/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

First for shitposting

first for stopping 'first for' posts

>>62351463
>>62351467
darn i was too late

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Install Gentoo

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Reminder that there's NOTHING wrong with systemd. Just embrace the future already, luddites

>>62351503
>Systemd
>Computer is loud as a fuck and fan always blasting
>Sysvinit
>Computer quiet as a church mouse and never is loud unless a very demanding program is running

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>>62351503
>Reminder that there's NOTHING wrong with systemd. Just embrace the future already, luddites

>>62351526

>init system having anything to do with fan utilization

You are retarded.

>>62351575
There was a real night and day difference in computer performance with systemd and sysvinit

>>62351601

You're running the same software, retard. What starts some of your software has no impact on the software itself, you idiot.
You're on a technology related forum, stop embarrassing yourself by lacking basic knowledge.

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>>62351601
CLOSED NOTABUG

>>62351654
Systemd has huge amount of control over the OS compared to sysvinit, far less is happening so less demand on the computer.

>>62351654
>systemd cannot be the reason your computer is slow. c-come on guys

>>62351683
Isn't there a common issue with systemd overheating the computer forcing it to turn the fans on more often?

halp. trying to update manjaro, and pacman says it can't find libcrypto.so ...

>>62351707
give us the command you ran the the error message it produced

>>62351725
pacman -Syu
all happening after i did a pacman-mirror -g

>>62351707
backup and reinstall

>>62351700
Must be faulty fans, not a bug.

What hosts file is /g/ approved and how do I keep it up to date?

Is there a gnu+linux package that takes care of this for me?

>>62351773
Never happens with sysvinit on the same computer

>>62351683

Post proof you retard. Show me that programs behave differently when systemd starts them.

>>62351787
yes. it's called a fucking DNS server

>>62351748
That's the true Linux way, continuing in the grand tradition of Windows. Debugging the system is a waste of time. And god forbid the kernel hits a BUG_ON, all good kernel developers should use WARN_ON when their code generates an invariant. Users don't want to see any pesky kernel panics.

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>Wire optical mouse is dead
>get Wireless optical mouse pic related
>Doesn't work
I've tested the mouse under different machine and it worked just fine.
lsusb shows the device ID only with no other info.
Any idea how to get it working?

>>62351682

Other programs do the same when you use sysvinit. Just because some program under the sysvinit umbrella doesn't do it, doesn't mean other programs don't.

>>62351787

127.0.0.1 localhost
::1 localhost
127.0.0.1 <hostname>
::1 <hostname>

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Any gentoo users here?
How do I find out which scripts are stated at which runlevel in OpenRC?

>>62351791

A little hint, you utter retard.
You used sysvinit, which means you used a different distribution, which means you used different software and different software versions, including the most important part: kernel.

Stop posting you fucking mongrel. You have no idea what you're talking about and you keep getting disputed but you still keep insisting your retarded spewing is true.

>>62351791
>>62351657

>>62351805
systemd constantly runs in the background and does more than start programs, retard. sysvinit is just an init and systemd is a lot more

>>62351844
It's so obvious you're a systemd shill it's not even funny.

>>62351844
>HURR DURR IT CAN'T BE SYSTEMD

>>62351843
rc-service or something like that

>>62351872

Those are other programs, not the init part of systemd.

>>62351895

It's so obvious that you're an idiot who has no idea what he's talking about so you can only use buzzwords like "shill" to discredit people instead of trying to prove your points.
Kill yourself.

>>62351896

Prove it is, you idiot.

>>62351819
Just in case you thought linux was actually a good kernel:

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/10/05/linus_torvalds_admits_buggy_crap_made_it_into_linux_48/

When your kernel finds an irrecoverable error, you can take solace in knowing that the error will be swallowed, potentially causing downstream errors that potentially will corrupt your data.

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>>62351913
systemd is all one part you retard

>>62351843
rc-status

Can we already add systemd to the topic? It's done more to the GNU/Linux ecosystem in recent years than any other project.

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>>62351976
fuck off redhat shill

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>>62351913
All sysvinit does it boot up the OS and setup programs so they can be ready. Fucking systemd does that and countless other tasks and all under one binary program.

>>62351937

package-manager list-files-owned-by-package | grep -i /usr/bin | wc -l
38

Sure is, buddy.

>>62352010
But... m-muh 69 binaries

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>>62352016
>there are multiple binaries so they must be different parts

>>62352010

Sure it does. See >>62352016.
For everything else keep being retarded and posting your buzzword and parrotted meme claims.

What do you get out of being retarded on a technology related forum? Maybe your uninformed retardation could fly on gardening.com, but not on a technology related place. The fact that you believed it would shows how retarded you are.

>>62352038

>this one programs does everything!
>gets proven wrong
>w-well, just because they're different programs doesn't mean anything!

Stop posting.

>>62352045
Make all of the parts of systemd work without each other before making such stupid claims. I think Reddit has more people with your intelligence level.

>>62352063
>s-systemd is different parts!
>gets proven wrong
>b-but look at all these binaries
stop posting

>>62352068

I don't use systemd-networkd, systemd-resolvd, machinectl, hostnamectl, systemd-firstboot, systemd-nspawn and a few more. Works fine.
Kill yourself.

Anyone using ext4 filesystem encryption? Is it something that can be switched on post-filesystem-creation?

