Intended for users of all levels, including absolute beginners
If you are serious about switching to Linux, use it exclusively for 2 weeks, avoid booting to windows for that period of time, or you are likely to start retreating back to windows instead of getting used to linux as your new home and working on making it feel comfortable
You can safely experience installation process and the basic usage through a virtual machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R33sFFhgkWk
>Recommended for Beginners:
Xubuntu, Manjaro, openSUSE
>Learn to RTFM - Read The Friendly Manual
man <insert command here>
>Resources:
/r/linux4noobs
/r/linuxquestions
/r/unixporn
http://explainshell.com/
http://www.server-world.info/en/
https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-the-command-line
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtK75qxsQaMLZSo7KL-PmiRarU7hrpnwK
oh nice, glad owncloud was added.
there is also seafile, but haven't tried it out yet.
Retard here. Why have I been here for hours.
wat do
>install ubuntu 15.10 on x201 tablet
>okay let's get screen rotation working
>find a program called magic rotation
>need python 2 to install
>install it via dead snake repository
>post python install "We've encountered an error box comes :^)" comes up
>apply the solution
>reboot
>unity no launches
this is my 3rd time fucking up this distro by just installing software, I just think I'm done with it
>>51645131
Nevermind, randomly smashing tab and enter solved the problem.
>>51645158
hahahaha
>>51644564
>zshell
tried this, my god thank you.
Are there any linux distros that have multi-user privacy. i.e. want to use a NAS but all roommates want to have their own privacy (nobody can see each other's files).
>>51645457
maybe just change folder permissions?
am i missing something?
>>51645484
but won't root user still be able to see all other files?
>>51645543
Don't give everyone root then
>>51645573
yeah but then I still have access to everyone's files (everyone else and I wouldn't want that).
So I'm going to take it as a no.
wha IDE do you recommend for linux Mint coding in C#?
>>51645675
You could have everyone encrypt their entire /home/ but this might be a pain
Can I have a kanji as shell prompt ?
>>51644564
maybe mcomix should be added for manga/comic reading, just a suggestion
http://sourceforge.net/p/mcomix/wiki/Home/
>>51645712
yeah this is the solution I had in mind.
>>51645824
kanji is in utf8 right? I reckon probably download and use a font that supports kanji.
What should I use for a shitty laptop with a Atom n270? Arch?
And for the WM?
>>51645675
you should be able to set it so only the owner has even read permission, but even without doing that, trying to access any subfolders in another users /home should bring up a you don't have permission to view this dialog
>>51645946
awn
Anyone know about doing a GPU passthrough? Is it possible to do with an APU + AMD GPU? You usually want 2 different vendors right?
Call me retarded, but how the hell do I install i3 on Debian 8? Aptitude says it isn't in my repositories and I can't seem to find out why.
>>51645697
Monodevelop
>>51646294
>search repository link
>add link
>update
>>51646294
Should be there, have you made sure everything is up to date? Tried apt-cache search? Or failing that is your /etc/apt/sources.list set up correctly?
>>51645457
Just turn on ap isolation on the router.
>>51646252
Technically possible, its called hybrid crossfire, but not practical, and it only works with outdated gpus.
>>51646409
no I mean running linux off the APU and passing my GPU to a windows virtual machine
>>51646423
Probabry not possibru.
I'm using xubuntu right now on netbook as a browser machine. I've been playing with Mint on my desktop and I like it.
Is Mint too babby tier to learn Linux? I want to start actually learning and using stuff like the terminal. Mint seems really slick and nice and there's graphical user interfaces for almost everything.
Is that on top of what you can normally do with Linux or has it locked some stuff out to be 'user-friendly'?
>>51646462
Install Gentoo/Ututo XS if you want to learn shit
Pretty much all GNU/Linux is open
>>51646357
Oh, now it is able to locate the package but I have some issues with dependencies, oh well.
>>51646494
I don't know if I'm ready to install gentoo. I'd buy a cheap 3rd HDD to play with that I think.
I need something stable to dualboot with Win10 as a daily use thing. Maybe there's a middle ground with something like Arch or I go with something like Mint "it just werks"
>>51646513
apt-get -f install
Just installed Manjaro net edition with Slim and i3
How does this work aaaaaaaa
>>51646573
It does the same.
