Previously on: >>53951408
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.
IRC connection details:
Server: chat.freenode.net:6667 (no SSL, 6697 for SSL)
Channel: #flt
If you don't have an IRC client (which you should), go to <https://kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/flt>.
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
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
first for Canonical's GLOW (GNU/Linux On Windows)
Second for All Arch No Bite.
>>53957739
shut up hitler
>>53957739
Anons don't need rules. Rulecucks are gay.
It's GNU/Linux. No matter how much you fucks cry, we don't discuss the kernel here. OP is doing God's work.
Can someone explain whats wrong with this thread? This is exactly the same as the last thread.
loonix only fags btfo
>>53957876
shitty apps guy is mad that he wasn't first
>>53957876
They're sperging about the tag not being /flt/. It's /fglt/ in this one.
I was wondering how to use sysreccd to install Gentoo to my usb. I got to the point where it says to modify the contents in the workspace but I'm not sure what to do. I tried to copy everything over from the Gentoo iso but it just gave me a isolinux/rescue64 was missing. I am also trying to dualboot with windows and Gentoo on my ssd and have all the data on the hdd if I could!
>>53957912
install gentoo
>tfw go to Google maps on Firefox in xubuntu
>tfw completely freezes the machine three times in a row forcing me to hard reboot machine
>tfw couldn't even go to another tty, open terminal window or anything
Welp, time to move to chromium
>>53957788
What distro would hitler use?
h-how to do this on ganoo/loonix?
>>53957979
EVERYONE
THIS IS NOW SHITPOSTING GENERAL
POST WACKY MEMES, ANIME, AND GIVE BAD ADVICE ON PURPOSE
I'm getting seemingly random freezes forcing me to reboot too. No idea what is causing them.
>>53957899
>>53957891
but it's exactly the same as the last thread duders. There is not a change in the op at all.
>>53958013
fuck off dump frogposter
>>53957980
cat(1)
>>53958013
>it's a get my thread deleted so i'll shitpost instead post
KeK
>>53958033
Thanks, will read into it.
>mfw Antergos is broken
Bitches please, this is a friendly thread.
Save your memes for other threads.
>>53958024
Cuck off stupid frog hater
It's always cute when autists throw fits and think they're making a difference
>>53958096
Hi autist-kun
>>53957912
>not using ubuntu to install gentoo
anon, please
What distro would Donald Trump use?
Just dump your whole folder
You'll get bored eventually and ask yourself why you're even alive
>>53958066
man this pic is absolutely retarded
>>53958022
I reboot and get these. Seem to be some error it causes in the kernel? strange. i've never had that happen until today when i open google maps.
>>53958131
FUCK OFF STUPID STORM KEK
/g/ is a pro Bernie Sanders board
Get your racist banjo playing woman hating war mongering cousin fucking ass out of here
>>>/pol/ back you go with the rest of the pasty white inbreds
>>53958151
Nevermind, it just froze on 4chan. Pointer didn't move, again couldn't move to another tty...What the fuck?
>>53958096
>zsh
wat
>>53958179
For the love of god, please stop talking with yourself. Seek help.
>>53958179
this
>>53957687
Hey guys. Recently got my custom laptop which has 2 drives. I'm installing W7 on my main but want to install a linux distro on my second drive.
I am okay with computers, know a little visual basic and C++ but have never used linux or terminals on any OS before. What distro would be easiest for me? As its on a second drive there is no need to worry about how it might interact with my files on my W7 boot.
>>53958183
rollback to a previous known-good kernel or rebuild/reinstall the current one
>>53958179
>feelthebern.jpg
>>53958194
U mad Trumptard?
Sanders will be president
Get used to it
>>53958179
>>53958107
Please don't call them autists. I'm an actual autist and don't want those sods to be associated with me.
>>53958241
Trump will lower taxes on loli
Sanders will increase the taxes
This is like watching someone have a complete mental breakdown and it is somehow fascinating.
Please kill off some more of your dignity for us.
>>53958260
Srsly fuck off spamming /g/'s last good thread you retarded inbread.
>>53958244
Fuck yeah RMS.
>>53958260
>developed breasts
>loli
Fuck off
there is a morbid sort of pleasure in picturing the neckbear that is doing this, just posting pictures of lolis in hopes of upsetting others because he has nothing else to do with his free time
i'll be back in a few hours when he gets a heart attack or something
Remember faggots
It's Friendly Linux Thread from here on out as it's always been
Post cuter loli pls
>>53958353
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux,
is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux.
Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component
of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell
utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day,
without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU
which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are
not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a
part of the system they use. Linux 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. Linux is
normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system
is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux"
distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
>>53958353
Cry some more.
>>53958353
>autism
>>53958353
kill yourself
>>53958353
lel, you're a pathetic manchild. by all means, post more shit. that doesn't grant you any rights
>>53958353
or what?
you'll shit the other threads that don't conform?
Show us what you're made of, you fuck. No dinner for you, you'll have to keep posting these, day and night.
>>53958406
Saving it all. Thanks bro!
>>53958452
pedo
>>53958451
Sooner or actually later the pics will just be deleted anyway and the bump limit will fall back.
>>53958406
More like this
Are we being raided by /v/?
>>53958460
Figures. Autists understand autists I guess
>>53958369
No, Richard, it's 'Linux', not 'GNU/Linux'. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation.
Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ.
One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS -- more on this later). He named it 'Linux' with a little help from his friends. Why doesn't he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff -- including the software I wrote using GCC -- and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don't want to be known as a nag, do you?
>>53958490
nah.
two butthurt losers a raid make not
>>53958523
What do they want?
>>53958507
Thanks again bro.
Saving it all :D
You're making my loli folder for me, ty desu
>>53958519
(An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies whereever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title 'GNU/Linux' (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example.
>>53958533
they want the title of the thread to be /flt/ instead of /fglt/
yeah. I know.
>>53958533
FLT back!
>>53958553
Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn't the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you've heard this one before. Get used to it. You'll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it.
You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never excuted that bloatware, it certainly isn't more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn't perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument.
>>53957687
typical loonix thread: full of pedo crap.
>>53958533
>they
It's just some sperg being a sperg.
The last thread as exactly the same.
>>53958568
Last, I'd like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn't be fighting among ourselves over naming other people's software. But what the heck, I'm in a bad mood now. I think I'm feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn't you and everyone refer to GCC as 'the Linux compiler'? Or at least, 'Linux GCC'? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD?
If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this:
Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux' huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don't be a nag.
Thanks for listening.
>>53958588
I think there's at least three of us
THREE!
>>53958557
>>53958568
>>53958588
As long as it ain't /v/
I would have gotten a proper reason to crash one of these threads: ptg, speccy, guts or csg
The only way to know what the system is called is asking the system itself:uname -o
What's your favorite Viper album guys?
>>53958631
>'uname' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.
>>53958640
Holy shit MUH DIKK
>>53958631
Just ignore them man. Eventually the janitors will clean up, or the spergs will get bored and accept to take it in the ass and deal with it being /fglt/. Go do something else in the mean time
> 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/
>>53958673
>>>/v/, winbabby
What's the best way of going about creating a swap file on Debian?
I want to be able to hibernate/suspend my machine.
>>53958736
Making it in the install, I guess
Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS or Ubuntu 15.10?
Relative beginner to Linux here, I've used easy distros like Ubuntu(not bad) and mint+cinnamon (which I've heard nothing but shit about)
What are your thoughts on Mageia
What is your favorite Linux Desktop Environment and why?
Thanks!
>>53958756
You can only create swap partitions during install, not swap files
>>53958736fallocate -l [size]G /.swapfile
chmod 0600 /.swapfile
Then just add it to your fstab like you would a swap partition.
>>53958759
Don't fall for LTS. Please. Always choose the current release or you have to deal with outdated shit and problem when you want to update to the next release.
>>53958766
KDE is my favorite DE
>>53958766
Mint+cinammon is good. I used it for quite a long time before switching over to Debian, don't let the memers fool you.
>Mageia
No opinion
>Favorite DE
GNOME 3, it looks nice and the shell extensions are pretty neat
>>53958771
Fugg forgot:mkswap /.swapfile
>>53958776
Okay, so Ubuntu 15.10 then?
>>53958689
I-is that it? More more more
>>53958787
>>53958771
So:fallocate -l [size]G /.swapfile
mkswap /.swapfile
chmod 0600 /.swapfile
?
Do I have to do anything else to get it to work with systemd?
>>53958801
I guess he had to go get more doritos or something. Won't be long
>>53958813
>>53958797
Have you taken your meds today, boy?
