assuming you are actually in a folder that you don't have perms to write to (why?)
Add this to your vimrc

cmap w!! w !sudo tee % >/dev/null

And then when you get a permission denied from :w try :w!! instead

>>62323794
Which directory? You normally can't save/create files in directories that you don't have permission for.

A (probably bad) workaround might be saving the file in a known place (for instance, your home folder ~) by doing

:w ~/file

or whatever its name is, and then doing something like

:!sudo mv ~/file /other/place

in vim.

>>62324010
Ahahahaha,
There's been a 200$ bounty to fix this for 13 years already:

https://www.bountysource.com/issues/3554613-add-an-icon-view-with-thumbnails-mode-like-nautilus
>Hakon created this issue 13 years ago.
>wfr started working on this issue and expects to finish by May 14, 2015. >2 years ago
>still not finished

>>62324138
>still not finished
Read the comments. They stopped working on it because it was too hard.

>>62324196
if it was too hard KDE wouldn't have file picker thumbnails

what's wrong with systemd?

>>62324229
They use different toolkits your idiot.

>>62324229
You've never looked at the GTK internals have you?

>>62324258
>>62324263
In other words, GNOME is a mess of kludges and spaghetti code.
The power of GNU software.

>>62324288
GTK, not gnome.
But yes, gnome is also spaghetti incarnate. It's actually quite a lot worse than GTK in fact.

Neither GTK nor Gnome are GNU software.

>>62324307
>GNU Network Object Model Environment
>not GNU

I have a Lenovo G50-45. Is there a distro with good driver support for this shit?
Tried Mint, nothing worked. Tried Ubuntu, nothing worked. Tried Manjaro, entire system shit the bed when I installed graphics drivers.

>>62323146
How do you give grub a wallpaper like that?

>>62324331

info grub

>>62324307
also
>GIMP Tool Kit
>GNU Image Manipulation Program Tool Kit
>not GNU

I have a couple days old install of Xubuntu and initially Thunar was generating thumbnails just fine for all my images and videos, but now it seems like it has stopped. On my last install I just sort of dealt with it, but I'd like it to work right this time. Is there some service I need to restart or cache I need to clear?

>>62324315
>>62324353
>being unironically clinically retarded
............
At least you know your acronyms, most people don't.

>>62324377
There are limits to the thumbnail size and thumbnail cache in the thunar settings. That said, thunar tends to over-poll the filesystem so should be avoided.

Had a virtual machine running fine with gpu passthrough on debian 9. Its started shitting itself as in when I try to start it there is an error and my main file system goes read only to save itself. Think its because I had the guest on a nvme and that is known to have problem. I have a big ssd now for my vms and want to encrypt it before putting them on it. How should I do that? I want to do it in a way that makes it easy to launch from it so maybe I can script it after to mount it when I boot the OS. However I was going to try and pass the sata controller through in order to give the guest os the best speed. So maybe that no good.

Anyone know the best encryption method when you are passing the drive directly to the guest? Is that even possible now that I think about it some of these guests will be windows at least 2.

>>62324482
It's not clear why you want to do that instead of encrypting the entire volume, including where your VM drive lives.

>>62324417
BTFO
T
F
O

>>62324482
>some of these guests will be windows at least 2.
no, just let the guests do their own encrypting

>>62324502

That is what I want. Its a different drive from my host OS. Which is already encrypted through the normal way during install.

I have an external ssd just for vms. And the idea was I wanted to pass it to the vms directly. Like I pass a pair of pci slots containing a gpu and a usb hub. That way the guest could have direct access without paying a speed penalty. Now I am wondering what kind of encryption to use. If I full disk encrypt it with the host os, debian 9, then I dont think I can pass it through because the host shouldnt be able to touch it.

What's a good font for urxvt?
The usual cute 7pt bitmap fonts are too tiny for my dpi.

