Previously on: >>53726025
Welcome to /fg/lt/, or as I've recently taken to calling it, /fg+lt/. 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 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/
> 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/
> 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
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack:
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-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
My system recognizes my USB but I am unable to make a bootable one. When I try to boot from USB its just black screen with underscore at beginning.
I was using the dd command and Unetbootin too.
Sometimes I get "missing operating system" on USB boot...
How do I fix this, it worked several days ago normally and after I tried to make bootable 16.04 lubuntu it all went down
> Where in the world is Richard Stallman?
President and founder of the Free Software Foundation Richard Stallman has an extensive travel schedule and frequently gives talks about free software all over the world.
If you would like Richard Stallman (RMS) to speak at your event, please contact [email protected].
If you would like RMS to come to your school and speak, try asking professors in IT-related departments if they would like to bring him. They can contact [email protected].
You can find video and audio recordings of many of Dr. Stallman's speeches and lectures at <http://audio-video.gnu.org/>.
Mar 29, 2016 02:30 PM Cambridge, MA Event Richard Stallman - "Computing in Freedom, Developing in Freedom" (Cambridge, MA)
Apr 11, 2016 06:30 PM Athens, Greece Event Richard Stallman - "Copyrights vs. Community" (Athens, Greece)
Apr 12, 2016 06:00 PM Athens, Greece Event Richard Stallman - "Copyright vs. Community" (Athens, Greece)
Apr 15, 2016 07:00 PM Nantes, France Event Richard Stallman - "Le logiciel libre et les libertés numériques" - Nantes, France
Apr 16, 2016 05:00 PM Choisy-le-Roi, France Event Richard Stallman - "Pour une société numérique libre" (Choisy-le-Roi, France)
Apr 25, 2016 12:00 AM Nevers, France Event Richard Stallman - "Copyright vs. Community" (Nevers, France)
>>53738654
helb bls
>>53738654
Please post the EXACT command you use to make bootable drives with DD with.
>>53738743
Its not my first time. This is deeper. DD was fine.
i will just leave this here https://w0bm.com/b/1458608025.webm
>>53738187
trying again
>>53738892
>>>/v/ with you, tech illiterate.
>>53738892
Also Linus doesn't install his OS he said is the job of sys admins...
but most people here are sys admins or aspire to be so I see nothing wrong with friendly Linux threads.
>>53738916
>tech illiterate
>me
>/v/
>me
try again
>>53738892
I always imagined RMS would be super autistic and use Gentoo as his OS
nm-applet does 200 wakeups/s in 120mb of RAM for a little shitty icon. Quality software Mister Poettering.
>>53739064
Gentoo is a meme newfag.
>>53739289
It's my favorite meme
>>53739128
>tfw poetteringware-free with gentoo
what is the best wm theme?
>>53739590
The one I'm using.
Really though, I made my own.
>>53739590
You mean colour scheme?
>>53739641
i guess? im justa sking about themes. for me im using numix but im looking to try out some new ones
Are youtube comments not loading for anyone else? I've tried Chrome and Firefox, both signed in and signed out, and nothing appears. Wondering if it's my system or Youtube.
>>53739673
Maybe I'm just retarded, but I was confused since if you're using a WM, you probably wouldn't see it much.
>>53739707
im using gnome. im talking abou the theme for the wm that gnome (or whatever your de) uses
>>53739673
I used Numix but got bored with the window buttons, so I made this shitty OS X-lookalike. Feel free to make fun of it. For Xfce, it's pretty straightforward. Colours are still based on Numix.
>>53739742
forgot pic
>>53739742
i would like to edit numix to change the buttons. how do i do this? also while on the subject of themes what icon and gtk themes?
gimp/inkscape vs ps/illustrator
obviously adobe versions are better, but how good are the linux alternatives atm? anyone use em? whats your experience?
>>53739776
I just use Numix icons. If you want to edit Numix, copy the Numix folder from /usr/share/themes/ to ~/.themes/ and rename it to something else
https://wiki.xfce.org/howto/xfwm4_theme
Here's a good resource for making a xfwm theme, you can probably find similar guides for other wms
>>53738966
>Also Linus doesn't install his OS he said is the job of sys admins...
That is not true.
Here he is talking how he installs debian on macbook air, and he tried with debian as solution...
and how he maintains his families PCs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHGTs1NSB1s
>>53739742
i like to change the terminal bg to the colour of the wm. looks slick
>>53739871
I did that too before I started using a transparent background.
