Previously on: >>53592164
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
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/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/
>>53597639
Nice gnu.
How do I make a tar file in cli? I'm trying to make a backup and I want to tar a folder.
Aside from Gnome Tweak Tool, is there anything else I should know about before trying to customize Gnome?
>>53597711
kek
Saved it from the last Happy Birthday RMS thread.
>>53597716
man tar
I think it's the c switch, for «create». It's been long since I last made a tarball.
Hey, mind if I pop in?
If /flt/ can help me, I've been looking for a more secure but open OS to switch to. I've been on trashdows mainly because programs I use a lot are specifically coded for Windows only.
It's become a crutch to me, and now it's just become a burden, and it's made me want to switch. What distro should I go with that has the stuff that can support me without being backdoored to hell?
And to speak, I've tried NeckbeardHad, Ubuntu, and even Mint. I can't get behind them.
>>53597716
use this function:mktgz () {
GZIP=-9 tar cvzf "${1%%/}.tgz" "${1%%/}/"
}
>>53597716
>No manual entry for tarh
What now buddy
>>53597751
-h (dont drink and shitpost)
>>53597707
>using Backdoored Again SHell
>>53597745
Debian
>>53597751
Meant for >>53597735
>>53597763
Fuck off, macfags are not allowed here.
>>53597765
Alright, second question...
Does it have steam?
Not for games, but for communication.
Sorry to say I have contacts on there that I keep in contact with.
>>53597751
>>53597767
Say what? What kind of system are you on that doesn't have the manual for tar?
Oh well, just search for «gnu tar manual» in your favourite search engine then.
>>53597816
fresh install of gentoo
>>53597798
Yes and SteamOS is based on Debian.
>>53597798
Yup, I'm on Debian and on Steam right now.
>>53597864
I know that. But I don't specifically LIKE steamOS because it isn't multimedia useable like Debian is. That's how I roll.
Hey, ex winfag here, I just installed debian (with GNOME) and I'm a full pleb, first time using Linux and I already have two problems :
>Screen resolution won't go higher than 1024x600 (even with xorg and all) despite having a full HD screen and a 980ti
>No sound at all, my Headphones are linked to a Xonar DGX
>>53597894
Have you tried going to the Display options and selecting your monitor to change the resolution?
>>53597854
Huh, I would've assumed Gentoo defaults to bringing man pages with. I've never been too clear on that flag business. I really should put Gentoo on one of my machines one day, if for no other reason than to see for myself what it's like.
Anyway, fresh install and all ... you DO have tar installed, right?
>>53597924
Yes that's the first thing I tried obviously
>>53597885
>>53597864
Alright, so I can tell Debian is good and chocked full. But lets say I've gotten sick of the Windows style desktop and Ubuntu's shitty system.
How would my fat normie ass get the Mac style? (Mainly because I haven't fucked with this before)
>>53597927
tar is in the core of gentoo
>>53597894
Sound if OFF? Turn it ON:
Use alsamixer to do it the alsa way,
or pavucontrol to do it the pulse way.
>>53597970
But you don't get the manual? Funky.
>>53597894
man xrandr. read the dox.
allow higher resolutions.
When i use remote desktop to access my ubuntu machine with xfce I found the super key to be very buggy and the auto-completion function in terminal isn't working either. I ran screencap I found that the os detected right arrow when i pushed down the windows key. However, whenever i try to bind the windows key using the xfce keyboard shortcuts it is detected as SUPER L.
I'm using xdrp on my ubuntu machine and remote desktop on windows 7, my keyboard is a noppo choc mini 84 key keyboard.
>>53597894
video drivers installed?
>>53597961
When you install Debian, at one point it asks you which desktop environments you'd like to install. Just choose XFCE. The default look is pretty similar to Mac. With a little bit of work and research you could make it look exactly like a mac if you were so inclined
>>53598039
To be honest, when I was 14 back in 2010, I had a Powerbook G4. Best laptop I'd ever use. Never gave up on mac but the cost was too hefty. So this will be extremely helpful to ne, Thanks a lot, and for your help, I'll even try my damndest to make it like a mac.
However, DeepIn also had the same thing. But it's trash compared to other in my opinion.
