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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
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
I have done your mother
-RMS
Xubuntu can't detect my MG279Q or Predator monitors. I can't get 144hz to work.
Trying to download the repo for obvious for awesomewm. Used
>$ git clone [email protected]:hoelzro/obvious.git
and it came back with permission denied (publickey) How do I get permission?
I love you /flt/....
>>53646390git clone https://github.com/awesomeWM/awesome.git
>>53646410
Thanks it worked
>>53646443
That wasn't the right one, it's here:git clone https://github.com/hoelzro/obvious.git
I ran Ubuntu through virtual machine and now I want to install it but I get GRUB bootloader and I really can't figure out what to do, none of this appeared in my VM testing
I just unpacked the .iso to USB drive, should I've done something more?
>audio working perfectly
>finally got media keys to work with spotify with playerctl
>can happily play/pause and skip songs now
>volume up and down keys worked before
>toggle mute button worked before
Pressed mute once and all the sudden no fucking audio at all...what the fuck do I do
>>53646496
>Pressed mute once and all the sudden no fucking audio at all
isnt that what's supposed to happen tho?
>>53646496
You need a system wide parametric equalizer
>>53646319
Here is the age old question /flt/. I want to be able to compile and run java apps in Linux Mint. I have not yet installed any java development tools yet. Spell it out for me please.
Im thinking of elementary luna or debian with enlightenment, are these good, is one better or is it best to go for something different.
>>53646532
>ok bud
I unmuted it and theres no audio whatsoever
>>53646545
don't follow
>>53646546
>I want Java without actually installing anything Java related
How to make sure I install distro in UEFI mode
In the next hour or so I'll be dual booting Debian into my Windows desktop.
I was meaning to ask you guys:
What precautions should I take for my SSD and HDD partitions? Will the guided install work fine or is it better if I do things manually?
I already shrunk my SSD to have an unallocated 60GB partition to install Debian on. I'm in the process of backing up my HDD personal data on an external HDD, then I'll be resizing that appropiately to put my personal data on Debian and leave Windows just for games.
Was planning to have my home directory and other volatile stuff on the HDD, with the core install in the SSD.
I made the Boot USB with Rufus on the GPT FAT32 setting, since I installed Windows with GPT as well.
What's the best Linux distro for beginners? I'm planning to install on one of my old laptops(not too old tho). I tried ubuntu before but I want to try other.
>>53646546
Install openjdk, compile the source with javac, run the .class with java. If you have multiple java classes, use jar.
Or just use an IDE.
>>53646771
Try another flavor of Ubuntu (default Ubuntu is pretty shit since it has Unity).
If it's an old laptop you might want to try Xubuntu or Lubuntu
If it's not that old (less than 5 years old) you'll be fine with any distro. Check out Ubuntu GNOME, Ubuntu MATE, Linux Mint (derived from Ubuntu, with Cinammon desktop), etc..
Anything other than an Ubuntu flavor/derivative might be too much for a beginner.
>>53646693
guided might fuck you up if you're dual booting and splitting between drives. It sounds like you have a good plan. I would recommend putting your /var/ on the hdd if possible to prolong your ssd speed/life.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Solid_State_Drives#Tips_for_maximizing_SSD_performance
Hey fellow brothers, i have an issue that is bothers me since i put Xubuntu on my laptop.
I really, really want to start using linux but one of my main activities on my free time its to watch my channels on youtube.
Well, I cant make youtube it work on linux…its laggy and out of sync….
i google the issue online but all the answers I got where from 2012!
I have the goodies installed, I have flash, I disble html5…
I cant use this OS for one of the most common activities of all!
Can anyone show me the right path here?
>>53646771
debian
>>53646810
youtube is so last decade
>>>/wsg/ is the currently trending video sharing website at the moment
>>53646810
>flash
>disable HTML5
You have that the wrong way around.
>>53646799
What's a good distro for new desktops?
Just basic Ubuntu and edit as I need to?
>>53646693
>>Was planning to have my home directory and other volatile stuff on the HDD, with the core install in the SSD.
Good idea, but you got to do your partitioning manually.
>>53646845
Read my post mang. Ubuntu by default uses Unity, which is kind of shit according to most people (including myself, but that's just preference)
Try Ubuntu GNOME, Kubuntu, or Linux Mint for a beginner-friendly distro for not-ancient hardware.
Friends laptop got some old Intel genuine u7300 dual-core @1.3ghz and can't playback hd videos without stuttering. He needs a easy flavour with mostly everything working out of the box. Which would be the right address?
>>53646845
Download Ubuntu mini iso.
