/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Install GuixSD

>>62445961
No

>>62445971
Yes

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>tfw you find a cool text editor (micro) that suits your needs perfectly, except copying and pasting to other applications

Goddammit, I just want something as good as Sublime but not a resource hog like Atom. I don't even use it for developing, but I like having tabs and saving sessions. Other text editors like pluma and gedit are too buggy.

Tell me why I shouldn't run an older version of Winamp with Wine instead of using a native Linux music player.

I've been using Debian for over a year now, and while I like using it, I don't really understand how Linux is better for programming than other OSs. Is it the software selection, BASH, or the file system?

>>62446157

Geany

>>62446239
Now hold on just a minute. I couldn't care less how you listen to your shit music.

>>62446239

Just go back to Windows you pretentious fucking idiot.

>>62446239
Because Spotify exists and it's the year of our lord 2017

>>62446545
https://stallman.org/spotify.html

>>62446239
Because qmmp/xmms is the linux version of winamp.

>>62446019
>What to use instead?
Just plain alsa, without pulse

I'm on xubuntu and really need to be able to press
[Alt] + [Shift] + [R]
for one of my programs, but when I press it, nothing happens.

I think xubuntu might disable that because it uses that shortcut itself. I looked into Settings > Settings Editor > xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts, but there is none that uses my combination.

What can I do to press that combination in that program?

>>62446951
what program is it?

>>62446988
Anki. I need it for the Cloze Overlapper add-on.

>>62446265
Well, you can program in both windows and gnu/linux but in gnu/linux you have much more freedom unlike windows. In windows if you want to modify a program thats non-free you have to reverse engineer it, but in GNU/linux most software is open and free and you could easily modify pretty much anything if you are a skilled programmer.

Btw do you use testing?

>>62447007
Have you checked the window manager settings? settings manager > window manager >keyboard

Finally listened to you homos and tried Ubuntu

Been using it for a week at work and I've never felt more productive. Thanks faggots

>>62447094
That combination isn't used there, but I didn't know that there's another window for keyboard settings, thanks.

>>62447196
Fuck no. Use debian net install and upgrade to testing.
Ubuntu is amazon spyware
Noobs fall for Ubangoo

>>62446157
Why don't you just use Sublime

>>62447211
Once I'm really comfortable with this I'll try Debian

Which one just werks out of the box better, Ubuntu or Fedora?

>>62447204
Ok, try something like this on your terminal

 xfconf-query -c xfce4-keyboard-shortcuts -l -v 

if you can't find the key combination there, it's not an xfce4 shortcut and the problem lies somewhere else

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>>62445905

>>62447211
>any lennartd distro
Fuck that shit, use Devuan net install and upgrade to testing.

>>62447332
Nothing.

What's "primary", by the way? Kept seeing it in there. The left [CTRL]?

>>62447424
e.g.:

<Primary><Alt>Delete xflock4

>>62447443
Isn't that the Super (aka windows aka command) key?

>>62447463
No, it says "Super" for that.

I fucked up and posted this in /flt/ which is as usual just retarded autists arguing about GNU, reposting here, sorry.

Does anyone know where BOINC puts it's daemon error logs to? I don't want to register on their forums, I hate having 50 accounts for every dumb thing.

My daemon recently started failing and shutting down randomly and I don't know why, I'm kinda scared my CPU is overheating. But I run ryzen so hurt durr no sensor support yet...

>>62447463
Primary is sometimes used in place of Ctrl to make things more confusing to the everyman

>>62447382
If that shit actually worked
I WOULD BE USING IT
you think i like systembotnetdick?

>>62447056
Of course I use testing.

>>62447591
works on my machine

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>>62447591
>>62447800

Is there a better alternative to Evince for PDF?
Evince has this problem where it gets stuck on one page if you edit form sections on it

Pls help
Fresh install of debian. Intel WiFi firmware installed and all. Wireless networks are shown but the damn thing doesn't connect. Gives me the password dialogue repeatedly. Obviously password is correct. Checked stackexchange the solutions didn't work. What do?

>>62447953
I personally just use pdftools on Emacs. I didn't know you could edit pdf's on Evince. Obviously, that's no good if you don't like Emacs, but I find that it provides most of the functionality Evince provides.

>>62448088
Are you trying to connect to your wireless networks through a network manager or through wpa supplicant. Try the latter, if you haven't. The network managers on heavier DE's, I find, are really unreliable and basically worthless. Part of the reason why I hate live mediums that ship with stuff like KDE. It's so stupid.

>>62447953
Answered in the other thread but it got deleted. Okular, maybe?

>>62447259
Why don't you try them both and find out?

>>62448121
Not full editing but you can fill in forms that are made by a proper PDF editor. I need to fill in some legal shit and Evince is crapping itself like a typical GNOME turd.
>>62448140
Yeah I'm gonna try that too.

>>62448121
Also the WiFi said has /! Could it be the cause?

>>62448185
Fuck WiFi ssid I meant. Also I used network manager and I'm gonna try wpa_supplicant now

>>62447953
I use okular.
It prints a ton of debug information when you launch it in a terminal, but if you silence that, it is good.

