/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

First for [distro I'm using]

>>62460550

Third for Canonical is about to go bankrupt and Ubuntu is finished.

This is my favorite subchan.

I fucked up lol

So I want to use passthrough from Linux into Virtual Windows but I'm completelely lost. Aside for checking the support on my hardware, what should I do or care of specifically? Thank you anons.

>>62460550
I want a new distro. Currently running Arch, want to switch to something different. Currently considering Slackware, Gentoo, Funtoo, SMGL, and Void. What are your suggestions?

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What are some magical terminal commands?

>>62460550
WHY THE FUCK SOFTWARE IN ARCH COST EFFORT

>>62460550
I wanna motorboat Stallman's milky man boobies.

>>62460702
Seriously though is there a reason that installing shit is so fucking annoying? even with yaourt or octopi

>>62460713
You're not alone.

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The best thread of /g/

> linux is live

>>62460781
Icon theme?

>>62460617
Me, too

>>62460630
What's wrong, anon

>>62460667
Install Gentoo

>>62460880
I did a wrong post lol

>>62460781
Sopa de Macaco, Uma Delicia

>>62460671

yes 'printf \\u$[2571+RANDOM%2]' | bash

>>62460599
Ubuntu is going nowhere. Even if Canonical collapses Microsoft will take over Ubuntu.

>>62460918
That's okay, anon. It happens to the best of us, sometimes.

>>62460935
Why do you think that?

>>62460934
Neat. I added some random colors.

yes 'printf "\e[$[31+RANDOM%6]m\u$[2571+RANDOM%2]"' | bash

>>62460723
because you're a lazy asshole. Seriously, what's so difficult about typing "sudo pacman -S" and the name of the package you want to install?

>>62460781
Mint x

>>62460920
lol

Sim. No seu rabo

>>62461047
Microsoft recently gave a big 'donation' to Canonical in an effort to help them out of their increasing financial trouble.

>>62461106
Microsoft gives donations to a lot of free software projects. It just means that their priorities overlap with that of their sponsors, not that their sponsors necessarily sway the direction of Canonical. As for openSuse, well, that's a different story.

>>62461197
I'm well aware, Microsoft is one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel, and OpenSUSE has continued to be a profitable company since the 90's, but Canonical hasn't made a penny since it started over a decade ago.

>>62461260
>Microsoft is one of the biggest contributors to the Linux kernel
Why would they do that?

>>62461260
Sorry I meant to say SUSE*

I don't like OpenSUSE myself but SUSE is very successful.

>>62461266
They still benefit from it, Intel is also one of the biggest contributors.

>>62461063
error: target not found: iridium

>>62460935
Canonical are in desperate need of third party financial support and they have a patent on Ubuntu so when they do fail Ubuntu won't be able to be saved by the community.

Use Fedora.

>>62461331
i hope they don't go the mozilla route here, could be really fucking bad, much worse than if they just bottom out

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>>62460550
I axed this in the previous flgt but it seems we got off on the wrong foot.

How do you delet systemd from the latest Ubuntu? What's the best replacement for it?

>>62461418
You don't.

>>62461331
Fedora is sponsored by red hat
Red hat is sponsored by Microshit.
... do not change anything

>>62461468
What other option is there then? Debian I suppose? But the only problem with debian is the old software which makes it difficult for people with newer hardware.

>>62461487
Arch and gentoo

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

>>62461512
>systemd
no

>>62461512
Arch is a hobbyist distribution, I agree with Gentoo however

>>62461540
>arch is hobbyist
>gento somehow not
lmao retard

Arch or gentoo on my laptop ?

>>62461512
>>62461587
Shit

>>62461587
Nobody should recommend Windows ever, not even ironially or as insult.

>>62461648
I'm sorry.

>>62461289
Ah, so you're lazy and a fedora tipper, makes sense.

what are the benefits of arch over manjaro?

>>62461289
You are retarded as fuck, at least learn how to use your package manager. Install Windows 10

>>62461519
>Does i3 work on KDE
KDE is a desktop environment that uses it's own WM so you'd have to decide between that an i3; however you could most likely use i3 + KDE bar (never tested it though) and of course all the KDE programs

>>62461579
Gentoo is frustrating as hell on low-end machines imo; just use Arch if the laptop is not your daily driver

>>62461694
Thou shalt not recommend malware 10 or any other version.

>>62461691
Are you the same guy that has been asking that for the last week?

>>62461711
What if she's a girl?

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How would I connect to library wifi from wpasupplicant?

>>62461694
I just want the benefits of a tiling wms hotkeys with KDEs easy out of the box use. Should I try openbox for that? i3 alone felt a bit esoteric to me since I was using the command line so much, and I'm a brainlet.

>>62461725
I'll take that as a yes.

>>62461725
>>62461711
I'm a girl (male) :3

what are the benefits of funtoo over gentoo?

>>62461775
>>62461691
Stop benefits posting.