>>53597973
Alsa and pavu detects everything and even show that sound is playing (pardon my english) when I play YouTube or something else
>>53598019
Nouveau, I tried to install nvidia-driver wich is better for latest cards but it fucked up everything and I has to reinstall Debian :^)
>>53598039
>The default look is pretty similar to Mac.
Ew why the fuck does that exist. Terrible design.
So.... It's on a Win32 Install.
It pulled this number.
I tried this with Kali back when we locked ourselves out a server and we had to crack it with a GPU for hash decryption. MBR kept corrupting.
So... Is there one for direct booting for a live disk about as well? Because I'm not up for installing XP and then having to do it there.
>>53598138
Opinions man.
It's all in tastes. There's mac lovers, then trashdows lovers, then GNU lovers who get erections off KDE desktops.
>>53598211
>then GNU lovers who get erections off KDE desktops.
What
GNU lovers like KDE?
At the last thread some guys asked how2filepicker, this is basically the how2:
https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=gtk2-patched-filechooser-icon-view
>>53598284
Some.
Just some.
I tried installing arch because I wanted to be cool but things happened and I just want to be able to boot back into Windows. Grub only gives me the option to boot to Linux. I can see my windows partition perfectly fine with lsblk, how do I set it to the default boot option?
What's the purpose of compiling everything exactly? Like what would be the practical difference between gentoo and arch?
Out of boredom I started installing gentoo. Currently step is configuring the kernel.
What are some good+useful modifications?
Can someone point me into the right direction?
>>53598403
make it constantly beep when connected to wifi
use headphones
>>53598373
Well you could do it with parted. But what you should do is rebuild grub so Windows shows up.
I had te same problem, reboot and run grub-mkconfig again, should add it to bootloader. Then you can change the boot order if you want. If you just need to get onto windows asap just use bios though.
I want to run an older version of program %s on debian. What do?
>>53598518
install it?
>>53598546
Are you retarded?
>>53598443
I deleted the Linux partition out of rage. Now I just get booted into grub rescue. Can't change the settings in my BIOS because it's password protected. I just want to kill myself.
>>53598814
>I deleted the Linux partition out of rage.
Lmfao, stay away from computers please.
>>53598814
>I deleted the Linux partition out of rage.
What a man child. Grow up, little boy.
>>53598814
you don't know your own bios password?
you don't know how to reset the CMOS?
>>53598814
OK, you need to create a new linux partition. GRUB points to a now nonexistent drive. However installing a new linux OS will allow you to reinstall GRUB.
I made the same mistake
Are there any /g/-approved home servers? I've considered a Raspberry Pi for some things but it's too tiny to do a lot of heavy lifting, alongside a few other minor issues (not RTC, etc).
Part of this is to learn basic hosting shit, my work has been almost exclusively on the dev end up until this pont.
>>53598952
RPi could never really be a 'server'.
Build one yourself.
>>53598952
i dont think so.
ive got
>celeron D 3.2Ghz 1Gib ram
>2x Pentium4 2ghz 265Mib Ram and 1Gib Ram
all three are single core running slack
I installed python-pip and apt said that it was gonna need something like 20mb of space etc
I'm trying to purge it now and it says it will only free like 400kb of space. What's up with that?
>>53599084
Try sudo apt-get autoremove python-pip. That may get rid of more.
>>53597707
> Google's Shell Style Guide
It's an interesting read, but I disagree with a lot of those rules on principle.
>>53599137
Which?
>>53599135
if I do it that way I now get 1,931 kB removed. Weird.
i just installed manjaro and im trying to get gnome but this keeps happening when i try to install it. wat do?
>>53599315
Why didnt you instal the gnome spin?
>>53599336
i wanted a default gnome and since i knew it fucks up kde and xfce i just decided to install it seperate.
>>53599414
Just check the archwikis gnome entry. 99% of the archwiki fors also for manjaro.
So I updated Arch and saw two pacnew files. One was grub.cfg. Can I just ignore this? I don't want to trash my bootloader, it took long enough to get everything playing nice. Also why would they even install a new grub.cfg file, don't you generate one yourself?
>>53599437
doesnt tell me anything just has shit on ricing it
Hey guys need some help here.
Trying to get into mint but i cant figure what the hell its that shit on pick related. it is fixable?