>>62352100

If you still insist that systemd is one big program then you are clearly retarded. That's an objective truth and only the most delusional retards such as you would deny that. There is nothing to discuss here. You have no arguments except that it has a few dependencies, but which are separate programs.
Are you getting paid to be a retarded shill? Because you should be compensated for displaying such levels of idiocy. Surely it messes with your mind being retarded for 12 hours a day on here.

>>62352119
Why encrypt your drives? Just have magnets nearby to run over your shit before the FBI kick down your door, if you're gonna commit to downloading CP the least you can do is get some magnets.

>>62352063
Mate this is the FRIENDLY linux general and you are not being friendly.

>>62352135
If you still insist that systemd is separate programs then you are clearly retarded. That's an objective truth and only the most delusional retards such as you would deny that. There is nothing to discuss here. You have no arguments except that it has a few binaries, but which are dependant on each other.
Are you getting paid to be a retarded shill? Because you should be compensated for displaying such levels of idiocy. Surely it messes with your mind being retarded for 12 hours a day on here.

>>62352180

>all he can do is mirror posts
>makes claims, but can't prove them
>makes claims and gets proven wrong
>still just mirroring posts

Your mental age must be in the range of 6-10.

>>62352175
>implying it's a magnetic drive

>>62352175

What's he going to do once someone steals his laptop and looks through all of his pictures, videos, documents, diaries, passwords, etc?

>>62352237
>all he can do is mirror posts
>makes claims, but can't prove them
>makes claims and gets proven wrong
>still just mirroring posts

Your mental age must be in the range of 6-10.

>>62352119
Googling says it's as simple as "tune2fs -O encrypt /dev/sdX".

>>62352276
>google
botnet

>>62352289
funny one faggot

Scilab vs Octave?

Anyone has experience with those? I'm inclined to scilab.

There is also Maxima but i don't really see any reason to use it.

>>62352346
Octave because GNU.

>>62352369
They are all free software.

>>62352407
Octave is part of the GNU project iirc

>>62352424
Why would it matter if all of them are free software?

>>62352256
Wish he had a big magnet to bludgeon himself to death with.

>>62352239
any drive is a magnetic drive if you have a big enough magnet

>>62351896
Is it a good idea to put commands I want to be run at startup in inittab?
I want to set the backlight brightness as soon as the i915 module is loaded.
Apparently the 'modules' script starts at the 'boot' runlevel, so I guess I'd need to run the command at runlevel 1 to make sure that the module was loaded before running the command.
So, I want to add an entry to inittab like this:

brt:1:once:bash -c "echo 12 > /sys/class/backlight/acpi_video0/brightness"

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>>62351446
I'm trying to use this i3lock script (specifically the dual monitor branch) https://github.com/meskarune/i3lock-fancy that takes a screenshot of the desktop, blurs it, and then uses it as the lockscreen background.
However, my two monitors are different resolutions and so there's a part of the screenshot that has nothing in it.
Ideally I'd want this space to just be pure black so it doesn't affect the image, but right now when using scot it's just a mess of white and pixel noise as you can see from pic related.
I removed the blur part from the script for this picture, but when it's there all the white part just bleeds into the actual monitor space and looks like shit.
Does anyone know a way to fix this, or a screenshot tool that doesn't attempt to capture sections that aren't rendered to?

>>62352119
>>62352276

Also: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ext4#Using_file-based_encryption

Notably, you can't encrypt already existing files using Ext4's encryption (that is, you have to make a new/empty directory to be used for encrypted things). So it might not be what you want.

>>62352503
I meant `/bin/bash`

I'm going to be dual-booting Ubuntu with Windows 7 alongside it. How much space should I allocate for Ubuntu on my 128gb SSD?

this is meant to be the friendly Linux thread?

>>62352756
16 GB minimum

>>62352756
20gb ~ 30gb would be very comfortable.

>>62352175
Because there are other reasons to encrypt your computer like when you cheat on your wife or you have commercial secrets stored on your drive.

>>62351707
>>62351744
You are using an outdated mirror

>>62353284
So I just need to run pacman -Syyu?

>>62353395
No, you need to change your mirrorlist

>>62353407
But why?
The default mirror is outdated?

>>62353435
If they havent updated then yes.
There is no "default" mirror, arch's ftp server is limited to 50kb/s and not feasible as an option.

Download reflector and use it to generate a better mirrorlist

>>62353476
>arch users get cucked into 50kbs
keep it simple guys :DDD

>>62353521
No one even uses the arch ftp.
Why waste money on bandwidth when universities and other people want to maintain it on gigabit or higher lines?

Does Wayland work okay with gaymes/emulators?
Anyone tried?

What are some cool things you can do with the Termux terminal for Android besides neofetch?

>>62353570
no

>>62353645
ssh into a machine without juicessh.
neovim

>>62353645
>>62353689
oh forgot, if you get the android api stuff, you can ssh into the phone and take pics etc. too.

>>62353689
>>62353710
Uh what does ssh mean? Sorry probably a newfag question

reply to: 62353745
not gonna fall for that one

what do you guys eventually use as network manager with i3? I'm configuring my arch+i3 now, and I'm using netctl with wifi-menu.

