Previously on: >>55030531
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I fucked up, the correct previous thread is >>55044484.
I seemed to have fixed my issue >>55051516 by purging all nvidia drivers and reinstalling.
Ok. So update on >>55058875.
I have installed to usb. USB now boots my GNU/linux.
I don't understand why sudo command does not work. Typing su also just rings me to the next line in shell.
Any help would be appreciated.
So guys I have a question
If I attempt GPU-passthrough but I only have one GPU, will I have to leave my GNU/Linux installation with the integrated GPU while the virtual machine basically owns my dedicated GPU?
If I were to need the GPU on Linux itself, would it be easy to just turn off the pass through temporarily and use it?
>>55059242
Ok i just fixed the issue i think. I created a password for the boot up, or something.
![[Konchiki] Oidemase Nyan Nyan Ch. 1-6, 9 [English] [Decensored].zip-028.jpg](https://i.imgur.com/lKhyHeT.jpg "[Konchiki] Oidemase Nyan Nyan Ch. 1-6, 9 [English] [Decensored].zip-028.jpg")
I'm curious /ftl/, what do you use for backup? I used to use FreeFileSync on Windows like the baby I am, but there's nothing of the sort on the official repositories. Copying files through rsync is nice, but what about when I delete stuff from the main drive? Wouldn't I want to delete that same file on the other drive? I could do a very crude script to check for filenames in both drives and delete what is not in the main drive, but I'm sure someone has done it prior.
>>55060124
>/ftl/
>friendly thread Linux
Be right back, going to kill myself for a while.
when dual screening with my shitty ass laptop (HP) , while on xubuntu ,
this thing on my left monitor appeared.
does anyone know what might be this?
What programs do you guys use for the "open with" FF extension, except mpv? Thinking about some shell scripts, but I'm lacking ideas.
>>55060263
youtube-dl
Debian Stable is kind of a pain in the butt to use for desktops, isn't it?
Once I switched to Testing and Sid it was like a night/day difference. Was juggling custom backports before that often never built because of dependency hell, now everything Just Werks(TM)
I love Debian but Stable is just not a good desktop distro. mpv doesn't even let you watch streams for goodness' sake.
Testing and Sid are where it's at
>>55058700
which DE that doesn't look shit is best for 2gb machine?
>>55060422
LXDE is the lightest, and it's very customizable. Good base for ricing if that's what you want
>>55060408
Of course. Stable is when you want all the uptime all the time on your sever. Testing is neat since it's a little up to date with the bleeding edge, but a little wary of early adoption.
>mfw Stable doesn't even boot up new GPUs
I wish they updated the damn kernel, their current one doesn't like Maxwell.
What would be the best DE for Linux?
I'm looking for a DE that is: Good looking (not really necessary, but appreciated), lightweight, doesn't take my resources and shreds them in a blender,
and convenience.
>inb4 use a fucking window manager
>>55060408
>Debian Stable is kind of a pain in the butt to use for desktops, isn't it?
yes.
Some hardware will have a better support with a recent kernel release. And some softwares, as you said, will have more features
should i use swap if I have SSD?
mfw 2gb memory
>>55060659
Lad, I'm in the same boat as you.
>inb4 2gb ram master race
>>55060124
I have an external hard drive. Sometimes I plug it in, copy paste all my music, videos and pictures and for the documents I remove those I no longer need.
>>55060659
I use swap with 8GB. Pic related, ahoviewer is pretty shit at memory management.
What are the merits of openSUSE?
I never hear people talking about it here, was curious if any of you were fans
>>55060688
I have both externals and internals, that's not the issue. The issue is removing those that exist on the backup but not on the main drive. For example, I might have decided to sort some of the huge cesspool that is my pictures folder. The pics would still be an unsorted mess on the backup, but they would be sorted as well.
>>55060124
rsync does deltas so I'm not sure what you are getting at here
>>55060819
Better read the fucking manual then.
>fglt
..Really? When did this happen?
>>55060879
checkout rsnapshot, it's an actual backup solution built on rsync
>>55060819
>>55060879
Wait, fuck, I know that it does this. It's a copying tool, it doesn't outright delete the files on the destination.
>>55060918
>It's a copying tool, it doesn't outright delete the files on the destination.
>it's a copying tool
>rsync
>sync
No, it's a syncing tool.