>>51646599
strange..
hm i also got debian 8 (8.2 stable)
this is my sources.list#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.2.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20150906-11:10]/ jessie main
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.2.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 xfce-CD Binary-1 20150906-11:10]/ jessie main
# Line commented out by installer because it failed to verify:
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
this is my installaction process
http://pastebin.com/ibCQMTj3
worked fine...
please post your sources.list
>>51646613# deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main
# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main
>>51645227
put this in to your .zshrc and then try ctrl+f in your terminal
you will not know how you lived without itadd_sudo (){
prefix="sudo"
BUFFER="$prefix $BUFFER"
CURSOR=$(($CURSOR + $#prefix + 1))
}
zle -N add_sudo
bindkey "^f" add_sudo
>>51645961
couldn't root just log into the user account then just access the file, despite the file permissions.
>>51646662
change your sources.list to this (backup first!)# deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie main
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ stable main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib non-free
# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
deb http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://ftp.cz.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib non-free
and then apt-get update and apt-get install i3-wm
>>51646801
Thank you, I will try this.
>>51646598
After some lurking I managed to get myself comfortable enough with this to install a file manager and Firefox and even use them. It feels good.
There's a problem though, the computer doesn't detect my USB drive (got my important files there). Could it be because I used it on Windows? Or am I missing something?
>>51646913
This the problem with Manjaro. It makes the install process easy but it's still Arch and all the user unfriendliness that comes with it. You'll have to mount that drive using the terminal.
>>51646938
Damn. Wonder why OP recommended it, then. But anyway I'm gonna lurk how to do that, thanks brother. I'm loving this so far.
>>51646598
Literally why would you install preconfigured i3?
>>51646991
Got myself a really small screen (1280x600 or something). Friend recommended it to me.
But why? Is there something better?
>>51646955
I suppose placing the blame on Arch/Manjaro is not entirely fair. If you had installed Manjaro with one of the big desktop environments like Gnome3 or KDE you'd have more of a Windows experience. With i3 you've set yourself on the minimalist terminal route.
>>51647006
i3 is one of the window managers that users configure themselves. Unless you configured i3, it'd be hard for you to get used to.
You could've gone for xfce/mate/cinnamon/KDE edition for better usability. Otherwise make a base install yourself and build i3 and other things on top of it
>>51646955
I GOT IT! For those that may come across as the same problem, go to your terminal and type
lsblk -f
Then make a directory for your USB Drive with
sudo mkdir /mnt/YOURDIRECTORY
Then look at your USB drive's UUID and mount like
sudo mount -U YOURDRIVEUUID /mnt/YOURDIRECTORY
>>51647040
Yeah but I'm using an Asus EEE PC 1000HE and want to be really minimalistic. It's not my first linux experience, I've used Ubuntu before, but it was constantly bottlenecking and acting really slow.
>>51647051
There are some videos on Youtube from a guy named tutoriaLinux that teach the basics of i3, I didn't find it too hard really. And I want to keep this as minimal as possible.
>>51647112
*with the same problem
God damn I cann
>>51646991
there are preconfigured i3?
>>51644564
>he recommends manjaro
http://archive.is/JeOLo
>>51645946
arch & i3
>>51644649
I tried it, its decent as I read its faster with hundreds of files where owncloud was slow
but I then realized I dont have that much use for it
Longtime Debian user here, looking for distro/WM recommendations:
> spare business laptop from ~2008
>previously had #! on it, broke by upgrading to Jessie
> Bunsenlabs and #!++ don't look really convincing right now
What (tiling) WM will work without too much effort on this laptop?
>>51649038
bspwm. Only one with decent default keybinds. Next one is i3.
How do I add a shortcut toggle icon like those on Cinnamon (Like volume, Trackpoint/Trackpad, etc) on XFCE?
Also, would it be better to use another binding program like xbindkeys instead of the default XFCE one?
Inclined to try amdgpu over radeon on gentoo.
Has anyone here done the switch and is able to share experiences, stuff to look out for, etc.?
quick intro to automatic windows tilling ?
>>51646552
Stick with mint there is noting you can't learn on it other than redhat specific operations.
>>51646767
Could you explain this a bit?
How do i install Directx and vcrun on WINE? Ive gone through the installations yet when i run a game it says it is bugged?
lmftfy
>>51650841
when you press ctrl+f it paste a sudo in front of your current line
if your line is empty its just sudo
if you write pacman -S butthurt_package_of_GNU
and you press ctrl+f it ads sudo to the beggining of the line and return cursor to your previous position
so if you forgot sudo its just arrow up and ctrl+f
there are many ways to deal with forgotten sudo, but this one is the best
its the fastest and you actually see the command to which you are adding sudo and best part is that you can easiy add sudo even when you notice missing sudo while writting the command...
to explain the code
you are making new widget called
add_sudo (){)
with
zle -N add_sudo you are adding it
and then with bind you are asigning it to ctrl+f key combo
the code inside should be obvious or pointless to explain
>>51646789
So don't give anyone root access?