>>53739871
A fan of the flatness?
>>53739820
pls respond
>>53739820
If you want to scale photos, you're fine with Pinta or whatever, but if you actually want to draw/paint, maybe Krita would work, however PS is so far ahead of anything I've tried on linux feature-wise it's not even funny.
Inkscape, on the other hand, is shit on every platform. Enjoy your thousand menus.
I've got a thumbnail problem - sometimes thumbnails for png won't generate. How would I go at diagnosing what's going wrong?
I think my distro (Antergos) uses totem-thumbnailer to generate thumbnails, and invoking it on the files from the console works no problem.
>>53740004
i mostly just play around with vector. like creating logos and patterns. nothing draw-ish. would Krita do that?
>>53740061
It does have vector layers, so check it out and see if it works for you.
>>53738892
What video player they used on that website? I have free unlimited storage somewhere and I would like to make my own .webm hosting paradise.
>>53740113
you dont need a player. browsers support webms by default
How good is the Enlightenment DE?
>>53740036
Nautilus generates jpeg/png thumbnails internally and not with totem-thumbnailer
Now, for your problem:
Try deleting the directory ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail
ok I just installed arch and i3 on my macbook and was wondereing how to lower the brightness since my eyes are burning even while typing this messge...
>>53740222
You can use xbacklight or `echo` directly into the backlight device. I'd suggest using xbacklight.
nice OP pic, now that guy that thought he still uses ThinkPads can see what he uses now
>>53740142
I tried that when I open the webm it prompts to download it.
I would've not asked the question otherwise.
>>53740222
>macbook
Install Gentoo Linux: the official GNU/Linux distribution for MacBooks
>>53740206
That doesn't help, the thumbnails fail and go to that directory.
However, I've added image/png to totem.thumbnailer and that seems to have fixed it. Thanks for the suggestions, though.
>>53740274
oh i had that before.. try clearing your cache
>>53739064
He's a different kind of autistic. He only wants to use a distro that prevents non-free software from being used or accessed easily IIRC. Even though this is a main goal of Debian, I believe he doesn't like it due to the fact that you can use official non-free repos to get non-free software post-install.
>>53740142
Only bloated browsers do.
>>53740274
What browser are you using, and do you have ffmpeg installed?
>>53739721
you might mean GTK theme
WM themes are a thing (I use one with openbox, for example), but I doubt it's what you mean
also I'm not an expert but WM themes might just be supplied by GTK themes (Although they are separately configured)
>>53739863
Damn man I'm trying to find the video which I watched two weeks ago.
He was talking about Linux and how fucked up distributions are, he knows a distribution sucks when his young daughter called him to ask for a problem.
He said in that same video that he prefers to call a friend to install linux or call a sys admin because it's their job not developers job.
>>53739695
just checked; my youtube comments work fine on Arch w/ firefox-nightly
>>53740337
>Only bloated browsers do.
?
>>53740361
>He said in that same video that he prefers to call a friend to install linux or call a sys admin because it's their job not developers job.
I believe Stallman has a similar stance, so it's interesting to hear that Linus may agree with him there.
Please don't be surprised if I pull out my computer at dinner and
begin handling some of my email. I have difficulty hearing when there
is noise; at dinner, when people are speaking to each other, I usually
cannot hear their words. Rather than feel bored, or impose on
everyone by asking them to speak slowly at me, I do some work.
>>53740337
Firefox... you understand that it works with that but doesn't work with what I uploaded ?
https://w0bm.com/b/1458608025.webm
works
http://9download.hi2.ro/1455853196592.webm
doesn't
>>53740368
I'm guessing he uses links or dwb or whatever instead of firefox/chrom*
>>53740380
what is the cable he's got in the back of his ThinkPad in all these pics?
>>53740368
Not every browser supports everything by default. It's not really hard to understand that, is it?
>>53740389
I just joined the thread, I only read that it didn't work. Does it work if you upload to another site, or play it from your local filesystem directly? Might be that website not giving the right headers and your browser starting it as a download instead.
>>53740425
Ah I see - so fuck it - I need a different host.
>>53740410
Ethernet. You don't think he'd actually use wifi do you?
>>53740380
holy fuck, no wonder this guy is the hero of /g/
>>53740425
>Not every browser supports everything by default. It's not really hard to understand that, is it?
whats hard to understand is what you mean by bloated. im sorry that you are a poorfag, but my 300,000 IOPS 2.5 GB/s loads every browser in an instant. get a job faggot
>>53740469
Congrats on shitposting more than the other guy, bloat doesn't mean something is hard to run, it means it has features that aren't really necessary.