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>>62460671

$ sorcery

>>62457816
create the configuration file for wpa_supplicant (wpa_supplicant must be installed and the command perfrmed as root)

wpa_passphrase Your_SSID Your_passwd > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

to connect type the following command:

sudo ip link set wlan0 down
sudo ip link set wlan0 up
sudo wpa_supplicant -B -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -Dwext
sudo dhclient wlan0

Im about to install Linux. Should i use ext4 for both /root and my media storage?

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Anyone have a shell script or something for having my wallpaper change every 30 mins or so on LXDE?

>>62461906
yes. no reason to use anything else.

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Microsoft in full force today
>>62461604
>>62460668
>>62461671
>>62461814
>>62460750

>>62461775
It's founded by someone who uses MacOS on his desktop.

Devuan or Gentoo for Chromebooks?

Also why would anyone ever want to use Crouton?

>>62462196
install gentoo

>>62462233
I'm aware of the meme anon

Gentoo's packages for ARM seem unsatisfactory however

Fat fucks.

>>62462336
Speak for you

>>62460666
Bump, kind anons.

>>62460666
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF

http://whylinuxisbetter.net

How much of this is true and how much a meme?

>>62462631
Never post this website again.

>>62461691
Literally nothing.

t. this guy >>62455719

Ok, actually though, manjaro has its own repositories separate from the official Arch ones. But it's a bit more stable, plus has a lot of comfy stuff preinstalled; theme looks good, fonts look good, don't have to fuck with manually installing your DE, browser, extras, etc.

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>>62462631

>>62462631
10% truth, 90% meme
would not install

>>62462726
Examples?

>>62462701
literally 99% of all websites look like this

>>62462027
>only one is deleted and that's only for lolicon, with and SFW image that would be alive too

current state of 4chan nu-moderation

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>>62462701

>>62462027
Newfag here. Is this shilling, bait or actual wintards?

>>62463342
winrar
>>62462701
learn2umatrix

>>62463379
bingo for number 1

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>>62462631

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I have one (1) column in LibreOffice Calc. It contains string (text) values TRUE and FALSE. How can I group them to make a pie chart?

t. brainlet

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>>62463473
>LIbreOffice
That's one of these graphical programs, right?

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>>62463468

>>62463473
Mark the titles and the content, go to Insert -> Object -> Chart, adjust as advised.

Whats the best "picker" (fzf-like) utility? Or is fzf already be best?

Are you ready to ditch Ranger for vifm https://wiki.vifm.info/index.php?title=How_to_preview_images

why is xfce so comfy

>>62463602
fzy claims to be better than most commun implementations, didn't try it personally, I'm fine with fzf. https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy

>>62463602
Wasn't fzy better?

>>62462631
>http

What a website with really horrible many ads?

I just installed DeepinOS for my laptop, this isn't a very linux-esque question and as I'm typing this I'm wondering why I'm asking here, but what's the most user friendly IDE/text editor I can use to code in Java? I'm a computer science student and want to use this as my daily driver, so I need some sort of IDE/text editor to do my simple shit.

Right now I'm looking at sublime text, does anyone have anything else I should use?

>>62463845
any "free" porn site

>>62463869
The cool kids use Github's Atom.

>>62463869
vim

>>62463894
Good idea, thanks.
>>62463869
Emacs, vim, geany. Atom is slow, Sublime proprietary.

If you guys want to download videos fro yotube use cclive http://cclive.sourceforge.net/

Is lightweight, more than youtube-dl

>>62463929
>Atom is slow
not really

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I tried to change too many things at the same time, now everything is fucked and i don't know how to fix. I am thinking of reinstaling my distro. Pls, send help

>>62464307
>not a single word about the specific problems

(You)

>>62464307
Install NixOS or GuixSD
You can change as much as you want on declarative distros and the end result will be identical to a fresh install with only the stuff you wanted

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>>62464381
It's stupid shit i just need to read the documentation or search for a bit to fix. I am just frustrated.
The problem that is giving me the most trouble is that all my videos and music stopped working, i think i fucked it when i was trying to mess with my i3 config file to make amixer keybinds. All the videos, including youtube, stop like pic related and don't play. I undid the changes i made but it still doesn't work.

I just installed awesome wm. What's the program people use on i3 to search a program by typing its name to launch it? d-something?

>>62464651
dmenu

>>62462505
I think after reading my CPU is compatible but MOBO isn't, so I guess I will have to choose between Linux and Windows once again.

>>62464651
duckduckgo

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>>62464803
>Windows

>>62464803
I wouldn't rely too much on compatibility lists. My mobo isn't there either and it works just fine.
Make sure IOMMU is activated in BIOS and then look through dmesg if it finds it.

>>62464602
Fixed it. I accidentally killed pulseaudio.

>>62465104
Uninstall pulsecrap https://pastebin.com/EsR0mgLv

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I want to change distros without losing my files. When I installed the first time I followed a tutorial that advised me to split my HD into three partitions:
>/
>/boot
>/home
I am not sure anymore but I think I installed my distro in "/ ", if I format just "/" and install a different distro on it, my files in the "/home" partition will be safe right?