Install it - and pick last option from packages list "custom packages"
You'll just have the terminal and from that point you can install w/e - full desktop environments with packages, full environments without recommended software or only core parts of desktop environments.
>>53646810
flash has not had support on linux since 2011(?). Flash is going to fuck you up more than HTML5 will. Firefox/iceweasel/chromium should work just fine on it, but if you're having troubles still, you can get youtube downloader and pipeline it into mpv/vlc. You also might want to check on your graphics driver. The ideal driver might be under non-free which is likely not enabled by default
>>53646887
playing 720p hd + videos requires 512 mb of ram 1020p much more close to 1gb or at least 1 gb.
wat do i want
I have uefi bios and windows installed with uefi fwiw
>>53646906
It has 4gb ram.
>>53646907
GPT.
>>53646907
>Uefi bios
stop.
You either have UEFI firmware or BIOS firmware. UEFI BIOS doesn't exist.
GPT is compatible with UEFI only.
MBR is compatible with both UEFI and BIOS.
>>53646901
Flash got an update last year
>>53646923
Sorry, it just stuck with me for some reason.
What do I want here?
>>53646923
I have gpt on legacy bios what are you on about?
Is there a DE/Window Manager that gives you a window only if you want one?
Like you boot into console and that's all you have, but if you start firefox i.e it gives you a dragable window over the console and a mouse and everything.
>>53646938
Oh, when I select GPT it only allows ISO, DD or UEFI:NTFS
>>53646938
Well, why don't you tell us what OS you're trying to load into the USB in the first place, and for what kind of machine
>install fedora on old laptop
>15 inch
>1366x768
Can someone point me to DEs, window managers or themes that are very compact, and don't waste any space on big stupid chunky UI elements?
>>53646979
LXDE for ease of use and i3 when you want to focus on specific work - you can switch between them with a simple log out.
Also remove fedora and get ubuntu mini iso - install basic core without any package then install lxde without recommended software, pick w/e you need that is very very lightweight and install i3.
>>53646958
Why not just use something small like openbox and just start a terminal emulator in fullscreen?
>>53646978
>>53646958
>use any desktop environment out there (or standalone window manager)
>autostart a fullscreen terminal after login
There, now you have it.
>>53647005
My i7 4770k is at 4.3 now with 28 C lmao.
You probably paid triple for that build compared to what I paid to mine.
>>53647005
GPT, NTFS, 4096, ISO, everything else as is.
Wait for other replies in case I fucked up somewhere. I'm tired
>>53647034
6700k was 300euros, I'm happy with it so far.
>>53647009
any non-unity and non-gnome flavor of ubuntu that also isn't kubuntu or Lubuntu as they both break like glass if you look at them sideways and then reboot
>>53646992
Thanks I'll look at i3
>ubuntu
But how am I going to call it my laptip if I don't have fedora on it?
>>53647061
Xubuntu?
>>53647071
screenfetch -D fedora
>>53647034
>GTX 980 TI
The CPU-cost doesn't really matter much when you pay for something like that.
>>53646999
cause it annoys me. i only need a window for a web browser. I know i could theoretically just run the X by itself and open windows via command line, but it's a hassle.
>>53647005
http://www.techerina.com/2015/01/dual-booting-windows-8-and-ubuntu-uefi-using-rufus.html
>>53646999
Checked
>>53647026
that's just an ugly workaround.
>>53647106
Just use a wm, put a nice background and call it a day.
>>53646396
Ilu2 anon-kun
>>53647129
Oh fugg, I chose GPT. I will do this again I assume.
>>53647087
yes, though you may need to configure some things, like removing either the start panel or the dockbar on the desktop because they're redundant and IIRC Xubuntu fresh installs have both active
>>53647203
If you want to dual-boot you need to use what windows already uses.
>>53647203
Look at this first
Just installed linux for the first time, what are some must have programs?
>>53647277
>>53647308
I made it with Rufus, with proper settings and GPT (matched Windows) and yet it doesn't.. quite work? Opens just GRUB bootloader instead of the actual *installation* I saw when I played it in Virtual Machine/see in every Youtube video.
>>53647353
cmatrix
>tfw no foobar2k for Linux
This is such a goddamn travesty. I setup my old computer with Linux Mint and got it all setup thinking "aside from video games, I can do it all!" but then I realized with no foobar, I can't listen to my psf/mini2sf/spc/kss video game music collections.
before somebody asks what those are, I'll just tell you. They're like midi's ripped from the games, but you can download components for foobar that emulate the sound chips from old video game consoles and play back the music as if you're playing the games. They even can be played to loop endlessly.
