Welcome to /flt/, we are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are four ways to try GNU/Linux, you can:
0) Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
1) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU/Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot GNU/Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about GNU/Linux)
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with GNU/Linux
Before asking, please search for answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/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 (searx.me, ixquick, whatever)
https://wiki.archlinux.org/ (Most of the configurations and troubleshoots will literally work on various distros, including Debian)
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
>Shell pasta:
The based GNU Bourne Again SHell:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
The community driven BASH wiki:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
SED and AWK; your new best friends:
http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Google's Shell Style Guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
The Linux Command Line - A Book By William Shotts:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Interesting, useful and dangerous one-liners:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
Great online (and offline) linting tool:
http://www.shellcheck.net/
Know what you are doing:
http://explainshell.com/
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>>53535954
Should the keep the google guide?
pro: The guide is actually very good.
contra: google
>Filepicker meme:
Tippers:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/jkisielewicz/gtk2-filepicker-iconview/
Amazuntu:
https://launchpad.net/~helkaluin/+archive/ubuntu/gtk2-filechooser-iconview
Arsch Linux:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view/
Absolute Madmen:
https://gist.github.com/ahodesuka/01213036b58e510dc074
>>53535963
>that stop signs
kek, this is actually sort of cute
>>53535963
nobody likes you shitty apps guy, maybe reddit might give you a second chance.
>>53535965
I think I'll keep it until i need to specifically block stuff on there. the site works without JS, works on lynx and ublock origin and privacy badger don't detect anything.
>>53535938
>Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM
Did you not notice when changing this from simply "Install Linux on a VM", the fact that you have to qualify what GNU/Linux even is (an OS) means you probably shouldn't be using it in a thread that is friendly to newcomers?
That said, still better than shitty apps guy (who still seems to think we all have leddit tabs open, and just "pretend" that leddit is ebin upboat).
>>53535967
gtk2 patch helps, but they're still too small to be really useful. Why has no one changed it to have icon view yet?
Use dwb, the minimalist, graphical web browser written in C.
Features:
vi-like keybindings
easy customization via a webinterface
bookmarks
tab-completion
cookie- and proxy-support (including a cookie-whitelist)
hintmode
add keywords for searchengines and searchfields
save sessions
tiling layouts
plugin-, script-, and adblocker (including a whitelist for plugins and scripts)
userscripts
Dependencies: only libwebkit and gtk2!
Useful links
Arch wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/dwb
Export your firefox bookmarks to dwb: https://github.com/Sean-Der/Firefox2dwb
>>53536010
Disregard, wiki OP says "Install a Linux OS" too, it's just been so long since it's actually been used.
Anyway, "a GNU/Linux OS" is still a mouthful.
>>53536010
in the wiki it's
1) Install a Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
because of this i added "a OS"
i try to sync to the wiki but i don't agree on the naming morpheus and se7en seem to enforce (not using the wiki very much so it could be others) so i used GNU/Linux.
feel free to make OP yourself next time shitty reddit guy shows up or the thread hits autosage.
>>53536025
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/File_Picker_meme
here is an explanation of the whole thing.
maybe people should start to request this again.
>>53536064
>here is an explanation of the whole thing.
I know what happened I just think it's bullshit. Like this is one of the most basic features I can think of.
>maybe people should start to request this again.
Yes.
>>53536041
It's still using webkitgtk1 which is absolute trash
>>53535954
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Source:memegen() {
mode="$1"
string="$2"
mode1() {
for((i=0;i<=${#string}-1;i++)); do
printf '%s\n' "${string:$i}"
done
}
mode2() {
for((i=0;i<=${#string}-1;i++)); do
printf '%s%s\n' "${string:$i}" "${string:0:$i}"
done
}
mode3() {
for((i=1;i<=${#string};i++)); do
for((k=i;k<=${#string};k++)); do
printf ' '
done
for((j=1;j<=2*i-1;j++)); do
printf '%s' "${string:((i-1)):1}"
done
printf '\n'
done
}
case "$mode" in
-1|1) mode1 ;;
-2|2) mode2 ;;
-3|3) mode3 ;;
*) printf 'Something happened.\n' ;;
esac
}
Usage: memegen -1 "HELLO WORLD"
>>53535938
What point is there in swapping to Linux, most top-tier professional applications run exclusively on Windows, you can't really game on Linux, Windows has many built in applications that Linux can never have (for example, right clicking an MKV file in Explorer gives me the option to cast it directly to my TV, that's a native feature and is insanely useful.)
That's not to say Linix isn't useful for say Server applications and the like, but for daily running you'd be better off with a Mac than you would switching to Linux.
Unless I'm missing something.
>>53536064
>>53536071
I would honestly use kdialog if I didn't have to install all the kde bloat with it.
>>53536072
meh, not that bad
>>53536089
enjoy your crashing and freezing
>>53536071
well, you can still upload from file managers themselves or most image viewers with drag & drop. I know it's a nuisance for some people.
>>53536075
10/10
>>53536085
have you tried it? some people prefer GNU/Linux, some for freedom, some for convenience and some because it's gratis. for me personally it's both convenience and Freedom. but maybe it's not for you if you rely so much on proprietary software that alternatives are not cutting it for you.
>>53536100
Not crashing nor freezing over here, but sure I do enjoy dwb. Problem?
>>53536118
open up dwb's project page
>>53536010
Newcomers deserve education.
>>53536118
post a screenshot of your dwb setup
>>53536107
>well, you can still upload from file managers themselves or most image viewers with drag & drop. I know it's a nuisance for some people.