Just installed linux for the first time on my laptop, problem is that internet is ridiculously slow. On my windows side I usually get 25-30 mbps down, but on linux im only getting 3-5. What can I do? Has anyone else had this happen to them?

>>62465456
Hmm, is one mb and one MB?

>>62465438
Ye, that's the point of that partitioning scheme.

>>62465456
>linux
which distro, wifi? which driver?

>>62461944
It's literally just shuf, feh and cron. For bonus points use imagemagick to draw the image path into the image first.

>>62465456

sudo modprobe -r iwlwifi
sudo modprobe iwlwifi 11n_disable=1

See if that improves the speed and report back.

>>62461944
Perfect timing for learning shell script, non?

>>62461944

while sleep 30m; do feh --bg-fill --randomize ~/wallpapers/; done & disown

>>62465753

man -P 'less +/--randomize' feh

>>62465657
Thanks, i am worried because i have nothing to make a backup right now. I will upload my most important files online and roll the dice.

>>62466137
Be sure to know and select that specific partition and you'll be okay.

Getting horrible tearing.
Tried using compton and xcompmgr, but they just made the screen turn in to images that are no longer being displayed on the screen and when i go to move windows they move in a cascading manor and imprint on the window.
I've tried various configs but they ALL result in the came problem

Using DeepinOS, anyone know how I can get some kinda fancy animated wallpaper.

>>62466327
If you're using NVidia
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/articles/how-to-an-update-on-fixing-screen-tearing-on-linux-with-an-nvidia-gpu.8892

>>62466902
Using nouveau

Nvida blob driver was fine for 7 years, but recently randomly started stuttering and throwing screen tearing. With nvidia entire parts of the screen just turn fuzz and tear, with nouveau its just a few lines when there is movement

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:
> 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/sshd_confi

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:
> 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/sshd_confi.

>>62467130
> 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.
> enabled ufw.


I could not 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.
> When I try that 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!

Why the fuck do people shill mpv when mplayer exists and mpv is going to the weaker LGPL?
I bet there are people here who use mplayer, am I right?

>>62467228
Well, off the top of my head, MPV is still maintained. So there's that. And, hey, free software is free software. I used to use Mplayer before I realized that there was an MPV plugin for EMMS

>>62467259
Fake news, mplayer is still maintained.

>>62467228
When mpv was made mplayer and mplayer2 had stalled development, and werent devved for years at a time. Mpv took over and for some reason people thought they needed mplayer/2 again so they restarted development/fork.

>weaker lgpl
For more freedom fro the developer

>>62467299
Is it? This is the first time I'm hearing of it. Do you mean mplayer or mplayer2?

>>62467427
I just see their website and the development continues, I'll stay with MPlayer.

>>62467521
mpv superior

>>62467228
>Why the fuck do people shill mpv when mplayer exists and mpv is going to the weaker LGPL?

Because mpv is better.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mpv_(media_player)#Changes_from_MPlayer

mpv is a better and more modern video/media player.

also
>autism over free software licenses
I genuinely don't know why people care this much, considering that things rarely get enforced.

>>62467537
>>62467543
Ok, we hear you the first time

>>62467498
Yeah, mplayer is good and still maintained

mplayer2 was a vile fork made under really bad conditions. And it was shit. They spread fud against mplayer. But the based mplayer dev kicked their butts by superior programming and now vile mplayer2 is no more and the distros that fell for the mplayer2 meme are back to based mplayer.

mplayer2 is the neovim of media players. A vile fork made and supported by fud against the original based hard working developer. Fuck mplayer2 and neovim.

>>62467594
Damn

>>62467543
>I genuinely don't know why people care this much, considering that things rarely get enforced.
Yeah, an obvious example of that would be the KISS/MPlayer dispute, in which KISS blatantly stole MPlayer technology and then nothing came out of it. I disagree with your defeatist at the prospect--there's more to the GPL than just the enforcement of it against people who transgress it--but we do live in a depressing time.

>>62467594
Isn't neovim doing actually different things like moving the fuck away from vimscript and making it embeddable?

 i3-gaps-git and i3-wm are in conflict. Remove i3-wm? [y/N] [/code}

well im using i3, and got no other wm, only a lock manager or whatever it's called. How can i swithc from i3 to i3-gaps?

>>62467744
Bullshit. Neovim is using buzz words, like "community", "democracy", the evil bdfl" but the truth is the declined neovim patches weren't good to begin with, Bram was very polite and logical in declining said patches (despite the fud neovim shills spread) and now Vim is more feature full, with better features. As for the "embeddable" it's a big meme. Vim is a simple text editor, making it embeddable is all a scam to stop putting features in Vim and instead adding features in whatever the fuck neovim was going to be embedding in. Thankfully based Bram thanks to superior programming btfo their plans and neovim is being contained in an annoying circlejerk of broken promises and cries for donations to hire full-time-devs (which didn't happen).