>>53647393
look around, I'm sure some of the alternatives available on Linux can do that
Remember that it's a platform built by autismos. So they're bound to include features for autismos.
>>53647393
Try Audacious.
>>53647393
If I knew where I put my spc files I'd check it myself, but it's probably possible to play them on Linux just fine.
>>53646810
If you don't mind downloading the videos look up youtube-dl
>>53647475
as far as I know, you can only download individual programs that just play a single format each and that's gross.
>>53647393
wine is available for those who don't like change
playonlinux has automated scripts for it
>>53647492
>using wine
>using wine for something as basic as a music player
What's next, running Windows Explorer through Wine? Running Cygwin through Wine?
>>53647360
I have Secure Boot in UEFI set to 'Other OS' but I just don't get installation procedure.
Just Grub bootloader and from there on I don't really have any idea what to do (I assume something has gone wrong as I didn't see this in any video or 'How to' in Ubuntu's wiki)
I already redownloaded the iso and did the Rufus process again but no win
How difficult would it be for someone with little computer skill to work with Linux? I want to make the switch from Apple.
>>53647501
well you could always just kill yourself if you're too incompetent to google you fucking cuck
>>53647490
I highly doubt that
Is it possible to set up a group of Linux PCs and enforce software policies like with M$ domains?
>>53647520
Minimally so. Just use some Ubuntu flavor. Personally I recommend Ubuntu GNOME.
http://ubuntugnome.org/
>>53647475
here's where I downloaded most of the stuff I listen to, good stuff here
http://www.zophar.net/music.html
>>53647520
Not very. The big name distros have fancy graphical installations and desktop environments that come preloaded with programs that do common tasks.
>>53647353
Mpv, youtube-dl, emacs, iceweasel or icecat, deadbeef or cmus
livestreamer + mpv/vlc
is better than youtube-dl
>>53647506
>>53647360
Does anyone have any idea what I might've fucked up?
>>53647484
You can also stream them through mpv with youtube-dl
>>53647393
You can still pretty much use anything here
https://alternativeto.net/software/foobar2000/?platform=linux
>>53647627
No its not
>>53647393
Install deadbeef with a few plugins or something.
I get a wall of commands instead of this when I try to boot Xubuntu 15.10 from the Rufus-made-USB image.
>>53647678
That site is horrible.
Is Xubuntu more stable than Lubuntu?
I've been using it for a while and openbox and the File Manager have been very clunky and prone to not responding/crashes etc.
>>53646319
10/10 OP
>>53647883
What are you seeing?
I installed ubuntu server on a laptop, and I'd like to monitor the battery with htop. However, I'm not sure what package I need to install for it to work, but I can see it with powertop
>>53646844
It's... it's to late for him comrade.
>>53646771
Ubuntu. Mint is for fags and not as user-friendly.
>>53646958
Actually just use a terminal as window manager.
Place in your xinitrc: exec xterm, or run it yourself: startx xterm -- :1, and if you want to start a browser, prefix your command with DISPLAY=<your obvious display>.
My primary hard drive recently only shows up in bios maybe 20% of my boots, and when it does show up, it either fails at GRUB or booting linux.
Any ideas?
>>53648263
>My primary hard drive recently only shows up in bios maybe 20% of my boots
I'm no expert on this but it sounds like it's dying.
Today on /flt/-TV:
Richard Stallman speaks: A Free Digital Society (Karlsruhe, Germany, Jul 10, 2015)
mpv https://audio-video.gnu.org/video/2015-07-10--rms--a-free-digital-society--720p.webm
>>53648263
I have a similiar issue
>have a Lenovo Z50 laptop I used for school
>was gathering dust so I thought I'd use it to try GNU+Linux
>swapped out 1TB/8GB SSHD for an old 80GB SSD
>installed debian
>when I power it up, it keeps restarting after showing the Lenovo logo
>after a random amount of tries it gets to that menu thing where you select the OS to start
>then after selecting debian theres this terminal looking screen that says: "Loading, please wait..."
>finally, theres about a 50% chance it gets past this to Debian, otherwise I have to hold the power button to shut it down and try again from the start (except the chances of getting past the Lenovo boot loop thingy are pretty high if it's already gotten past once)
Why do I never experience any issues when it's running?
>>53648476
is .webm free?
I recently bought a new computer for my mom, who's fairly tech illiterate. Unfortunately it came pre-installed with Windows 10. I'm considering dual-booting something like Xubuntu on it so that she doesn't have to deal with 10 and she doesn't have to >spend money on Windows 7/8.1.
Will she be okay on Xubuntu, or should I just let her use Windows 10?
>>53648633
Yes.