>>51644564
>botnetvaldi
>botnetium
>spiderbotnet
>botnetbox
>ever
>vomit
>VideoArtifactConnector
>unironically
>popdeadtime
>
I didn't bother to do the rest, the majority of the items listed don't even support the function they're purported to do in this list.
Debian really rocks cocks, doesn't it? I've been using Debian since 2008 and I love it.
For fuck's sake, audacity broke again.
I honestly haven't had any other program fuck up so many times just from upgrades.
Just now:Warning: Mismatch between the program and library build versions detected.
The library used 2.8 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1008,wx containers,compatible with 2.6),
and your program used 2.8 (no debug,Unicode,compiler with C++ ABI 1009,wx containers,compatible with 2.6).
What a piece of shit.
>>51650949
No, the quickest way to do it is macro to your key if you have one of those gaymer keyboard :^)
>>51651172
try arch
then tell us
>>51650871
>hating on kde
So edgy
>>51651208
>leaving homerow
>fastest
steady now
>>51651206
that's fuckin crazy man... what distro are you using? I'll accept that audacity isn't especially great but I've never had problems like that with it.
>>51650949
>so if you forgot sudo its just arrow up and ctrl+f
Just use sudo !!, no need to bind keys at all
is gPodder the recommended podcast program? if so OP should add it to the pic
>>51651273
but its inferior in every single way
thats why the long description of pros in that comment
1. you need to actually write sudo and then additional 3 keypress? Why even bother then? you as well can just uparrow, press home key, write sudo, press enter
2. you cant add sudo when you are in the middle of writing your command when you notice that you forgot, only once you executed it and it failed
3. you cant go beyond the single previous command in your history, you actually not looking at history, just assume the last command is the one...
4. again its fucking whole lot of typing!
>>51651326
It comes out of the box and with that is available on any machine without configuration, which is a huge bonus if you need to use machines not administrated by you often.
>>51651237
Arch.
I can recall at least two more times when it outright refused to start after some package update.
I was able to start it just fine by chroot'ing into my system snapshot from the past week, but none of the Audacity's dependencies updated since then. Very weird, maybe I broke it myself.
>>51651206
WINEPREFIX=./muh/games winetricks vcrun2013 ..
Or you can leave off the things you want to install and use the GUI if you're, you know, that way.
Hey, I bought a steam link, and when I try to connect to my pc, it finds it, but when I enter the code it gives me, steam instantly crashes, so I can never authorise it. I googled but I didn't see anything about steam link not supporting linux. I made a support ticket, not sure if there's any workaround. It works on my windows pc.
Do different distro's and DE's resource usage affect battery life noticeably or are people blowing it out of proportion?
What is the best looking/most polished DE that isn't Unity?
>>51651863
many consider Elementary to be great looking
https://elementary.io/
KDE5 feels like it can be pretty sleek
>>51644564
Why is Linux so perfect?
Also which blue LED mice are recommendable for Linux? I have mixed feeling about the MS mice, but they seem to be one of the best mice there are...
Coming from Mac OS 7-X 10.10 btw
>>51646336
And for C++?
I'm thingken about going for the MS Code Editor, it looks nice and I've got a big book about C++ that is centered on C++ development on Windows.
I don't want eclipse, I don't like it.
Is there a standard method to get special laptop keys (like the Fn key combos and volume buttons) to work in a barebones WM environment? Right now I'm using GNOME and everything just works, but all the guides I see for DIY setups seem like dirty keybind hacks and stuff.
>>51646552
Just use a virtual machine, You will learn everything from trying to install gentoo, gotta compile that shit from source
Is there an image preview in the file picker in KDE5?
I forgot to look when I had kubuntu wily werewolf installed, now I'm on KDE4 again.
>>51651863
definitely GNOME
it's good now too
Why do default desktops never look as good as riced ones? If you're going through all the trouble of putting a distro together, why skimp on the finishing touches?
How do I install and use a bitmap font on ubuntu linux?
>>51652121
I don't know if that's the way to do it properly, but I just wrote a bunch of bash scripts and mapped them to keystrokes via xbindkeys or whatever.
It allows for infinite flexibility and customizeability, but it's obviously a little too much pain in the ass for such basic functionality.
>>51652489
Sure if you like the "do everything exactly the way we want you to or go fuck yourself" windows philosophy.
>>51652597
I often wonder that as well
how can KDE fuck their shit so up?