Also how do you deal whit ugly font rendering and bad video playback (youtube mostly)?
every time i open a video its seem laggy.
anyone use livestreamer to stream twitch streams here? I just finished setting it up with mpv on this new installation, but for some reason it takes fucking minutes for mpv to start. I tried pinging twitch.tv and I get 100% package loss every time, yet I can connect with it just fine with my internet browser and my internet connection isn't 100% package loss bad right now.
Anyone know what could be going on?
>>53599650
Why not use youtube-dl instead (supports more than youtube).
>>53599660
because it was working fine up until now. I might try youtube-dl if it keeps like this
>>53599552
that "shit" is just the wallpaper coming through the transparent bar.
Read a wiki about how to get good font rendering.
Don't know what you mean exactly about video playback.
>>53599666
ytdl does a better job anyway
>>53599740
Yeah I should have went with that. But I had to install pip from a python script from the dev's git to install the right livestreamer version and now I can't uninstall pip (or don't know how to) so now I'm stuck with livestreamer out of spite.
I'm getting a boner right here, feel free to join:
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/
>>53599887
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/#dos_software_fonts
I recommend IBM ISO9. Great typeface. Awesome website.
hmm. I want to switch to Linux so I can have more control over my machine, but all of these posts about driver issues and other random problems are turning me off. Which distro is the best a just werking? I'm liking debian but will I get a better installation experience with Ubuntu since it has more support?
>>53600024
Just werkz? Ubuntu, definitely.
>>53600024
>since it has more support?
Support is a work that seemed to mean something different than I expected when I first started with linux. Ubuntu throw it around a lot but what they actually mean is "maintained". When they say something is supported for years at a time, it doesn't mean there is a team of people there to help you out necessarily.
Debian is pretty widely used and probably more hassle free ultimately if you use stable.
>>53600014
Confirmed.
>>53599887
Added to fontpasta.
How can I get wget to download whatever to a specific directory?
Can anyone explain how a linux distro can just "break" all of a sudden? How does that happen?
>>53600080
man wget-P prefix
--directory-prefix=prefix
Set directory prefix to prefix. The directory prefix is the directory where all other
files and subdirectories will be saved to, i.e. the top of the retrieval tree. The
default is . (the current directory).
>>53600080
wget -O /foo/bar/baz websitefile
>>53600080
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23501/download-using-wget-to-a-different-directory-than-current-directory
>>53600099
thanks, I actually did read the man page but I couldn't find the entry.
>>53600086
do you have a particular problem, or what?
>>53600086
When Linux doesnt understand something, it yells "PANIC" and kills itself.
When a GNU/Linux distro breaks when the user installes something new which is incompatible to the installed dependencies.
This may also happen without the users interaction in testing and rolling versions of various distributions.
>>53600171
... never edit a post 100 times before posting ...
Is it true that loonix has a "smart ram management that windows and osx do not have" ? That's what my prof claimed the other day. She said it in the sense that "Linux knows what programs are idle so it frees them off the ram to save space for new processes". That does not sound 'linux exclusive'. I asked her and she said something like "idk windows lags a lot for me". Fuck man, uni triggers my autism so bad unfortunately. She also says Linux instead of gnu/Linux. Is that that wrong, or have I fallen for the meme?. Linux is the kernel and gnu/Linux the whole os, right ?
>>53600024
ubuntu (imo w/o unity because unity sucks) or linuxmint are really easy to get working.
I mean, if you're decent with computers already, you might want to just go full throttle and install something less gimmicky. It's really not as hard as it's made out to be, provided you're not using some obscurantist "documentation is for pussies" distro.
>>53600229
>"Linux knows what programs are idle so it frees them off the ram to save space for new processes"
I'm pretty sure any multitasking OS does that. Maybe he's talking about inode tables and shit.
>>53600229
It's called virtual memory, and all modern operating systems have it.
I hope you meant teacher and not professor. If you're attending paid schooling and a *professor* talked out her ass that badly, then you're going to a shitty university.
I've got a dell laptop attached to a docking station and I'm running two monitors, one with VGA and one with DVI. I want a distro that can run both the VGA and DVI monitors WITH, and this is the the key, with the embedded laptop screen active as well. Windows won't do this for me. Maybe linux can.
?
>>53600229
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html
>>53600345
it likely wont, your graphics onboard/card can probably only handle 2 outputs
>>53600345
if the hardware can do it, i don't see why you wouldn't be able to
http://www.schnews.org.uk/diyguide/howto-gnu-linux.htm
Anyone know how to get ncmpcpp to not de-select a track when you press stop?