>>62324557
URxvt.font: xft:Monospace:pixelsize=11
thats what i use but i dont really give a shit about fonts

>>62324557
URxvt.font: xft:inconsolata:pixelsize=16:antialias=true

>>62324552

Its a 1 TB ssd and I was going to cut it into lets say 5 for vms. Maybe more most of these vms will just be coding projects and stuff.

is linux unix

>>62324652
GNU's not UNIX

Why doesn't vim have buffer switching as a default key combo

>>62324706
:q :q :q :q :q

>>62324557
Terminus (or TerminusTTF) is a favorite of a lot of people.

>>62324578
Monospace isn't actually a font itself, it just means you're using your systems default font for monospace fonts, whatever that may be set to.
You can find out by running "fc-match monospace"

Does /fglt/ use a initramfs? If so, which one?

I use a custom script

>>62324706
?????

>>62324817
genkernal --install initramfs

>>62324706
>ctrl-w hjkl is too hard

good(bad) thread

How is the clipboard in Wayland anyway?
Does copied text still vanish from the clipboard when the application it was copied from is closed like in X?
Does it have both the ctrl+c clipboard as well as the middle mouse clipboard (primary)?

>>62325080
It's absolutely fucking fucked, big time. Just like everything wayland, really. For example everyone relies on the same wayland client which happens to have had critical bugs for many years still completely unresolved, such as complete system crash and many "innocent DoS" vectors. And unlike with a classical X system, you can't move to a different TTY when running a wayland session that stops responding. And that's not mentioning the constant glitches with regard to input and rendering. Plus, the programs that are compatible with wayland themselves keep crashing or breaking in horrible ways which, given they work when running on X, suggest it's more wayland fuckery.

Are there any phones that I can install Linux on? Fuck this android-linux bullshit, android is fucking garbage.

>>62325198
no. android needs proprietary drivers to run.

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"Install Debian".

>>62325198
You can install GNU on pretty much any unlocked OS but that's not going to be any useful. Android is dogcrap (ios is somehow even worse) but unless you're ready to reimplement everything from scratch, you're not using your phone for its phone functions if you do that.

>>62324652
No. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification#Currently_Registered_UNIX_systems

>>62325198
>Are there any phones that I can install Linux on?
Only very few and they mostly have it preinstalled.
https://together.jolla.com/question/136143/wiki-available-devices-running-sailfish-os/
https://docs.ubuntu.com/phone/en/devices/devices

I personally wouldn't recommend it, Android is much better. [Not quite sure why exactly you consider it garbage.]

>>62325138
What the hell? Before this I've heard nothing but good feedback from people who've used Wayland.

Are you serious that you can't switch to a TTY? I see no reason why that wouldn't be possible in Wayland, what's preventing it from working?
Are you running it on NVidia or AMD?

>>62325198
Could you rephrase your question with correct technical terminology?

>>62325301
this, but unironically

>>62325262
Reminder that they had to kill Ian Murdock to get systemd through

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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?

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>>62325376
Install KDE

>>62325282
>I personally wouldn't recommend it, Android is much better. [Not quite sure why exactly you consider it garbage.]
Not, him, but Android is just Linux for retards. It's designed so that malicious or buggy "apps" and incompetent users can't break it, at the expense of nearly all user control of the operating system. If you know what you're doing and you only use FOSS software, Android is worse than GNU/Linux in every way.

>>62325376
linux is a colonel, it doesn't thumnail

>>62325298
>Before this I've heard nothing but good feedback from people who've used Wayland
You mean people who use XWayland you filter bubble babby.

>>62325376
>hqdefault.jpg
This is true bait art.

>>62325282
Ubuntu phone just uses the proprietary android drivers

Linux is the desktop version of Android.

>>62325265
>you're not using your phone for its phone functions
I just want something easy to carry around that can gather wireless packets.

>>62325298
>What the hell? Before this I've heard nothing but good feedback from people who've used Wayland.
Yup, same. Everyone promised me it was going to be great, fast, just werks, totally viable, with as only caveat that support wasn't quite there yet with regard to non-gnome systems and until recently nvidia hardware.