>>62467815
They are conflicting because they provide teh same thing, one with patches(gaps)

Anybody know what program for Linux is the equivalent of Speccy from Windows that allows me to check my system temps?

>>62468038
lm_sensores
xsensors

>>62460550
Am I considered stupid if I use Kali ever

>>62467950
I installed it anyway, after logging out and relogging it was i3gaps, and my config remained. very comfy :D

does anybody know where it installed pacman -S terminus-font?

>>62467847
You sound pretty butthurt. Basically all you needed to say instead of that whole opinionated rage sperg was
>broken promises

>>62468114
/usr/share/fonts
.......

>>62468083
No, there's a justifiable situation in which people use Kali--primarily penetration testing. Kali definitely has a strong niche. But that's the keyword: niche. It would be absurd to use Kali as a desktop, because Kali doesn't provide anything that regular Debian doesn't provide, but it does have its disadvantages as a desktop.

>>62468038
inxi http://smxi.org/docs/inxi-options.htm

>>62468191
Oh okay, thanks

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Look at this shit. This is how terminal text rendering should be done. If your fallbacks are too big or characters overlap, just fucking let them overlap instead of adding huge line spacing and missing glyph boxes like in urxvt

Recent 4.14 update broke on me, some fatal error with AMDGPU, do I report it somewhere or do I let more experienced people handle it?

>>62468270
Huh? Those kanji are blurry as fuck though

So I tried awesome wm but I couldn't find the hotkey for splitting/tabbing the windows on my workspace. I thought it would have that. Guess I'm gonna try i3 again.

>>62468412
It's a different font. Terminus doesn't have Japanese characters, so it falls back to another font which does. You could try to set one with embedded bitamps for Japanese but at 8pt font size they're going to be unreadable so it's kind of necessary like this.
But that's beside the point anyway. The point is this terminal lets glyphs overlap rather than fucking up the whole font rendering to "fix" it just because it's possible in some rare cases that a couple glyphs might overlap

>>62468161
the only ones thre are in /misc/ and then they are called ter-x***.pcd.gz

is that it? if yes, how do i apply them to urxvt, because "terminus" doesnt work in urxvt config, and xft:terminus also does not work

>>62468270
>terminal
Real men use JFBTERM

>>62468270
Oh great, it's that one line spacing autists who uses shitty fonts with tiny glyphs. Keep your fetishes to yourself please.

>>62468449
from memory the default rc.lua for awesome is fairly minimal. You gotta find someones lua code to copy+paste.

>>62468449
Try Ratpoison https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Using_Ratpoison

>>62468483
/misc/ isnt a standard point, i dont have it and ive never seen it anywhere on any distro ever

Put this in your .Xdefaults
URxvt.font: xft:terminus:pixelsize=12

>>62468703
>URxvt.font: xft:terminus:pixelsize=12
doesnt work after adding to .Xresources. I cant find it in any other directory in usr/share/fonts

>>62468739
Re-read my post and try again

>>62468449
Awesome is stupidly bloatly. Also, why don't you just rebind the keys? You must be new to this.

Hey gentoo fags.
Would setting ~amd64 keyword globally be equivalent to using the unstable repo in debian or using arch?
Is it safe?
I'm not using a lot of software besides i3, mpv and firefox.

sometimes my dvd drive gets super loud for some reason but I don't think it did this on windows. what do?

>>62468647
I'm flattered that you remember my old posts anon. I didn't know anyone cared

>>62468781
>~amd64
The fuck is this?

>>62468752
do you mean i shoul put it in .Xdefaults? it's the same as .Xresources. I made Xdefaults, put it there and that also doesnt work. Unless you are referring to something else which would be easier if you just say it explicitly.

>>62468363
why/how are you even on 4.14?

>>62468828
.Xdefaults is deprecated.

Also "terminus" isn't going to work unless this command returns terminus
>fc-match terminus
If you see any other font reported back then that's your problem

>>62468860
>.Xdefaults is deprecated.
False

Reminder that launchpad is still down

0% [Connecting to ppa.launchpad.net (91.189.95.83)]

>>62468781
Pretty similar, yes. You might have more Portage blockages but nothing major. It's good to update atleast every two weeks, that will make updating easier.

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I feel like I spend most of my time on Arch Linux configuring to get what I want than actually using what I wanted.

>Want i3-gaps
Spend hours learning how to configure it and browsing people's configs to put together what I want.

>Want Polybar
Same

>URxvt (including all the shit that I can do with it)
Same

It forced me to learn so much about everything that I was doing. I admitedly feel exhausted... It's been a week of trial and error to put together and it's about 60% done I'd say.

Why-am-i-such-a-masochist-for-learning.

>>62468754
What do you mean by bloated?

>>62468860
>.Xdefaults is deprecated.
hurr durr, welcome to my magical realm

>>62468828
Replace "Terminus" with "xos4 Terminus"

>>62468890
Any idea why?