The poorfag argument is never valid. It's easy to get money to spend on things you care about, poor or not. Stop shitposting.
>>53739820
There is so much wrong with this post.
- Adobe products aren't better, it's the opposite; since there is no source code, it's cripple computing.
- Linux is a kernel, it has no user interface and therefore can't run any of said programs. Please call the whole system GNU/Linux.
- Free software is not an alternative next to propritary software, since it's free software, it's acutally superior.
Experience? Well, you need to learn GIMP the same way like every other program, personally I love the scripting features, so I can edit pictures I usually edit the same way anyway automatically. But there are more amazing things to discover. For new users, I suggest single window mode.
>>53740393
I used dwb, but it's sadly no longer maintained. I use Pale Moon with vimperator as my main browser nowadays, but I also use qutebrowser and Chromium with vimium.
>>53740469
Wether something loads fast or not doesn't say anything about it being bloated. But seeing as you're just going for ad-hominems instead of trying to get an actual discussion going, I'll just filter you.
I'm here to try and help people get into GNU+Linux, not argue with some random troll that has no experience with customizing his system.
>friendly GNU thread
>everybody is shittalking the newbies for not having their years of autistic experience
>>53740527
can you point out some examples of this happening?
>>53740485
>Congrats on shitposting more than the other guy, bloat doesn't mean something is hard to run, it means it has features that aren't really necessary.
>it means it has features that aren't really necessary.
>aren't really necessary.
>complains about webms not working
>>53740501
>Wether something loads fast or not doesn't say anything about it being bloated. But seeing as you're just going for ad-hominems instead of trying to get an actual discussion going, I'll just filter you.
>filtering anon
>doesnt have any arguments
>thinks he won the "argument"
>>53740527
low quality bait
>>53740558
>>aren't really necessary.
>>complains about webms not working
I wasn't in the conversation previously you just kinda made me mad so I stepped in
Where is the linux gaymen guide?
>>53740641
>I wasn't in the conversation previously you just kinda made me mad so I stepped in
i know
>>53740500
eh GIMP is a blowhard who tries to be like his cool cousin photoshop. i use imagemagick for the baby edit and move over to mac/photoshop when needed
>>53740674
okay well I don't think webms are unnecessary, although to be fair a web browser really just needs to browse the web.. you could always open videos in mpv
>>53740650
what do you need to know..?
>install steam
>play games
or
>install dorf fort from repos
>play game
>>53740650
>install GPU drivers
>install 32 bit libraries if your distro didn't come with them
>look up Linux games on GOG or Steam
>download and play
>>53740727
>mac
Shit.
Shit shit shit.
Not even part way there yet.
>>53740732
You don't, I do in some circumstances. I do play webms (and pretty much all video content) with mpv, I have a hotkey setup for it in Pale Moon to follow a link in mpv.
I also have Chromium which does have webm support, but your initial claim that (all) browsers simply support webms was incorrect. Since I don't know what browser this guy was using (and I didn't read carefully to know that some webms *did* work), I didn't assume that his browser could just play them.
No need to autism this hard just because I'm legit trying to help the guy, though.
Doesnt simply installing ffmpeg enable watching webms on every loonix browser?
this is the most autistic board ever >>53740841
>>53740861
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Loonix,
is in fact, GANOO/Loonix, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GANOO
plus Loonix. Loonix is not an operating system unto itself, but rather
another free component of a fully functioning GANOO system made useful by
the GANOO corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising
a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GANOO system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of
GANOO which is widely used today is often called "Loonix", and many of its
users are not aware that it is basically the GANOO system, developed by the
GANOO Project.
There really is a Loonix, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Loonix is the kernel: the program in the system
that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run.
The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by
itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system.
Loonix is normally used in combination with the GANOO operating system: the
whole system is basically GANOO with Loonix added, or GANOO/Loonix. All the
so-called "Loonix" distributions are really distributions of GANOO/Loonix.
>>53740841
You already helped me I don't know what your arguments with that other dude are about haven't read but it was this:
> website not giving the right headers and your browser starting it as a download instead.
I used a different server I have access to and it loads the webm's normally.
https://storage.rcs-rds.ro/content/api/v2/mounts/c57ee829-12d1-474f-8e04-f05bcdd852a0/files/get/1457341652580.webm?path=%2F1457341652580.webm
>>53740946
Glad to see the issue is fixed.