>>62448088
Install wicd, this crap happens on all Debian based disteos and they still haven't fixed it for fucking years

>>62448212
I suspect that it's not so much an issue with Debian and their quality control as it is with the software in itself and, presumably, how it interacts with the drivers. I've had similar issues with many live mediums, like the Gentoo LiveCD, which is ridiculously big for medium that's meant for a simple chroot install. I mean, seriously, anything bigger than XFCE is just bloat for the sake of it. I don't care if you're using a WM or LXDE or whatever, but when you have that many moving parts, something's bound to break, and it's downright offensive how bad poorly made some of these live mediums are.

Do I need to have the "pamac" pacman frontend running all the time if I

pacman -Syu

once a day anyway? How can I make it not run in the background if I'm only using it to search for packages?

>>62448363
What the fuck is pamac?

>>62448409
its a manjango thing.
ignore post

>>62447819
That's a nice blue.

>>62448409
>>62448424
I'm using Antergos and it was preinstalled but I don't use it. I guess I could just uninstall it entirely if there isn't a way to disable it from running.

>>62448448
Install Arch Linux anon.

What debian/ubuntu variant takes up the least HDD space out of the box?
I hate the fact that windows 8.1 takes up 40 fucking gigabytes of space

All i really play is CS:GO and that works fine on linux, i have a 750ti so drivers are no issue, i only look towards things with apt because thats all i really know

>>62448471
it's literally the same thing

>>62448472
You could use a netinstall of Debian or Ubuntu and just install what you want, but if you're a beginner, that's maybe not a good idea.

>>62448472
Just do a net install or a debbootstrap install, if it really bothers you. Honestly, though, you're going to pull in about the same number of packages regardless of how you install it, since you're still going to need the majority of those packages to have a functioning desktop.

>>62448490
No. Manjaro is a useless bloated thing over Arch.

>>62448490
If it were literally the same thing, why don't you just call Arch?

>>62448511
For you. The target group may enjoy using Arch without the hassle.

>>62448511
ffs I'm not using manjaro I'm using antergos
>>62448531
because it's installed differently and in my case the preinstalled software was relevant to what I was talking about

>>62448542
>ffs I'm not using manjaro I'm using antergos
Just replace manjaro by antergos.

>>62448542
Then there is a distinction, in which case, it isn't "literally just Arch".

>>62448507
>>62448498
see im a bit of a scrub with linux, im not as good with the more fiddly bits
is ubuntu/debian on its own under 10gb?

>>62448539
manjungo causes more problems then it is worth

>>62448448
Well, you might be interested in its use as an AUR helper. So you might like something more lightweight such as pacaur. But otherwise, yeah, just uninstall pamac.

>>62448567
Have you anything to back that up?

>>62448565
It's about the same size as literally any other distribution, since you're installing the same exact packages.

I swear to God, when will you people learn? We have this conversation every single thread.

Reminder that everything you know about Arch is a meme: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

>>62448582
"X isnt working anymore btw im using manjaro"
"X and Y arent working anymore when i use Z btw im using manjaro

>>62448582
Let me dig out my "stupid questions per os" graphical aide

>>62448562
it is literally just arch after the installation process, so why should I start over and install vanilla arch?
>>62448576
yeah that's what I used it for originally but I started using pacaur. I guess I'll just uninstall it then

>>62446596
>Stallman

>>62448607
>>62448608
Well, same counts for any distro which is popular among beginners. Beginners have questions, beginners break things.

>>62448567
>>62448582
>>62448607
>>62448608
>>62448642
for the last time guys I'm not even using manjaro so stop fucking arguing over it

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>>62448621

>>62448595
right, fucking fine then

ubuntu, debian or mint
which has the most shit from the start?
or all they all the fucking same

ive got a 120gb ssd to work with, every gig counts

>>62448645
>manjaro
it's shit. install Arch instead

>>62448725
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>62448725
isnt manjaro just arch with a gui installer?

>>62448610
In addition to maintaining their own core packages, Atergos maintains their own repository of packages not packaged by the Arch project. So, no, Antergos is not just with an installer.

Antergos or Manjaro, which does /fglt/ recommend?

>>62448696
It doesn't matter if you do a bootstrap install

what is currently the best arch installer? should I use arch anywhere? is it good?

>>62448696
If you're really that serious about minimalism, you should install Gentoo. And make sure to enable TRIM or whatever the equivalent is for the filesystem of your choice.

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>>62448779
Install SwagArch GNU/Linux

probably only semi fglt related but:

>want to move on from chromium
>try out firefox again after /g/ has hyped it up a bit
>since it supports the most of my current addons/extensions, also a very logical choice
>...but firefox is shitty as fuck about gtk3
>buttons and other things look like fucking shit

It's crazy how Chromium implements gtk3 well but it's vomit-inducing in Firefox. I guess I'll just stick with "muh botnet" until Firefox gets its head in the game.

>>62448855
You can customize FF with stylish to your likings.

>>62448766
They are literally on the aur though lol
thats where they get all these packages from

>>62448855
I'm pretty sure Firefox uses GTK2.

It also uses Mozilla's own higher-level UI toolkit, XUL, although I don't recall if this is the case, presently.

>>62448799
spend 1 minute and memorize 10 commands to install arch

Time for a new laptop guys. What's something affordable to run Debian or Manjaro on. I would really like to have 1080p LCD

>>62448900
could you post these 10 commands please?
i don't believe

>>62448913
Read the wiki, you lazy fuck.