Annoying for me because I don't use a file manager. Technically I have Thunar installed but it's last resort for when I ever need it. You're right it is a huge nuisance.
>>53536107
Everyone relies on proprietary software.
So both my partitions are NTFS, I never dual-booted before but I want to try it, as I want to use one distribution for development work. ( using Linux/GNU on laptop ).
I have no experience with it, what should I do to split a new partition from D without formatting the whole hard disk?
How much space do you guys suggest to allocate for that new partition exclusively dedicated to Linux.
>>53536085
>but for daily running you'd be better off with a Mac than you would switching to Linux.
lol
Seriously. Wtf GNOME, why don't they just re-add the fucking GIMP filepicker (yes GTK actually GOT thumbnail preview, but only for GIMP, since it was made for it).
>>53536071
Default gnome stuff is generally trash.
Nautilus is completely gimped to the point that even for someone who has never used the terminal before, they would have less trouble just fucking learning it than trying to do basic stuff with stock nautilus now.
I generally like the desktop look, but actual gnome programs are shit. Another example is the way they changed the status menus and stuff in gedit. I'm actually tempted to just use notepadqq instead.
>>53536085
With just about any modern desktop, you can run Windows inside of something lightweight like Arch. If you have so much as a spare onboard graphics, you can do a PCI passthrough on QEMU, you can wind up running just about anything with about 99% the efficiency of running it natively (you have to use one of your cores for Linux, but that doesn't really matter too much with a quad-core or better).
The benefit of this is that you can create a copy profile of your fresh install and if it gets some nasty malware, as tends to happen with Windows whenever someone figures out the NSA backdoor, you can just delete the bad profile, copy the good profile and transfer any backup data to the first backup copy, and start using the first backup.
>>53536154
not everybody relies on free software on their machine. rms for example even uses a free bios.
>>53536172
just shrink it by the amount of space you need from inside windows. most beginner distros do the partitioning for you and will detect windows and not destroy anything.
>>53536186
>Another example is the way they changed the status menus and stuff in gedit. I'm actually tempted to just use notepadqq instead.
Just learn vim desu. Or use nano if you just don't give a fuck.
>>53536141
Okay, but I don't have css for my 4chan yet so it is not my final form.
>>53536186
the gui calculator is actually quite nice. and the archive program in nautilus is okay. the gnome-alsamixer is also okay but it just can't match up to TUI alsamixer.
>>53536193
meant proprietary not free software
>>53536178
really, ask them, maybe it helps.
>>53535967
A couple of years back I used Firefox with the KDE file picker patch and honestly, I prefer the default GTK one. Only showing one preview at a time makes sure that I don't fail to recognise any one image as I swiftly browse through the list. With the KDE file picker, I had to slow down horribly to make sure I didn't miss checking any of the thumbnails.
Of course, since people want a thumbnail view, I do think they should add one, and I'll be happy if they do as long as the current mode remains largely untouched. But I encourage people to see if they would actually prefer it before madly parroting the popular opinion.
>Font pasta:
General informations:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
Huge list of font resources:
https://github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts
List of monospaced fonts for programming:
https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface
List of monospaced bitmap fonts for programming:
https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
You may also need to enable bitmap fonts and rebuild the font cache:
rm -v /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
fc-cache -v -f
Fonts patched with shitloads of icon glyphs:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
Premade fontconfigs:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality
Configure your own fontconfig:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
Read the documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
>>53536233
the kde file picker can act like gnome's too,
just turn down thumbnail size way down and activate "aside preview"
>>53536196
GVim might ease me in the transition.
It really is the little things, like notepad(++/qq) having built-in (graphical) compare that you can toggle with keyboard shortcuts, rather than having to open meld in another window when using vim/gedit.
Also I end up doing a lot with Android Studio, or various other IDEs that do much hidden shit in the background you enter a world of pain just trying to edit the text files externally.
At least the functionality in graphical editors is somewhat similar, what I don't want to have to do is learn vim but still remember all the GUI shortcuts as well.
>>53536241
desu
>install infinality
>done
>>53536253
bloat
Literally add some lines into your fontconfig.
>>53536244
Defeats the point of going through the hassle of making Firefox use it, though.
>>53536265
Doesn't help as much.
>>53536250
You can also open vim in split-screen mode, with the -O option:-
vim -O file1 [file2 ...]
To then turn on diff mode, you need to run the :diffthis command in each pane.
Another use-case scenario, is if you've already got one file open in vim, and you want to open and compare it against another. Then you can use the following vim commands:-
:vs otherfile (open otherfile in vertical split screen)
:diffthis (turn on diff mode in original file)
Ctrl+w l (swap to newly opened file)
:diffthis (turn on diff mode in opened file)
You can then turn off diff mode in each pane with the vim command :diffoff.
EDIT
And the other standard one that hasn't been mentioned:-
vim -d file1 [file2 ...]
This is equivalent to calling vimdiff directly.
Also vimdiff file1 [file2 ...]
>>53536212
I'm talking specifically about the removal of type-ahead search.
The gnome devs are of the attitude that:
>most people want to search the entire tree rather than find the first file in the cd starting with that letter and highlight it, when you start typing
Changing the default option is stupid enough, but they removed the option completely to reenable type-ahead search.
As soon as it become easier to just install another file manager than to enable options in nautilus, I generally lost faith in the gnome devs.
>>53536270
still makes gnome's shit though
Even when one does Libre Boot, can't the NSA still break in via hardware backdoors?
How can one's constitutional right to privacy be protected when using computers and the Internet?