The other arguments aren't really relevant.
>>53740284
why?
I have a stupid question.
How can I access windows files through Arch?
Also, I made a /home partition but I am not sure on how to make this partition the default /home folder.
>>53741060
Where and what are these Windows files?
>>53741060
>How can I access windows files through Arch?
Install ntfs-3g and just mount your windows partition like you would mount any other partition.
>Also, I made a /home partition but I am not sure on how to make this partition the default /home folder.
Just put an entry in your fstab to mount that partition to /home. Be sure to have all the required directories available for your existing users on the new partition though. You can mount it manually once if you don't want to reboot, if it's in your fstab correctly it will mount it at boot for you.
>>53740274
Use curl -I (that's a captial i) to make sure the content disposition header isn't set to download.
>>53741095
Oh, I meant whatever content I have on my windows partition (But I want to recover images/videos).
>>53741117
Oh, it sounds easier than I thought. Thanks anon.
>>53740389
>https://w0bm.com/b/1458608025.webm
Content-Type: video/webm
>http://9download.hi2.ro/1455853196592.webm
Content-Type: text/plain
>>53739936
Flat is justice, my friend
I just want to leave this blogpost here:
I'm now one week living without Flash, and I don't miss it. Websites work as expected; it seems every webdev already uses HTML5. Even porn streams work. Let me tell you guys, you don't need it! Just turn it off.
:)
/blog
>>53741126
>>53741166
His issue was already discovered/solved.
>>53741173
If you have youtube-dl and mpv, you can open most videos straight in mpv as well. Works like a charm for pretty much everything I've ever encountered, even local newssites that stream their shit in Silverlight.
>>53741211
Can confirm. There are hundrets of supported websites, "youtube"-dl is pretty misleading. If a website is not supported, there's even a fallback mode where it's parsing the site for objects.
y0 /flt/, I'm creating a list.
This is what I've got so far:
- Numix
- zsh+oh-my-zsh
- Sublime
- solarized
What else should be on this list?
>>53741286
KDE
>>53741286
Depends on what you want to achieve. I'd personally recommend against using oh-my-zsh. It's a pretty big thing, and you generally only want very small parts. Zsh is pretty easy to customize without depending on something huge like that. If you really want, you can just get the specific scripts you want from their repo and include those manually.
I'd also suggest Lime Text instead of Sublime Text in case you want such an editor.
Numix and Solarized are pretty much your personal taste.
>>53740974
>The other arguments aren't really relevant.
yeah team up with another person. that will make you feel stronger
>>53741286
What's the topic for that list?
Looks like a faggot detection wordlist.
>>53741396
>friendly thread
Why you guys always need to troll this cute old man..
>>53741634
He doesn't seem to care.
It's like replying to a shitpost on 4chan, it's not "lel I troll u, u so mad!!!", it's just responding to stupidity.
>>53741680
Some people just try too hard
>>53740544
sure
>>53738916
>>53739289
>>53740469
>>53740563
I honestly can't think of a reason why anyone would reply with that.
It's clearly not stirring emotion, and was not intended to.
If you want to discuss GNU, that's fine, but leave behind your Facebook-tier memes like "fuggen trollz!! disagreeing wit mee!!!!"
>>53741720
What the fuck, I can't believe I signed up to a mailing list from an abortion supporter. I'm so mad right now.
I'm trying to set up my wii remote for games and whatever on Arch Linux, but for some reason none of the signals come through.
I have bluetooth all set up, paired with the remote, and I've installed both xf86-input-xwiimote-git and xwiimote-git. I've tried restarting X and the computer, but nothing happens at all when I push the buttons. It's definitely hooked up (led 1 is on), and if I run xwiishow as root it can pick button presses, but nothing else. I've looked at xev and nothing shows up.
I am suspicious that I actually need to put these config lines from the man page in some file, but I'm not sure. Does anybody have any experience with hooking up their wiimote like this?
>>53741720
>private browsing mode
cringe
>>53741736
Welp, don't forget that everyday some faggots try to troll this thread. Some may also join just to insult others.
>>53738654
Sandisk?
>>53741720
There is more of this faggot.
Dumping 1/3
>>53741779
2/3
>>53741793
3/3
>>53741808
That's not 'trolling' rms, it's just being a sperg.
