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Welcome to /flt/, we are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.
There are five ways to try Linux, you can:
0) Install a Linux OS, preferrably a GNU/Linux distribution, 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 Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot a Linux OS with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about Linux and their frontends in general, GNU, Busybox, Heirloom, etc)
3) Be barebones and make your own Linux image from scratch (libs, compiling core binaries, making kernel)
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with a Linux OS
Before asking, please search for answers to your questions in resources.
Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly 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)
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
>>53686312
66 packets transmitted, 66 received, 0% packet loss, time 65089ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.191/6.291/6.705/0.123 ms
>>53686352
Windows 10 had internet out of the box and past installations of mint and xubuntu did, too. I'm using pfSense for a router, if that has any bearing on anything.
REAL THREAD: >>53686408
>>53686466
yeah, real autistic thread
you freedomfags are more interested in your ideologies than in helping people with problems or questions
>>53686482
Fuck off troll. No need for another thread with 200 posts of explaining why you're a faggot to newcomers.
>>53686557
go back to your containment thread you fucking commie
I just installed linux mint on a desktop that also has Windows 10 on it. I have it connected to the internet by ethernet cable and I can ping google, but for some reason I can't load web pages or connect to the repositories. Any ideas why this would be?
>>53686466
>>53686482
>>53686557
>>53686608
>Just another day in /g/
>>53686953
stop bumping this bait thread buddy
Hey guys. LXDE has a program called Brightness I'm trying to get for a different distro. I looked on the package manager but I couldn't find it. Under its properties, the command says "Brightness-level." I copied the program to my main os but I get an error saying Invalid desktop entry file.
What can I do to get it to work?
Fedora or debian? no derivatives
okay can someone explain to me what I'm doing wrong here?
>>53689192
using Suse
>>53689199
but I like suse
>>53689192
I don't know what the fuck "zypper" is, but it says it looked for "packages" and "capabilities", while "Krita"/"krita" is apparently "application" (according to the search output). Try "zypper in calligra-krita", since that's listed as an actual package.
>>53689246
that's probably it. zypper is suse's package manager, like yum or pacman.
I might be a fucking moron.
>>53686466
Is some faggot shitting up generals?
First it was spamming chink shit till Chinese shopping stopped, now he's fucking up the Linux threads?
>>53686346
Love the picture in the op.
Anyways, what's /g/s thoughts on Ubuntu mate?
what are the best distros that are generally overlooked? ive decided to look into archbang, void, chakra and mageia. anyone have experience with these?
>>53689192
zypper in -t application krita
>>53691987
Void is nice, but for some reason I could never get it to install.
I must be retarded.
>>53689334
>shitting up generals
You can't shit up shit mate
I have a WD USB external drive that needs to be kept spinning or else the constant auto head parking will kill it.
hdparm and sdparm won't disable the sudo head parking, so how do I write a tiny file to it every 3 seconds to keep it spinning?
>xubuntu
>libindicator-plugin.so in panel wrapper has a memory leak
>so does nm-applet
>have to restart them every ~24h
why is it always the panel leaking. anything I can do or just wait for it being fixed
>>53692053
Yeah you can. Add more shit, piss in it a bit, and stir it with a stick
How do I partition a mdadm raid5? The disk manager only gives me the option to use the whole 12tb whereas on other disks it lets me create multiple partitions.
>sudo echo repair > /sys/block/md127/sync_Action
>permission denied
Can read/write to the raid without problems but can't scrub?
Why is there 2 threads?
>>53692710
some guys around are really butthurt when they dont get to make a thread
then they constantly bump their own
>>53691987
opensuse is quite overlooked and its nice and decent
>>53689937
anyone else feels like Mate is being shilled extra hard on /g/ recently?
Anyway, xfce exists so I never really bothered
plus then theres new LxQt which also feels more interesting and like it has a future
but the truth is that I had Mate for like 2 weeks few years so I cant tell much
there was nothing interesting about it
>>53693326
It's because MATE is way better than xfce, which used to be /g/'s choice and now people are switching to MATE.
>>53693341
>>53693326
desu people should just switch over to Unity now, its pretty fucking good in 16.04
>>53693341
How is it better? How did it become better? What changed?
And shilling started like 2 weeks ago
you could ctrl+f for mate before that in /flt/ and you would have same luck as with lxde
sure there might be something, but rare
>>53693351
ability to put launch bar at the bottom is not enough I feel
they need to allow combination of it with the main panel/taskbar thats on the top
its quite wasted space otherwise, to have launcher at the bottom, but actively run applications at the top
>>53693352
More stable, more true to gnome standards, more development going on, it has more of a future with the upcoming Wayland support, and the guy behind Ubuntu MATE actually knows what's he's doing.
>>53693375
ah so nothing specific I can actually check out and compare
>>53693375
/r/xfce - 2,875 readers
/r/mate - 196 readers
>>53693326
>>53693352
To be fair, it's just because Xfce has been languishing for the past few years and MATE has become much more heavily developed and has a future so people have slowly been moving to MATE for that reason.