>>53958826
BABY GO POOPOO
POOPOO
>>53958826
Yes correct. It doesn't matter if you change the permissions before or after writing the swap header with 'mkswap' though.
>Do I have to do anything else to get it to work with systemd?
Not AFAIK. I'm posting from Debian with a swap file set up like that.
>>53958875
Yes, that's you.
>>53958883
BABY POOPOO
POOPY BABY
>>53958797
>>53958813
>>53958875
>>53958881
Oh and you can call it whatever you want.
'.swapfile' is just what I use.
>>53958881
And how do I add it to my fstab?
Sorry if that's a little too handholdy, I've never used the command before
I want to rice my Gentoo (with i3). Where can I learn all I need to know about fonts and how to install and use them?
>It's school holidays in australia
>>53958917
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
>>53958905
No worries man. Just add this to the end of '/etc/fstab'./.swapfile none swap sw 0 0
(Substituting .swapfile for your chosen filename of course.)
>>53958992
Thanks a bunch man.
> 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
Is there a way to take a screenshot, then scroll down and take another screenshot and have the two of them automatically merged as one?
I'm thinking of something similar to an browser add-on that is able to capture an entire webpage.
>>53959041
>9999x8866
>>53959047
imagemagick to take the screenshot
xdotool to press the scroll wheel
imagemagick to merge
But why do you want to do this in the first place? If you want to make a full-page screenshot and use firefox, there is SHFIFT+F2.
>>53959033
Glad I could help anon.
>>53959047
If you're using Firefox just hit Shift+F2 and then type "screenshot --fullpage".
>>53959047
>>53959094
Oh wait shit nevermind, you need something generic.
https://neetco.de/apt-get/flt-guides
Posting this again.
I was thinking that the thread probably needed a link in order to list guides towards running non-standard software, be it games or anything. It may be useful, especially since this thread has a lot of newer people.
I've got a barebones git repo here. Link me to a (useful) guide, and I'll add it (or simply submit a pull request if you're okay with creating an account on neetcode).
Hopefully this could get in the OP pasta and answer some common questions (how do I run x, etc).
>>53959085
>>53959094
I'm not doing this with a browser.
I want to take a screenshot of some stuff in a program I'm running but I don't want to go through the hassle of taking multiple screenshots and then using image editing software to cut and paste them all together so that they end up looking like one large screenshot.
>>53959041
>9999*8866
>3.28MB
ok
>>53958970
>>53959041
I’ll take a look at these. Thanks!
Is there a /fglt/ pasta for GPU passthrough?
Is do, pls post, if not, pls make. :^)
Please point me to something I can read.
>>53959094
If it's not too rude to ask something else, since you're on Debian as well
I had a problem since two threads back, but no one really knew how to solve it. I have my Debian install on my SSD, so naturally the boot / shutdown times are pretty speedy. However, after installing the propietary NVIDIA drivers and replacing the Nouveau/Galium ones (as per this guide https://linuxconfig.org/nvidia-geforce-driver-installation-on-debian-jessie-linux-8-64bit ), shutdowns/reboots have become extremely slow. Boots are still fast, but shutdowns/reboots take upwards of 50 seconds.
Any idea how I could diagnose and fix this hang up?
Some other anon in the previous thread suggested hibernating to circumvent the problem, but after making the swap file I observed hibernating is seemingly also affected (very slow)
I hear this is a friendly thread for all things Linux.
How do I change the border color from blue to something else like grey? I've spent all day googling it to no avail. My gtk+ theme is Greybird, and the Window is Esco. Using Debian 8, GNOME 3.14.1
I'd like to continue using Greybird and Esco, but like I said, it'd be great if there were some way to change the window border to another color.
>>53959144
My first try was PNG. 50MB was the result.
>>53959159
The themes are all just plaintext files. Search for your theme in /usr/share/themes/yourtheme and check the configs and images. I guess you'd just need to desaturate the frame pictures.
Is systemd really that bad? If so, what are the alternatives?
>>53959190
Would it be in this folder somewhere?
I've tried the Esco folder and all there is is a folder called metacity-1 with metacity-theme-1.xml inside
>>53959152
Isn't GPU passthrough extremely difficult to perform?
I thought the consensus for now was basically "don't bother"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dbAUrtMX4
Is there any way to do this in urxvt?