>>53600396
Change the timeout to 0 or -1, can't remeber the right one.
http://joeyh.name/code/alien/
>>53600391
why so much salt
http://www.actsofvolition.com/archive/2005/january/thesoundofdata
>>53600579
mpd_connection_timeout ?
>>53599887
That's hot.
What's the best temperature monitoring software (like Speccy) for Linux?
>>53600881sensors
Running Xubuntu, I tried to install i3 and failed, uninstalled the i3 package and did auto-remove but the i3 notification(?) thing is still active, is there a way to revert back to the xcfe or what package do I need to remove? Pic related
>>53597894
Sounds like you need some microcode. Install firmware-linux-nonfree
>>53597730
yeah, don't use GNOME.
Having trouble getting Transmission working on Ubuntu 14.04. pfSense says the port is forwarded, both TCP and UDP, but when I check it with GRC (https://www.grc.com/) I get the message 'Stealth Unknown Protocol for this port Unknown Application for this port,' and indeed the torrents are not seeding. I've set up a static IP on the machine, so that isn't the problem, and 'Use UPnP' is unchecked in the client. Also, the Ubuntu firewall is inactive. I had no problems with the port being closed when I was using Transmission-QT on Windows, so the problem must be with Ubuntu, but I have no idea what it could be. I'm stumped. Any ideas?
If anyone here follows Wine development closely, could you tell me what the fuck is going on with this project? Supposedly they were going to have working DX11 by the end of last year but this seems more symbolic than anything as I hear it is barely functional. Also, shouldn't older versions of the API be more or less stable by now? I don't understand why I need to override with native DX9 of all things to make a 6 year old game not crash
I have to pipe a large amount of text to a program, but want to use emacs, is there a command to pipe the contents of a text file (opened with some terminal editor like emacs) without having to save it first?
>>53601411
A command in emacs?
>>53601439
or a bash command
>>53601268
limited number of people working in their spare time for their own reasons without payment to develop a reimplementation of key elements of a closed source clusterfuck
they can't guarantee when a feature will be implemented, or "usable" (usable by who? for what?), only make estimations and plans
>I don't understand why I need to override with native DX9 of all things to make a 6 year old game not crash
it's quite simple, there's a difference between wine's d3d9 and microsoft's, and that game depends on something that differs in such a way that causes a crash
d3d9 support is quite stable, but that doesn't mean it's 100% perfect
>>53601411
Not sure what you are trying to do.
>>53601475
>>53601439
I need to inline pipe a bunch of text to a program, similar toexmapleProgram -text -(text goes here)
since the text is rather long, I want to open a text editor (emacs) and type the text there, then pipe it to the program, I want to know if there is a way of doing this without having to save the text into a file and then pipe it to the program, I want to pipe it directly from emacs
trying to setup a crontab for me server, is this correct?
05 1 * * * rtcwake -m disk -s 25,200
>>53601471
>limited number of people working in their spare time for their own reasons without payment
What are you talking about? If you look at their git the vast majority of patch submissions are literally from Codeweavers employees
>>53601499
The only thing that comes in my mind would be to use a named pipe, open the pipe file in emacs and put text in there and everytime you hit save, the other end of the pipe executes program x with the pipe's content. Check out mkfifo.
>>53601499
I think you can create a file, open it in emacs with -nw, then pipe it, then destroy the file in one single command
pretty much the same thing
>>53601522# * * * * * Command
# │ │ │ │ │
# │ │ │ │ └───────────────── Weekday
# │ │ │ └─────────────────── Month
# │ │ └───────────────────── Day
# │ └─────────────────────── Hour
# └───────────────────────── Minute
Looks okay.
>>53601400
This is win and fail at the same time, what the hell.
>>53598134
>Nouveau
Does not support Maxwell GPUs, you need Nvidia-drivers for it.
>>53598289
>firefox is GTK3 now
Useless.
guys please advise me a tiling wm to replace the DOGFSHIT FUCKING awesome wm.
i need it to be
-bugfree(unlike the awesome)
-preferably in portage
-have a sane window stacking order(unlike dwm)
-have ability to browse through windows and desktops with keyboard
-no unnecessary bullshit
basically i just need something to show my windows in orderly fashion.
extra points for wayland.