>>51652597
it's subjective what looks good
>>51652597
Because the truth is that behind every pretty screenshot of a riced out environment there is a barely working mess of inane key bindings and inconsistent configs that only the owner will understand/tolerate.
If it's custom, then these problems are just par for the course. If it's not custom, then you get what we already have.
What is wrong with my 40_custom entry? It shows up fine but trying to boot into it gives the message "File '/boot/loader' not found" or something similar.
I've booted into a live FreeBSD install, mounted the disk and verified that the file does indeed exist. sda7 is BSD's /.
Is it a good idea to use Tiny Core Linux as my daily driver?
What about their stupid package manager? Is there a way around it? Is there a script that converts Debian packs into Tiny core packs?
>>51652928
If you're running it on a toaster from the 90s then sure. Otherwise find something a bit less shit.
>>51652928
>Is it a good idea to use Tiny Core Linux as my daily driver?
No, if you can instead use any sane mainline distro.
>>51652989
>>51653012
What if I like fiddling around with stuff and I'm obsessed with minimalism in every form or way possible?
>>51653069
Then I can't really comment on your choice of a tiny distro, no experience with them.
>>51653069
Install Arch or gentoo and make your own perfect minimal setup.
>>51653069
Then why does it have a GUI?
>trying to work with ranger
>if I try to use hjkl for browsing, it looks into every directory on the way, slowing down the computer
>using / is not always comfortable
>just clicking on a folder is an option, but the font too small to do it reliably
>the only way to make the font bigger is to make the terminal font bigger; do not want
>turning off the preview for directories in rightmost panel will probably work, but I actually liked it. My problem is simply that it tries previewing every directory I come across when I browse with hjkl
Isn't there a way to make it only load a preview only after, like, a second has passed, or something?
Also, other ranger users, how do you work with it? I suspect I might just not get how to use it right.
>>51652670
That's silly and dumb. If I like the way it works by default then it doesn't matter if I can customize it.
It's also reasonably configurable through gsettings/dconf and has a lot of keybinding support, plus it's the only DE I know of that supports drop-in javascript extensions. The ways that KDE and XFCE open up customization to the user result in cluttered and junky interfaces.
Use whatever works best for you, but don't go whining about shit you don't use because you tried it once and it didn't immediately work exactly the way you were used to.
>boot Arch ISO
>partition disks and make filesystems
>use pacstrap to install LFS system from Arch's package repo rather than building everything from source
There'd be just as much configuration to do, and it defeats the purpose of doing an LFS install in the first place, but this should work, right?
>>51653162
>If I like the way it works by default then it doesn't matter if I can customize it.
It matters as soon as they decide to change the default
>>51652071
You really don't need any IDEs unless you are doing any real life profects. While learning all you need is gedit with embedded terminal
For C++ you can use netbeans/eclipse/anjuta/KDevelop/Qt Creator etc
>>51653158
There should really be a delay between selecting a folder and a preview appearing. Or the whole thing should be async.
Really annoying.
>>51653241
projects
>>51651231
But it is bloated t b q h.
>>51653069
Install a WM like i3 on any regular distro, like *buntu, openSUSE, Arch or Gentoo. Smaller distros don't have a lot of support and if something gets fucked up, you will be working on that problem for a long time. Even with Arch or Gentoo, they have forums/help pages that you can go to should a problem arise.
>>51653222
If you don't like the change then you fix it or stop using the program. Literally nothing you use is going to be the same forever, especially in FOSS. Why would you let the idea that it might change deter you from using it now?
there hasn't even been a drastic change to GNOME 3 since its debut (4 years ago), so it sounds like you're complaining about something you've never really used again
>>51651236
your pinky reaching for ctrl ^ is leaving homerow
>>51653455
>If you don't like the change then you fix it
Which isn't possible if you can't customize it.
>or stop using the program
Which would count as go fuck yourself.
So, you basically agree with the point you called silly and dumb. Congratulations.
>there hasn't even been a drastic change to GNOME 3 since its debut
Except that the debut itself was a really drastic change from Gnome 2
Does anyone here run Void Linux, if so, what do you think of it? The lack of documentation is pretty frustrating, but I think I could make due. I'm not a big fan of Arch so I don't really want to use it.
>>51653569
i tried void yesterday, porteus is better
>>51653539
Extensions and dconf give you a pretty nice amount of room to customize. What's silly and dumb is that you think that configurability is important in a piece of software when you already like the way it works. Software changes, and configurability isn't a solution to the threat of change because there's always the possibility that the devs will change or remove the configurability itself. You always have a choice among UIs, but it's never been a static choice. I don't know why you hate the Windows UI when Microsoft is the king of accomodating its customers' babby duck syndrome.