>>53648650
Her machine, her decision
>>53648650
What does she use the computer for? I mean, if she just uses facebook and youtube, the operating system doesn't really matter.
>>53648476
The second hour is amazing. I love this man.
>>53648690
Fair enough.
>>53648694
Mostly just photoshop, doing taxes/accounting related stuff and browsing the internet.
>>53648690
>letting your beloved mother use proprietary software
you're a cruel man
>>53648664
Yes it is.
>>53648723
Actually the free speech part made me cry.
>It should be allowed to insult policedogs and the president. Why isn't it? "Because insults may hurt them." Can we measure going to jail for insulting by the emotional pain words do to us? Well, let's see, what words hurt us the most? "I'll leave you." ~ silence ~
>>53648476
>no shoes
>installing ubuntu MATE
>forget to unplug wifi adapter
>it's now downloading and installing updates despite checking the DO NOT INSTALL UPDATES box a tab or two ago
is there a way I can jump out in front of this trainwreck and stop it from fucking up the first boot, because that's what's happened every time before when I've had my computer connected and it live updated during install
>>53647666
You can also watch them via VLC. Just copy the link and paste it into VLC's "Open link..." menu.
How to make a bash function that takes arguments, but also can be used for piping?
I tried "${1:--}", well it obviously didnt work.
>>53648298
Yeah I figured it was probably dying. Any ideas on how to recover the data?
>>53649095
What about setting it to /dev/stdin if no arguments?
>>53649095
disiz de actual function I wand to finish:spurdo() {
printf '%s\n' "$1" | sed "s/kek/geg/gI;s/epic/ebin/gI;s/america/clapistan/gI;s/right/rite/gI;s/your/ur/gI;s/\./ :DD/gI;s/'//gI;s/,/XDD/gI;s/wh/w/gI;s/th/d/gI;s/af/ab/gI;s/ap/ab/gI;s/ca/ga/gI;s/ck/gg/gI;s/co/go/gI;s/ev/eb/gI;s/ex/egz/gI;s/et/ed/gI;s/iv/ib/gI;s/it/id/gI;s/ke/ge/gI;s/nt/nd/gI;s/op/ob/gI;s/ot/od/gI;s/po/bo/gI;s/pe/be/gI;s/pi/bi/gI;s/up/ub/gI;s/va/ba/gI;s/ck/gg/gI;s/cr/gr/gI;s/kn/gn/gI;s/lt/ld/gI;s/mm/m/gI;s/nt/dn/gI;s/pr/br/gI;s/ts/dz/gI;s/tr/dr/gI;s/bs/bz/gI;s/ds/dz/gI;s/es/es/gI;s/fs/fz/gI;s/gs/gz/gI;s/ is/iz/gI;s/as/az/gI;s/ls/lz/gI;s/ms/mz/gI;s/ns/nz/gI;s/rs/rz/gI;s/ss/sz/gI;s/ts/tz/gI;s/us/uz/gI;s/ws/wz/gI;s/ys/yz/gI;s/alk/olk/gI;s/ing/ign/gI;s/ic/ig/gI;s/ng/nk/gI"
}
It should allow
spurdo "This is the actual function I want to finish:"
and also:
echo "This is the actual function I want to finish:" | spurdo
>>53649193
Why do animations in most DEs depend on compiz?
I have to say that I get some poor ass performance (except for Unity weirdly enough) when I get anything to work with it. Gnome 3, MATE, Cinnamon. Worse, in MATE I even get tearing on some applications.
>>53649125
Try "ddrescue" ?
>>53649459
so pop it into an external enclosure, live boot, and ddrescue onto another device?
>>53646381
Look up adding xrandr modes.
>>53649505
Basically, yes. If you can still see it during boot, you should be able to recover the data. Do it before it's too late.
Why is everyone saying open source AMD drivers are so great when it doesn't even work? I have a r9 380 and I get "couldn't schedule IB / BO_VA" errors and my PC powers off randomly. Do open source drivers not work with that card? Because I found nothing that said otherwise.
>>53649557
Freetards, man.
>>53649557
you didn't find a list of supported hardware? sounds legit
>>53649586
It does support it, it supports the sea island cards which includes my card.
>>53649557
>open source
>>53649557
Blows me. They're pretty terrible with the 280x, and that one doesn't support amdgpu either.
>>53649239
Sorry for spoonfeeding instead of helping you figure it out on your; needed a change of pace from what I was doing and seemed wasteful to let it rot since I wrote it and all. I'm no wizard but it works:lilspurdo() { [ -n "$1" ] && arg="$1" || arg="$(cat /dev/stdin)"; printf '%s\n' "$arg" | sed 's/kek/geg/g'; }
$ echo kekekekekekekek | lilspurdo
gegegegegegegeg
Wrote it on terminal and can't be bothered formatting it.