>>53741820
this
not win at all
meh/10
>>53741808
srly, rms answers are more mature than your 15 older kindof trolling.
>arch system update makes me install a new package
>after it's over, it lets me uninstall three old packages because i no longer need them
godDAMN this distro is comfy
This thread made me sad, someone cheer me up pls.
>>53741808
>>53741720
Wow this guy managed to out-autism fucking Richard Stallman.
That's kinda impressive.
>>53741761
Turns out the solution is to add yourself to the input group.
# usermod -a -G input your_name_here
>>53742078
am I doing it right?
>>53742093
>being a dick
>impressive
ok kid
>>53742093
>xd lol fuck you
WOW SO IMPRESSIVE
>>53742063
Pacman's good, but I've found my one true love in Portage
Is there a way to make Nautilus show icon view when you're browsing pictures to post instead of list view? I'm on Debian with GNOME if that helps
And yes I've seen that image of the guy back in 2004 or something like that suggesting this change. I have no clue if someone has actually implemented it though, or if I should use a different file manager.
Where should a user without root privileges put binaries and scripts
>>53741286
>Numix
Pretty good
>zsh
Why
>Sublime
Alright, I suppose, though I would personally prefer an OSS alternative
>Solarized
Just my opinion, but that's pretty disgusting.
>>53742474
~/bin
>>53742474
~/bin, make sure you add it to your PATH too
>>53742456
It's not your file manager, it's the GTK file chooser dialog. The GTK developers are fags, the only option you have is the opensuse firefox KDE patch.
>>53742522
>>53742511
If I have to add it to PATH anyway wouldn't ~/.local/bin be a better place to put it?
>>53742566
If you want, why though?
>>53742563
>debian with chrome on GNOME
>I have to use the opensuse firefox KDE patch
fucking what
I'm running Debian on my desktop machine. My laptop is running MInt, but I'm sort of interested in checking out Arch or Manjaro as I've never tried any distro that is not Debian-based.
What do you guys think of those? Are there any non-debian based distros you can recommend?
Also what major differences would you find in switching between Debian-based distros to other ones? Just the package manager or does it go deeper?
>>53742566
It literally doesn't matter. You can put it wherever the hell you want.
>>53742585
/usr/local/bin
>>53742563
Guy you answered to here. An Opensuse firefox KDE patch? What? Will it work for Debian on GNOME?
>>53742590
You never said chrome, you can use the KDE firefox on GNOME and chrome also uses GTK.
>>53742609
Avoid Manjaro, it's broken trash.
Arch is good but the install is tough if you aren't familiar with it. If you want to skip the grind, Architect is a pretty good alternative.
Alternatively for something a bit more 'usable', you can check out openSUSE, which is rpm-based. One week with openSUSE and you'll swear that no distro could possibly be complete without the YAST, mark my words.
So I've been running mint for a few months now, and am thinking of using opensuse. For someone who is still a noob at linux, would a rolling release be reccomended? When the leap gets a new version, how will I update?
>>53742623
It should, try this:
https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/12/firefox-kde-integration-in-debian-testing/
It might pull in 200MiB of KDE/Qt shit with it though.
>>53742680
Rolling releases are very nice.
There basically aren't any 'new versions'. You just update through your package manager whenever it's convenient.
I use Arch myself (which is also rolling release), and I usually update once every two or three days. That's basically all you have to do to keep everything up to date.
I just switched to Debian unstable last night. I guess I have shiny-new-stuff syndrome.
What tips from experience (aside from what is found in the wiki) can you give me to avoid bricking my computer?
I have a live USB handy just in case it ever gets out of hand, but still, I'd rather it doesn't come to that if possible
>>53742744
Use the apt addon with package warnings, follow the unstable IRCs and package lists to check for breakage before updating and consider aptosid or pinning aptosid repos, or even just keeping an eye on their forums or mailing lists.
I can't be arsed to check what advice if any here was acquired via the wiki and I am not the poster to which you replied.
>>53742793
Also just read your updates instead of doing them manually so you know what realm of things to troubleshoot when/if the time comes.
>>53742638
>>Avoid Manjaro, it's broken trash.
No it isn't. Also nice source you got there.
>>53742853
Typical memer. These people are the cancer.
I'm looking for a lightweight linux, which is the best choice?
>>53742900
LFS
>>53742793
>apt addon with package warnings
Um. Do you mean just the regular warnings you get when updating to check dependencies and stuff, or do you mean a legit extension that I should go get for apt?