>>55060949
>rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
Talking about backups, I had a question
I have an external HDD. I own two computers, both running Debian Testing. I'd like to configure them so that folders A (in 1 machine), B(in the other machine), and C (in the external) are sync'd up. Meaning, whenever I plug in the USB external drive, that it checks for any extra files either of them has and copy them to the one that doesn't have them.
Is this possible with rsync, or am I looking for another tool?
>>55060968
jesus christ are you really arguing with me that rsync can't do destination deletes?/usr/bin/rsync -aAXq --delete --exclude-from='/home/user/.config/rsync/exclude_dirs.txt' / /media/backup
what do you think the --delete option does?
Currently my mouse buttons are bound to homerow number line. Yesterday xev reported them as F13-F24 correctly. Randomly(have not restarted since it was working) it is bound to the home row again.
Configs are as below. Did i miss something in the process?
.xinitrc:if [ -s ~/.Xmodmap ]; then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
remote_id=$(
xinput list |
sed -n 's/.*Naga.*id=\([0-9]*\).*keyboard.*/\1/p'
)
[ "$remote_id" ] || exit
mkdir -p /tmp/xkb/symbols
cat >/tmp/xkb/symbols/custom <<\EOF
xkb_symbols "remote" {
key <AE01> { [F13,F13] };
key <AE02> { [F14,F14] };
key <AE03> { [F15,F15] };
key <AE04> { [F16,F16] };
key <AE05> { [F17,F17] };
key <AE06> { [F18,F18] };
key <AE07> { [F19,F19] };
key <AE08> { [F20,F20] };
key <AE09> { [F21,F21] };
key <AE10> { [F22,F22] };
key <AE11> { [F23,F23] };
key <AE12> { [F24,F24] };
};
EOF
setxkbmap -device $remote_id -print | sed 's/\(xkb_symbols.*\)"/\1+custom(remote)"/' | xkbcomp -I/tmp/xkb -i $remote_id -synch - $DISPLAY 2>/dev/null
.Xmodmap:keycode 133 = XF86ModeLock
keycode 193 = XF86Launch0
keycode 194 = XF86Launch1
keycode 195 = XF86Launch2
keycode 175 = XF86Launch3
keycode 176 = XF86Launch4
keycode 177 = XF86Launch5
keycode 178 = XF86Launch6
keycode 179 = XF86Launch7
keycode 180 = XF86Launch8
keycode 171 = XF86AudioNext
keycode 173 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 174 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 123 = XF86AudioRaiseVolume
keycode 122 = XF86AudioLowerVolume
keycode 172 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 121 = XF86AudioMute
keycode 148 = XF86Calculator
keycode 93 = F13
keycode 97 = F14
keycode 103 = F15
keycode 120 = F16
keycode 132 = F17
keycode 149 = F18
keycode 154 = F19
keycode 166 = F20
keycode 178 = F21
keycode 183 = F22
keycode 184 = F23
keycode 187 = F24
>>55061010
you can do it with rsync, you will need to run it as systemd service that checks for when the external drive is mounted and runs the script then
>>55061023
No, I'm actually not. I'm just pointing out what the man page says about rsync. I'll go read about it some more.
I installed linux mint on my toshiba laptop two times and it still doesnt boot. Asks for me to stick in a boot device and press a key or restart. wat DO
>>55061041
It's called "glitch art".
>>55061096
>I installed linux mint
Why? It's crap.
>>55061530
It's not crap.
>>55061570
I'll just paste what I posted yesterday because I don't feel like typing it again.
Yes, that's obviously a problem. They can't even secure their own servers, let alone your desktop. But there are other reasons. They also don't issue security advisories, because they don't know anything about security. They delay security updates because they're too incompetent to push them out immediately without breakages. They actually have a package blacklist[1], where they specify that some packages are never updated. Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list will not receive updates by default. Like your display server. And the Linux kernel.
All of this so you can get a pretty theme for Cinnamon out of the box. It's disgusting that you would actually recommend Mint to a new user.
[1] https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules
http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/
>>55061570
*Fist bumbs u*
>>55061680
kek, is this now pasta?
Is this good partitioning?
First time using GNU/Linux.
Will probable stick to this distro for the next 4 months
Would it be possible to randomly swap filenames on a lot of images? They're all the same format.