But to connect to wifi on my uni I have to fill in lots of options like inner authentication, anonymous id, etc. This worked when I was using xfce, so I think I need some sort of network manager a gui to make this easy right?

>>62354017
Make a netctl profile for your school,then have one for your home/other networks
sudo netctl stop home.profile
sudo netctl start school.profile

Easy

what distro should I use if I want to decicate the cpu almost fully to chess engines tests?

>>62354360
any you like or have the most experience with
it really doesn't matter.

I am new to Linux and i fell for the Distro jumping meme.

Currently using Linux Mint right now, jumped from Solus. I liked Solus more so i am thinking in jumping back, but before doing so, i wanted to ask you guys, do you recommend any Distro to a newbie like me? No. No Gentoo.

>>62354386
Solus is fine. Enjoy

>>62354386
keep jumping till you find one you like

What program should I use to get rid of this infected tooth? I tried rm ~/Mouth/Teeth/molar5 but it didn't do anything. apt purge didn't do shit either. I'm at the end of my rope here.

Can't decide between Arch/Antergos and Debian. I like the simplicity of some aspects of Arch but I don't want to have to deal with doing something wrong in a manual setup, like leaving a security hole open because someone smarter didn't do it for me like would be the case with Debian. What do? I just want a moderately easy distro that I can quickly set up to be secure with a VPN, LUKS, and similar things but I don't know enough or have weeks to spend learning in order to do it all myself.

>>62354442
Go see a dentis, cletus

>>62354455

Do I compile that from source? I'm not seeing it in my repo.

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>>62354046
problem is figuring out how to connect to the school network because it' complex. pic related is the uni's "linux guide" on how to connect to it.

>>62354386
I "jump" from xubuntu LTS to LTS
distro doesn't matter, I could install the gnome
DE without changing it.

>>62354483
You should stop using trailer park linux if you want it

>>62354451
u b u n t u

>>62354501

But it was the only distro that installed on my busted ass thinkpad

>>62354489
Check out the arch wiki entry for netctl and wpa supplicant

>>62354502
If I'm going to need to spend a lot of time tinkering and removing Amazon spyware I might as well just install Arch again and learn how to set it up safely the hard way.

>>62354451
Arch without shitty installers or using downstream distros

>>62354386
Distro-hopping is a meme largely because you're switching distros for extremely surface-level reasons (e.g. default looks, default programs). Deeper and more serious reasons to switch distros include package management and the specificity of how/where the distro puts certain files.

Before you get in too deep with hopping, it's not a bad idea to learn the basics of bash and coreutils/busybox/toybox.

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What variable sets desktop session for qt5 applications? I'm trying to force plasma.

I installed lcmark using luarocks install --local
https://github.com/jgm/lcmark

When trying to include it in my application, lua complains:
lua: error loading module 'cmark' from file '~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.2/cmark.so':
 dlopen(~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.2/cmark.so, 6): no suitable image found.  Did find:
 ~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.2/cmark.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
 ~/.luarocks/lib/lua/5.2/cmark.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture

Shouldn't luarocks have compiled this correctly for me?

Guys can I take let's say ubuntu minimal, arch and so on - then install bare minimum KDE? I want to use the desktop environment but without its software and tools, just what holds it togheter.

I want to pick my own terminal emulator, my own text editor and so on - I would just keep the file explorer for KDE as it's literally the best.

Is this easy and ok to do, or considered unsafe?

>>62354747
>Is this easy and ok to do
yes

>>62354591

Do all flavors of Ubuntu has this "Amazon spyware" you guys speak of?

>>62354747
No, you will pull in various(100+) dependices just to use the file manager.
You'd be better off finding a lightweight file manager that dosent pull in all the deps like kde or gnome.


Find a window manager you like and start adding programs in to make it complete in your environment

>>62354816
Oh then fuck all this headache - I will just use gnome and keep working. Ty anyway you've helped me save time.

Also what software do you guys use to preserve notes, put all your info in one place and so on? Basically an Office OneNote alternative.

>>62354890
a text file

>>62354890
A directory filled with text files

>>62354904
I used to do that for years until I've discovered OneNote, never going back efficiency to a new level. But I want to stick with Linux from now, mostly out of privacy concerns.

>>62354451
Network/minimal installers are always the way to go for a relative "expert" going back to easy distros.

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How does linux handle plug and play USB peripherals?
I got new usb keyboard but it doesn't get recognized by linux.
Shouldn't it be supported by the kernel by default?

For what reason should I use st over xterm?

>>62354803
no. none of them do now.
it was only in unity - no other DE, and was disabled by default in the release after the one that enabled it.

>>62354803
It's not like on windows, you can audit its code - simply disabling it stops data collection and it comes disabled by default.

>>62355007
Which distro is it?

Just getting into dual booting with Linux, and I was wondering if I have 2 other hard drives along with my main OS ssd, would I be able to access them both whether Im in Windows or Linux? Basically I want to have the Linux OS on my C drive alongside Windows, but all my external media and files on the same hard drives.

>>62355245
They would have to be fat32/ntfs.Use ntfs-3g on linux to be able to read ntfs,but you dont get permissions in linux. Use vfat for fat32.

I have an old 'gaming' keyboard that works on the linux kernel but the macro keys are not recognised at all. The kernel provides no response even at the lowest level (scancodes).