>>53649718
Thank you bto, I'll experiment with it.
>00.56519 Ignoring BGRT: Unexpectred result 0 (expected 1)
when pressing 'Install Xubuntu' from USB.
>>53649879
>00.56519 Ignoring BGRT: Unexpectred result 0 (expected 1)
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Ignoring+BGRT%3A+Unexpected+result+0+(expected+1)
>>53649712
This article that mentions the same problems was made last year. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd-tonga-linux42&num=3
Would that mean that it was never fixed and I should just use the propriety one?
>>53649527
The problem is it only shows sometimes on boot, and I can never actually read from it from my windows OS when I boot into that drive instead.
>>53649239spurdo() {
sed "s/kek/geg/gI;s/epic/ebin/gI;s/america/clapistan/gI;s/right/rite/gI;s/your/ur/gI;s/\./ :DD/gI;s/'//gI;s/,/XDD/gI;s/wh/w/gI;s/th/d/gI;s/af/ab/gI;s/ap/ab/gI;s/ca/ga/gI;s/ck/gg/gI;s/co/go/gI;s/ev/eb/gI;s/ex/egz/gI;s/et/ed/gI;s/iv/ib/gI;s/it/id/gI;s/ke/ge/gI;s/nt/nd/gI;s/op/ob/gI;s/ot/od/gI;s/po/bo/gI;s/pe/be/gI;s/pi/bi/gI;s/up/ub/gI;s/va/ba/gI;s/ck/gg/gI;s/cr/gr/gI;s/kn/gn/gI;s/lt/ld/gI;s/mm/m/gI;s/nt/dn/gI;s/pr/br/gI;s/ts/dz/gI;s/tr/dr/gI;s/bs/bz/gI;s/ds/dz/gI;s/es/es/gI;s/fs/fz/gI;s/gs/gz/gI;s/ is/iz/gI;s/as/az/gI;s/ls/lz/gI;s/ms/mz/gI;s/ns/nz/gI;s/rs/rz/gI;s/ss/sz/gI;s/ts/tz/gI;s/us/uz/gI;s/ws/wz/gI;s/ys/yz/gI;s/alk/olk/gI;s/ing/ign/gI;s/ic/ig/gI;s/ng/nk/gI" \
<<< "${@:-$(cat /dev/stdin)}"
}
>>53649929
Try reading it from a Linux install while booted into another drive and ddrescue it from there (assuming you have a Linux install in the first place...)
Is there any ubuntu based distro with cinnamon that's not Mint?
I kinda liked manjaro cinnamon, but something must have been fucked up in the process of installing the bootloader that I couldn't access my BIOS.
And sure enough there are other good DEs but I have my little issues with each.
>>53649952
Why not installing Ubuntu and add Cinnamon?
I've been trying to get volume on awesome for hours now, Jesus. Tried every example and the github script, not a single one works. My volume works on every single WM/DE I've tried it on except this one, what a piece of shit. There's no reason it should be this difficult to get something basic like sound and volume.
>>53649952
Just install it yourself
>>53649932
><<< "${@:-$(cat /dev/stdin)}"
looks pretty harmful, but it works. Any way without using cat, bash wizards?!
>>53649987
Check whatever dotfile you have that has shit start on startup.
I managed to make audio work in i3 but not so sure how awesomeWM works...too much Lua for me...
>>53646319
> diluting my BSD system with this garbage
>literally damage my understanding of Unix systems by learning the ins and outs of this bandaidball of a hackfest
on the real I use it day to day on my phone and non-work PC's tho.
>>53646668
Pro tip: you don't
>>53650110
This, it's less of a headache.
>>53649919
This just freezes. No SSD light, no blinking space,.nothing happens
Happens after I press Install Xubuntu.
Happens with Try option too.
Guess Im not installing this
>>53649952
>And sure enough there are other good DEs but I have my little issues with each.
Tried antergos yet? it's DE agnostic and you pick on install
>>53650164
Yep. I couldn't get it to install unless I disabled every single extra in the installer. That was a while ago though.
>>53650159
One of the google results showed that if you wait 10-20 minutes the boot process will pick back up again.
Try waiting it out for 10-20 minutes.
>>53649557
do you have the latest kernel, DRI, Mesa, and drivers? this is a pipe dream on a day-to-day ubuntu machine m8
>>53650015
I've actually been trying to get my head around redirections lately. It's pretty messy.