>>53959257
It's not bad
>>53959257
http://without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Init
>>53959324
filtered
>>53959257
it's not bad, it's just a step away from the ancient unix philosophy so /g/ is sperging out
>>53959257
its fixing the antique mess that init had become over the years and standardizing it, instead of every distro having 50 different scripts for booting shit and calling up services
>>53959154
Anyone know, guys?
>>53959154
>>53959654
install an OS that is not outdated by design
>>53959835
Thank you. Anyone else?
Probably wrong thread.
What does echo -en "\e[20;70;90t" mean in cygwin, I know it changes the console size, but I can't figure out where the documentation is for this. I'd like to also know how to quietly change console size for a program later. Just want to know the correct terms to google.
>>53959847
stop complaing about 50 seconds. its literally nothing. my computers take around that time as well sometimes, other times shutdowns are instant. works for me. unless you are able to debug the driver on your own or can google some patch for that stuff, all you can do is wait for the next version and hope it gets fixed.
What graphics card do you have?
>>53959964
GTX 760
anyway to pipe a date to date -d +"%s"
usually you can dodate -d '2016-04-09 23:59' +"%s"
but I want to pipe date the date, but when I just pipehead -n 1 | date -d +"%s"
it errors thinking that +"%s" is the date I want changed, when all I want is whats from head -n 1
Hey /fglt/, got a real headache over this one.
Upon attempting to add a 3rd 4tb hgst harddrive to my xubuntu machine, it will not appear in the bios or in the actual operating system. When I plug this device into either a windows machine or the xubuntu machine via sata to usb connection to check if the actual disk is broken, I can only see 1.64 tb of storage space, regardless of how the partition table is formatted. What can I do to make the remaining space available, and how can I make my xubuntu machine see it through the sata port? Again, this is the 3rd drive of it's kind I've tried to put into the server, and the only one that's fucked. The motherboard itself has 4 sata ports, so unless the other two are somehow locked in the bios I can't fathom what would cause this. The pc itself is a hp compaq 6005 pro refurb.
Thank guys, for any options.
>>53959974
>>53959964
And I know it's not such a big deal. It just triggers me hard that it used to be basically an instant shutdown and now it takes a minute. Wanted to see if it was fixable
>Looking through music backlog in Thunar
>Scroll to middle of folder containing ~500 albums and delete one
>Scrollbar jumps up toward the top of the list, but not all the way up
>Delete album near the top of the list -> scrollbar doesn't move at all
Is this a setting one can change in Thunar, or a conflict with something else? Or is Thunar just dysfunctional? I just tested this out by opening a folder with 470 images in it and deleting one from the middle, and the bar didn't jump at all. Is it because I'm deleting folders in the case of the music?
>>53960003
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?dist=stable;package=nvidia-driver
Why dont you go file a bug then and let the maintainers know that their package is not working as it should?
>>53960015
try installing pcmanfm and/or spacefm (they have little to no dependencies) and try repeating said action. if they behave like thunar -> something else is broken. if not -> thunar is broken
Fresh install of Fedora 23 yesterday and it crashes pretty often. Can anyone assist?
>>53960123
Good idea. I'm sort of new. This'll be the first bug report I make then
>>53960169
specify "pretty often" and the exact circumstances how it crashes and when. what do you do before it crashes?
As a desktop user, which do you pick between Debian Testing and Unstable? Why?
>>53960001
if the previous 2 4TB drives work perfectly.... consider the disk is broken and RMA it.
>>53960196
neither. both are time bombs
>>53960189
I don't know why it's crashing, one time it was when I was scrolling down to a new post in a thread, another time I clicked close on a window and once when was watching video, I really have no idea it's seemingly random. There are no exact circumstances.
>>53959887
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code
>>53960237
what kind of crash do you have? does X freeze? random reboots?
>>53959991
man xargs
>>53960003
Does it take that long to unload the module? Maybe you can add that in a init script if not.
>>53960158
I guess I should say, I've used Dolphin in the past as a file manager (in response to this jumping problem) and it doesn't happen with that program. I had the feeling Thunar was broken to some degree, but the problem has persisted through reinstalling Xubuntu twice. (Neither time was explicitly to fix Thunar, but it would've been a nice side-effect.)
>>53960314
just switch to another file manager then and call it a day.