>>62448912
How about a manly thinkpad?

>>62448925
you lied to me
you surly dont even know them yourself

>>62448953
What the fuck do you want from me? All the documentation is in the docs. A monkey could install Arch if it wanted to.

>>62448979
you still didn't post the infamous 10 commands

>>62448913
cfdisk /dev/sda
mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
pacstrap /mnt base base-devel
genfstab -U /mnt >> /mnt/etc/fstab
grub-install --target=i386-pc /dev/sda
arch-chroot /mnt
passwd
reboot

>>>/pol/141650696
lol

>>62448997
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_Guide

What is hyperbole?

>>62448779
If you have to go downstream, always go with the purest strand.

Antergos themselves maintain that there is no difference between it and Arch (see: https://antergos.com/wiki/miscellaneous/frequently-asked-questions/#Q_What_is_unique_about_Antergos). And as it's pointed out time and again (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2Wb7fkLxr0 for one YouTuber's example), that seems to be a true statement.

Manjaro maintains some packages in its own repositories, making it impure Arch.

>>62448997

fdisk /dev/sda
o
n
enter...enter...enter...
a
w
mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda1
mount -o noatime /dev/sda1 /mnt
pacstrap /mnt
genfstabl /mnt >/mnt/etc/fstab
arch-chroot /mnt
pacman -Syu grub
grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
grub-install /dev/sda
^D
reboot

>>62449023
>109 posts in
>No one has posted the Stallman copypasta
/pol/ and nu-/g/ really are one and the same

>>62448933
I'm fine with that as long as it's affordable

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Whats a good monitor configuration tool that works with lxqt? I cannot set seperate wallpaper for each of my two monitors because the lxqt monitor tool sets both monitors as one screen. What is odd too is that tools like nitrogen and feh wont set wallpapers in lxqt, pls help.

>>62445961
Does GuixSD have SElinux in the kernel?
This is the only thing stopping me from switching and i'd like a GuixSD user (fuck gentoo's antics) to test this using the command 'sestatus'.

Could you please check for me?

>>62449023
kek

>>62449023
Damn, /g/ srsly needs IDs. It would solve so many things.

>>62449107
Use imagemagick to combine two pictures into the shape you desire. Give to feh to set. That's what I did back when the nvidia drivers did the same thing.

Also arandr it the standard graphical non-de tool for arrange screens

>>62449439
If you go to /r/technology everyone gets their own username

>>62449439
Are you kidding? ID's are just another vehicle for senseless shitposting. If you think that that thread is better than the one we're posting in right now, you're seriously deluded.

>>62449060
10-20 posts in a fucking leaf posted it.

>>62449516
Not talking about this thread speciall, just saying that it would end pretty much all shill attempts, astroturfing, etc.

>>62449439
it's weird how /biz/ has IDs

>>62449463
But this wasnt a problem on xfce, there should be some way through xrandr to set them as separate screens, but i cannot find a answer, fuck. Lxqt is perfect besides this one fucking thing.

>>62449463
>>62449809
Also the imagemagick trick wont work because it will look weird when i unplug the second display (which I do often).

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HOW THE ACTUAL FUCK DO I GET THIS SHIT TO FUCKING BOOT?

CHRIST FUCKING ARCH WAS EASIER TO GET TO WORK THAN THIS

>>62450468
>memejaro

>>62450468
you make a bootable usb and start from there

>>62450498
Seriously though, this shit always either hangs on start up or crashes to emergency shell after every install I've done

>>62450519
Just install arch and save your self the hassle of using a downstream distro

Anybody know how to make the context menu come up with every right click on Linux Mint? Windows would let bring up the context menu again after having it open once. It's helpful when I go to right click something but miss and try again, only to have it close the previous context menu and not bring another one up.

Does anyone else use qBittorrent with external devices? How do you deal with the devices being unmounted at start?

I'd literally have to recheck or even redownload terrabytes of data every time I restart xubuntu because external devices don't just automount and I want qBittorrent to start at startup.

>>62450581
Why not make them automount by editing your fstab?

>>62450581
Also, my entire system froze because I tried opening Dolphin after having uninstalled it.

>>62450581
See >>62450622
Also, why wouldn't you use a torrent client that can run as a daemon, such as rtorrent or transmission?

>>62450743
rtorrent sounds cumbersome to use and transmission can't do RSS.

Are window managers autistic?

>>62450826
Yes.

>>62450809
https://github.com/nning/transmission-rss

>>62450826
No, use dwm and don't look back
Install lxappercne to customize your gtk and other stuff tho

>>62450884
Interesting, thank you.

>>62450826
Well, considering you wouldn't be posting here if you didn't use a WM of some sort, regardless of whether it's coupled with a DE, I would imagine not.

>>62451114
Techinacally you could run something like `xinit muhbrowser` and run a drowser directly under X without a WM.