I followed all the instructions on the arch wiki for this topic and got nowhere. My only idea is to learn the C programming language and, if I still have the keyboard, write my own kernel module for the fun of it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/extra_keyboard_keys

So I'm running void and when gdm/gnome launches the system stops responding to all keyboard/mouse input. What do? Also during boot dbus fails to start so idk if that's causing the problems

>>62355316
>Also during boot dbus fails to start so idk if that's causing the problems

>>62355316
im 99% sure gnome has a dependancy on dbus
why arent you using ubuntu already

>>62351446
Can you do PCI passthrough with just one graphics card and no integrated? How bad is it to do?

>>62355376
you cannot do it without 2 graphics units

>>62355345
> Unable to connect to system D-bus (1/3): Failed to connect to socket /run/dbus/system_bus_socket: No such file or directory
After logging in the file does exist but idk what to do

>>62355455
you can, actually. It's just a pain. You'd be limited to accessing the host operating system via SSH or the like. Essentially its a headless machine with a VM that has a display.

Im having problems with the guest additions on linux mint 18.2

The wallpaper turns into an overexposed mess on every login. tried virtualbox 5.0.40 with the default additions on mint and tried with virtualbox 5.1.26 and the guest additions on the included iso after removing the default ones in mint.

I've seen people recommend Clementine as a music player for people with big libraries.

Is there an upper limit to how big it can be? I remember trying it in the past and it never seemed to catch everything. I want something which can handle a collection that's over 30k songs.

What is the best way to learn to write good c code? It is hard to find the right resources as a beginner.

>>62355885
google.com

>>62352538
Just an idea: Try adding an additional -c '#000000' to i3lock itself, or a -background black to the imagemagick line.

>>62356004
>look a me, I'm so clever
Also: go away botnet shill

>>62355885
Ask >>>/g/dpt

>>62355245
No, you can partition any drive into two sections and install linux on the second partition

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

>>62354890
Zim. It basically acts like a private wiki on your desktop

What is better to use in a virtual machine to run windows applications? Windows 7 or Windows 10?

>>62351446
QUESTION

I'm using an X61 Tablet and I got the screen rotation to workvia script. But when the screen rotates fonts look like shit because anti aliasing needs to know the order of colors in the pixels. How do I change that via terminal command so I can include it in my script?

This is Xubuntu 17.04

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My Pulseaudio is completely fucked.

My sources are as follows:

pacmd list-sources | grep -e device.string -e 'name:'
        name: <alsa_input.hw_0_0>
                device.string = "hw:0,0"
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo.monitor>
                device.string = "1"
        name: <alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo>
                device.string = "front:0"
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-surround-50.monitor>
                device.string = "0"

And sinks:

pacmd list-sinks | grep -e 'name:' -e 'index'
    index: 18
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_01_00.1.hdmi-stereo>
  * index: 26
        name: <alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-surround-50>

All I have is stereo speakers on the rear audio port; headphones and mic on the front audio; and 2 monitors on HDMI and Displayport. Only the Displayport one has speakers, which I don't ever use (but pulse might still be trying to output on the HDMI anyway?)

I've tried deleting ~/.config/pulse and ~/.pulse, killing & restarting the daemon. Now whenever I log in, if my headphones are unplugged, audio plays out the speakers. However pavucontrol can't connect to pulseaudio (Establishing connection to pulseaudio. Please wait... <-- forever)

If I plug the headphones back in, no sound plays out of anything. Unplug em, now I've lost sound entirely.

I thought pulseaudio was supposed to make things "just work" out of the box? Is there a way to just make everything reinstall automatically? Shit never really worked right from the beginning; the audio getting confused & killing itself after plugging & unplugging headphones has been present ever since I installed Manjaro; and headphones never output anything upon login unless I unplugged them & replugged them back in once, or if they were unplugged upon boot and I plugged them back in. And the mic has either worked or not worked whenever it wanted to, not even sure how I got it to work for a short time.

>>62356922
>memejaro
Found the problem.

>>62356922
I want to help you but im not reading that wall of text pertaining to pulseaudio.
Trim that shit down nigga

>>62357048
I'm just trying to be thorough because I've done the requisite googling and have no fucking idea why it's still not working.

Everyone mostly says to just delete ~/.config/pulse and ~/.pulse, which I did, and it made things worse than before; now pavucontrol doesn't even connect to the daemon. So wtf.

>>62356922
>ever since I installed Manjaro;
Found your problem right there.
Dont use downstream distros

>>62357119
But I am too noob for real mens' distros.

Realistically, how hard would it be to install Arch if I know how to use pacman/pacaur pretty well? I've literally just never looked into it because I assumed it was probably over my head.

>>62351446
So I get that new laptop. My old one as Debian since decades, i'm use to it, I have Debian every where but I actually notice that I don't do anything fun with it. I'm interested with all the nerd things like compiling your own shits for unknown reasons.
Shoud I go bsd, Slackware or geento?
What are funny recommendated distro?
Are there any real reason what not use system D?
If I care about privacy is pure os a real thing or just a placebo? Qube os look better but it looks like paranoid os and I have no reason to use it.

>>62357194
>how hard
Can you read a wiki that gives you copy paste commands, and explains each command? Its no more then 10 commands to get a base install.
Arch is easy as fuck to install.