>>53600928
That's the name of the binary. The package is called lm-sensors.
>>53602038
works on my machines
>>53602051
i know, but he probably already has lm-sensors installed
>>53601163
Any help with this?
>>53600937
bump for this
>>53601411
Put region around text you want to pipe and press M-|
>>53602038
Awesome is awesome, read the docs faggot.
>>53602713
nigga I've been using emacs for 4 years and didn't know about this
>>53602715
except it is fucking bugged as shit, abandoned, uses trash fucking dependencies and gobbles resources.
sadly tho it doesn't appear that i could find an alternative. have to write my own wm it seems.
>>53602038
>>53602809
Go back to your desktop thread special snowflake.
There's this website I'd like to "search" through, mostly because the search function it offers is terrible, and the only way I can think of doing it is with some recursive wget thing. It's not all on one page though.
So, two options, FIRST:
It would have to somehow click on 'next page' which adds "&start=[number]" to the link I guess.
I'd have to somehow get it to disregard all garbage links to places I don't need to look.
And then on each page I have to search for a keyword.
SECOND:
Each thing is located at some random url, something like web.com/item/XXXXXX. They go up near a million, but some of them (or lots of them, likely) are dead ends.
Would it be easier to get wget to just try literally every single page and look for it that way?
--
1. How much of a pain in the ass is this going to be, and do you have any pointers?
2. Am I going to get IP banned for whatever reason? Like how traffic intensive would this be? I don't know how fast wget works.
>>53602863
i don't even go to the fucking desktop circlejerks you fucking kiddo.
>>53602866
use "site:thewebsite.com" to show only results from that website
>>53602866
Read everything of man curl and man wget. You wount get banned for such a low traffic (text parsing is veeery low). Both, wget and curl can expand numbers lie url/[0-500].html etc. Use grep, awk, or sed to filter your results.
>>53602892
BOTNET
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>>53602866
Look for google hacking/Google dorks and shodan
>>53602904
aw jesus christ, trying to learn regex at 2am. Gettin there, anyway. Thanks anon.
Been messing with full disk encryption, used cryptsetup / LVM and it's worked out well.
But the /boot directory is on an unencrypted partitiion, and if, for example, the user enters the wrong passphrase at boot three times, the system drops to a recovery shell, making /boot mountable and vulnerable, no root password required.
Am I missing something that can prevent this gaping maw of insecurity?
>>53599084
>python-pip
>Depends: ca-certificates, python-colorama, python-distlib, python-html5lib, python-pkg-resources, python-requests, python-setuptools (>= 0.6c1), python-six, python, python:any (<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
>Recommends: build-essential, python-dev-all (>= 2.6), python-wheel
Try removing python-pip and then running apt autoremove and anything that pip pulled in that isn't needed by anything else should go away
Does Ubuntu GNOME 16.04 break often enough? I'd like to have GNOME 3.18
Is there a better starting distro than ubuntu to learn?
>>53602809
none of that is true
Iam having problems with launching JDownloader on my fresh Arch system.
typing jdownloader in my terminal only opens an blank screen.
i have jre8-openjdk-headless-infinality installed
>>53603124
slackware
not shitting you
>>53603150
fixed it by myself.
addingexport _JAVA_AWT_WM_NONREPARENTING=1
to /etc/profile.d/jre.sh, then sourcing the file fixed it.
>>53603115
Ubuntu doesn't break.
>>53603124
You can try Manjaro and read the archwiki, since most fits also here. I guess you'd learn faster than using Ubuntu.
>>53603150
No idea how to fix your JDownloader thingy, but have a look into pyload, or even cooler: plowshare.
>>53603156
>>>/b/
>>53603102
apt-get autoremove <program> is a thing
>>53603012
Learning RegEx is 100% profit. You can use it fucking everywhere. Good luck.
>>53603012
Welp. I'm averaging about a second per URL, this is going to take literal days. I don't know if my script is poorly optimized, but it's only like 5 lines..
>install some distro
>seems good, what do I do now
>delete and install another one
>delete and install arch
>delete and install arch 5 more times with different settings and trying out the AUI
What the fuck do I do with it now, I just keep reinstalling shit for no reason
>>53603458
>>delete and install arch 5 more times with different settings and trying out the AUI
What
>>53603458
install gentoo
>>53603458
how about you try using it some time?