What's the best distro to use Budgie on? How is the software selection with Solus, by which I mean are their repos/however their shit is distributed populated with software I might find on Ubuntu or Fedora? Sorry if this makes no sense. I accidentally got too high and English is a chore

>>62451326
you'd still be using the default x wm

Been reading this: https://github.com/ghacksuserjs/ghacks-user.js/blob/master/user.js
Pretty creepy how much botnet Firefox actually is. You may want to turn some stuff off. Also: https://github.com/pyllyukko/user.js/

>>62451581
at least you actually can turn stuff off

>>62451581
Did you just find about this today? You're late to the party, dude.

But since you brought the topic up, I remember pyllyukko mentioning something on his page about how ghacks and his user.js achieve the same purpose but with different implementations, but I couldn't find any commentary on what precisely distinguishes the two. I read the user.js comparison grid thing, and, as it strikes me, pyllyukko's is more minimal, but I don't know enough about what either user.js does (beyond the superficial) to really understand the distinction.

I've also been wondering whether these user.js's would be applicable to FF57+. I mean, there's no reason it wouldn't, right? But I can't help but wonder.

Trying to create a way to open ISO files with mpv within the file manager.
I have this for a .desktop but it dosent seem to be working

[Desktop Entry]
Name=MPV ISO
Exec=mpv --dvd-device=%F
Type=Application

What am i missing?

>>62449107
what's your gpu? Also, it could be an xorg.conf problem, nitrogen and feh should work on lxqt

>>62451791
Just a standard intel hd graphics 3000 with tear-free enabled in the xorg.conf, should not interfere with nitrogen or feh, or may be it will. Should i just switch to mate?

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Opinion on mate? It seems like the only non-shit lightweight DE. Is there any better de that is lightweight?

>>62452004
lxde, xfce

>>62452023
not lxde, ive tryed lxqt and it has no window snapping and monitor configuration is shit

>>62452041
Then don't use lxde

Dumb question:

I have windows 10. tried installing arch didnt work.
already have /boot and /swap partitions, do i need to make new ones or something?

I think i did it right but arch isnt an option to boot into

>sudo emerge -auDN @world
>249 packages plus a kernel update
oh fug

>>62451922
I'll be honest I've never had a problem like that before.
First make sure you have everything up to date. Then, try temporarily removing your xorg.conf, move it to something like xorg.conf.bak and restart xorg. If that doesn't work, consider testing xfce or openbox of you want something lightweight.

>>62452113
You didnt install a bootloader and or you didnt configure grub
You dont have to repartition

>>62452119
SEE YOU NEXT WEEK

>>62452130
Thanks mate

>>62452130
>>62452149
if you have systemd simply use bootctl and bind your /esp/EFI/systemd to /boot
don't install grub, don't configure it, you don't need the hassle

>>62452179
systemd-boot is cacnerous.
Not to mention the bugs that it likes to randomly throw out, like refusing to boot :^)

Grub is all you need

>>62452199
>systemd-boot is cacnerous
no more nor less than systemd. if you already have it bootctl is the simplest way to boot

>the bugs that it likes to randomly throw out, like refusing to boot
I'm actually interested if you have examples of that

>Grub is all you need
it is bloated
not to mention useless on an EFI system

>>62451555
But you can't move windows, so no, there is no wm.

>>62452179
>>62452130
>>62452251

Is it easier to install Arch from Ubuntu than Win?

>>62452333
only difference between the two will be the bootable usb creation
on ubuntu it's as simple as dd, on windows you'll have to download something like rufus to create it

>>62445905
just found out about sysdig and wanted to share
https://www.tecmint.com/sysdig-system-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-tool-for-linux/

Is Manjaro stable? Anyone use it for a long time?

>>62452566
Its unstable and likes to break randomly, just install arch like a normal sane person who dosent dabble in downstream distros

>>62452373
>>62452333
Hey thanks gents, got it working :)

>>62452583
Thank you senpai

>>62446596
>they SNOOP!
>doesn't give a single example
I appreciate Stallman but he really comes off paranoid

>>62452829
99% of his "claims" dont have backing factual evidence and are just wild accusations of a mad man.Its all that dirty foot skin and jam he consumes daily

>>62452566
>>62450468

debian or devuan?

>>62453180
alpine

>>62453207
no good web browsers in stable

>>62453237
Lies

>>62453255
show me one

>>62453273
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/testing/x86_64/firefox
https://pkgs.alpinelinux.org/package/edge/community/x86_64/chromium

>>62453312
>good web browsers in stable
firefox is in testing
chromium is not a good browser

>>62453359
>chromium is not a good browser
teak dat bak!

>>62453365
No, I won't.

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Install OpenBSD.

>>62454283
I did, then I went back to an OS that supports modern hardware.

where would I put a script file so I could run it with dmenu in i3?

How to I rename sd cards in ant ergo? I unmounted and right clicked in gparted and it's grayed out and I can't change the label, I named the flash drive originally in windows, but I don't think that would be an issue at all.

>>62454685
Using KDE plasma as the de if that matters.

Is it true that Kubuntu is prone to crashes?

I'm on Xubuntu but want to replace Xfce with KDE because I miss the overall feel and the programs. I do remember crashes on a laptop with Ubuntu with KDE, though. Will there be problems because I'm not using Kubuntu?
Does the crashy reputation stem from KDE in general or just Kubuntu?

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Is PulseAudio bloat? Firefox won't play audio without it now. I wouldn't need it for anything else.

>>62454920
I don't think it's bloat, I just think it's awful at its job.