>>62468871
>>62468926
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/13945/
Deprecated doesn't mean removed.

>>62468905
If you consider understanding any of the things you just mentioned to be difficult or time-consuming in even the remotest of ways, I hate to break it to you, but you may be clinically retarded. There is nothing impressive about putting in the ten minutes necessary to read and comprehend a man page, unless you have ADHD.

>>62469100
holy shit dude, you're so fucking cool

reminder
>FRIENDLY GNU/Linux Thread

Is there a way to make an application installed via WINE show up in krunner like a normal program?

>>62469106
You're still a pathetic braggart.

>Do incredibly unimpressive thing
>Brag about it
>Get indignant when people criticize you

>>62468949
>superceded
>2013
works for me.

>>62468848
Why not/Arch

>>62469121
>>62469199
>being this buttblasted that someone called you out for being mean

I'm not even >>62468905. But you know what I did when I read their post? Nothing. Because I didn't give a shit. Rather than pretending like I'm some hardcore nerd who knows everything and reads 10k line man pages in 10 minutes, I just moved on.

(You) are the one who said, "I know what I should do! I should be a mean person in a thread clearly labeled for people to be friendly! I should insult this user who's spent a long time learning new things, just so that I can feel superior to them! Gosh, what a smart, great person I am!"

>>62469272
>overreacting cunt says wat

Any browser recommendations that aren't botnets?

>>62469100
That's what you'd think. But as a new linux user, becoming familiar with all these settings, commands, errors and solutions was something entirely different for me.

The research that comes involved with it. Finding out what you actually want and how to set it up the way you want while also having to look up any errors that one might come across. Not so familiar with git either, and figuring out if I really need the programs they advise or if I can use another version of my own. Then how to set up those programs to perform the same thing the guy is doing, but mine.

You see how it all accumulates?
... Well needless to say you're wrong. But perhaps you just misunderstood my level of familiarity on Linux. Maybe if I knew better I could've done it much faster, right.

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

This channel/guide was actually very helpful to me (maybe it'll help someone else). I think he explains it well and knows his stuff, yet it took 50 mins for something I think "simple". Because it's directed to beginners too.

Well, have a good day anon. Not really a purpose in this post.

>>62468860
fc-mach terminus returned other fonts

but, apparently the font should be referred to as "xos4 Terminus". this is also how it appears in lxappearance. So now it works:D

>>62469389
I posted that here over half an hour ago
>>62468930

>>62469290
what?

>>62469272
I was just having a bantz, man. You're projecting more emotion onto my post than I've even felt in years.

Also, hate to state the obvious here, the "friendly" part of /fglt/ is ironic. So it's really absurd when you appeal to the authority of the OP, as though that means anything.

>>62469399
lul I've missed that

thank you anyway:)

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>>62469319

>>62469470
>the "friendly" part of /fglt/ is ironic
Stop trying to assert your own reality.

Currently uninstalling KDE and installing i3, is my internet gonna break when I reboot? If so, how do I make sure it doesn't?

>>62468781
Well, part of the reason people switch to Debian testing/unstable is because 1. a rolling release model, 2. the testing packages are significantly more recent than that of stable. So, yes, superficially ~amd64 is similar to Debian testing, but you achieve none of the benefits. In fact, if you consider how the Gentoo dev team is towards new releases, there is very little distinction between ~amd64 and amd64, relative to Debian, and a lot of detriment to using unstable packages.

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>>62469470
>the "friendly" part of /fglt/ is ironic

>>62468781
>I'm not using a lot of software besides i3, mpv and firefox.
To add to my point, there's not a lot of software that you *pay attention to* in Gentoo, but there are still a lot of packages that are going to be affected when switching to unstable that you not only don't pay attention to, but seriously don't want to pay attention to, because dealing with them means you're in some serious shit. This is why Arch is a shitty distribution. Because most sane people use devs use stable, and then clone the packages they *do* want to be bleeding edge from Github. You're definitely better off with the latter, except with the unstable repos rather than Github. There are no practical benefits to using bleeding edge in most respects, but there are a lot of issues that come with that decision.

>>62469555
>>62469601
niggers tongue my anus

>>62469634
Then why does everyone hate on Manjaro?

>>62469676
There is no reason to use downstream distros, they are all shit and fuck up trivial shit

>>62469676
What does Manjaro have to do with this? Downstream distro != stable release model

>>62469680
>use stable
>but not arch stable
I don't understand. Explain.

>>62469688
>waits 2 weeks after a package is moved to main in arch, literally does nothing else but wait for arch to move packags to main
>dosent move security updates, waits for arch to do it instead

>>62469571
ok internet still works but the kde login screen is still there and when I login using it, it stays on screen like a fucking wallpaper
How can I remove it? (Using debian)

Is there a way to command to immediately close the terminal after starting an application?

>>62469770
Well, first, you'd have to detach the process from the terminal. In ZSH it would be &!. Bash has a less elegant solution, which I can't remember, but you can probably make an alias. After that, you could just execute exit.