Frankly, most of the differences between modern DEs are pretty insignificant and internet people seem to be obsessed with them. GNOME 2 isn't that great.
>>51653069
unless you're using a 486 with 16M ram, use gentoo for that purpose
>>51650455
P-Please guise
Are ubunutu derivatives (xubuntu, lubuntu, edubuntu, etc.) botnet systems or is it just regular Ubuntu?
>>51650455
>shortcut toggle icon
explain
you can mouse scroll over the volume icon and it lowers/raises
For whatever else you want to do you could probably add a launcher that runs whatever command
>>51654487
they don't have the amazon thing if that's what you're asking.
but it is easy enough to remove from vanilla ubuntu
>>51654471
add items to the panel???
Almost every day i got pic rel on vlc, not only on hevc, but on x264 too. It appear random and after restart goes normal.It only affects vlc,
Also please recommend so fast, hardware acceleration x265 10 bit plugin, i searched and only finded windows one.
using 7970 with only shiped drivers
>>51644564
I know that debian doesn't come with any non free firmware, but does linux mint?
>>51654542
The whole point of linux mint is that it installs all the nonfree stuff regular users want for you.
Almost every day i got pic rel on vlc, not only on hevc, but on x264 too. It appear random and after restart goes normal.It only affects vlc,
Also please recommend so fast, hardware acceleration x265 10 bit plugin, i searched and only finded windows one. Maybe you could recommend me new video player, with x265, mp3 and all thar proprietary things
using 7970 with only shiped drivers
>>51654554
well, the linux mint site is down. will xubuntu or lubuntu come with the firmware/drivers out of the box?
>>51654506
>>51654520
I have a T420, and with Cinnamon the volume buttons, and the special keys - like FN+F8 - showed an icon. It's like the one in OSX I think.
Now, how would I go to obtain that? Do I have to make a script for each keybinding?
Also, should I use XFCE's WM keybinder (I take it's the WM, I don't really know) or xbindkeys? Can't see many option on the shortcut tab in the keyboard setting, so I was wondering if one was better than the other
>>51654598
Just use cinnamon? What's so bad about it that you need to switch?
>>51654597
http://www.linuxmint.com/release.php?id=25
werks for me
>>51654632
the site was down 10 minutes ago since this morning. anyways, I'll just install mint since I have no idea if xu/lubuntu will have my firmware or drivers.
>>51646294
i3-wm
>>51654597
Yeah, it does. What drivers are you looking for?
>>51653569
the documentation is comprehensive enough to get you started with void
for everything , refer to archwiki and substitute pacman with xbps-install
been using void for a few months
how do I rice my manpages?
>>51654632
whats the difference between linux mint 17, 17.1, 17.2, and 17.3?
Which packages should I remove?
>>51654622
I just like XFCE more
>>51653262
>>51653241
I also don't need a computer to write C++ code. I could just simply use a pen and paper.
So let me ask you again: What is a good IDE for C++, except eclipse?
>>51655004
At least half of them.
>>51654749
my laptop has a marvell topdog 80211n NIC card.
>>51653241
And now I can see your answer, damn what the fuck is wrong with my sight?
Thanks, anon.
>>51655004
useless things
>>51655149
>>51655169
such as...
>>51655202
Are we supposed to guess what shit you installed?
>>51655202
debian
>>51655221
standard xfce debian
Shit's out of the box and a don't want to brick it, yet.
>>51655273
Do a minimal install if you care about package numbers
>funtoo requires 14GB of hard drive space to install
What the fuck is this garbage?
>>51655324
Compiling literally everything from source takes a bit of space.
>>51655353
So I'm guessing it really is just a meme, and isn't actually better than Arch or openSUSE?
I have windows 10 and tried to install Ubuntu but every time it gets to the bootloader section it says it cannot do it and in effect crashes. I tried mint and once I have set partitions it goes to the section where you click where you are based and a load of question marks come up and it crashes. Any help??
>>51655370
Better is what you like the most.
>>51655370
If you know what you want and doing gentoo/funtoo.
If not arch, they both have wiki full of things you want to know or read about.
>>51655555
wasted quints
>>51655114
have you checked out JetBrains CLion? They have licenses for students
>>51655405
probably a switch you have to fiddle with in bios.
heard of that being a thing in newer computers.
>>51655701
Thanks m8, this seems to be my favourite.
>>51655114
Qt is the best IDE for C++ I've ever used, even if you don't use any of Qt itself.