>using GNU shit instead of superior alternatives
CVE-2014-6271, aka Shellshock, allowed complete compromise of systems running GANOO BASH. After looking at the 20 year old, shit spaghetti code researchers discovered CVE-2014-6277, CVE-2014-6278, CVE-2014-7169, CVE-2014-7186, and CVE-2014-7187. More secure/faster/better alternatives include csh, tcsh, and pdksh.
CVE-2015-7547, a glibc getaddrinfo() vulnerability that allows anyone able to send UDP packets to your computer to compromise it, affects basically EVERY PIECE OF SOFTWARE that uses GANOO glibc. More secure/faster/smaller/better alternatives include musl and uClibc.
If he can't select a boot device on startup this won't help
>>53603458
install gentoo
>>53603053
Nevermind.
The init script in initrd's file-tree has logic invoking /bin/sh if something goes wrong. Just edit it out if it's causing sphincter puckering.
UEFI or /boot-on-a-USB seems even safer.
>>53603726
go be an anti-GNU shill somewhere else faggot
I just updated from debian testing to sid on an install with ~2100 packages without any problems. thanks debian.
>Too stupid to follow the Debian 8 bootable USB guide properly.
Is there an idiot proof guide somewhere?
>>53604201
download http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.3.0/multi-arch/iso-cd/debian-8.3.0-amd64-i386-netinst.iso
open terminal in the folder, typecp debian.iso /dev/sdX && sync(replace X with the letter your unmounted! usb-drive is in)
you can find out where your usb-stick is with the command lsblk.
if that's not enough just read the first part of https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/ch04s03.html.en
>>53600937
>i3
sudo apt-get purge dunst
killall dunst
notify-send "Hello"
>>53604264
>>53604262
>>53604264
Thank you but it says "cp: cannot stat 'debian.iso': No such file or directory. Do I have to download that specific image, I already have the Live CD download
>>53604367
you need to specify the name of the downloaded file in the command of course.
New linux user here
Let's assume I take a pirated version of Win 7, remove every spywares and updates and use it only ( and I mean only) for gaymens and OracleVM.
What will be the real flaws compared to a dual-boot system ?
>>53604404
Why bother? Dual booting is easy.
>>53604404
no decent desktop environments, shit font rendering, shit hidpi support, you won't learn shit, no freedom, no decent package manager, have to fiddle around with your system a lot to make it usable, no decent documentation...
>>53604424
I know but if I have to reboot the entire system just because I suddenly want to play every time...
>>53604384
I have and I even tried renaming it, none worked.
>>53604424
>>53604404
Why not just Dual Boot? Just disable Secure Boot.
Is mhddfs a viable method of combining several disks into one large volume? I don't need or want the complexity or speed of RAID.
>>53604404
Didn't you read the news, M$ hides the botnet now in it's security updates. Using Windows means nowadays either botnet or albanian virus.
>>53604443
that's less than a minute if you hibernate.
>>53604446
>>I have and I even tried renaming it, none worked.
tell me exactly what you are doing.
do you know which sdX your usb-drive is in? post output of lsblk and ls of the folder your downloaded file is in.
>>53604430
Fuck, it's THAT bad ?
I can't have taken a Hugh end CGU for nothing cmon
>>53604467
Why would you hibernate while you're rebooting?
>>53604489
if you dual-boot you can cut down boot times for both os and continue right where you left.
>>53601163
Not being able so solve this is frustrating me. Should I just reinstall Ubuntu?
>>53604495
he probably thinks hibernation is some special hardware feature that will only resume to the same os
What's a good Linux distro for a tech-illiterate person?
Family member keeps getting tricked into installing malware crap and toolbars on Windows, thought I'd install Linux for her and see how that goes.
Requirements:
- Easy to use
- Open popular file types, images, video files, PDFs, etc
- Run relatively fast
- Don't give trouble with drivers on a fairly dates HP laptop
>>53604505
mint is probably the most retard friendly distro ever but i set up debian for my mom. just make sure you set it up yourself and tell them how to do stuff it will be fine. schedule automatic updates.
Just built a new PC and trying to decide between Xubuntu and Debian as a main distro. What is the best option?