>>53536253
>>53536265
Infinality isn't maintained any more, is it?
>>53536343
Actually I don't know.
>>53536321
There is free hardware, but sadly pretty RARE.
https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw
>>53536321
how would a hardware backdoor work without software to utilize it? i am genuinely interested.
>>53536365
>>53536343
not just that, freetype2 has become so good that most people just won't need infinality.
>>53536321
Documents regarding this were held by The Guardian, but the journalists had to destroy the hard drives by request of the spy agencies.
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-nsas-undetectable-hard-drive-hack-was-first-demonstrated-a-year-ago
>>53536620
What was nice with Infinality was the install-and-forget nature of it. I have yet to see any universally accepted go-to configuration with freetype for people who don't want to get more than the tips of their toes wet.
>>53536620
you do realize that freetype2 just merged large parts of infinality like their subpixel hinting patch
>>53536702
agreed
>>53536831
of course, this is why most people won't need to install infinality.
>>53536833
>most people won't need to install infinality.
most distros (everyone but Ubuntu) still have shitty fonts by default.
>>53536997
configs are a thing, a simple text file (or some gui settings i guess) can fix it to a point most people will not care anymore.
>>53537007
that's worse than just having had to install infianlity
>>53537024
>copy paste text file from the debian wiki
>done
no additional bloat needed 4 me
What theme is this? This is the fedora 23 defualt theme. Question is, how do I get this on Debian Jessie?
>>53537203
you could search for it in /usr/share/themes/ of fedora with GNOME.
>>53537203
Adwaita. I would guess that's what's default in Debian as well, as it is Gnome's default. The difference you're seeing is because Fedora 23 had 3.18 and Jessie has 3.14.
>>53537248
nothing, anon
>>53537273
try
cd /usr/share/themes/
ls
>>53537268
and how would I update Adwaita in Debian so it gives me 3.18?
>>53537302
you upgrade to testing or unstable.
>>53537288
>>53537310
Thank you, based anons
Which is a better Linux distro for a novice Linux user, Ubuntu or Mint?
>>53537369
*buntu is probably better, but look at one of the "flavours" rather than the original unity. xubuntu and ubuntu gnome are nice i heard.
MORPHEUS CHECK YOUR FUCKING EMAIL.
How is GNU/Linux in terms of touchscreen support? Which DE is best?
There is no way consumer Linux will compete going forward if it doesn't support touchscreen interfaces.
>>53537605
>There is no way consumer Linux will compete going forward if it doesn't support touchscreen interfaces.
it already does, it's called android. to avoid confusion you can use the name GNU/Linux.
Touchscreen support is becoming better steadily and is pretty nice but still not perfect. Unity is a bit better with it than other DEs at the moment but Unity is very unpopular for a few reasons that might or might not be of interest to you.
>>53537703
>android
>GNU/Linux
No.
>>53537769
didn't you read the quote?
>>53537780
>How is GNU/Linux in terms of touchscreen support? Which DE is best?
>it already does, it's called android.
I read it, they didn't answer the question at all.
>How is windows 7 in DX12 support
>Use windows 10
Would also not be a very good answer.
>>53537870
I didn't say anyone should use android. read again, all of it.
>>53537916
They asked a question, and then followed it with a statement that used different terminology.
You effectively "answered" their statement, and ignored the question entirely.
It's okay to be upset, I would be too if a stranger on the internet made me realise I couldn't read.
>>53537958
>Touchscreen support is becoming better steadily and is pretty nice but still not perfect. Unity is a bit better with it than other DEs at the moment but Unity is very unpopular for a few reasons that might or might not be of interest to you.
Is tearing a big issue on Linux? I'm running Nvidia drivers from their site for things like mpv, the dolphin-emulator, and a few gaymes, but there's occasional tearing on GNOME.
>>53538018
it sounds bullshit but disabling sync to vblank (with flipping enabled) makes things smoother while retaining vsync for opengl applications in ubuntu/unity for me
How do I get good?
I've been using Linux for 3 years now, but I didn't start to write scripts and use the terminal for productivity until recently.
I'm reading the LPIC-1 (Linux Professional Institute Certification) and writing functions and small scripts.
Is there a better path for my objective?
Also, why are there two threads?
/g/ I need your help.
I'm trying to get pdf-presenter running, but it doesn't want to render PDF files. The problem is:
'Unable to load library 'freetype'" UnsatisfiedLinkError exception
and another freetype exception:
'Could not initialize class de.intarsys.cwt.freetype.Freetype' NoClassDefFoundError exception.
The solution to the problem is described here:
https://sourceforge.net/p/pdfpresenter/discussion/1245778/thread/785dafd6/
"The problem is that pdf presenter does not find the library. [...]
You can simply change the startMac.command by adding the line "export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/X11/lib/" after the first line (see below). This sets the library path. it works for me."
Obviously, this solution is for MAC users. The folder /usr/X11/lib does not exist in my file system.
Can somebody help me on this issue?
>>53538061
Write your own init program.
>>53535938
how do I use more than one option on a waitpid() function?
like WNOHANG and WIFEXITED at the same time
What is better about Linux when compared to Windows?
Do Win. programs work on Linux?
>>53538214
man is worth shit for this,
I still get compiler errors
not for me, you can fix it in almost all cases. with the nvidia drivers you can fix it in the drivers afaik.
>>53538061
>>53538142
I'll try to be more specific.
What can I do to get better at Linux and enhance my employability (recent engineering graduate here).