My sound on Debian frequently switches back and forth between 0 and 100%, making the audio choppy.
Anyone have any ideas on how to fix it? I'm using XFCE/Pulseaudio.
>>51656008
drop pulseaudio and use alsamixer?
>>51656167
I did that but now I have no sound. Though in the XFCE audio mixer it's showing it skipping back and forth between 100% and 0% (mute) like before.
>>51656248
Well, I got sound now, but it's still doing the stupid chopping crap.
>>51650871
needs keepassx instead of keepass
gnome also bloat
maybe some more text editors
Mint user here
Whenever I try to unzip archives which contain Chinese/Japanese characters, they're not being properly displayed despite me having language packs installed and being able to type in those languages just fine. When I try to unzip archive, the name changes to boxes like pic related after about 0.5 seconds (it displays properly for a brief moment). I'm using whatever the default Mint software for unpacking stuff is. For the record, I can change the filename back just fine, thing is, it happens to textfiles in the archives too.
Any idea how to fix this? Thanks in advance.
>>51656334
>bloat
meh, if you've got the overhead for it, gnome has a lot of pretty neat features, but yeah it is kinda heavy
>>51656273
>>51656248
>>51656167
>>51656008
Found out that it was constantly switching between speaker/headphone output for some reason.
Putting an unconnected jack into the headphone port and the problem disappears. Fucking Linux sometimes.
>>51656334
yes
werks on my machine
I'm going to be dual booting Ubuntu as I've read it's the best distro for web development; is that true? Also some noob questions:
How much space should I allow for ubuntu partition? I'm thinking 100, 200th?
And what makes Linux useful for web dev stuff over Windows or OSX?
>>51656692
>And what makes Linux useful for web dev stuff over Windows or OSX?
If that's your primary reason for installing it, shouldn't you know yourself?
>>51657004
no. that's why I'm asking you.
>>51656692
Longtime user of ubuntu up until Unity here. The only thing it offers for web dev is that you can run an apache server with all the bells and whistles right there in the terminal. And I guess all the sysop tools that every distro comes with. Nothing really makes ubuntu special other than that web dev usually means "knows some html" and ubuntu is babby simple to get set up.
I need a distro and DE to go on a t520. Gnome3 turns me off and unity is pd. Not even going to comment on kde. I want rice and transparencies and package management that doesn't give me a migraine. Korora seems like my best bet but I'm open to anything other than gentoo, fun as that wasted day was.
Anyone on Skylake and using the iGPU what are your experiences like? I'm having problems myself but having trouble finding other users to compare with.
linux mint is supposed to have support for the intel wifi link 4965agn card, right? it doesn't showing the wifi when I did the live CD nor after I installed the distro.
>>51657678
click the function key for switching on/off the wifi.
>>51657715
the wifi is on. I changed the wifi card earlier, maybe I put the antennas in the wrong order. I can't find any documentation on the proper order to put the antennnas
>>51657730
Does anyone who have an intel wifi link 4965ag card know the proper order for the 3 antennas? I have a black, white, and grey one.
>>51657873
that makes 9 possible variations. do it yourself you wimp.
>>51658180
fine. whatever.
>>51657212
arch with enlightenment
>>51650987
I answered this here
>>51645675
So linux systems by design can't handle multiuser access. okay. It's designed to be hierarchical with a single super user.
So i have a mac. I know that is stupid first off but it was a gift given to me. I wanted to install linux mint. I wiped the hard drive completely clean so there was absolutely no operating system on it. I tried installing mint off of a thumb drive, and instead of partitioning the disk manually, i let the installer do that. When i restarted my computer as i was told to, the computer did not boot into linux mint. I plugged the flashdrive in and booted linux off of the live usb and opened gparted. I saw that boot was a fat32 file system and that it wasnt mounted. If i changed the file system to exfat would it have worked? does the file system matter if there is no operating system on a computer. does the architecture of the cpu or something else in the hardware determine what file system to use?
>>51645132
Use Arch
>>51646462
Install Arch honestly
install gentoo
>>51659182
>>51659231
>le meme
>>51659502
why don't do something productive and go fuck yourself?
>>51659519
>I'm going to try sounding grown up
>>51659519
Close this tab, this board is for above 18 only
i'm trying to create a bootable windows 7 usb using unetbootin. Every time i boot into my usb a i get default on it. I've also tried winusb and it gets to the very end then right before i reboot my system i get error 256. So is there another easy way to make a bootable usb?
Anyone know of a guide and complete guide to customizing KDE?