>>53648650
may want a more complete DE, old people dont take kindly to any wwsort of complexity.
So my dad is a relatively experienced Network IT guy(who hates all OS), and I usually go to him for questions about computers.
I told him I was considering Debian because I used ubuntu as a kid and the DE in Debian looks similar to what ubuntu had back then(was it gnome 2?).
He says Debian is a lot "harder" than Ubuntu. I assumed this meant fixing problems. I could just google stackoverflow, but what do you guys think? Last time I checked Debian had a live cd with an installer.
I'd like to point out that my dad has used slackware, ubuntu, debian, and every version of windows(server and desktop). He's not the most familiar with linux, I think he switched over to some linux distro to learn it like 8 years ago and never went back(until last week).
Another question(sorry), what is the least frustrating operating system overall? (it would be for my dad, i'm a neet who has time to fix dumb stuff)
>>53648263
grab a hard drive dock to back it up before it bites the dust completely
next time use redundant drives and ZFS maybe
>>53650211
Would the latest version of Xubuntu have the latest version of those things or update them?
>>53650208
I read them too, but as I said, no SSD light so nothing is working as in its frozen I believe. I will try once more, I alreadynlet it be on 11mins. and nothkng happened and I shat it down
>>53650297
Unless you do a net install, you should run "sudo apt-get update && dist-upgrade" after you are done installing.
>>53650297
The issue for Ubuntu and its spins is that by 16.04 it stopped supporting proprietary drivers, meaning you're going to get stuck with OSS or AMDGPU.
>>53650314
>shat it down
Are you installing a Linux distro or having a bowel movement?
>>53650334
Why not both?
>>53650334
kinda both
>>53650288
if you want a more traditional DE and dont want to use an ubuntu spinoff, maybe antergos or manjaro would be up your alley. they work OOTB and antergos is fully DE agnostic too.
>Another question(sorry), what is the least frustrating operating system overall? (it would be for my dad, i'm a neet who has time to fix dumb stuff)
If he's used to unix networking maybe PC-BaSeD. it's rock stable, comes with his choice of DE, and is great for basic use with csh, which he should be used to.
>>53650297
You'd have to build a custom kernel to get the best chance of having it work with ubuntu. that or switch completely to a Rolling release. see Phoronix.com for details senpai.
>>53646319
Has richard stallman ever appeared in some anime. I know about that short manga strip where people talk about software but that's about it.
>>53650412
He was in Attack on Titan.
Also S2 when?
>>53650370
I actually liked the older ubuntu, but I'll look into all those(manjaro seems nice at first glance), since i can just change stuff around later.
Thanks for the reply.
>>53650370
oh and also, can you link to PC-BaSeD? it's difficult for me to find it on google.
>>53650797
http://www.pcbsd.org/
>>53650797
Just look up the Wikipedia article for stuff like that and go the official website from there.
How easy is openSUSE? Can it be compared to OS Keks in terms of "just werks?"
im spooked now rhe installation says PCIe bus error and 'severe'
can ubuntu read an ntfs volume thats deduplicated?
rm -rf Spice\ and\ Wolf\ II/
>It deletes Spice and Wolf and not 'Spice and Wolf II'
>>53650797
>oh and also, can you link to PC-BaSeD? it's difficult for me to find it on google.
Sorry the meme energy was too strong. it's called PC-BSD
>>53650024
The .lua stuff wouldn't even be bad except for I'm literally just copying and pasting and still nothing works, which is why I'm so mad.
>>53646923
UEFI BIOS does exist. Some UEFI have a legacy mode. It's rare but it is out there.
>>53646907
Use win32diskimager
>>53647883
May just be booting.
What are you seeing?
>>53651045
>tfw always see errors flooding past me during boot
>no fucking idea what it means, it just werks
t-thanks linux
>>53651141
There's an error produced by using btrfs on manjaro. I don't remember what it was, but all it took was a keypress or waiting a few seconds for it to just go away.
What distro is the most bug-free and usable?
Is it worth setting up an unbound dnssec?
Is the the end point still seeing the dns calls?
>>53651141
You can set up a TTY to hold the init log
>>53651186
>>53651239
I'm just gona wing it senpai. About to migrate my 2012 server to ubuntu with 8tb worth of data.
JUST GNU MY SHIT UP SENPAI
>>53651099
>>53651045
and now it just stalls on pcie bus errors that are labeled severe and corrected and no ssd lights on.
i have uefi on but thjs should support it right? xubuntu 15.10
>>53650910
anyone?
>>53651275
god speed my nigga
I'm unsure if I should go with Debian 8.3 or Ubuntu GNOME for my desktop.