>>62454368
put that script in PATH and create a .desktop file that refer to your script
or just create a .desktop file that refer to /path/to/your/script
i3-dmenu-desktop is actually just reads from ~/.local/share/applications/*.desktop (and /usr/share/applications/*.desktop if the first one doesn't exist)

>>62454920
as long as there is still a program which depends on it, it's not bloat

>>62455183
>as long as there is still a program which depends on it, it's not bloat
That's a true cuck's definition of bloat.

retard here
I installed arch linux and awesome wm but the only thing that works is the hotkey menu. Terminal does not open with any method.
What am I missing and how can I get it?

>>62454920
Yes, check icecat or firefox-esr

>>62455277
>retard here
>arch-
stopped reading there. stop making >us archers look bad

>>62455277
nvm I just had the wrong terminal

I cannot install any linux distro besides linux mint

Screen goes black after boot and fans start to run at full speed

I can install windows and mint no problems, so no hardware defect. I made coup of forum posts but no one was able to find out. My rig is old maybe thats why phenom x6 r9 380 8 gigs ram ddr3 gau2udh2 motherboard

Bet you fags also cant find wats wrong but just trying

I belive its a kernel issue but i cant roll back the kernels on new distros without installing distro itself

Top shows only one process using my CPU at 2% but I'm seeing 80% of it being used. What gives?

>>62455658

Actually, never fucking mind, I figured it out -- see pic in >>62451753

So yeah.

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So I just finally got through the installation of Arch linux because..I don't know why; pretty much the autists on this thread convinced me so. I was previously on Manjaro.

All I can say is, seriously, why the fuck wouldn't you use manjaro/antergos? The fonts look terrible, the installation was a fucking pain just so I could get back a lot of the same shit that gets installed by default in manjaro, and when all's said and done, this isn't even as comfy as the manjaro build, period. WTF?

Maybe I'll check out antergos. I honestly just feel like a retard.

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>>62455719

>not using Debian master race

It's just comfy.

>>62454920
I'm in the same boat. Pulseaudio is useless bloat taking resources and only Firefox hard depends on it on my system. Fortunately there is apulse which IME works perfectly fine. On Gentoo the official Firefox ebuild uses apulse if it's installed before Firefox

>>62455730
I mean I do like the AUR. I see why there's so much hype and collective autism about it. I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that there's just not that kind of community functionality in any other distro including debian.

But tbqh senpai, the more I fuck with Linux, the more I find myself mostly trying to get back functionality that's present in windows 10 already. I honestly do like the look of KDE better; the free software philosophy, and the nerdy satisfaction of running >MUH LINUX. But I'm wondering if I should just take my gaymez and my IDE's and run back to windows and be done with the linux meme.

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>>62455765
>get back functionality that's present in windows 10 already.

Like what, fellow autist?

>>62455800
Glad you asked. Let me list a few little niggling things:
(btw most of these have to do with KDE, but there's not really a DE quite like it so I prefer it over everything else)
- can't paste image URLs in Kdialog to grab directly into the image picker, e.g. when posting on 4chan
- for some reason, moving the mouse all the way to the leftmost 1-pixel border of the screen doesn't refocus the window under it. for example if I have chrome fullscreen and a terminal over it, if I click anywhere on the screen it'll focus chrome. If I click with the mouse moved all the way to the left of the screen, it does nothing at all ???
- various network issues, getting networkmanager in this arch build to work was a total PITA. Keeps dropping out from time to time. Minor inconvenience
- pulseaudio is a NIGHTMARE. Doesn't detect my headphone jack on the front of the computer until I unplug/replug it in, and then it sometimes doesn't detect my mic. Confuses the sound between that and the back audio port (my speakers), and recently trying to delete the config files broke pulseaudio completely, which is part of the reason I decided to scrap the whole thing and try installing arch from scratch
- gaymes, obviously. Titanfall (EA, Origin) ALMOST works but not quite, and even if I could get it to work (it's a bcrypt problem, I submitted a bug), I hear only the proprietary AMD driver works because of DX11, which arch officially doesn't support
- even with steam games like CSGO, framerate is horrendous for some reason, could never fully troubleshoot it
- various other little problems with apps installed from AUR, like discord. Minor inconvenience again
- shoddy support between KDE and the system itself, not as many unified features that make shit Just Work™
- dolphin, while overall a good file manager, just has little things missing here & there that are much easier to work with in Windows, and work by default

>>62455901
I could go on but it's just those little things. I much prefer the unix architecture, especially when it comes to development stuff with python and java, which I'm trying to get into moar. And the whole app installation process through the AUR (with pacaur) is awesome, but still it's through CLI which although I'm comfortable with, just still doesn't feel as 21st-century as downloading an .exe. Idk, just something that could really be streamlined more with the current state of technology these days.

Idk mayne, I love the idea of linux, but it's really annoying me. Just feels like trying to keep this sinking ship from the late 90's afloat most of the time, whereas you could just install windoze, KMSpico it and be done with it, and the entire world supports it even though M$ is an evil corporation and yadda yadda.

>>62455925
Plus, with companies like Fapple utterly dominating the tech space (and ever-gaining an increasing market share) the idea of paying a premium for an entire hardware & software ecosystem that works literally flawlessly and smoothly seems more & more attractive by the day. And this is coming from someone that's tried all of it and vehemently sticks to his android devices and everything anti-Apple and proprietary software in general.