I'm mostly familiar with LXDE, but that is a tad lacking for a full desktop. Cinnamon is nice out of the box, but KDE just looks so pretty and it would be nice to try something new. May stick Cinnamon along side if I get lost, but so many things are named differently. Like I found how to set a workspace widget on the taskbar, it was called pager or something like that.
So its just the little things to tweak it to like nice, render fonts well, and get a nice work flow going.
How do i set a password policy on unbuntu? Editing the pam.d-password file never seems to actually work when I go to set a password in system configuration.
>>51654979
17.3 is simply the most recent version. Cinnamon and MATE have both updated since 17, for example, so the point releases reflect that.
Good, this thread is still up.
I'm upgrading my laptop to fedora 23
> inb4 don't use fedora
Save it. I like fedora and have no issues with it, and don't feel like going to the trouble of learning to navigate Debian or Ubuntu.
Anyway, I'm planning on completely wiping my hdd before installing fedora 23, because I'm paranoid about malware and am taking the opportunity to annihilate any that might be on there.
I've got the disk manager formatting the root partition of my hdd now (I'm on a live cd). Is there a better way to wipe the drive?
>>51660175
Want to know how to customize KDE? Don't. It is trash. LXDE, LXQT, XFCE are all better.
Install i3. Has a very nice workflow and can be beautiful.
>>51660748
Nice meme. Can I copypasta?
>>51660745
>>51660745
Sorry if I was rude about Ubuntu and Debian. I have no particular issue with them other than that I'm used to fedora and don't see much point in bothering.
I don't like that Debian names their updates after toy story characters, but that's just me.
Please don't derail my question arguing about which distro is best; I just want to make sure my laptop's clean.
>>51660779
Looks like trash. Especially with that transparent shit.
Something is wrong with your screenfetch.
And what is with the 768p Broadwell laptop.
whenever I try to use a do anything related to the gpu, I get this error in the terminal: intel_do_flush_locked failed: Input/output error
I think it's a problem with not having the right drivers, but I'm not sure. can anyone shed some light on this?
>>51660939
I like staring at glass all the time desu baka senpai. Also, this is an Inspiron 15 5000 series lappy.
>>51660941
Always love it when people give relevant information for their problems.
>>51660941
Distro?
Computer?
What GPU you have?
>>51660995
To each his own I guess.
Although I do not know how I could deal with 768p on 15" screen.
>>51661096
It's on a 15.6" screen. Looks nice enough, desu.
>>51661002
>>51661058
just found the answer lads, sorry to bother you
>>51660748
LXDE is a little lack luster, but my usual go to for low end devices. Not sure on LXQT, it has my interest, but still seems in the unstable realm so I would probably take Cinnamon over it.
XFCE much of /g/ swears by this, but I ran a small laptop off Xubuntu once and it crashed more shit than Vista and I barely added anything on the stock install.
I shall look into i3, but I"m still very considering KDE, which is also based on QT like LXQT anyway. Bulkier yes, but I can imagine it working worse based on the same tech.
>>51660797
Anyone care to help? I'm very paranoid about rootkits, I want to be certain I bring my laptop back with a clean drive.
Is simply formatting sufficient to eliminate malware? It's set to overwrite existing data with zeros.
Please advise, it's been weighing on me.
>>51660745
If you're paranoid about the CIA and/or alien mind probes, you could use 'dd' with '/dev/random'
>>51661251
That wouldn't help
>>51661262
Well, how paranoid are you? Paranoid enough to believe there's gremlins in your BIOS?
Because that's a (distant) possibility.
>>51646462
Antergos, or manjaro in my opinion
I learned on mint+ crunchbang while being an intern with a it company and i worked on servers
Using antergos for learning ricing right now since im a beginner
You have to find things you want to do if you want to learn linux, but for bassic terminal, use codeacademy
>>51661220
Eh. Guess you won't know till you try.
I tried KDE, and even though I though LXDE and XFCE looked bad ootb, KDE looked much worse imo. In the end, my riced KDE looked like my XFCE, so yeah.
Cinnamon, gnome, unity, are DEs which are good and have nice driver support ootb.
If you want a nice desktop experience that looks nice without too much effort just get elementary os with numix and arc. Plenty of eye candy there.
>>51661376
>DEs which are good and have nice driver support ootb.
Ouch, that hurts to read
>>51661316
Paranoid enough to believe that the hdd firmware spyware is prepackaged on all consumer electronics by the nsa.
I don't think there's shit on my bios, though.
I want to make sure that there's nothing aside from the nsa shit, as they're not going to look into some asshole in Canada unless I make the shit out of a target of myself.