>>62357214
Well then maybe I should look into it. I just want muh windows-like KDE. As long as everything updates automatically like manjaro (still a rolling release thing, right?) and there's no other major shit I need to be aware of, maybe I should look into it.

>>62357194
Ubuntu is a good distro, go for it, don't listen the nerdy.

>>62356922
>downstream Arch

shiggy

Uninstall and reinstall pulse and pavucontrol, if you haven't already.

>>62357243
Manjaro literally just waits for 2 weeks after arch release a package, they do no verson control, literally just follow what arch does but 2 weeks late

>>62351446
How can I test Linux without fully going over to it?

>>62357392
LITERALLY READ THE FUCKING OP

>>62357401
None of it answers my question

>>62357392
I'd have you aborted if you were my child.

>>62357430

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

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>>62357430

How, on Ubuntu 16.04 with the standard file explorer, do I rename all files according to a certain scheme?
They are currently named "_101XXXX" and I want them to be named "P101XXXX".
This would be a temporary fix until I figure out what's wrong with my camera.

>>62357490
prename -n 's/_/P/' _*

Remove the -n if everything is alright

>>62357615
Also add -v to see what happens.

i3 or xmonad?

>>62357831
fluxbox

>>62357831
Deprends, what is you favorite color?

>>62357857
learn to read, retard

>>62357863
Maya blue.

How do you make a computer even more secure than just using FDE?

>>62357902
Uninstall all proprietary software.

>>62357831
neither

>>62356743
Please guys, someone just has to know

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What are some cool terminal commands?

>>62357615
Thanks for the attempt, but I have no idea where to enter that and possible what else.

>>62358078
it's a terminal command

https://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=24722
Did this get deleted?

>>62358105
Thanks, it helped.
I guess I'm writing this down for now.
Does it also apply to subfolders?

>>62351446
So apparently I can't use the clone/download button on this github page:

https://github.com/skyarkhangel/Hardcore-SK

How do I download the file archive? I tried looking at the page element to pull the address out manually, but they use javascript for the button (WHY???), so I can't.

As far as I can tell my only options are trying a different browser, booting into windows to download the archive manually, getting someone else to link the archive for me, or updating firefox manually to v57 instead of v55

I really don't want to have to install a bunch of shit or reboot just to download this, is there some way of getting the actual link via inspect element that I'm missing?

>>62358246
Are you blocking js?

>>62358253
I've got noscript and ublock origin installed, but disabled both for the github page.

I even went as far as disabling them in the add-on manager, still didn't work.

Is there something I can use in the terminal to just download the archive that way?

>>62358246
sourcecode tar.gz: https://github.com/skyarkhangel/Hardcore-SK/archive/5.1.tar.gz
also check out the release site for javascript free downloads https://github.com/skyarkhangel/Hardcore-SK/releases

>>62358332
Turn off js blocking
click clone or download button
???
profit

>>62357490
>using the file explorer

gitgud at bash/the shell, since it's more powerful

you could cd into the right folder and then you could do something like:

for i in _101*; do mv "$i" "${i/_/P}"; done

>>62358345
That seems to give the last stable version, but not the current release, which is [A17] v6 - Endeavor, rather than [A16] v5.1 - Jewel

>>62358402
git: https://github.com/skyarkhangel/Hardcore-SK.git
zip : https://github.com/skyarkhangel/Hardcore-SK/archive/master.zip

Is antix an ok distro for beginners?

>>62358429
>tfw gave up and booted into windows to download it before you posted this

such is life in linux

mint updating firefox in their repo to 57 when

after months of using anergos with KDE I just realized by compositor was disabled
should I enable it? will it slow down by system by a lot?

>>62357243
Plasma Neon.

>>62353570
yes, wayland is fine for games, I've played all my steam games and WINE on it + emulators.

>>62359095
>Ubuntu
eh

Honestly I'm already balls-deep enough in the AUR to like it enough to want to just devote some time to installing Arch.

Hope it doesn't require constant maintenance

what's the official #1 brainlet linux distro?

>>62359453
mint

>>62359094
Depends entirely on your GPU, drivers and a thousand other things. Try it out

>>62359420
That's a meme. Seriously, I had no idea what I was doing in Arch and the only time it "broke" for the whole 6 months I used it I typed in the error on my phone and had it back within 5 minutes. Pacman -Syu once a week and you'll never have a problem unless you're doing something complicated no one else has ever tried.

>>62359538
>Pacman -Syu once a week
Once is a month is all that is needed

>>62359573
I'd rather run it once a day and spend 3 seconds than spend 10 minutes once a week.

Going to buy a Samsung 850 EVO. What's this about "Secure data through enhanced AES 256 encryption"? If I'm going to install GNU/Linux, will this necessarily be removed when I format the SSD?

>>62359642
>spend 10 minutes
what shitty internet do you have?

>>62359663
I wasn't giving an approximate number, retard. I would rather spend less time doing something daily than more time doing it once a week because I don't have a 450-package-tiling-WM-rice clown.

>>62351446
how can i transfer music from my linux laptop to my stupid iphone?

Posting from arch for the first time. i3 is kind of tough to get the hang of. How do I open a file manager?

>>62359878
press windows key + enter
download ranger (pacman -S ranger) or midnight commander (pacman -S mc)
use one of them

>>62359899
Thanks. I can't seem to figure out how to make a new workspace. I only have one and have tried mod+2.