>>62469770
1.Use a launcher
2.Use '&disown' after the command then close terminal

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Am I the only guy on /g/ that uses Slackware?

Never even used another distro. Went straight from Windows to Slackware.

>>62469842
>>62469914
Thanks, I'll look into these

>>62469952
Their screenfetch style looks pretty cool.

But while I can see the advantages of slackware over binary distros maybe I don't see why I would want to use it over Gentoo because of the USE flags. In order to accomplish the same sort of things I'd end up spending tons of hours on upkeep

>>62470011
There's not really anything to look into. That's literally just it.

>>62469952
>Am I the only guy on /g/ that uses Slackware?
No. Posts like these trick people into thinking that Slackware is exclusively for people with a hipster mentality, and not a genuinely good distribution.

>>62470164
>good disribution
>WANTING to manage 500 deps MANUALLY

>>62470134
I'm still pretty new to Linux, so I assume USE flags are a convenience of some kind in Gentoo. That's why I went with Slackware.

>If you want to learn Ubuntu, install Ubuntu. If you want to learn Linux, install Slackware.

I don't blame you though. I have lots of free time, unfortunately. That's not a good thing.

>>62470164
You have to admit not many people use it though, regardless.

>>62470215
Well they do actually have a repository called SlackBuilds for a bunch of programs, dependencies mentioned and included, so there's that.

>>62470220
Slackware is old school Linux, therefore is used by a loyal base from the early daysm mostly.
If you wan to try something and you have the time, try Source Mage and experiment, here is an installation guide https://pastebin.com/qqaUJMDC
and here some command https://pastebin.com/tA09k8Rq

>>62470220
USE flags are more than just a convenience. I mean, if I knew exactly how I wanted to configure things before compiling than maybe not so much. But a big part of it too is I think they even have some options available that aren't readily configurable, but some package maintainer went out of their way to make it so. I could be wrong about that though, but that's the impression I always got.

But still I don't see much of a difference anyway. Best case scenario my slackware machine would end up about identical to my gentoo one, but more realistically I'd actually probably have more bloat on slackware because I wouldn't take advantage of every possible configuration optimization which is more easily done on gentoo

>>62470329
>Slackware is old school Linux, therefore is used by a loyal base from the early daysm mostly.
A bit ironic that you use therefore when source mage is an old ass distro to but it doesn't have a user base

>>62470438
Source Mage is as old as Gentoo, maybe a few months older but that's it. And our numbers are growing, thank you.

I installed Peppermint Linux on my PC and whenever I plug my 1440p monitor into my graphics card, or if it's already plugged in, the entire system locks up and I get multiple lines of "Link training failed"
Only solution I've found online is "Don't buy Nvidia" but I'm kind of past that point.
GPU is a KFA2 1070.
Anything I can try or do I go for a less obscure distro?

>>62471058
>Peppermint Linux
never heard of her

help my sound isn't working in WINE now but it used to work

>>62471070
Yeah, it looked nice at the time, I guess.
Should just go back to Mint or some other popular -buntu distro, everything works more or less flawlessly on them.

>>62471124
also I should note that the sound test in winecfg does work but not in actual program
I think I'm using pulseaudio if that matters

>>62471177
programs*

>>62471124
>>62471177
>>62471193
wait I just fixed it
you have to have these installed for the audio:
lib32-alsa-plugins, lib32-libpulse, lib32-openal

>using pulsecrap
>not using pure ALSA
>not defaulting to 1 device so your sound just werk

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Is it normal for MTP to be this fucking finicky with Samsung phones? It works one moment and then minutes later it starts flipping out.

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best distro for toasters that's noob friendly?

Saw http://bropages.org/ in OP, wanted to check it out if its any good, and what do I see?
http://bropages.org/examples/1507
I mean for heaven's sake... Is that supposed to be useful and cool?
>>62472068
Prolly puppy linux based off ubuntu

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Does anybody use foot switches with linux, do they work without tinkering?

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Someone fucking add Linux (non-libre) to GuixSD already

>>62468902
>>62469576
How do I download the sources for Xorg, i3, mpv, firefox, feh, urxvt and their dependencies without compiling/installing?
I need to finish my installation without an internet connection tomorrow.

>>62472256
linux doesn't work without tinkering bb

>>62472444
You'll be surprised how normie friendly some distros became

Please suggest me a distribution.
It will be used for
Learning programming
Running a Bitcoin testnet node
Reading books
I don't want to spend more than half an hour tweaking. I want the computer to be stable. Manjaro crashes a lot. I would prefer if packages are latest and not old.
I thought of Ubuntu but is debian a better choice? What would you choose?
4 GB RAM. 2013 dual core processor.
No dedicated graphics card. 720p monitor.
I will play Kerbal space program and civilisation 5 on it.
Thank you very much.

>>62472607
Lubuntu, lightweight enough for your bitcoin fuckery but preset with everything for playing vidya like any *buntu is.