Would you guys help me decide?
>>53651001
haha no worries, i thought "wait wan't there something called PC-BSD? but it doesn't have the other letters" I'm meme-impaired
>>53650925
rm -rf "Spice and Wolf II/"
>>53651864
Complete newfag? Ubuntu. Otherwise Debian.
>>53651896
Not a complete newfag, I've been with Mint on my laptop for about 6 months now. You figure I'd be ready for Debian?
Thinking of switching to linux and virtualizing windows for games. What distro would be best for this?
I'm mostly used to debian as my go-to distro for things I need linux for, but that isn't much. I'm looking for a fairly complete desktop environment and decent drivers. I don't give a shit about free software.
I will be getting a new intel CPU and will have assloads of ram so I don't care much about minimalism in terms of system resources. I also have a nvidia gtx 560
So I have only just realised that I fucked up whilst installing Arch.
I messed up the partitioning. For some reason /home isn't stored on the remaining space partition I made. I can't access /dev/sda4 at all.
How can I fix this?
>>53647616
>emacs
HE'S ALREADY INSTALLED HIS OS
Was hoping to see if anyone dealt with a similar issue and found a decent solution:
I have been using samba as a quick solution to transfer files between Winshit and various GNU/Linux distros on a LAN
When I transfer from client to remote smb I am able to saturate my gigabit connection which is great
My problem arises when I want to transfer from smb share to smb share
Let's say I log into two smb shares on different hosts all on my Windows machine. I want to simply drag and drop to transfer files between the two shares. Instead of directly transferring from smb to smb however the transfer is routed through my client which slows the transfer down to about 140mbit.
Is there any way to not have my transfer routed through the GUI client I am using to do my organizing? If all else fails I will just mount the samba shares and use the command line.
Searching the web hasn't been as helpful
>>53651926
You should be ready.
>>53651990
>Thinking of switching to linux and virtualizing windows for games.
I don't think you realize the assloads of bullshit you have to put up with to get pass through properly working on a Linux host
Just stick to Windows
>>53652341
>recommeding windows
This is a friendly thread.
>>53651990
Honestly, WINE works on most Windows games. Some games even have versions that work on Linux natively. You don't actually have to virtualize windows or dual boot. Good Old Games is a good place for finding Linux stuff.
>>53652380
he already said he doesn't give a shit about free software
why would you want a cancer like that to be part of the friendly GNU/Linux community?
>>53652387
>You don't actually have to virtualize windows or dual boot.
ideally the best way to utilize a GPU for modern demanding gaymes would be through either dual boot or passthrough
I suppose it depends on what you are going to play
>>53652341
oh. Maybe I'll stick to what I have then. Thanks.
>>53652387
>WINE
no
And by no I mean I tried it once in 2006 and I'm remaining ignorant of any possible improvements.
>>53651990
>I don't give a shit about free software.
Then why choosing GNU/Linux at all?
You should switch in the first place for freedom, since this is the whole point.
Ofc you are allowed to have bad habits and hurt yourself with nonfree games and stuff, we do it all sometimes, but if you don't care about your freedom, well, just stick to windows.
>>53652397
You're right. Missed that line.
>>53652484
My mistake was installing windows 10, I feel like I don't own my computer anymore. Maybe 7 or 8 without updates is the best solution here
>>53652445
>oh. Maybe I'll stick to what I have
keep an eye out for when passthrough becomes a more mature technology
I guess this neckbeard can give a general overview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dbAUrtMX4
I was planning on doing passthrough for my next build but that's in the distant future since I have lost interest in gayming
>>53649987
>>53650024
>>53651002
Well huh. I got audio to work by adding myself to the "audio" group. It was a permission problem, which is weird since I've never had that problem before. The Arch wiki says the audio group is outdated, I'm guessing that means awesome is just outdated then? My only guess is that they purposely made the DE not reliant on systemd, which cause people that initialize X with systemd to have problems.
>>53652341
>>53652397
>>53652484
Meh, telling people to go back to Windows isn't really functional, instead we _should_ make users aware why they should care about freedom.
>>53652618
It's not a solution to install any Windows version, since at least 7 and 8 get Telemetry via updates. Turning the updates off? If you enjoy albanian virus, just go ahead. Using 7-8 means choosing between Spyware or Malware. Next to this Microsoft is part of NSA's PRISM program, please check out, maybe on Wikipedia, what PRISM is and what it does.
My suggestion: Two different computers or two different hard discs. One for your real computing, one for games. Like the other anon said, it's not easy to set up a Windows VM with a working passthrough to your hardware, but also this is possible, if you have some time.