>>62359878
write a keybinding for any file manager

>>62359932
i haven't used i3 in a long time but your workspaces wont stick unless there is a window in them, IIRC.
did you install dmenu? if not, do it now.
mod+enter , pacman -S dmenu
then you can use mod+d to open dmenu

>>62359932
Try with different numbers since you're probably on 2 already, if it doesn't work alternate with alt/win as mods, if it doesn't work close current window: mod + shift + q and try again

>>62360032
I've used mod+num and mod+shift+num, and nothing happens besides the number being typed normally in the command prompt.

>>62359975
dmenu seems to be working, but it won't actually launch the program. Tried with mpv, but nothing happens after pressing enter.

>>62360075
mpv needs a file to open, otherwise it errors out. Try a different program, like a web browser.

>>62360104
All right, it worked with firefox. This feels a bit too radical of a shift for me. What's a more noob friendly DE to use on arch? GNOME?

>click on image in chromium download tray thing
>opens in firefox
how do I fix this?

>>62360075
you need to run terminal programs in a terminal
xterm -e mpv
i think will work. again, i dont use i3 or xterm i am purely going off of memory here
when you run something that is a CLI program from dmenu, it must be run in a terminal.

>>62360209
uninstall chromium
it's botnet anyway

>>62359899

I highly recommend MC.

>>62360075

protip: you can input parameters right inside of dmenu. example:

prboom-plus -iwad ~/Games/wads/doom.wad

>>62359899
>he has a windows key

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>>62351446
So I've been deleting my online accounts, whenever I'm asked why I'm closing an account, this is my response

>>62360346
mod4

>>62360127

If you really don't like a tiling WM go the Archbang route and install openbox + conky + tint2

>>62360381
It's a different issue. Read this. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

>>62360346
I have a super key!

>>62360346
does anyone know if the "windows key" is actually an invention of microsoft? are our keyboards cucked?

also where can I get nice keycaps? i don't want to have a shitty windows logo

>>62360597

http://www.unixstickers.com/stickers/linux-keyboard-stickers

>>62360597
>The Windows logo key (also known as Windows key, start key, logo key, flag key, super key, command key, flag or home) is a keyboard key which was originally introduced on the Microsoft Natural keyboard in 1994.
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_key

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>>62360618
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>62360597
>the windows key
>who could have invented it?
current state of /g/

>>62360597
just use the fucking operating system and stop obsessing over identity

>>62360617
>unix stickers
>linux keyboards
christ

>>62360651
People don't use operating systems. People use programs.

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>>62360657

These are more your style maybe?

https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/High-Quality-Anime-Keyboard-Stickers_60247285717.html?spm=a2700.7724857.main07.22.2bd13975npf2DR

>>62360692
Isn't the operating system just a big program?

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Is there a reason for one to use Slackware over Gentoo?

>>62360692
Are you mentally retarded or just a fucking idiot?

>>62360651
You clearly are not autistic enough to understand

>>62360746
a kernel usually isn't that large
>>62360789
learn2computer

>>62360757
Slackware is more vanilla I suppose

>>62355072
Arch.
When I run lsusb I get the device bus ID, but I don't get the strings.

GNU/Linux is communism is not a meme :
>computer science teacher teachs us python
>use communismt dates like 1917 for example in the python interpreter
>wear a fucking red scarf
>has installed debian with a shitty lxde, it's ugly
>use pyzo as a DE
>use non-english name for variable with uppercases and no underscore _
>teacher speak and smell like a gay

This teacher will make me hate gnu/linux, the only truth he said was that JavaScript was extrem shit.


This teacher will make me hate linux, fuck

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>>62361227

I installed Arch and atm trying to install Discord... for some reason I keep getting "libc++ 5.0.0-1 unsupported package" and cannot complete the installation then.

I'll keep doing my research on what I might have done wrong, but I appreciate any inputs if anyone has come across the same issue.

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>Deadbeef on KDE finally has a context menu
Thank Jesus.

Is there something in terminal that I can type that will list all the programs installed on my computer, and how much storage they use?

>>62360381
>deleting
>online accounts

>>62361600
Check what your package manager has for listing installed packages.

>>62361347
stop using discord

>>62361660
I don't know how to do that. I'm using ubuntu.

>>62360381
autism

>>62361760

apt list --installed > ~/installed.txt

This will output a list of all installed programs to a text file in your home folder.

>>62361600
>>62361760
This will list the top 100 of your installed packages sorted by filesize. To see all files, remove the "| tail -n 100" part.

dpkg-query -Wf '${Installed-Size} ${Package} ${Status}\n' | awk '/installed/ { print $1, $2 }' | sort -V | tail -n 100

>>62361772
Thanks, is there a way to make it list how much room each program is taking? I feel like my ssd has gotten 15gb fuller in the past week, even though I haven't installed anything new.

>>62361776
Thanks.
Yeah, looking at this list it doesn't seem like these numbers add up. Whatever, I should really just buy a bigger ssd.

>>62361788
>>62361807
Have you been deleting things? Might be a "Recycle Bin" hasn't been empty.

>>62361854
lol

redpill me on tty vs pts

>>62362016
tty is faster to write

>>62361854
Yep, trash is empty.