When LXqt matures to a certain point, I guarantee /g/ will cum themselves over LXqt like they are currently doing with MATE.
>>53693412
Legacy readers. When Ubuntu MATE LTS comes out, you will see people move from Xfce to MATE.
What is the best versión of Ubuntu, Gnome, mate, xfce...?
>>53693417
>Xfce has been languishing for the past few years
I think part of it is that theres not much left to fix or bring
>>53693430
next xfce release will be ported to GTK3
so I dont think mate has the benefit of being ahead for long
but I will be soonishly installing linux for my father to do internet banking in
and I will put mate there just to checkout whats new
seeing as beta of 16.04 is out so fast after beta regular ubuntu 16.04
I think there wont be much waiting
https://ubuntu-mate.org/xenial/
>>53693352
It just feels fast, responsive and clean, I remember trying Unity (granted it was on way shitter hardware) back in 2010 or so and I nearly puked. They have polished the fuck out of it since then.
>>53693366
I agree, but you can autohide the launch bar
You can probably autohide the top bar too but I haven't tried yet, I don't feel the need yet
>>53693446
>Ubuntu
Just go with this, unless you have really shitty hardware
What is kernel freeze
and why is it just before the final release?
I would say that changing kernel without running beta version out, that it feels strangely irresponsible, is theres a chance they switch from 4.4 to 4.5 in that time window?
>>53693496
Ok, unity.
Is Linux sutable for offline GPS map navigation and tracking purposes?
Any good software examples, GPS/Glonass/Galileo pci-cards for a laptop with open source drivers out there?
STOP BUMPING THIS CANCER THREAD
REAL THREAD: >>53686408
STOP BUMPING THIS CANCER THREAD
REAL THREAD: >>53686408
STOP BUMPING THIS CANCER THREAD
REAL THREAD: >>53686408
>>53693511
kernel is frozen meaning that every piece of software can be updated if there's a necessity to do so but not the kernel
>>53693511
Kernels don't usually fuck up, it's known for being the stablest part of the system
In all these recent security alerts we had over the last year or 2, I don't recall any that were directly to do with the kernel, might have forgotten, but I'm fairly sure I haven't
>>53692710
Because current OP is a tech illiterate.
>>53693563
But this thread is the valid one.
It came after 300
and it came first
check the previous thread if you want
>>53677230
>>53693572
so its not rare occurrence to have kernel update in those later stages
Im having some issues installing Sonarr/nzbdrone in ubuntu.
Basically follow their guide on their website but when I go to launch it tells me it cant find the .exe file.
I just tried to install sickrage instead and get a similar issue. Am I missing an important step?
Ive tried both ways by adding it to the ubuntu software centre and using terminal commands to install.
>>53693655
drop your question to the real thread over there: >>53686408
this thread is reddit bait
>>53693655
use arch, its on AUR
>when I go to launch it tells me it cant find the .exe file
exe file?
>>53693679
https://github.com/Sonarr/Sonarr/wiki/Installation
yeah im not sure if this is out of date or incorrect or what..
>>53693733
well go have a look in to /opt/NzbDrone
whats in there
Is LXQt ready and stable to install on Ubuntu for example? I want to try it out.
It looks somewhat like KDE(same fm,wm,...) but did they keep the simplicity and performance of LXDE?
I mean does the same people work on KDE and LXQt?
And last question, is there a distro that ships with LXQt by default?
Stay friendly.
>>53693903
no and no
>>53693903
I had it up only in virtual machine
It feels extremely empty and bare, more like WM than DE
but there were no glitches or bugs that I could tell
>>53693791
ive gone through my folders for sickrage and sonarr and cant see any file that would open the application for either.
>>53693973
post screenshots
no more gnu
friendly reminder
I am at a family members house.
She has 14.10 installed, how do I upgrade? Repository is 404
>>53693269
Like the csg?
One is an hour newer than the other.
What kind of security is actually necessary when running OpenVPN on a Debian VPS? I'll just be using it for Netflix and pirating.
>>53695881
what's with people trying so hard to convince others that what they're using/enjoying is bad?
Newfag running Debian as my first distro. Is there a way to check what if I'm missing firmwares for my drivers?
>>53696886
Shit, is there a way to check what drivers are missing firmwares?*
>>53696863
Ask every freetard on this board.
Disregard the Windows aesthetics, this is Linux Mint.
I find this behavior strange. When I launch Firefox here on Linux Mint, it opens in this small resolution and then after a moment expands to the size of my full screen.
Is this typical on Linux? Does it do this for you? On my actual Windows 7 machine, it doesn't do this. Firefox will launch to the size of the maximize window without having to resize itself. It really isn't a big deal as it does fix itself once Firefox is fully loaded, but I can't ignore how ugly it is.