>>51661449
Not to say I approve of them spying on everybody, but at least with the sheer overload of information that entails they're not going to come after me unless I'm totally fucking retarded.
The version of keepass 2 in the Mint repository is outdated. I can use mono to run the EXE, but how do I integrate that into my sidebars and such? I'm trying to see how to add the Arch repository since the updated version is there.
My Windows chink tablet died on me after updating to 10 - namely, the touch, network and sound drivers are kill. There's no way I can revert to the old install since I made no backup.
My question is: did any of you /g/uys install Linux on an Intel Atom Z3735F processor tablet? Does openSUSE boot from USB through UEFI or whateverthefuck secure boot is used by Windows?
Please help.
>>51661376
Fair points.
I actually considered elementary, as mac like as it is, it does look very nice.
I don't mind putting some efforts into making it nice so it doesn't have to be out of the box pretty as long as it can get there. I suppose if after a couple months if I find it doesn't work out I can just install another DE. If I recall there is a command to purge out unused libraries, etc for such occasions.
>>51662256
Bit of a stab in the dark, but I know it works on most atoms, a lot of hardware in those off brand devices are pretty stock so that helps, so I would say there is a shot at it. Ubuntu as much as I avoid has some tablet support to it, I think Fedora does too, not sure on openSUSE, but those could be a place to start to get other stuff on. Sounds like there is nothing to lose trying.
>>51662460
>A lot of hardware in those off brand devices are pretty stock.
>Sounds like there is nothing to lose trying.
Thanks, anon, I'll attempt it tonight.
>hdd went to shit
>had kubuntu on it
dubs decide my new main distro
rolling myself for fedora
>>51663280
Kali
>>51663280
Gentoo
>>51663280
pfsense
>>51663280
install Trisquel
>>51663280
Suicide Linux. good luck.
>>51663333
its time
>>51663333
Quads have spoken.
>>51663333
Wow.
Apparently the gods hate his hard drive.
>>51663333
>Suicide Linux
holy shit, this actually exists
>Any time - any time - you type any remotely incorrect command, the interpreter creatively resolves it into rm -rf / and wipes your hard drive.
>>51663365
That's what shitposters deserve
>>51663280
>>51663333
Well be sure to keep a tally of how many days you last. Use a real sticky note because well you'll see.
whats better plasma 5 or gnome 3?
>>51663365
Well, he could just rename rm into something like del, and then neither the auto-correction nor any bash scripts will be able to find it.
It would completely go against the core philosophy of Suicide Linux, though, so doing so would obviously make him a tremendous faggot.
Or just install a minimal Suicide system, experiment on it until it's wiped out without keeping any important data on it, and then install something sane.
>>51663471
it wont wipe hdd if you dont use sudo, i hope
What do you recommend as a virtual keyboard?
For some reason onboard can't start.
>>51663499
If he uses sudo sl /root, or something, then yes, it will.
And living without sudo or su isn't really tenable.
Is there a relatively simple way to remove titlebars from Xfce, and maybe have the titlebar rightclick menu as Alt+Rightclick anywhere on a window ?
favorite IDEs anyone? I don't even program but the syntax highlighting is pretty nifty when editing dot files.
>>51656567
Anyone?
I just noticed that it doesn't happen to archives that I created myself, I even copypasted the names of archives I have problems with and it worked just fine as long as I compressed it myself.
I'm currently dicking around with Arch and want to install MATE with lightDM. The version I want is lightdm-gtk3-greeter, lightdm-another-gtk-greeter or something like that.
The first doesn't exist and the second one is on an AUR-mirror. I can access the AUR with yaourt, but I'm kinda stuck. Can anyone help?
>>51664270
Run thissudo apt-get install unace p7zip-rar sharutils rar arj lunzip lzip
Also I had the same problem, winrar with wine could display them properly.
So I think it has something to do with MS fonts or something like that.
Guys where do I download the latest Chromium? I cant believe I cant find the link or the package. I am on Xubuntu 15.04.
>>51664459
Ran the command but nothing changed. I still see them unpacked properly for about 0.5-1 second before everything turns into blocks.
I did install winrar though and this is how they're displayed there
>>51664648
How do I even upgrade Chromium to latest version?
Should I get fedora guise?
It's such a fitting name for a linux distro.
*tip*
>>51664710
It still doesn't work actually, I'm retarded. Tried to unzip it from terminal and it gets filled with those blocks
>>51655370
Chromeos and lots of internal Google stuff is based on gentoo. It's their current Linux flavor of the week.
>>51664752
what do you use now?
What's a good pdf reader that respects muh freedoms on xubuntu ?