>>53652044
Try re-installing and selecting your installation partion carefully. Make sure you don't try to install to Swap and that there's enough space for your Linux and some extra for upgrades!
>>53652618
Sad truth: Windows alto-updates even if you tell it not to. Many people go to bed with Windows 8 or 9 then wake up to Windows 10 despite all their efforts.
Linux never does this crap.
I'm about to make my partitions manually for Debian.
Are there any pitfalls I should avoid?
>>53652806
Yup, that's why I wanted a virtual setup.
>>53652649
This seems like a good video, thanks
>>53648476
What happend to his elbow?
>>53652864
Swap can't have anything installed to it, so don't try. It's still important as a buffer, though, so leave some space in.
Don't make yoru Linux partition th exact same size as your distro as it makes updates and adding to your system hard. At least twice the minimum is wise.
Don't put your back-up in as a partition. Make your back-ups on a regular hard drive used only for back-ups. Also do back-ups once a month to add to and change your files.
Tried to add my music library to cmus and it crashed multiple times, has this happened to anyone else? Or are there any more stable terminal music players?
>>53652880
assassination attempt
>>53652923
mpd. My collection is around 380gb and deals with it without any issue.
>>53652909
Swap is only useful for snapshots with LVM. RAM is cheap enough that you should have enough to not max out.
>>53653111
unless you want to hibernate
>>53652880
He accidentally leaned on a laptop filled with proprietary software.
>>53652697
>make users aware why they should care about freedom.
While I am a freetard I think it's a waste of time discussing the subject here
>>53652880
wound from fighting for freedum
>>53648476
>This is an adorable gnu that needs a home. If you have a penguin at home, you need a gnu for your penguin; there should never be a penguin without a gnu.
<3
>>53653486
>>53653520
Gone for $120.
When I install any distribution, everything's good untill I update my graphics drivers. After that after I select my OS from grub the screen goes black.
GPU works with Windows and has worked when I wasnt dual booting (only using mint [as soon as mint got hacked I installed Windows again]) please help
>>53653639
The Mint backdoor affected only images at their servers for some hours. The distro itself is clean. Don't believe everything posted on /g/.
>>53653639
>as soon as mint got hacked I installed Windows again
Congrats, you installed even more backdoors.
>>53653639
>When I install any distribution, everything's good untill I update my graphics drivers
Don't update the drivers then? You could search the web about your problem instead and use the distro.
>>53653639
Well done for being a moron.
I fucked up my permissions /g/[2016-03-23 22:20:58.018] Couldn't read "/var/lib/transmission/config/settings.j son": Permission denied
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/transmission-daemon'
* Failed to start transmission-daemon [ !! ]
* ERROR: transmission-daemon failed to start
How do I change it back to the user 'nobody'
>>53653677
Okay, but I want to try Debian or maybe opensuse. I want a good ol OS that's going last for a good ol time I've tried manjaro and Ubuntu, and my driver's still don't work
>>53653806
chown
>>53653806
sudo chown nobody:nobody file/directory
>>53653813
Go ahead and install what you want? Also check the web for your driver problems. There should be several solutions. It's always useful to search for the error messages directly.
>>53653806
>j son
>>53653824
>>53653827# chown -R nobody:nobody /var/lib/transmission/config/settings.json
# chown -R nobody:nobody /usr/bin/transmission-daemon
# service transmission-daemon start
* Starting transmission-daemon ...
[2016-03-23 22:25:26.433] Couldn't read "/var/lib/transmission/config/settings.json": Permission denied
* start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/bin/transmission-daemon'
* Failed to start transmission-daemon [ !! ]
* ERROR: transmission-daemon failed to start
didn't work
>>53653877
What user does transmission run as? Does this have any output:grep transmission /etc/passwd
>>53653877
Jesus christ, why is transmission reading the config from /var/? Did you run it as root?
>>53653877
Just reinstall the thing, you've fucked it up too badly.
>>53653136
I don't see why I can't suspend my system to ram.
>>53653910grep: warning: GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated; please use an alias or script
transmission:x:101:105:added by portage for transmission:/dev/null:/sbin/nologin
>>53653976
lel
>>53654020
>warning: GREP_OPTIONS is deprecated; please use an alias or script
What the fuck are you even doing to your system?
>>53654020
>this retard is using gentoo
>>53653985
suspend isn't hibernate
>>53654036
>>53654020
oh-my-zsh still has that problem? Lol that started like two years ago.
>>53654101
>oh-my-zsh
Don't forget to buy the t-shirt!
http://blog.planetargon.com/entries/2013/12/13/oh-my-zsh-t-shirts-now-available