I use aptitude
>>53742900
There's no such thing. I suggest trying minix instead.
>>53742719
So if I have opensuse leap 42, and they come out with 43, then I will get that version just by going through the package/update manager?
>Decide to dip Windows for a Linux distro
>Use Ubuntu
>4 days later, "Eh, I'm not liking this much.."
>Use Linux Mint
>Two weeks later, "That was okay I guess..."
>Use Xubuntu
>six weeks later, "Let me try this now!"
>Get ArchLinux
>54 minutes later, "That was horrible, LET'S TRY THIS"
>Use Parrot Os
>4 days later, "MORE MORE, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE, HNNNG..."
>Install Debian, then Gentoo, Kali, Fedora all in one day
I can't stop, I'm close to breaking my own mind <3
Does vim use my terminal scheme for syntax highlighting without a theme selected, or do I need to set it from within vim?
where to find pirate steam/linux games?
>>53743004
ggn
>>53743004
Have a little self respect, man. Pay for your shit
>>53743004
way to support and encourage developers who actually care about Linux, ya dolt
>>53742957
By default it won't use apply any color(use your terminal foreground/background color). If you set ":syntax on", it will use the default color scheme unless you set one with :colorscheme.
You can find the default colorscheme in /usr/share/vim/vim74/colors/default.vim
>>53740841
>but your initial claim that (all) browsers simply support webms was incorrect
I'm not the one that said that though
>>53741211
>If you have youtube-dl and mpv, you can open most videos straight in mpv as well. Works like a charm for pretty much everything I've ever encountered, even local newssites that stream their shit in Silverlight.
Can you post a webm or explain how you do this? I don't mean how to use youtube-dl/mpv, I mean how YOU do this. I've opened twitch streams and the like with livestreamer or youtube-dl or mpv or whatever before, I even got some addon that looks for videos on the page and opens them in livestreamer for me, but it stopped working. I'd like to see how easy your method is.
>>53743023
GGn, thanks!
>>53743044
Fuck you, Stallman FTW
>>53743030
no, sorry. Maybe when I get rich or somethin
>>53743107
>using Stallman as a defense for piacy
You've fallen very low. You're no longer welcome here
>>53742638
What else is good about openSUSE? Color me interested
>>53743107
you have really tacky taste in porn, anon.
>>53742500
>>zsh
>Why
Better tab completion, for one. Just use it normally for like an hour and you'll surely notice something neat about it.
>>53743091
Literally just have youtube-dl and mpv installed, and just open whatever stream you want to watch with `mpv <url>`. If you have a decent browser you can setup hotkeys to execute a command or add an mpv command to the context menu.
In general, if I'm on twitch, I press `;m` to follow a link in mpv, and then just hit the right characters to open the one I wanted.
>>53741286
>Sublime
stop
>>53743045
Actually colors/default.vim doesn't do much, syntax/syncolors.vim is the one that defines the default colors.if &background == "dark"
SynColor Comment term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=Cyan ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#80a0ff guibg=NONE
SynColor Constant term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=Magenta ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#ffa0a0 guibg=NONE
SynColor Special term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=LightRed ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=Orange guibg=NONE
SynColor Identifier term=underline cterm=bold ctermfg=Cyan ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#40ffff guibg=NONE
SynColor Statement term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=Yellow ctermbg=NONE gui=bold guifg=#ffff60 guibg=NONE
SynColor PreProc term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=LightBlue ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=#ff80ff guibg=NONE
SynColor Type term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=LightGreen ctermbg=NONE gui=bold guifg=#60ff60 guibg=NONE
SynColor Underlined term=underline cterm=underline ctermfg=LightBlue gui=underline guifg=#80a0ff
SynColor Ignore term=NONE cterm=NONE ctermfg=black ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=bg guibg=NONE
else
SynColor Comment term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkBlue ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=Blue guibg=NONE
SynColor Constant term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkRed ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=Magenta guibg=NONE
SynColor Special term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkMagenta ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=SlateBlue guibg=NONE
SynColor Identifier term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkCyan ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=DarkCyan guibg=NONE
SynColor Statement term=bold cterm=NONE ctermfg=Brown ctermbg=NONE gui=bold guifg=Brown guibg=NONE
SynColor PreProc term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkMagenta ctermbg=NONE gui=NONE guifg=Purple guibg=NONE
SynColor Type term=underline cterm=NONE ctermfg=DarkGreen ctermbg=NONE gui=bold guifg=SeaGreen guibg=NONE
SynColor Underlined term=underline cterm=underline ctermfg=DarkMagenta gui=underline guifg=SlateBlue
endif
>>53741736
First one is a reply to a shitpost, although I do agree they shouldn't have posted that. They should've reported and ignored.