>>53538231
>>53538276
was meant for>>53538018
if you can't do it with drivers you can changing compositors and their settings.
I have installed yaourt and package-query on my new system. can i remove the folders in my home directory wich where created with the download via git?
Can I install linux in a separate drive without dual booting with Windows?
I'll explain, I have windows 7 in a hdd and I'm going to get other one. I want to disconnect my windows drive and install debian on the new drive like If I only had one OS. Then, I want to reconnect the two drives and use the bios settings to boot from one drive or the other.
Will this work?
>>53538356
yes
>>53538370
Thanks, I was a bit scared that I would mess something up
>>53538326
Yes. The installed packages are stored somewhere else by the system.
>>53538060
>>53538304
I disable vblank and tried out a game on dolphin, no tearing for now which is good.
>>53538416
testing this on games might not be the best test. i test it with this: https://youtu.be/uNOKWoDtbSk?t=3m29s
>>53538413
Thanks for the info.
also, is someone using qutebrowser here?
i like it, but iam having problems with captchas.
>>53538124
Found the solution. I made a link in
/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/ :
ln -s libfreetype.so.6 libfreetype.so
Is there a way to use my second display as a dedicated video display? Ideally, it wouldn't affect anything to turn this display off and on even though it's connected through HDMI.
>>53538500
you could add geometry=100%:100% to your mpv.conf so it always opens videos there. but i don't know an answer to the other thing you are asking.
>>53538434
Thanks for this, I guess. No tearing, but some parts of the video were a little slowed down, especially the guy with the cap and moon characters.
>>53538531
I only used this video as it uses 2 flashing colors. if you see only white and no artifacts rigth after the start of the embedded video everything is alright, if not it's not.
>>53538562
Ah, now I see. It played fine on mpv. Playing it through Iceweasel/Firefox, however, is just awful.
>>53538623
if you want good playback on FF/IW you need at least v46
>>53538667
I'd have to build it. I'll just wait until it gets sent to the repos, mpv works so everything's fine.
>>53538291
Actually, the user system is shit tier. I changed the user the other day and essentially broke everything. It took me a few days to fix it and even now, pulseaudio is still partially broken.
>>53538729
Why are you even using Pulseaudio? Do you actually have a need for any of its features that are not in alsa anyway?
Hey guys, can I install linux from a disk using only the CMD. I say this because I found an old thinkpad that I was try to refurbish, it listed the windows OS as unregistered so after few days and defragging the hard drive I can only run in safe mode with CMD.
>>53538870
>Why are you even using Pulseaudio?
Pulseaudio handles multiple sources, does the mixing and then sends one signal to alsa which passes it to sound card.
>>53538985
you don't need to use CMD at all. you obtain installation media of the distro you choose and boot from it directly through BIOS or UEFI.
>>53538993
I know what pulseaudio does, I was interested whether you actually need the features that also doesn't have.
>>53536100
>>53536089
>>53536072
Yeah, I went into it pretty excited, but got segfaults after a few minutes of use.
mpd users, is there any simple way to get a queue feature? I've looked around and around but can't find a plugin for it, or even anyone talking about it. Any clients have the feature baked into them?
In case not, what is your preferred way of getting a specific file to play after the current one?
If I'm installing multiple linux distros on the same drive, do I need multiple swap partitions?
>>53539979
Depends. Are you going to run them at the same time?
dwb mustard race reporting in. Why aren't you running a minimalist web browser /g/?
Anyone recommend a new tiling WM or new DE? I'm loving my Mint experience so far, but I'm not crazy about Cinnamon.
What's the difference between "&" and ";" in sh?
I know that both chain commands (with "&&" and ";;" chaining them sequentially), but what's actually different between them? I know that appending & to a command keeps the terminal open (similar to ^Zing and running 'bg'/'fg'), but ; doesn't, and that ; is used in loops/etc. while & isn't.
>>53540203
Awesome is the only tiling wm you'll ever need.
>>53535954
holy fucking shit this is literally the first time I have ever seen him wearing this sweater
what the fuck
>>53540119
Probably not. Already installed ubuntu, now installing Arch. One more question, when duel booting Arch do I need to create and mount a boot partition? It should use the boot stuff installed by ubuntu already shouldn't it?
>>53540854
It should use the boot stuff for Ubuntu if you want to boot Ubuntu.
That being said if you want to do some fancy UEFI tricks you can throw the Arch kernel/initramfs into the same boot partition as Ubuntu's, and then just create separate booting profiles in your efi loader.
>>53540759
; simply ends the statement, and runs the next bit as if its on a new line
& actually applies logic, but you can just use a program running as a part of the logic.
When you do:
>program1 & programb
It will run program1 and then program2, and if both of their returns are "false" (return zero for success) then overall it evaluates to false.
However, most people will use this syntax to take advantage of short-circuit logic.
when you AND two logic statements, if the first is negative then it doesnt matter what the second is, the answer must also be negative, so the second is never evaluated.
What it means is if program1 is run and is successful, you dont actually need to run program2 because the logic result will always be 0.
If program1 was not successful, then you need to run program2 still to determine the logic result.
>>53540969
Interesting. So does that mean that if I could theoretically use || in the same way?
Well I just checked and it turns out I can. Neat.
>>53535938
That's a non-free bird
>>53541002
Of course, it completely depends on what you want to achieve though.
If you want the first to run, then only the second if the first fails, you use &&
If you want the first to run, then only the second if the first succeeds, you use ||
Seems confusing, but returning 0 for success is much more logical as there is usually one way to success but many possible ways to fail.