Then I actually tried it. When I encountered issues I googled it. Surprise surprise, thousands of hits for every issue I encountered.

>Are you serious that you can't switch to a TTY?
WHEN the system is no longer responsive. Yes. I don't know how that works. My best guess is that wayland clients somehow magically listen to the normal TTY-switching keys and manually dispatch but I never really bothered to look into this in particular on account of the fact I was more concerned about wayland actually freezing at random in the first place.
>Are you running it on NVidia or AMD?
Intel actually, which has been said to be mature for a long time with wayland.

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>>62325427

>>62325395
> Not, him, but Android is just Linux for retards.
Basically the correct OS for most people, yes. They never were able to sysadmin Windows or Linux for shit.

Android actually is the right type of computer for most.

> at the expense of nearly all user control of the operating system
Get root, then you have virtually Linux-tier access to everything, which I'd say is generally a lot more than you need in terms of making whatever kind of software you want work.

Guys I installed alpine on my desktop and there's no firefox or even icecat

>>62325439
Then I think you can just install any GNU distro of your choice and it should work just fine. Of course you should also make sure to backup your phone before.

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Which scheduler is the best for SSDs?

>>62325469
Seems to exist, you probably just need that edge branch:
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86_64/firefox

Not using alpine myself, can't test this for you.

Whats a good stallmanix distro for my rasberry? Got it from a friend, not really sure what to do with it yet. Recommendations (distro, usage)?

>>62325497
Typically NOOP.

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>>62325469
>Guys I installed alpine on my desktop

>>62325502
puppy?

>>62325502
LIBREBOOT ALL THE THINGS

>>62325512
better than deadline?

>>62325502
Most people who don't do any development with it probably end using it as media / file host / file sharing ... computer.

Unlike with normal desktop machines, you may actually have to figure out the purpose first and then pick a distro accordingly, just dropping Gentoo on it and then installing all the thousands of software packages you maybe want to use at some point won't work.
http://elinux.org/RPi_Distributions

>>62325502
gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo gentoo

>>62325530
>>62325544
>>62325553
Thanks, will look into all of this!

>>62325502
Gentoo

>>62325502
Arch

>>62325544
Not him, how to actually do this? Is it even possible for people who never dicked around with hardware before? Any good tuts?
Already running Linux-libre, flashing the bios would be the last step for total freedom.

>>62325550
I think that depends on the specifics (I guess you could devise / run existing benchmarks to check), but the difference should be fairly small either way.

>>62325427
damn....

>>62325615
>>62302453

>>62320856
twitch requiring flash is the browsers problem , not Linux

>blames linux for not developing compatibility with Apple on linux

,>blames Linux for not writing LoL for Linux opposed to riot.

TOP KEK

>>62325617
PS: To make this clear, the difference between NOOP and Deadline should be small. With BFQ, CFQ and so on you might get more serious effects; it's rarely worth picking one of the "heavier" schedulers for SSD.

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>>62325427

>>62325467
>Get root, then you have virtually Linux-tier access to everything, which I'd say is generally a lot more than you need in terms of making whatever kind of software you want work.
lol no

With enough work you can get basic things to function, but there is nowhere near the level of control that you have with GNU/Linux, and doing anything other than running apps is always a pain in the ass.

>Basically the correct OS for most people, yes. They never were able to sysadmin Windows or Linux for shit.
Most people do just fine with Ubuntu or Debian.

>>62325617
>>62325640
thanks. I use deadline now. gonna switch to noop to see if there's any diff.

>>62325427
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>>62325696
DELET

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>>62325706
delet this

Is there a distro of linux that calls daemons machine spirits instead?

>>62325720
autosage

>>62325735
Check out this 40k fag

>>62325633
twitch doesn't require flash

>>62325735
Source Mage maybe?

>>62326147
die

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why aren't you natively running a GNOME application on windows 10 to browse 4chang right now, /g/?

it even comes with the famous no-thumbnails-in-file-picker feature. how can you resist THAT?

(dont ask why i setup this)