>>53604458
Source?
>>53604495
Ok thanks, will it be even better if I take an SSD or it'll be negligible ?
>>53604521
depends on your needs. what do you want?
>>53604517
What about Flash updates?
I can hear it now: Ok mom, download the .tar.gz file, extract it, and as root copy it to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ and make sure to chown it root:root and that it's world readable.
You got that mom?
>>53604527
Don't hibernate with SSDs.
>>53604527
on an SSD it will be really handy.
>>53604534
>flash
you sure you want to do that? which sites does she use that requires flash? and mints updater can be used by even the most retarded people.
>>53604529
Mostly doing work which for me is reading papers and writing. As well as a lot of just general computer use.
>>53604566
debian stable. update it once in a while and it will last for years.
>>53604577
Alright cool, thank you.
>>53604538
>>53604539
Who's lying there ?
>>53604478
Okay, my usb is an sdb. And I typed everything out manually instead of copying and pasting, which worked for some reason. But now on the debian page:
https://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/amd64/ch04s03.html.en#usb-copy-flexible
These parts
# mount /dev/sdX2 /mnt
Do I have have to put the number "2" ?
# tar zxvf /path/to/firmware.tar.gz
and what so they mean by /path/to?
>>53604618
well, it depends on the age of your SSD, old SSDs are known for fucking up when you write a lot of stuff to them constantly, new ones can last longer than HDDs even. if you have an old SSD (pre 2012) don't hibernate, if you have a new one, hibernate by all means.
>>53604622
only follow the first part, you only need sdX, not sdX#
>>53604622
/dev/sdX2 :: the 2 refers to a partition number.
ls /dev/sdb* would show available numbers, but you probably have just the one, /dev/sdb
in which case, ignore the two.
/path/to/ means the path to your firmware archive. like.. /home/your_user/tmp/firmware.tar.gz
>>53604622
after sync you are done for your purposes, don't follow the guide any further. if english is not your first language, feel free to use the guide in your own language so it's easier to understand.
>>53604635
Ok thanks, I planned to buy one anyway.
>>53604558
Yeah, sorry. Firefox throws up on YouTube occasionaly when Flash needs an update, and I didn't realize the rest of the civilized world, and beta Fox builds, have been using HTML5 instead. *grumble*
>>53598373
Arch wiki, there's a tool for this in the dual boot section which adds the windows boot loader as an entry to grub which will boot your windows.
It's called something like os-detect
is it normal to get jerky animations on Gnome 3.18 with an r9 280x? I'm using open source drivers at the moment because proprietary ones give me some weird artifacts.
>>53604655
JewTubs HTML5 player is shit aswell, very nice is mozplugger+mpv or mpv directly.
>>53598403
Don't touch kernel, imagine trying to recompile when you forget to load an important keyboard module
>>53604655
you can check that out on youtube.com/html5
in iceweasel beta and aurora it uses html5 by default.
Dear /flt/,
I'm on LTS and there's that one program with new features I'd like to use, but I can't update/install it, because the program's newer version is only available for neuer versions of my distro (Ubuntu). What do? Is there a workaround that wouldn't break my system?
>>53604688
Just moved libflashplayer.so elsewhere, restarted Fox, and youtube played fine.
lsof | grep flash came back empty, so I guess it's not loading.
Nice fellas. Thanks. Now to hunt broken porn sites.
>>53604743
The quick fap with flash is a very bad habbit.
>>53604742
Is your system really important?
>>53604742
Long Term Support? Is this a machine for your job? If it doesn't belong to you, then you're better off waiting for an update.
If it's yours, you can update the dependancies and build the package yourself.
>>53604742
Gee if only you ran an OS that allowed that.
>>53604682
how do i set up mozplugger to use mpv for everything? could you post your mozpluggerrc?
>>53604829
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Browser_plugins#MozPlugger
Section: To change the default of MPlayer so that mpv is used instead, change the appropriate lines such that:
>>53604855
Such that? Such that what anon?
Oh god- did something happen? Please answer if you're there!
>>53604855
Did this, how do I make it work from there?
Is it possible to 'prepare' Linux on a live USB stick, save the changes and then install that distribution + settings on a different machine after?
>>53605116
yes, that's essentially what most distro forks are.
>>53605138
If I use the built in installer from the live USB stick will that take my config and packages too or will it just install the default version?