Kinda wish the pasta in OP didn't recommend against overwriting windows for Linux. I hate windows. One week in Linux has me wishing I didn't set up dual boot. Really don't feel like reinstalling and setting everything up again. I'll hold out a bit longer but the pasta should read : "if you don't play games and don't need Adobe suite for work, GO BALLS DEEP!"
I've tried using Ubuntu Mate which uses Gnome 2.
I dislike the GUI because the close button when you maximize a window isn't clickable if you put your mouse on the top right of your screen. This ergonomic issue is a pretty big annoyance for me. You should be able to close a window without having to be precise with your mouse, just by flicking it to the top right.
Are all GNU/Linux GUIs like this? Any suggestions for distros with GUIs that don't do this?
Is it possible to run a "nested" gnu screen session?
I have screen set up on a remote box, I have a local screen session going and in one of the screen windows i ssh into the remote. Then i run screen on the remote. This works but if i try to use ^c+a+c it opens a new screen window on my local screen session instead of my remote screen session. Is it possible to specify which screen sessions the keybindings should apply to?
>>53541344
Just boot Gparted or whatever from USB, remove the Windows partitions and resize the Linux ones. Operation might take a while, so let it run overnight or over the day while you're away.
>>53541344
>Reinstalling
Nigga just extend your partition. Wipe windows, and let linux use the rest of the free space.
You could even make a new partition for media or whatever.
If anything, the main reason to dual-boot first is the ensure your hardware doesn't have any problems, and then to move your stuff across to linux before destroying the windows partition.
Some people have a single large 2TB or whatever drive, so backing up and formatting is not the best solution.
>>53541394
most people that worry about it don't use a mouse to close stuff. in most DEs you can close stuff with alt+f4
>installs fedora
>great and beautiful
>opens mozilla firefox
>after 5 minutes nouveau crashes and hangs X
>X says it's a fedora build and you can't report it to the bug list
>install slackware
>works perfectly
>installs new kde (more intensive)
>open source drivers crash
>install nvidia official drivers
>they don't
nouveau drones WILL defend their shitty drivers, I guess.
>>53541526
Never in my life have I seen anyone defend Nouveau.
>>53541451
YES: CTRL-a a c
nested isn't much fun.
>>53541526
>nouveau drones WILL defend their shitty drivers, I guess.
are you retarded? the noveau drivers are made by volunteers that have to reverse engineer everything just to make it possible to use nvidia GPUs without using proprietary software. Nvidia are massive assholes that don't provide decent documentation. the people maintaining noveau are working hard for you and yet you decide to be disrespectful.
>>53541491
>>53541512
Are you kidding me it's that easy? I thought for sure I would have to reformat the entire drive to get rid of Windows. Thanks for the tip!
I do have one question: Since Windows hijacked /dev/sda1,2 and 3 all for itself, I installed / and /swap on an extended sda4 partition. Will it just reorganize itself? Would I be able to seperate the /home from / and onto it's own partition?
I picked this in this menu, my question is should I be using something different?
>>53541646
Use the open drivers if you can, use the proprietary drivers if you need to. That's what I do at least.
>>53541570
Cool thx bro
>>53541642
It should just rename them in order, but it doesnt matter.
You already have grub installed (well I hope you do) so windows has nothing to do with the boot selection anyway.
If you were getting rid of linux and wanted to keep windows, then you might have some fun resizing shit.
I tried to reduce the partition that windows was using while it was running, the process hung and couldn't be safely stopped so I ended it.
MBR was FUBAR, no microshit tools to save me now. Had to use a live cd to fix it.
>>53541674
I use proprietary because that I play games every now and then. I was just wondering if there's something else I should be using because I keep hearing stuff about vulkan and wayland which I only have a very basic understanding of.
>>53541749
Alright thanks. Yeah I do have GRUB so no worries there. My first attempt at installing I fucked up and windows wouldn't boot, DriveDroid on my phone (thanks anon for the tip) and PuppyLinux saved my ass. I'm fanboying hard but seriously Linux is godmode. Also, can't believe how good using the cli is, so mad at all the hate from windows shills putting me off for so long.
>>53541825
the proprietary drivers don't support those fully yet afaik. with them you are at amds mercy.
Got an old laptop that I want to try a Linux distro on. It's a low end with Centrino 1.73 GHz with 1GB RAM. I just want to use it for general browsing/lightweight work and perhaps video playback. Is Lubuntu a good lightweight distro to try?
>>53541981
yes
>>53541749
>If you were getting rid of linux and wanted to keep windows, then you might have some fun resizing shit.
>I tried to reduce the partition that windows was using while it was running,
Not Windows fault that you are doing it wrong
Who has Grand Theft Auto Five running via Wine? Preferably Mac OS X, but Linux should work too.
Also: Let's imply I have $10. Who should I give the money to, when I'd want an easier and better working Wine? PlayOnLinux, wine or Crossover?
I guess wine would be the best option, right? It's cross platform and open and get's used by all three mentioned projects. However, Winetricks and Crossover are really worth their money, too, as they make using wine easy.
I guess I'll give one third of that money to codeweavers and two thirds to the wine project, as I need Mac OS X and Linux to work with it.
>>53542031
instead of winetricks I meant PlayOnLinux, I mixed the names up while writing that up
>>53542031
You donate as upstream as possible.
Does anyone remember that guy which donated to Crunchbang?
>>53541991
Given that MS don't provide a whole lot of tools for that kind of thing, it's an easy mistake to make.
Pretty sure the disk partitioner didn't warn me either.