>>62472466
i guess, but tinkering has a good connotation to me

>>62472256
>foot switches
for what purpose

>install connman
>it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf with 127.0.0.1

why is this allowed

>>62472750
lmao you just got conned

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How long will it take to read the entire Arch wiki? It just goes and on and on...

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>>62472784

>>62472800
ur doing it wrong dumb frogposter

>>62469725
Use some other login manager or set a wallpaper

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>>62472750
>using a network manager

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>>62472822

>using a network

>>62460617
subchan? You mean board you ledditor?

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>tfw will be part of the linux master race before i go to bed
feels comfy
havent decided on a distro for my toaster yet

>>62472898

Debian is always the correct answer.

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compiling le kernel xDDD
t. arch user

>>62472934
if the image is more than 3M, you should consider suicide

>>62472953
it's linux-rt

>>62472934
>compiling a kernel
>on arch
install gentoo, seriously

>>62472934
What do you need uptime and kernel version info for?

>>62473002
>no AUR

>>62473025
it's rice

>>62473044
>no AUR
do you know what the aur is?

>>62473044
>it's rice
Of course, how could I have forgotten.

>>62473062
What do you mean?

>>62473075
aur packages are compilation scripts, now ask yourself what gentoo (an any source based distribution) have to do with this

>>62472736
Like using it for extra buttons. For example while transcriping audio or for switching desktops.

I need to make a custom hotkey that makes a press of [Alt] + [Shift] + R happen in Xfce.

How can I make such a hotkey? All I can find are ways to open programs with hotkeys, but nothing to just make just keypresses.

>>62473092
it just werkz

>>62472607
KDE Neon would be ideal for this, get the up to date user edition, it uses less RAM than Xfce4 and MATE

>>62473126
have you looked into xbindkeys?

Is it good idea to install the same distro on my home PC that I use in my work? In my previous entry level job I've been working with RH (RHEL, CentOS, OracleLinux) and Suse - I installed Fedora on my home PC. In my new job production is working on modified Debian and heavy zfs related. I'm tempted to try either Debian of FreeBSD for zeta.
tl;dr How does Debian or FreeBSD work as home workstation?

>>62473246

Debian is pretty cool just make sure you get the unstable version. I've been using it for a couple years now and have had no reason to change.

>>62473126
You can bind a key to launch xdotool, which can do keypress and mouse clicks (among other things).

>>62473157
Are you sure that it can simulate keypresses?

I'm trying xbindkeys-config, and when I use "Get Key" and then set up a key to be pressed in "Action", it actually puts the key into the terminal, instead of pressing it.

>>62473140
"it just werkz" must die already, it celebrates a braindead mentality which only focusses on a function that does a job, while activly ignoring security concerns, freedom and quality
please never post "it just werkz" again

what file system should i use for linux

>>62473458
ext4

>>62473458
ext4 unless you have a good reason to use something else (special RAID configuration, gorillions of small files, encryption, cross-OS compatibility etc).

>>62472750
there are templates to generate resolv.conf in /etc somewhere. Edit the templates to the "head" template has all your DNS servers do extra added shit will be long at the end and ideally never used.

>>62473481
>there are templates to generate resolv.conf

I just switched over to opendns since I had it written down in case of ISP-side DNS failure.

>>62472607

>thinks there's a distribution for his retarded, most common use case

That will never stop, will it? Idiots asking people what distribution to use while listing irrelevant things and thinking there's a distribution for every situation.

>>62473508

wut distro do i use if ima nintendo fan

>>62472430
What?

>>62473458
zfs

>>62473516
He made a sensible question, "how to download source code for gentoo to compile offline". Unfortunately I am not sure how this is done on gentoo or if it is possible, I know Source Mage can.

>>62473513
NetBSD

>>62473508
It will never stop as long as people keep making linux a meme and suggesting newfags use it even though they have no idea how or why to utilize it.

Face it, if you have a real need for an operating system that isn't windows, you would probably be smart enough to know about linux.

Although the fanboys preaching are probably the exact people who run linux as a meme and don't even use any of the tools.

I've been using Xubuntu for 4 years, I was about to reinstall, but I was thinking that I could try something else. Looking for JustWorks stable babby distro. PC is pretty fast, doesn't have to be super light if I get something in return.

Also I just backed up my home folder to an external HDD, shouldn't that cover all my files? Any reason to look in other folders for stuff?

ps. posting on Xubuntu live usb

https://boring-mirror-that-wont-offend-anyone-in-the-arch.community/arch/

>>62473582
Forgot the first question, but what would you recommend I try?

>>62473584

>being such a non-productive manchild that the only thing you can contribute is pathetic drama

>>62473584
domain names can end with .community?
wow

>>62473349
Man, so many keys don't seem to work with xkeybind.

I also still don't understand how it can be used to actually make keypresses. All I can do is launch terminal commands.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ext4#Using_file-based_encryption

Anyone know what Ubuntu fags should do when they reach the part of this that needs e4crypt?
I tried apt install e4crypt, doesn't seem to exist.