>>53960227
I got it to work! As it turned out the two extra sata slots were disabled in the bios, once I reactivated them and ran gparted it detected the fuckup gave me full access to the disk. All is well.
>>53960283
I should I explained better in my post sorry.
It freezes constantly with audio still playing.
My hardware is
gtx 650 ti
i3-3240 CPU @ 3.4GHz
It's saying I have an "GPU: Gallium 0.4 on NVE6"
Anyone in here every compiled Wine from source? I have a patch I want to use, but can't have both 32bit and 64bit support, because I can't have both architectures' dev libraries installed at once.
>>53960531
are the propietary drivers installed?
>>53960291
I tried -0 and -I and neither work
>>53958179
>pro bernie sanders board
lolno Speak for your self.
>>53960563
>>53960531
if not,http://rpmfusion.org/Configurationis your friend
then dodnf install akmod-nvidia-304xx "kernel-devel-uname-r == $(uname -r)"
dnf update -y
>>53960587
Nvm got it.echo "2016-04-09 23:59" | xargs -I{} date -d {} +"%s"
ebuilds are quite similar to pkgbuilds/srcinfo files on arch yeah?
>>53960263
ty.
>>53960597
not that guy, but considering how high the faggot population is on 4chan (and /g/ particularly) compared to the general population, it's not really surprising that most people here probably tend to lean toward bernie, considering that hillary is an establishment cuck candidate for normies who have trouble breathing on their own, much less using their brain to form informed opinions on politics.
that being said, trump is a literal meme, and you don't belong here if you unironically think he is anything but a joke
>>53960563
I think that would fix the problem. I'm downloading a .run file off geforce.com. Not sure how to install a driver...
>>53960688
ABORT
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>>53960620
>>53960329
I'm already liking pcmanfm so thanks for that recommendation. I'd just stick with Dolphin, except there's a significant delay for this computer upon opening it for the first time after booting. Not a big thing on its own but annoying when it happens every time.
I installed debian but after booting into it there is no display output. This is normal, yes?
>>53960624
Pretty much. PKGBUILDs do not have an equivalent of Gentoo's USE flags though.
>>53960727
Yeah, just meant in terms of functionality. I'm thinking of switching back over to gentoo but it's been a while and I always felt a bit overwhelmed by version/dep control with emerge.
>>53960620
>>53960706
Alright downloading it now. Will report back if I crash again.
>>53960723
Uh, did you install any desktop environments?
>>53960774
ok restarted my pc after doing update -y and it didn't boot back up. It says "Starting Switch Root..."
>>53958179
I support bernie because i hate women and i never want a women president like shillery clinton. Don't lump all bernie supporters into your gay nu-male feminist fantasy.
>>53961054
>not supporting trump
Why can't we just make this /fldt/ - Friendly Linux Distribution Thread?
That way we can be clear on the fact that we support DISTRIBUTIONS of the Linux kernel, not the kernel itself.
That will allow our thread to support Busybox help too.
you should pimp it up anon
>>53961175
Sorry to interrupt but it should be fgldt not fldt
Just installed Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro Retina, need a bit of help regarding GRUB.
So I tried installing Arch and Windows on this laptop ages ago, gave up and then went back to pure OS X. Then I tried dual booting it with OS X and a bootcamp Windows partition; worked but it literally had no use, so I ended up repartitioning and going back to pure OS X again.
Now I just want to dual boot Ubuntu and OS X on the laptop, which I can do as of right now but it's really sketchy. I can get into Ubuntu from GRUB on boot up but in order to get into OS X I have to hold down ALT on startup and get in using that. Not to mention on my GRUB menu (and when I hold down ALT) there's fucking 'boot into Windows' sort of options even know I don't have Windows installed or want it anywhere on this drive.
How do I get GRUB to give me just two options on boot up - Ubuntu and OS X? I eventually want to switch to a sexier boot loader (like rEFInd or someshit) but for now I just want to get it setup nice and simple.
>>53961203
But BusyBox performs and operates the exact same as GNU does idiot.
I bet you a shitload of non-GNU UNIXish toolsets that are open source and free operate like GNU does.
What happened to gtk in arch? Just got an update today and everything looks like shit. Tried reverting webkitgtk and the others but no avail.
>>53961175
We do support the linux kernel though. I've seen lots of discussions about it before.
>>53961276
Did some of your applications switch over to gtk3?