Everything was defragged (used a boottime defrag too to even shift the system stuff like pagefile), there was plenty of consecutive free space at the end of the drive, all it had to do was resize the partition.
>>53542058
ass
I'm going to be switching my daily from a 1024*748 laptop to an old tower with a 1440*900 TV as a monitor. At the moment having something fill the whole screen is fine, but on that screen it would be less than ideal.
Long story short: Is there a way to have a tiling window manager, i3 for example, with a fluxbox style bar and menu?
>>53538729
>pulseaudio
I purged this on the desktop and suddenly all of my audio stuttering problems were fixed. I have no clue what was wrong, but I'd rather just use Alsa by itself.
is there a way I can search files and/or folders from the whisker menu in Xubuntu? I'm used to having that option
>>53541526
If anything blame Nvidia and their noncooperation. At least they're bringing out signed blobs for future kernel versions. I'd still go with the AMD train, AMDGPU is slowly becoming great. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu-1604-tonga
>>53542425
I'm wondering how long it takes until I write that feature.
If would make Xfce the ultimate shit wrecking WM that would kill any other desktop in every way.
It's me again.
I'm trying to install Krita in debian unstable but trying to do so comes up withThe following packages have unmet dependencies:
krita : Depends: calligra-libs (= 1:2.8.5+dfsg-1.2) but it is not going to be installed
Depends: libexiv2-13 but it is not installable
Depends: libilmbase6 (>= 1.0.1) but it is not installable
Depends: libopenexr6 (>= 1.6.1) but it is not installable
Then, trying to install calligra-libs directly results inThe following packages have unmet dependencies:
calligra-libs : Depends: libilmbase6 (>= 1.0.1) but it is not installable
Recommends: fonts-lyx but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libqca2-plugin-ossl but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Trying to install libilmbase6 reveals that it has been replaced with libilmbase6v5 which is already installed, but calligra apparently doesn't see. Is there anything I can do for calligra to see it?
This also happens with libopenexr6, while libexiv2-13 doesn't even have an installation candidate.
How are Nvidia drivers om Ubuntu 15.10? I've been using 15.10 MATE on my laptop and aerver for a good while now and no problems. But they both use Intel HD. My main machine which I was thinking of dual booting has a gtx 980 ti. Any problems with black screens, shutdowns, etc? I just want the gpu to be able to output at my monitors full res without a problem for basic web and movie use. 2560x1440 over hdmi.
I just dont want to go through the process of installing Linux alongside Windows only to encounter a bunch of problems. Then I have to delete the Linux partitions, fix Windows MBR etc.
Input is appreciated.
Bros, I wanna go full Linux retard on my next build. Want a cute little ITX box for surfing, shitpoasting, VM tinkering, maybe some light gaming with Steam and GOG.
Is AMD still shit for graphics drivers on Linux? Kinda wanna go either AMD APU, or AMD CPU+GPU to support the underdog. Fancy a switch from my Intel Q6600.
Don't really want to wait for Zen so I could go for new refresh stuff A10 7690K with Wraith cooler, but would then be stuck on old socket.
What do?
>>53543014
Meant 7890K
hi /flt/
When i use thunar/gigolo (on ubuntu) to sftp somewhere, I can see all the files on the explorer but opening them just opens a blank window (for instance, a text file would open sublime with untitled file). The one fix I found on google did not work for me, is there any way to get this working?
I have gnome tweak tool installed but it won't show up in the list of apps, I have to launch it from the terminal
how can I get it to show?
>>53543383
It should be under advanced setting
http://askubuntu.com/questions/202541/how-do-i-open-gnome-tweak-tool-from-the-terminal
>>53542544
So, using any other branch other than stable on Debian and you get that? Debian, not even once.
Unity is the only thing in Ubuntu that has spyware and shit, right? Does the MATE release of Ubuntu respect privacy?
>>53543462
yeah, the amazon integration is on vanilla buntu only.
>>53543435
no luck. It shows as a Python script in ~/bin/, maybe that's the issue. It's a minor gripe anyway
>>53543383
it usually is in the submenu where the settings are.
>>53543435
Eh that's not too far from home anyway.
If you haven't already, add ~/bin to your path so you can run it from anywhere with specifying the location, too.
>>53543383
>>53543540
just logged onto my gnome machine.
it's under the utilities submenu in the scrolling list of apps.
>>53543569
Sorry, meant for: >>53543500
what's the best way to go about compiling a distro tailored specifically to my hardware. I've had a terrible TERRIBLE time, having multiple distros shit a fucking brick in different ways[suddenly not booting, display breaking after waking from sleep, losing control over the sleep timer to name a few], or being irritated by the little things, like the strip of pixels on the extreme side of the screen in lubuntu that don't count as part of the scroll bar when a window is maximized.
not posting a speccee, not interested in
>amd lol
memers
Thank you for this awesome thread.
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>>53543784
You would then want to actually compile everything, so you have three choices: gentoo, funtoo and LFS.
I just want a gtk-compatible file browser with an image preview pane, is that too much to ask?
please help me /flt/, I'm currently using thunar
So I have a bunch of .txt files and I want to merge all the unique lines into a single file. Is there an easy way (single line command) of doing this or do I have to create a script for it?
what web browser do you guys use? i just installed lxde and i liked seamonkey but are there any alternatives out there? for some reason i cant get the password manager up? (PLUS if its not proprietary)
>>53544329
literally uniq, although if you want to check for non-adjacent duplicate lines you need sort -u instead.
>>53544645
The check has to be cross files. But I guess that if I put them all together and then sort -u it'll work fine. Google did not immediately turn up anything is why I asked.