>>62362016
tty is for losers and wannabes, pts is the best

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Hi,

I have begun to use i3 but I have one problem. When I exit i3 my resolution of the "switch user" screen is totally fucked up (very small, pic related). This seems to cause no reaction when I hover over or click on the i3 symbol or on any other button. How can I fix this?

Using compton, is there any way to use vsync only on certain programs, like browser and media player? When watching a video in the browser I have frame drops that are visible even on the mouse pointer on the other monitor, it's really irritating

>>62362947
Just get better hardware already.

>>62362947

Stop using Compton for vsync, use your hardware (Intel has TearFree, Nvidia proprietary has also a way, AMD free drivers have something too I think).

>>62362965
I believe 2500k and a 1070 is good enough
>>62362973
Yes, I've used nvidia's forcefulcompositionpipeline until recently but I feel like it has the same issue or it fucks with my mouse somehow, makes it feel floaty as fuck

>>62363117
>I believe 2500k and a 1070 is good enough
So wat are you doing to tear your screen up? PEBKAC?

>>62363135
>what are you doing to tear your screen
How the fuck should I know, can you even do it intentionally? For example, xfcewm's compositor doesn't come with vsync or a tearing fix, so I've used the nvidia's fix explained above. It fixes tearing but it feels like it shits on the performance, especially when playing video

Building a new personal server/storage/whatever. Intel or AMD cpu?

is linux a meme? should I install gentoo?

What is the best distro for powerusers?

what is the best firewall / antivirus for linux?

Can I open something only on one half of the screen? Like for example, I have nothing opened, then mod+enter for terminal and it opens taking up only the left half of the screen without anything opened on the right.
I tried googling but only thing I menaged to find is to make an empty container (aka bindsym $mod+o open) but that gives me an error.

>>62363430
That is with i3, pardon my autism

>>62356743
Dammit I just want to know how to rotate subpixel orientation from CLI. Can't be that hard.

>>62363255
AMD for sure. Better perf/price and perf/watt. Also Threadripper has a fuckload of PCIe lanes so you can add as much shit as you like, even if you buy the cheapest one.

>>62363387
No, no
>>62363398
Slackware
>>62363413
ufw is a frontend for iptables, is that enough

Hey guys, what's the correct way to transfer over your private ssh key?

Remote in with your original server and add your key to trusted?

Add your old box's key to your own (can you do that?)

?? Cheers

>>62364230
Hmm, you mean public key?

>>62364251
so my current laptop has a private key which I connect to a heap of different servers with. Should I use my original box to move my pub key (you're right) to each individual server or can I just add the priv key from old pc to new pc?

>>62353745

man ssh

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>>62354386
Yes, use Solus.

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umm, any guesses for why system load could be this high for this long?
it was at 20 for possibly days (log doesn't go that far), and increased to 60 in last 6 hours.

i would have said the load was around 1-2 at most all that time, if i hadn't checked it.

systemd had a very hard time rebooting, so i had to reset the power.

>>62365099
I didn't know Kevin still lurked 4chan

>>62354451
>I like the simplicity of Arch/Antergos (by which I mean just Antergos because I'm too fucking lazy to read the Arch manual and do a proper install, but I don't want /g/ to think I'm a newfag) and the manual work it entails, but I don't want to do the manual work that its simplicity entails
I hate Arch users and their bloated egos (almost as bloated as their packages) over doing something as menial as a stage3 install, but, wow, you are so fucking lazy.

How long will it take to read the entire Arch wiki?

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>>62354386
Linux from scratch

has anything ever broken on you when you upgraded from one major distro version to the next?

>>62354685
Wait, what are you trying to do, exactly? The only coherent idea I can gather from you post is that you want your dm to log you into arch by default, in which case, you should probably read the man page. Or are you trying to ask how you can force an application to use qt5? In which case, I would imagine you ought to check to see if your package is even compiled with qt5 support, or if it uses qt4, gtk, motif, etc. ... exclusively.

>>62365173
>not reinstalling whenever this is an upgrade

>>62355014
I depends on what you want. St is exceedingly more minimal than xterm--not just because of the core philosophy driving it but simply because xterm is so bloated. If you want minimalism, I know that the popular choice is rxvt-unicode, which does support tabs. Although that probably doesn't matter to you if you're using a tiling wm. Honestly, you shouldn't limit yourself to just two choices. There are tons of terminal emulators out there, with their own distinct properties.

>>62355291
Good luck, anon. I can't help you there, but I guess the lesson here is that you should buy products with their drivers in mind rather than the other way around. Sucks, but that's the truth.

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Is there a way to fix the choppy animations in Gnome without completely disabling them?

>>62355884
I was actually just thinking about this. It used to be that Clementine would really struggle with huge libraries, and I was just so astonished at how the new version of clementine handles my libraries exceedingly well. On top of that, I can navigate my music by Album Artist, which is an irritatingly rare feature in free software for some reason. I don't get why the devs of these "minimal" music players expect us to navigate our music by directory, not metadata. That's just so fucking absurd and stupid.

Another, similar application made with gtk and large libraries in mind is gMusicBrowser. The benefit is that its appearance is incredibly extensible.

>>62365288
Install KDE

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>>62365135
Of course he does!

>>62363936
>>62363387
>Slackware
Install Freeslack

>>62365294
That's what I do. I'm just trying out some other DEs. Using the best one gets a bit stale.