Second one sounds harsh, but newfag isn't necessarily a harsh term.
Third one is absolutely a horrible post.
>>53742925
I can't find it right now from my phone but it is for use with aptitude. Unstable, despite its name, for me has been very stable. In fact the testing branch gave me the most problems and seemingly random package pulls of my debian experience.
>>53742063
>>after it's over, it lets me uninstall three old packages because i no longer need them
How does this work? I don't know if I've ever been asked to uninstall something no longer needed.
Also, agreed, Arch is comfy.
>>53742609
Spent years on Debian. Happily using Arch the past few months now. I highly recommend it.
Please avoid Manjaro and Antergos. If you want an easy Arch install just use Architect.
>>53743177
Ok Anon, maybe I'll give it a shot. Is it at least fully compatible with bash scripts?
>>53743123
;_; please gimme another chance, I admit I was trolling and I.. I also release most of my softwarez as GPL3 on jewhub. Pinky swear!!
I have a shitty gfx and no time for games (besides the occasional gameofbombs/bombermine).
Mostly, I've been simply curious why kat does give much results when I search for "steam linux"
>>53743172
care to suggest anything nicer? I like to skim the latest dvdrips. Pls no shemale shit
>>53742609
>Also what major differences would you find in switching between Debian-based distros to other ones? Just the package manager or does it go deeper?
>installer and choices of DE/WM from the installer
>how new packages are
>how new the kernel is
>frequency of updates
>IRC/Forum/Wiki that you'll be using
>>53743107
>>53743281
Fuck off.
>>53743281
Just get out
>>53743266
you get a "the following are no longer required by any package" or thereabouts at the end of any pacman operation if there are packages that are installed implicitly AND not a dependency of any explicitly installed package
you can remove any such packages by running "pacman -R $(pacman -Qtdq)"
>>53743298
>>53743307
don't feed the trolls
What do you use on your laptops
Arch or openSUSE? And why do you like it?
Trying to decide between the two
>>53743356
Ubuntu Unity, used to use xubuntu on an asus netbook that is dead now
What shell extensions can you guys recommend for Gnome Shell 3.18.4 ?
I was looking for a nice dock, but any and all extensions are welcome.
does lightdm execute xinitrc, xprofile, or neither?
how to passthrough my thunderbolt egpu on elementary OS
>>53743356
Do arch
Or Fedora
>>53743356
I have Arch on my T60p, T420, X220T, as well as my desktop. Works great.
>>53743356
Arch, pretty much the same setup as on my desktop
>>53742456
if you're using a gtk2 browser (the file picker is part of gtk, not your file manager), you can use a patched version with icon/thumbnail support
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/glib2-patched-thumbnailer/
>>53743527
Hello Daren
>>53743542
that's a friends' hdd
>>53743554
Hello Daren's friend
>>53743561
hi!
>>53741286
KDE Plasma meta package
>>53742109
Make this the next OP pls
what do you guys think of Ubuntu MATE?
Are there any cons to using Architect to install Arch Linux?
I mean practical reasons, not "it's not the same as doing it the hard way"
https://sourceforge.net/projects/architect-linux/
>>53743107
Stallman doesn't advocate against paying for software if it's libre, you fucking autist.
>>53743713
I think you can do better than that, MATE.
>>53743725
I don't believe so. I've installed Arch both ways a few times.
Why all the hate for Manjaro in this thread? Give actual reasons, plox.
>>53743818
Archfag autism.
What's so good about Arch Linux anyway?
I wish someone would explain. There's gotta be a reason for it aside of ricing with anime girls.
>>53743818
same reason Ubuntu is worse than Debian
>>53743837
I suspected as much, but I'd like to hear them attempt to explain it.
>>53743858
>There's gotta be a reason for it aside of ricing with anime girls.
Nope, that's really it.
>>53743858
>newer packages
>access to the Arch User Repository
>less breakage than Debian
>>53743874
That is not an answer.
>>53743885
>less breakage than Debian
ufokinwotm8?