Thanks.
>>53544710
sort -u will take as many files as you throw at it, then concatenate the results.
>sort -u f1 f2 f3 ... fn outfile
functions identically to:
>cat f1 f2 f3 ... fn | sort -u outfile
I thought gentoo uses openrc why is there systemd on my process?
hey /g/ I'm new to Arch Linux. I want to learn everything by doing it the hard way, or in my case, using the command line or a command line interface.
Right now I'd like for my thinkpad to automatically connect to my wireless network at home. How do I do this?
>>53544710
>>53544818
Oops, you have to use -o to specify an output file, or just use >
> sort -u f1 f2 f3 > outfile
> sort -u f1 f2 f3 -o outfile
MORPHEUS CHECK YOUR FUCKING EMAIL.
>>53544329
I've just realised I didn't really ask properly.
Do you want to print ONLY unique lines, or just remove duplicates but still print them the once?
tl;dr sort/uniq will do both, check the man pages.
>>53544884
Nevermind this, apparently this time my NetworkManager is configured correct and it stores my wireless information. I just reinstalled Arch and this time I think everything went better than before.
>>53545078
Still print once. For example
File1:
abc
def
xyz
File2:
abc
stu
Result:
abc
def
xyz
stu
>>53545078
>>53544904
Seems to do the job. Thanks.
How do I lower the minimum size of a partition? I put too much space in my main partition and not enough in my root partition but it looks like they're set, when I try to resize the partitions on Gparted the option to create free space is grayed out
>>53544630
people around here keep mentioning dwb. I'm currently using epiphany, which works nicely as well.
>>53535938
>>53535938
Can you anons help me with customising my Ubuntu system?
I wanna change the theme (icons, colour scheme, animations etc.) -- is there any crash course or resources for learning about DE and OS customisation?
Thanks.
I have this incredible line of code that I once picked up on a thread that downloads all images/gif/webms in a thread.wget -q -O - "4chan link" | sed "s/>/>\n/g" | grep "eThum" | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sed -e "s/href=\"/http:/g;s/.$//" | wget -q -i -
And I have modified this a bit to#!/bin/bash
echo "4Chan Link:"
read link
echo "Folder name:"
read folder
mkdir $folder
wget -q -O - $link | sed "s/>/>\n/g" | grep "eThum" | cut -d ' ' -f 3 | sed -e "s/href=\"/http:/g;s/.$//" | wget -q -i -P $folder/ -
The issue is, with the added folder thingy it doesn't work. I don't get any errors but I don't get a single downloaded file. Anyone knows the fix?
>>53544246
>>53535938
At one point Richard had a relatively skinny body but a fat head
I've only programmed c++ on windows so I'm a little confused. C++ is compiled to an exe on windows, but if linux can't run exe, what is it compiled to?
>>53545596
File extensions don't have the same weight they do on windows.
gcc by default compiles to a.out for example, which you would run just by doing
/a.out in the terminal
Instead of getting that silly "are you sure you want to run this" dialogue, whenever you download files from the web, by default they are not runnable.
In order to run the file, you have to add execute permissions to the file for your user.
tl;dr you can "execute" anything, it just wont do anything most of the time. Good default permissions stop you from running stuff that will wreck your shit.
whats the best minimal os clear of bloat? i want something easy to install. im already running arch but i think i fucked up the install because lots of things seem to be broken and i want something that just werks. preferably something based off arch that uses pacman
>>53545820
>im already running arch but i think i fucked up the install because lots of things seem to be broken
I think that's just arch m8
>>53545190
assuming you have logical volume management working on your drive then have a web search around on how to shrink such partitions. it's pretty risky desu so be prepared to backup.
also, no LVM = reinstall
>ITT there are people who don't use terminology as their default shell
L M A O I N G @ Y O U
>>53545820
Solus
>>53545482
Anyone? It seems easy but I can't figure it out.
>>53540854
We'll fuck. I accidently nuked my ssd installing arch. I was trying to mount my boot and somehow I accidentally the whole partition, now I have to reinstall everything since my boot loader is dead, thank God I have gparted on disk. Didn't lose any data since I have another hdd but this is annoying
>>53545931
I'll take a look at it in a bunch of hours in nobody has already. But I can't promise anything.
>>53545966
Sure, I'll check on the thread tomorrow.
>>53545477
Bump for help.
>>53545942
>2016
>Falling for the Arch Meme
How do I host a mumble server on my debian without using my IP address. No VPN either because what's the point, I'd rather buy a server.
>>53546366
You purchase a domain. But if you can resolve the address to find the IP.
IPs are an essential part of how the internet works. You can't do anything withouth one.
>>53546366
They will be able to find your IP no matter what. You are better off just renting at that point. Mumble is literally dirt cheap anyway.
>>53536041
Not being developed anymore dipshit
How do I use the command line to search for a file or directory in a directory and display the result similar to ls?
>>53538444
If by problems you mean they don't load try setting whatever the referer setting is to always
>>53538993
So does dmix
Hey guys noob question but what the hell is this tag thing I see in some peoples terminal windows? It'd look pretty neato to have my promt look similair.
>>53539682
Doesn't mpc have an insert command now¿ Should be easy to write your own command to do it anyway
>>53539979
Only if you are hibernating then booting into a different one ...
>>53546454ls | fgrep "thing"
orfind -name "thing*"
find is a lot more powerful than piping through fgrep or similar, but you might not need it.