>>62365405
Okay.

My Ryzen 5 system keeps randomly freezing. I tried running kill-ryzen and the phoronix stress tests but can't see any segfaults or other issues. Journalctl doesn't throw up any errors either. Wat do?

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>>62365646
Should've gotten an Intel.

>>62365646
Maybe you have enabled overclocking in BIOS? That was the issue for me, as the shitty driver software automatically overclocked

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So I have a few external HDD's I plug into my desktop formatted to ntfs so I can also use with windows, but for whatever reason on linux when plugged into a USB 3.0 port they do not show up in the file manager, they work on a USB 2.0 port, but not 3.0, when plugged into a 3.0 port I can hear them spin up, but just never become visible, any ideas?

I'm using putty on winblows to log into my headless ubuntu server and it werks pretty well.

However sometimes when forwarding applications with a GUI the password prompt will be halfway out of the screen and it won't let me type it in. I have a multimonitor setup. What do?

>>62365646
Do you have microcode updates enabled?

>>62358075

echo 'alias cd="rm -rf"' >> ~/.bashrc

>>62360757
Slackware and Gentoo are two different distributions with distinct appeals. I personally love Slackware, but I presently use Gentoo because I find that Portage is more convenient than Sbotools. Fortunately, although most people hate Gentoo for this, Gentoo packages things at a fairly slow pace, which I appreciate, because it means things are really stable, unless you explicitly decide to emerge unstable packages. The trade off is that some things aren't maintained, and there are a dozens of devs out there tearing their hair out because they just cannot penetrate the autistic monolith that is the Gentoo Dev Team. Slackware doesn't have this problem because Slackware doesn't have these features at all. And thus, everything unimperative to the functioning of the Slackware project is left in the community's hands.

What distro has the best documentation online?

>>62366758
Probably Arch, honestly. And Gentoo, too, in some more specific cases that the Arch wiki doesn't acknowledge.

>>62360381
This. We need to stand together unified for software freedom against DRM.

>>62361635
>>62361762
Fuck off.

>>62352538
What's the problem with that ?
You don't see the random pixels when it's locked...

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Hi,

I installed i3 but I have one problem. When I exit i3, the resolution of the "switch user" screen is screwed and very small, pic related. This seems to cause that I can't click on the i3 symbol or on any other button. How can I fix this?

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>install st
>start on i3
>font is fucking whatthefuck
>install fontconfig
>$ fontconfig
>bash: fontconfig: command not found
>$ man fontconfig
>No manual entry for fontconfig

>>62366853
What distro are you using that didn't already come with fontconfig? Also there is no command "fontconfig". You can check if you have it, and also see what font your terminal is probably running by default by just typing "fc-match monospace"

You don't actually have to mess around with fontconfigs configuration files unless you want to change the default monospace font system wide. Otherwise just change the font in your terminals config

>>62366853

pacaur -Ql fontconfig

>>62366990
not found lul

>>62366853
>the average arch user

>>62366983
arch, but i don't have base-devel installed
or then I didn't pay attention.
Anyhow why are some fonts fucked to hell while others are fine-ish, and then when I use firefox its fine?

>>62366983
hold up my fc-match prints out
NotoSans-Regular.ttc
That isn't a monospace font is it?

>>62367276
Probably just an "st" issue. Some terminals have strange font issues, especially something less popular like st. Why do you want to use st anyway, are you aware it doesn't even have scrolling built in? It's extremely minimalist.
Why not try rxvt-unicode instead?

>>62366853

apropos -r "font.*conf"

>>62367304
terminator exhibits the same problem on me but i just posted >>62367303
wtf is going on here
anyway I want to use some minimal terminal emulator on my i3 but xterm is horrible and so are most others
also can't get gnome-terminal to start on its own

>>62367303
Nope. If that's your default monospace font system wide you should fix that. You might not need to do much though, maybe just installing a good monospace font will fix it like Terminus or Lucida Console

>>62367323
cheers that's what I'm figuring too.

>>62366990

>pacaur

Let me guess, you're using Manjaro or installed Arch with one of those bug-inducing installers. Fucking idiot.

>>62367276

Fontconfig has nothing to do with the base-devel package group.

>>62367764
gcc is though, and everybody should have that

>>62367860

What does GCC have to do with fonts?

>>62366078
As far as I can tell I don't

>>62366609
I have no idea, but isn't microcode shipped with linux-firmware?

How do I dual boot W10 and Linux? Both are on different drives, if I install Linux, I can't see windows, if I install Windows I can't boot into Linux...

What driver related stuff do i need to install on fresh Ubuntu system? I have new Polaris AMD GPU.

>>62368664
The open source drivers are the best for AMD

>>62368076
>if I install Linux
You didnt read what you need to do to properly dual boot

>>62368764
Do i need to install anything or it works out of the box?

Is there a place I could learn about Arch Linux commands in terminal? I'm a new Linux user.

I am trying to find the meaning of "-sri" but can't find a description on wiki. I'm sure I will have many other doubts.. so if anyone know a good glossary. (If it is on wiki, I must've missed it)

>>62368806
Use the manpages.

man makepkg

>>62368806

They're not Arch commands. They're programs that you use (found in your $PATH) or built-in shell features (commands). Those programs work on all Linux distributions.

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