>>53961302
I don't know, how do I tell?
Pic related, everything is greyed out, there's no highliting anymore when hovering or copying text.
>>53961356
Install lxappearance and change your GTK theme, it looks like something has gone wrong with it.
>>53961362
Looks like this is it. The theme just disappeared after the update.
Just installed Ubuntu, thought it came with GNOME, apparently not. How can I remove whatever window manager is running atm and install GNOME?
what's the best way to improve my font rendering? I accidentally borked it a while ago and just realised the reason it looked so shit is that it wasn't doing any subpixel stuff
>>53961461
Probably depends on your DE?
In LXDE I just go to Preferences -> Customize Look and Feel -> Font , pic related
>>53961499
In KDE
I was just dicking around with /etc/fonts/conf.d mostly
>>53961220
bumping for help
>>53961461
Always edit /etc/fonts/local.conf, but be sure your DE isn't overriding your settings. Arch wiki has some stuff, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/font_configuration#Subpixel_rendering
If you're feeling lazy you could also install infinality and some of the patched sets of fonts, and then just alter it to one of the presets that you like under its config.
>>53961559
I actually borked it by installing infinality, which made my fonts look like absolute shit compared to the default settings, so I uninstalled it and made everything look worse
archwiki said something about symlinking from conf.avail to conf.d and it seems to be workding (see original picture)
What should the user/hostname on my new Arch install be, /flt/?
>>53961550
If you're on UEFI, run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/GRUB/grub.cfg, or just /boot/grub/grub.cfg if you're on BIOS.
Then you can edit the /etc/grub.d/40_custom and add menu entries for each OS or delete them if you find anything you don't want there. You might also want to make sure grub is pointing to the correct boot folders for OSX, I had a lot of trouble getting that to work when making a hackintosh of sorts myself.
>>53961598
Yeah, you can think of infinality as a sort of fork of fontconfig, cairo, freetype with its own repo of sets of reworked fonts. When you installed it what likely happened is it wrote over your fontconfig setup, and then when you uninstalled it you got raw, unkept fonts.
>>53961602
Monitoring@NSA
>>53961648
That's not funny
>>53961220
Try running sudo update-grub and then check /boot/grub/grub.cfg and check there is a darwin entry in the os-prober section. Not sure why it wouldn't have picked it up during install.
>>53961362
Actually it was the update to gtk3.20 that fucked me over. Older themes are not supported I guess, especially on my DE (mate). Reverting to 3.18 makes Firefox and other dependant software crash on startup.
What distro has actually working drivers for nvidia cards?
>>53962022
amazuntu
>>53962022
Well nvidia has fully working linux drivers, so as long as you're not using legacy 340xx or 304xx on any kernel between 4.1 and 4.4, any.
>>53962022
all of them
So I'm receiving this error on two nested for loops in bash((: <=1: syntax error: operand expected (error token is "<=1")
Any ideas why?
The loops:for ((counter=0; <="$pages"; counter=counter+1))
do
stuff
for ((counterw=1; <="$resultsonpage"; counter1=counterw+1))
do
stuffagain
done
done
When installing graphics drivers should I just install xf86-video-ati Or also xf86-video-amdgpu?
How do I set up mirrorlist on Arch?
It's slow as fuck and I'm not sure how to doit properly without scripts
>>53962237
I got it, my source told me wrong.
>>53962516
Here's mine:Server = http://mirrors.abscission.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.acm.wpi.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.advancedhosters.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.aggregate.org/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://archlinux.surlyjake.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.atlantic.net/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://ca.us.mirror.archlinux-br.org/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.cat.pdx.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.cs.pitt.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.es.its.nyu.edu/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror1.gaw.solutions/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror2.gaw.solutions/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror3.gaw.solutions/arch/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirrors.gigenet.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.grig.io/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://www.gtlib.gatech.edu/pub/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.ancl.hawaii.edu/linux/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
Server = http://mirror.htnshost.com/archlinux/$repo/os/$arch
>>53962516
www.archlinux.org/mirrorlist
>lindo
>autoCAD
Is there any equivalent software for these software on linux?
>>53962674
Is a higher score better or what?