:/

>>62455901

I can see how those things would bother you. I can't really offer any solutions though as I'm one of those tiling window manager people and my main file manager is literally midnight commander. I don't play any games more recent than TF2 either. Maybe you could just dual boot?

>>62455944
I do dual-boot and gaymes are pretty much the only thing that keeps it on my hard drive. It still sucks having to reboot just to be able to hop on discord and have a night with the boys on some gaymes. But even then, I still have windows on my laptop and find myself using it more often than my linux desktop machine just because it's so simple.

>>62455901
>bitching about gui
if doing every single shit from terminal is not your thing, you better leave gnu/linux, castrate your dick and kill yourself, you fucking autist

>>62455959

Have you tried doing that GPU passthrough VM thingy people have been talking about?

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How to get a module to load on startup in a "systemd-based OS"? Fedora 26.

On *buntu you just had to add the name to /etc/modules.

>>62455962
Thanks for your comment, now shove it up your arse. Like I said the CLI doesn't bother me, in fact I find myself using it for most things including like I said pacaur. But it's undeniably one of the biggest things keeping normies away from Linux and forever preventing the Year Of The Linux Desktop, and plus, the development philosophy of just shoving a hastily built GUI frontend on top of all those age-old legacy command line programs is not only lazy, but just plain doesn't work as well as developing with the GUI in mind from the get-go, period.

>>62455972
Also yeah I thought about that, but you need to have 2 GPU's, and my Xeon doesn't have integrated graphics. So lel @ me

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>>62456015
RIP

I tried KDE on arch, and I liked it. Is awesome wm compatible with it or can you not match up wm/twm with DEs?

>>62456124

I imagine awesome wm would have some issues because it draws its own bar

I am this >>62448088 retard. Hours of doing shit. Turns out problem was my WiFi chip was bg mode and my WiFi was broadcasting on n. Changed that to bg mode in router and it worked flawlessly.

>>62452829
>>62452834
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/21/spotify_worse_than_the_nsa/
https://www.spotify.com/uk/legal/privacy-policy/

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Anyone knows if there's a list of URxvt-only escape sequences? The manpage seems barly mentioning them.

I have some .SVG files with lots of shapes like rectangles for diagrams. GIMP doesn't seem to be able to handle these vector graphics.

What program should I use to add transparent backgrounds to these simple graphics?

>>62457107
Try imagemagick.
convert -background none -density 2000 foo.svg bar.png

Check the docs on how to detect transparencity.

>>62457107
What >>62457144 says is good
I just like to add that once you find the proper imagemagick command you can convert all svg to properly named png with

$ for file in *.svg; do echo "$file" "${file%.*}.png"; done

Replace echo with the imagemagick command and make sure there won't be png files that will be overwritten

>>62457107
Try InkScape if you need anything extra other than that. It's the GOAT svg editor.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/singing-stallman/

>>62447382
Or use MX
Works better in my experience

How do I completely reinstall the AMDGPU drivers on KDE Neon (Ubuntu 16.04 based)
The proprietary drivers uninstall script completely fucked everything up

>>62457635
1. go to /etc/modprobe.d
2. check config files present for any case of amdgpu or radeon being blacklisted
3. open /etc/default/grub and check if amdgpu is not blacklisted by a kernel parameter. If yes, delete the offending text then run update-grub2
4. go to /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/
5. check config files present, especially ones with a different, newer modification time for sections that force fglrx. Remove the said sections or files altogether
6. go to /etc/X11 and delete xorg.conf or any suspicious files from xorg.conf.d
7. optional: open /etc/initramfs-tools/modules and add amdgpu to a new line then rebuild initrd with

update-initramfs -u -k all

. This will load amdgpu at boot time.

>>62457635
https://support.amd.com/en-us/kb-articles/Pages/AMDGPU-PRO-Install.aspx

This AMD document says that the install script installs packages, run this command to see whick packages got installed

$ grep '\sinstalled' /var/log/dpkg.log

Which filesystem should I use on a laptop?

>>62457713
ext4 or the distro default unless you have a very good reason not to

>>62447259
Fedora for me

>>62457722
double dubs of truth.

ext4 is mature, tested and trusted.

>>62457722
what if I want to be a kool kid

lads what's the purporse of the dd command to copy files?

>>62457752
ext2
brtfs /
encrypted home
reiser4 /usr/portage

>>62457756
you can specify the amount of bytes read then written. This can speed up copying files between places on the same hard disk by a lot.

>>62445905
RMS what r u doing? Pigeons are basically rats. Tehy're evem filthier than u r! R u having sax with thom?

>>62457696
Use this command to see which packages got removed too

$ grep '\ installed\|not-installed' /var/log/dpkg.log

>>62457770
ty anon

What's the simplest way of setting up wifi on Debian?

>>62457816
just go for a nonfree installation image

>>62457816
install wifi-driver and network manager. Done

>>62457831
I've already been using this machine for a few weeks and don't wanna reinstall.

>>62457747
Major differences between 3 and 4?