>>53743885
>newer packages
>less breakage
>things that actually happen
>>53743858
Basically the light weight and efficiency. With Arch, you can be 1000% sure that there's not one single package you don't need on your machine hogging system resources. I and many other people don't think that's worth the tradeoff in time required to install, customize, and manage the system.
Also, the package manager, pacman, is very good. But Manjaro has that too
>>53743885
>less breakage than Debian
>>53743885
you kind of contradicted yourself there m80 m8
>>53743874
So bloat? What's bloated in Manjaro? I'm using it and I haven't had any problems, runs nicely and there isn't any bloatware or shit I don't need.
>>53743917
What do you personally use?
>>53742945
>Install Debian, then Gentoo, Kali, Fedora all in one day
>Install Gentoo and other distros in one day
What CPU?
>>53743885
>less breakage than Debian
>you
>>53743972
>Believing a lewd anime poster
>>53743874
Explain why would I use Debian when there is Ubuntu
So how's life without games, leet haxxors?
>>53743995
It's called growing up, fat manchild
>>53743995
Productive and fulfilling, thank you.
>>53743989
Freedom.
>>53743995
I stopped gaming like at 16 bruv
>>53743995
I have more fun reading the Bash manual.
>>53743897
>>53743912
>>53743918
>>53743977
I know it's fun to pretend everything we hear is true (e.g. Debian being stable), but as someone who used it for 3 or 4 years, I've had a lot of breakage on Debian and not much at all on Arch.
I believe every issue I've had since being on Arch was from a nvidia package update. Mostly it's just been breaking various things related to Steam.
>>53743989
>>53743939
>>53743892
derivatives are bad
>>53744011
>Debian is not FSF-approved
>>53744011
Explain how freedom is unattainable in ubuntu
>>53743995
While I'll admit I find it tough to enjoy video games anymore, it's unrelated to my operating system. I have played a lot of Minecraft, Terraria, Starbound, etc. in the last few years.
>>53744024
>derivatives are bad
Why I thought RHEL is better than Fedora
>>53744024
Hardly axiomatic. Proof?
>>53743941
Manjaro. It has all the good points of Arch, but automates the things that really should be automated.
>>53744038
>>53744036
>Proof?
What do you want proof of?
On Debian I frequently had GTK breakage. Fonts, themes, etc. would just not apply properly anymore. Applications like VLC got real ugly. Haven't had that happen at all using Arch.
>>53743995
Ironic that you should post one of the very men who are making a big push for gaming to break through on Linux
But keep on with your shitposting, don't mind me
>>53744038
>automates the things that really should be automate
such as?
>>53744086
I would assume
#pacman-mirrors -g
>>53744038
I'm about to give Manjaro a go. I'm the guy from many posts above who wanted to try a non-Debian distro. I've never installed a DE manually, I've always chosen at setup.
If I choose a DE for Manjaro is it easy to switch to i3 or something like that later down the line, or should I do it sooner rather than later with a minimal install?
name my band
>>53744137
>poor little GNU/linux boy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAu_ShuCqKE
>>53744050
Sorry, I forgot to quote you. You said that derivatives are bad. That's meaningless without substantiation. I wasn't questioning the part of your post about breakage... I don't know about Debian because I only used it for a few months, but I used Arch for years and I never had anything break on me.
>>53744137
Poo in the GNU/Loo
>>53744137
GNU in loo
>>53744137
God and the Sand-Niggers.
>>53744137
The guy on the far left is pretty handsome
How different are the requirement for games in Linux? I don't play games but my job's boss got me thinking of playing league with him and was thinking of trying it on my t420 that runs debian.
>>53744196
>League
don't
>>53744168
Ah, okay.
How about this: Derivatives are pointless.
You're adding things on top that push you further from the original distro and make it harder to learn things and get help. I don't want to be at the mercy of the Ubuntu community, but I got a lot of decent help from the Debian community over the years. If I revealed I was on Ubuntu (heck, they'd find it out soon enough) while asking for help in #debian, they'd surely turn me away.
Ubuntu does a lot of weird shit like forcing restarts after updates, pushing you to use PPAs, etc. It's just that they're breaking the standards they should follow, really.
>>53744137
The Loosers
>>53744196
>Current year
>People are still falling for DOTA-clones
Warcraft 3 came out how many years ago? Jesus fuck I feel old
>>53744086
Installation mostly. There's just no reason most users, even most advanced ones, need to do all this https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/installation_guide every time they set up a new computer. They say it gives you more "choices", but 99% of that stuff is done the same way every time anyway.