>chromium is fucked on arch
>im not syncd to latest repos because driver issue
>try to download and use just chromium anyway
>requires newer libs
>no way to get around it outside of building from source
>check out PKGBUILD# Enable support for the Widevine CDM plugin
# libwidevinecdm.so is not included, but can be copied over from Chrome
# (Version string doesn't seem to matter so let's go with "Pinkie Pie")
sed "s/@WIDEVINE_VERSION@/Pinkie Pie/" ../chromium-widevine.patch |
patch -Np1
>PinkyPie
Will herd ever be good or is it suspended or something?
Sometimes the computer freezes completely and I can't do anything. I can still hear the sound of a youtube video if I am watching youtube but I can't move my mouse or anything.
What am I suppose to do then? Do I just restart or is it a better way?
I'm on linux mint.
>>53957980
i just get invalid switch upon trying this
>>53963520
god we need a genocide against the pony fuckers
>>53963520
k and?
>>53963807
oh no a reference!
>>53963829
rip
Why did mint drop my network connection and refuse to reconnect without rebooting?
It would reconnect for about a second (never showing actual connection, just the spinning thing in the taskbar) then announce it had disconnected again.
I'm using a T420. I tried resetting wireless using the switch at the side first, but that was ineffective. Similarly my windows machine would sometimes drop connection but it would start working again with a reset of the router. (which is infinitely preferable to rebooting the machine itself) and in any case could connect fine at the time.
>TFW installed based Arch
Best distro
PACMAN IS SOOOO MUCH BETTER THAN APT
>>53963892
To be fair anything is better than apt
>>53963849
(USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
>>53957980
>>53963789
This is nicer.
In theory, at least. To be honest, I've never played around with it.
>>53957687
is that a Stand?
Is there a way to reset XFCE panel to default? I messed it up really bad and can't fix it
>>53962994
>AutoCAD
FreeCAD
>lindo
Not sure about this really. GNU Octave or Scilab perhaps?
>>53963881
Try disable power_save and see if the problem is still there.
>>53963778
I suppose you could start by figuring out what is wrong... maybe by checking syslog and Xorg.0.log.old in /var/log/ to see if they have any error messages around the time shit last froze up. Really, it isn't rocket surgery.
>>53963987
Iirc you could right mouse click and it should be right there
>>53963992
For someone who installed linux a couple of days ago it is.
>>53963968
how is that a stand> its a sticker
What's the recommended way to fix bad sectors on a USB drive?
Badblocks or fsck?
>>53964030
it does look like Star Platinum though
>>53964033
Buy a new one. They're like 1 buck a pop
>>53963996
>>>53963987 (You)
>Iirc you could right mouse click and it should be right there
No but I deleted original panel and made a new one and I can't figure out how to move the shit so it's like default for some reason tbqh.
>>53964073
I have so many that I would just rather check them. I don't like buying new tech unless I am absolutely sure something is beyond repair.
>>53958078
Not anymore, apparently.
But you just have to not install lightdm-webkit2-greeter and switch to gtk greeter or gdm altogether or whatever.
>>53964085
But the new one should look like the default?
how to enable mouse click to focus in tmux? i have mouse on in .tmux.conf
help plox
>>53964068
Oh a jojo stand, thought you mean stand to hold laptops on.
Its saint platinum
>>53964211
>>>53964085 (You)
>But the new one should look like the default?
No they do not, it's just a plain one
>>53964226
Some mouse settings changed syntax at some point. Double-check you have the correct settings for your version.
I don't use mouse for tmux myself, so can't be of more help than that.
>>53963987
You could maybe boot a live Xfce environment in a VM or adjacent computer and copy the panel settings from there.
New to using AUR but what's up with PKGBUILD?
Should I be editing it or nah and just going with default?
I got ubuntu and mint installed, will creating a partition and install on it windows 7 ruin grub or will grub just detect windows7 and life goes on?
>>53964313
8.1 > 7
>>53964313
What I would do is use recovery shit from Microft and restore boot loader with 2 buttons, then re-install grub from Linux side ... works 100%
I constantly fucked up by boot files as a complete noob one month ago but a 100% fix is just 2 clicks away... just have all the tools ready.
>>53964313
windows likes to stop other OSs booting
worst comes to worst, you can just run boot-repair (google how to do it if you need)
>>53964336
>>53964340
Allright, i am downloading the boot repair iso right now, thank you.
>>53957687
>no neptunia games playable on linux
this is bullshit, if dr2 can be then why the fuck can't these too
>>53963988
Thanks, I'll look up.