The command before that
sudo tune2fs -O encrypt /dev/sdb1
tune2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015)
Invalid filesystem option set: encrypt

doesn't work either. Not sure why not. This is Ubuntu 16.04.3.
Testing out fs level encryption on a 4gb usb drive.

Some dude in the last thread said that fsencrypt may not be enabled in the Ubuntu kernel but how would I check if it is?

And has anyone got this working on Ubuntu? Or even a different distro?

>>62473635
Example.

"xdotool click 3"
    Mod4 + Alt + i

this binds a mouse right-click to super+alt+i

Anyone using neovim? What plugins do you use if any?
Are all vim plugins compatible?

I just want to have a simple setup with the project tree (I think nerdtree does this?), nice tabbing (maybe just need to learn buffers), some kind of way to debug/lint if relevant to language.

What's a good terminal utility to monitor network stuff? Something like htop would be cool.
Should show something like:
>what applications does which connections

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>>62473679
cmatrix

What's /g/'s opinion of Fedora I was thinking about setting up a dual boot of it to see if it would be viable for everyday use for me

>>62473508
>>62473568
I don't use Windows because it's expensive.

Is the following post the only way to programmatically create a session in i3? I took it from a post on an earlier thread

>you want a mini tutorial?

>Launch your programs and put them in position then execute the next command:
i3-save-tree --workspace 1 > ~/.i3/workspace-1.json

edit that json file and replace the class name and/or instance with the program name use xprop if you dont know the names
"swallows": [
{
"class": "^Emacs$",
"instance": "^emacs$"
// "title": "^emacs\\@beemo$",
// "transient_for": "^$"
}

in your i3 config file (put the proper names)
# Load layouts
exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1; append_layout ~/.config/i3/workspace-1.json'"

then lauch the programs:
exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1; exec urxvt -name ncmpcpp -e ncmpcpp'"
exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1; exec urxvt -name vis -e vis'"
exec --no-startup-id "i3-msg 'workspace 1; exec uxterm -name clock -e tty-clock -c -s -C 3'"

programs that arent made by faggots like pottering give you the chance yo rename their name as seen in the example above

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>>62473679
For your processes:

watch -tn1 lsof -i

For all processes:

watch -tn1 sudo lsof -i

>>62473735
Dual booting is for pussies.

>>62472898
Debian

>>62473783
Well dual booting is what's happening until I decide if I can use it full time or not. I wanted an opinion on Fedora not on dual booting.

>>62473582
>>62473595
Now that I think of it, only thing annoying me with Xubuntu is the screen tearing. Never got completely rid of it.
I was told this is Xfce's fault, so what should I try instead? Ubuntu with unity? Debian gnome?

>>62473820
the problem with dual boot is that you learn slow since its easy to pussy out and switch back instead of fixing stuff

why not try several distros in a vm first to see if you like it, nobody can tell you the best distro for (you)

fedora is okish as beginner distro, also look into ubuntu or debian

>>62473820
Dual booting leads to not using it full time.

>>62472430
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc/Cross-Compiling

>>62473783
Thank you man. Just read the lsof manpage, how did I even miss this programm?

>>62473657
I think I get xdotool to work (note: I want to make a key press alt+shift+r) with

xdotool key "alt+shift+r"

but I'm not sure it does work.

When I add

"xdotool key "alt+shift+r""
    q

to my .xbindkeysrc, xbindkeys doesn't seem to save my settings most of the time. Nothing happens when I press "q", but

"xbindkeys_show"
    m:0x5 + c:24
    Control+Shift + q

seems to work even if I comment it all out. And then, sometimes, it doesn't.

>>62473862
Been using Debian without gui in a virtual machine for awhile now so I could get used to the command line there's just some stuff I need to try outside of the VM to see if I can fully convert to it. Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something about Fedora everyone hated.

>>62473900
Also, your example didn't work for me. When I press super+alt+i, nothing happens, but when I input "xdotool click 3" into the console, a rightclick happens.

>>62473908
>Just wanted to make sure there wasn't something about Fedora everyone hated.
You mean like systemd?

>>62473934

"xdotool click 3"
    m:0x5 + c:24
    Control+Shift + q

seems to work.

Maybe you just can't make xdotool press [Alt] + [Shift] + [r]?

MAGIC THREAD: >>62473959

I am setting Mutt mail client and I've tried to autologin by several waysbut passwords have strange characters and are fucking difficult to feed to Mutt. How can I pass the passwords to Mutt? I need to track down how to make imap_pass being shoved the password to ultimately have a way to grab it from another file, but can't do it if the passwords won't be even recognized on the config file itself because of weird characters.

>>62473954
What about systemd is hated?

>>62462631
The site is outdated and contains outdated information, but most points are still valid

> fast
> choose your DE
> no botnets out of the box
> easy to protect from viruses
> free

>>62473529
Shouldn't that be like a basic feature of source based distros?