>>53546589
They are using a font with the â–ºsymbol that takes up the whole vertical space, and modifying their $PS1 variable (the thing which determines how the prompt looks) to use that and have fancy colours.
Some people refer to it as the powerline prompt, after the vim addon which does something similar.
>>53542544
Sometimes if it is just packaging sit complaining but I'm pretty sure the linking will run fine I use apt-get download then dpkg -i to unpack the purchase package in place. Doesn't get configured but meh
>>53535938
Any thoughts on how to diagnose this error?System Information:
OS Version:
Linux Distribution: Ubuntu Xenial Xerus (development branch)
Kernel Version: 4.4.0-13-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 11 19:31:18 UTC 2016
Hardware Info:
Machine Type To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
CPU Type AuthenticAMD x86_64
CPU Info AMD Athlon(tm) X4 860K Quad Core Processor
CPU Speed 4200 MHz
CPU Physical Cores 4
CPU Logical Cores 4
Physical Memory 8182424 KiB
Virtual Memory 8343548 KiB
Crash Dump:
266dbc26-e449-f7c4-42c16d88-64bb5a2c.dmp (96008 bytes)
Application Log:
[thread ffffffff][I][7]: Log system initialised
[thread ffffffff][I][35]: Default allowed number of simultaneously open files in the system is 2448.
[thread ffffffff][I][35]: Current memlock limit is 65536.
[thread ffffffff][I][35]: setrlimit(RLIMIT_MEMLOCK) failed, (1) Operation not permitted
[thread ffffffff][I][41]: setup_teb_register() - using LDT entry 13
[thread 00000001][I][90]: Forcing OpenGL Core context usage
[thread 00000001][I][122]: ===enforcing log flush===
I'm trying to run Bioshock Infinite on Ubuntu, I have the newest proprietary nvidia drivers installed
>>53546366
Use one of those free no-ip services
>>53546435
Yes it is faggot troll, stop shitposting.
>>53546813
I fixed it by checking the github and setting the launch property__GLVND_DISALLOW_PATCHING=1 %command%
to the game
>>53545487
who here ~/bin?
>>53536041
Why is dwb listed as [masked] in gentoo portage? Is it botnet? Dillo browser which sounds similar is not listed as [masked]
Gentoo noob here so not quite sure what the masked shit is all about. Currently im running links2 as my main browser but i'm interested in other lightweight minimal browsers
>>53547281
using bin as your home dir?
>>53547326
a personal bin/ for your scripts and tools and stuff
>>53547326
personal bin for scripts
>>53547326
I think he means using a bin folder to host scripts.
>>53547339
That sounds cool i was thinking about that today. I have some shell scripts i've written that i use to automate certain things and at the moment i've just been putting the executables in /usr/bin but yeah i would like to have a way to keep my homemade shit separate from legit stuff i've downloaded.
>>53547378
PATH=$PATH:/home/user/bin
Best option for running cs6 illustrator and photoshop on linux? I'm running gentoo on a thinkpad x220
From what I know my options are
1. Dual boot windows - but i don't want to have to switch back and forth all the time
2. VM via kvm and qemu running windows
3. Wine.
Currently I run CS6 on a mac so I would also be cool with running a vm of os x but not sure how feasible that is. It seems to be easier to run windows as a vm.
I played with linux enough to comfortably use it as my sole OS now. What (practical/employable) skills can I take from this? I'm looking at the link below so far
http://www.techexams.net/forums/lpi-rhce-sair/109712-rhce-todo-list-other-stuff.html
>>53547484
start shell scripting?
pick up some prog language?
>>53535938
Ahh, Just fresh installed debian jessie. Wanted to try something new, So went CLI only then installed openbox. Picking up some sexy gtk themes atm, Was wondering how you can install infinality font's on debian? The last guide i found was from 2013. or is there a method for good looking font's that "just werk"?
>>53547378
use /usr/local/bin
New to debian, just installed awesome wm and now I'm going through configuring stuff. I noticed whenever I close my laptop lid my entire pc freezes and I'm kinda confused as to why that is. Googling the problem just gives me ubuntu users with the same problem.
>>53547281
GNU/Saved
>>53547479
If you dual boot, you can use that partition as the qemu disk, so you can run it in a VM and boot into it if you need to.
>>53541394
>...when you maximize a window isn't clickable if you put your mouse on the top right of your screen.
This annoys me too.
Some DE's let you middle click on the task bar to close and that is slightly better.
But for the close window thing I do have a solution.
I make a .desktop file (/usr/share/applications) which calls alt+f4 or whatever is the hotkey for close window. (xdotools)
Then it will appear in the application menu and I can drag it to the bar and place it in the top right corner.
I remove title bars when an application is maximized to free up some space and avoid having multiple close buttons.
How can I play a video playlist in mpv using natural sorting?
How do I dopragma table_info(X)without it looking like complete unreadable garbage in sqlite3? I want an actual table shaped table.
>>53547758
>Googling the problem just gives me ubuntu users with the same problem.
if there's useful advice then use it, this sort of stuff is distro-agnostic also
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Power_management#Power_management_with_systemd
>>53547758
>Googling the problem just gives me ubuntu users with the same problem
Googling problems, unless distro specific, will always give you mostly ubuntu users thanks to the number of people using it.
Why the FUCK doesn't Arch Linux compile Vim with xterm clipboard enabled by default?
It's a fucking useful feature, I don't want to have to maintain my vim version manually just for clipboard support.
>>53549320
But they do
>>53549363
No they don't.
Install vim from the official repo.
Then dovim --version | grep xterm_clipboard
It should be a minus.