>>62457852
enable contrib and non-free repositories and install firmware-linux-nonfree and something like firmware-atheros, it depends on you wifi card

>>62457864
ext4 is a set of upgrades to ext3 including substantial performance and reliability enhancements, plus large increases in volume, file, and directory size limits.
t. man fs

>>62457852
First go here
https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi

For eg My WiFi is Intel wireless so I would click "iwlwifi" and follow the steps in that new page.

Diver install complete. Now go to

https://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse

Use Network manager part. Or whatever your DE is. No need to do wpa_supplicant part.

>>62457864
ext3 was just ext2 with journal. You could switch back and forth between the 2.

ext4 is a highly improved version of ext3 with new features and a completely new kernel driver. There were a bunch of updates suggested for ext3 but the devs were opposed to integrate them into ext3 driver and suggested to for the ext3 code and create a "new" FS. Theo accepted it and they created the ext4 fs. Read more on TOW.

which one is good for laptop ? arch or gentoo ?

>>62457635
I had a look at the amdgpu-pro-install script and in ubuntu it installs some packages so if you uninstall them you should be good (but you may not because they may depend on others. Use this command to see which packages are going to be removed

aptitude -s purge amdgpu-pro amdgpu-pro-lib32 amdgpu-pro-dkms

if it doesn't seem like it's going to wreck havoc in your system proceed (but it may break your system but it's already too late for that)

sudo aptitude purge amdgpu-pro amdgpu-pro-lib32 amdgpu-pro-dkms

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>>62457669
>>62457696
Seems like it works now
amdgpu-pro-uninstall removed just about everything and didn't properly remove everything it should, so I had to install xserver-xorg-video-amdgpu, remove the radeon config file in xorg.conf.d, update-initramfs and install xinit
The only thing not working is the display manager, so I have to use startx
What a pain in the ass
Thanks for the help /g/uys

>>62458067
You're welcome, thanks for the pretty picture

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>>62458067
>The only thing not working is the display manager, so I have to use startx
Nevermind, just noticed that SDDM was also removed
Reinstalled it and it just werks now

>https://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
Is this up to date?

Why aren't any of these on there?
>https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>>62451709
https://github.com/jm42/compare-user.js

>>62458515
I literally just referenced that in the post I made, idiot.

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>>62445905
How do I de-systemd Ubuntu? I remember finding a guide on how to replace it with OpenRC but can't find it now.

>>62458420
>Is this up to date?
If you did even the slightest research you would know that it's not.

>>62458532
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers#Switching_init_systems

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>>62458539
Good job spoonfeeding him, you prick

>>62458532
>removing systemd from Ubuntu
doesn't really matter on Cuckonical OS, right?

>>62458538
I thought this was a friendly thread for idiots like me who want to break free from the botnet.
Thanks anyway.

>>62458569
There's a difference between being friendly and bending over backwards for a vain, stupid leech who can't even use the search engine of his choice properly.

If you wanted commentary, then you should have asked a question that would have fostered discussion, not some superficial answer that we already knew.

>/bin/sh -> bash
who the fuck thought this was a good, acceptable idea

>>62458539
That's for upstart

>>62458561
n*gga I tried searching and that's what I found, the answer that says it's a mess. There was a guide for Debian that also works for Ubuntu that does it cleanly

>>62458563
Wew lad, nice wordplay. Really made me think.

>>62458586
Did you actually look at the search result and see that it was no good?
>vain, stupid leech
no u

>>62458420
https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html
That said, keep in mind that this page is about
>why we don't endorse a particular system
It doesn't say
>you aren't allowed to use other systems and make them free
So, if you don't want to go easy-mode 100% free, there's nothing wrong with using for example Debian and not enabling nonfree repos / follow proprietary software recommending guides.

>>62458617
>plebian user in inb4 defense

>>62458635
Arch*
Just took Debian as example since it already comes free ootb, fucktit.

WHY IS EVERYONE ITT SO RUDE?

please be nice, you're scaring the newfriends away ;_;

>>62458586
I know, typing something out voluntarily is such a demanding task. Better be snarky about it.

>>62458659
>>62458659
We're 200% more nice than the rest of /g/.
Also, welcome to the internet.

>>62458608
>Did you actually look at the search result and see that it was no good?
Your answer is literally the first paragraph at the top of the image.

>>62458561
>Good job spoonfeeding him, you prick
>Litterally googles the solution, takes a screenshot and posts it
the irony

>>62458672
I know, making a web search for a question that's already been asked is such a demanding task. Better be indignant about it when I'm criticized for being lazy.

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>>62458703
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.

>>62458604
For script use I agree, sh (or rather ash/dash) is more than sufficient
But for interactive use sh isn't nice. No command history, no readline command line editing, some bashisms are easier to type, etc.
Also when bash started there wasn't a free standard shell so I think we should applaud RMS and FSF for funding and making bash happen.

Or are you talking about symlinking sh to bash? If you are talking about that you are right, but Debian doesn't have this problem.

>>62458659
Newfriends should learn to read the sticky. It's there for precisely this reason.

>>62458677
It's more of a paternal type of love; teach a man to fish and all that.

>>62458703
It's Duckduckgo, firstly. And secondly, you can't spoonfeed someone who's already been spoonfed.