>>53600296
Idk what inode tables are but she most surely doesn't either lol
>>53600333
I don't have that distinction in my language but I'm in uni so either way she should know her stuff better and be more open desu
>>53600354
Thank you so much for this
Is tails worth to try or it's just a meme distro?
>>53605471
if you want to stay anonymous, tails is a really good way.
>>53597707
The only people who hate BASH are arch fags and bsd crazies. BASH for life.
>>53598284
>NOT USING THE BASED GNU OBJECT MODEL ENIVRONMENT
>>53605471
It's not meant to be used as your daily os. It's meant to be livebooted
>>53605534
No one HATES bash. zsh is objectively better though.
>install ubuntu gnome for work
>download a file for work and open with openoffice draw
>desktop crashes to the login screen
>google the problem brings up one forum post and no solution
>>53605685
>open office
libre office i objectively better
what's the problem exactly?
>>53605685
Why are you using open office when libreoffice comes with ubuntu gnome by default?
>>53605234
Is this right?
Kinda new to using Linux and installed Xubuntu, when I was installing it I selected lvm which took up the rest of the space on my hard drive which I wanted to partition off and now it won't let me change that partition that is eating up all the space.
>>53605697
>>53605717
sorry, my mistake, but the problem is the same.
>have doc open in libreoffice draw
>crashes to login screen
>>53598400
If you do it right, it means all the programs are optimized for your own system, instead of generic x86-64. That means you need less space(the kernel, for example, won't have a million drivers you'll never need) and everything will generally be a little faster.
>>53605741
Can you reproduce the bug? Try launching libreoffice from the terminal and doing the same thing, then post the error.
>>53598400
It's overkill and unnecessary.
Arch is shit too, you can do all the same shit with any distro's minimal install if you must be a faggot.
>>53605737
LVM uses the entire partition as it's main layer.
After that, you have to create a secondary layer made up of "traditional" partitions (for /root, /home/, /var, /boot)
You're not far.
>>53605737
>>53605979
I guess that post didn't help much..
http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-14.1/README_LVM.TXT
This might give you some ideas.
I'm this guy:
>>53604201
>>53604367
>>53604622
I managed to get Debian on my USB, but when boot up my computer there is no installation. It just brings me straight to Ubuntu. I even configured the Bios so the USB goes first. I downloaded disk, and it looks like it's unmounted, is this a problem?
Is there any way to prevent wpa_gui from popping up at startup on kde? It's not in the startup apps and there's no configuration options on the gui itself. It's only KDE for some reason, I tried awesome and it doesn't pop up there.
>>53606180
never mind. I'm a retard, pls rape my face.
>>53606180
You're trying to put an iso image onto your USB?
dd if=isofile.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=1M
sdb being whatever node your USB device reports as
that should work
>>53605979
Retard question but how does lvm fit in with mdadm for example? Is mdadm a layer on top of lvm or vice versa?
>>53606236
What is bs=1m? I've seen this command but with bs=4M
>>53603565
I dont know what to use it for though
>>53606395
all your computing needs. set up a mail server, a seedbox, a VPN, learn emacs, learn ffmpeg, git gud with compiling, shitpost on 4chan, collect books...
>>53606312
That's not a dumb question. I don't have experiece with it, but it seems mdadm should operate on the /dev/ mappings LVM creates, so long as they're initialized first.
someone correct me if I'm wrong
>>53606372
bs : "read and write BYTES at a time"
usful when copying from /dev/urandom, in the iso case it probably doesn't amount to much
Stupid question, but whenever I search for an answer I never seem to find one. Probably because I'm missing something extremely obvious, but here it goes.
Why is it that all the files I copy to an external drive have executable permission? Not just the directories, but plain ASCII files too. With rsync -a, cp and just plain rsync, I always get this result.
>>53606507
Are you writing to a FAT file system? 'cause that'll do it.
>>53606507
which file system does the drive you do this on have? does it support Unix file permissions?
>>53606516
>>53606520
VFAT. Should this cause any considerable problems for me? Which filesystem should I use for backup files from Windows, OS X and Linux?
Haven't tried Ubuntoes mainline for ages, thinking of going back to it for 16.04, what's the Ubuntu equivalent to Compton (I've been using Xubuntu like a normal person)?