>>62458532
Just install MX

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>>62458688
Except it isn't.
I already said that SE post isn't helpful for me

>>62458786
It says right there that openrc works in parallel with the present init system

>>62458608
double nigger, if you would just use distrowatch, you would know precisely which distros are presently maintained, and which are not.

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>>62458804
Are you trying to b8 me? Not only is the answer not helpful (I want to delet systemd) but my screenshot shows no openrc in the repos.

>>62458846
> Rudeposting in a friendly thread

Anyone know when Solus will update to the 4.13 kernel?

>>62458868
>> Rudeposting in a friendly thread
Not an argument.

>>62458887
and
> double n*gger
adds nothing to yours

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>>62458909
Yes, but >distrowatch does.

Hi, I need help. It is the first time that I made a Linux server. Steps which are irrelevant in my opinion are not mentioned:

>>62459024
> I started a VirtualBox with "vagrant" and added an user.
> I gave him sudo rights.
> Gave him Key Based Authentication.
> Forced Key based Authentication by changing /etc/ssh/sshdconfig.

>>62459063
> Restart sshd service.
> enabled all outgoing ports with ufw.
> diasbled all incoming ports with ufw.
> enabled specific incoming ports with ufw: 22, 2222/tcp, 22/tcp.
>

 sudo ufw enable

.

I can't believe that everything seems to work fine. But now to my question:
> Before I did the last steps I always had to halt, start and log into my virtualbox by typing

vagrant halt

and so on. Now the terminal tells me " default: VM not created. Moving on...".
> I can connect to my server with ssh like my intention was but I am trying to understand which step exactly caused this change. And where is the server running if not in a virtual machine now? You see I still have a lot to learn but would appreciate a little bit of help. Thank you!

>>62458846
>distrowatch
>recommending this piece of shit website which made million fall for trash distros

>>62459314
Yes, but it doesn't take a high-quality community to tell you if a project is active or not.

What y'all niggas use tmpfs'es for? Got a decent amount of ram to spare but lack any ideas except of browser profile

>>62459431
I use it for large updates. Let the package manager to a cleanup then mount tmpfs on the directory where it downloads the packages to be installed. Speeds up a process by a lot on older HDD based systems.

I used this on debian-based systems, but should work just fine on any binary based gahnoo+linux distro and even BSDs.

What programs for GNU+Linux could do this job:
>take a picture
>create svg from it
Can GIMP do this?

>>62459552
did u google the question?

>>62459573
Thanks you. Will check that out.

>>62459577
Yeah, but I why not asking my fellows on /g/? They usually know better than random search results.

>>62459590
>They usually know better
[cititation needed]

>>62459577
pls stop recommending google botnettery
>>62459614
/fglt/ helped me a lot, fuck off non-wizard

So ive been using arch myself and hating on ubuntu because everytime i used it it was a buggy piece of shit and i basically need a just werkz distro

Yesterday i installed mint to fuck around and wew lad its not as buggy as freakin ubuntu

How can this be? Isnt it basically ubuntu + cinnamon?

>>62459752
Maybe cinnamon uses less GPU acceleration than unity, that's why it works better. Guess other simple DEs would work better than stock ubuntu on your machine (like xfce, lxde, MATE)

Friends, is it worth moving all of my machines over to Ubuntu even after the news about Canonicals financial situation worsening last week?

I'm worried about gettin everything migrated (Linux/FreeBSD shop) and then Ubuntu becoming abandonware.

Some anon would mind to share its experiences about GPU passthrough? I want to do the big move but I have no experience with it and I don't know what to expect or best ways to do it.

>>62459752
>>62459841
>>62460140
Guys, /g/ isn't the tech satire board.

>>62460153
>or best ways to do it.
you fucked up with your le best xy mentality right before you even started.

>>62459552
What do you mean by image? What do you expect out of converting an image to vector format? InkScape can trace a raster image, but it's not great for anything complex.

>>62460207
wat

I mean, I researched a little before asking but I almost didn't get what I read. The plan I guess it is to use the passthrough process so if I use a VM it can share the hardware, right?

after adjusting sound with pavucontrol, my volume buttons on thinkpad dont register anymore, how can i get them to work again? running arch+i3.

>>62460154
What's satire about my post? I'm genuinely concerned about the longevity of our systems, I'm not saying Ubuntu is bad, I want to use it. I'm saying Canonical is a liability and Ubuntu's future being in their hands concerns me

>>62460287
Some program should handle the button presses to change the volume. Do you have a program to handle the key presses?

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=210494

>>62460287
https://faq.i3wm.org/question/3747/enabling-multimedia-keys.1.html

>>62460384
>>62460411
>dont register anymore
>anymore

I have all that in my config, it worked. But then ran pavucontrol in terminal, and the buttons don't work anymore. I closed the lid and was working on external monitor so I didn't have acces to volume buttons, so wanted to use pavucontrol.

Does i3 work on KDE? Are Qt themes less common than GTK? Makes me want to try openbox instead of KDE next if true.

>>62454749
I've used Xubuntu (with XFCE) for 8 months and didn't have a single crash.

Previous thread: >>62460550

I've done a lot of configuring on my i3, but I want to switch to i3-gaps. How can i go about doing that? I don't have another wm, only a lock from where I can chose a wm. If I install i3-gaps it'll probably conflict.

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tfw switched from apt to pacman distro