>>55061680
>Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list will not receive updates by default. Like your display server. And the Linux kernel.
Proof? Everyone can say everything. Like: Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list is a double whopper.
>>55061807
My personal preference is
250 MB for the EFI boot partition
20 GB for the root partition (/)
8 GB of swap
everything left for home
So you're not very far off.
Maybe consider reducing the root partition to 20GB, you seriously are not going to need more than ~10 GB in most cases, but 20's a good compromise. 32 is a bit overkill
>>55060621
You'll use a window manager either way. Your question makes no sense, is highly subjective and inane. It gets asked all the time and has been answered countless times (worthless answers).
>>55061822
Shouldn't be hard to implement in bash or python or something
>>55058700
raspbian is my first experience with linux, kinda frustrating sometimes but fun in general. now i want to try something on an old laptop
>>55061939
Try Debian with LXDE. Upgrade it to Testing before you do anything
You'll be delighted
>>55061869
Thanks
Root is now 20 and added the 12 GB to home
My friend reccomended me a small partition for EFI because it never fills up past 10 MB
107 MB was the minimum
>>55061807
If you have more then 2gb of ram, you dont need swap. Rest looks fine. I would also leave unused space at the end of the drive,inscase you need to expand any part of your system.
50gb-100gb depending on your useage.
>>55061869
>20gb for /
NIgga you're retarded
Maybe for the base day 1 iinstall sure.
5 years down the line, fuck no.
Systems grow, you also dont know if he is going to use multilib and have two copies of the same libs.
>>55061680
you can just enable the updates
http://segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/11/answering-controversy-stability-vs-security-is-something-you-configure/
>>55062188
Windows users: b-but you can turn it off!
Ubuntu users: b-but you can turn it off!!
Mint users: b-but you can turn it off!!!
>>55062185
If he needed that much space for his root partition and he was dealing with that huge load of packages, he probably is very experienced and not a novice Linux user, m8
For most users 20 GB for root is more than enough
For advanced users of course it is not necessarily the case
F R I E N D L Y
>>55060696
is your swap part. in ssd?
>>55061822
Would you mind posting b.jpg?
>>55062378
>F R I E N D L Y
So 2 years down and he is 98% full on his root partition,because he is actually using it, and not throwing an epeen fight on disk space, he will be fucked cause of now way to partition more on to his / ?
My last desktop,that i ran debian on, was well over 300GB on / after 10 years of use
>>55062436
Yes, but it's barely used. I posted the pic as an example of going over 8GB.
>>55062464
I'm also interested.
>>55061937
Okay I found this, but it would require me to enter all of the files names and there are hundreds. It also only outputs a specific sort of file name (clip1, clip2).
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30992855/randomly-swapping-file-names-in-python/32560484#32560484
I guess I could dump all of the names into a file with "ls". Then somehow shuffle all the lines and send it out again.
I don't know where to go from there though, I'm not very good at this.
It doesn't actually have to be a "rename" sort of operation either. It could copy a new set of files into a folder or whatever. As long as the names are randomized.
>>55062464
It's just an image I found, sorry.
>>55062519
do you need to swap filenames or just randomize them?for fname in *.jpg
do
mv fname $RANDOM.jpg
done
>>55062493
Your usecase =/ the average usecase for most people
Is there a way to change the cursor to a different color(in this instance red) when caps lock is on?
>>55062960
Both, I guess? Like imagine tearing all the pages out of a book and putting them back in a random order. Still the same book, but it's a mess now.
I'm SSH'd into a remote machine. Both my local and remote machine run tmux.
I have a feeling my ctrl-X keystroke isn't going through to the remote machine.
How can I verify if the remote machine is receiving my keystroke properly? What can I do if it doesn't?
>>55063106TMPFILE=‘mktemp‘
ls *.jpg > $TMPFILE
for file in *.jpg; do read line; mv -v "${file}" "${line}"; done < $TMPFILE[/code[
completely untested, might work
>>55063478
This deletes a lot of the files, I guess because of random overwriting. But I combined it with >>55062960 first and also had to shuffle the TMPFILE and it seems to have worked.
Thanks guys~
Why do I get a kernel panic after a clean install of manjaro?
With current gen SSD's, is running a small server(lamp) benifical? Or will it kill an ssd as all reports from 5 years a go indicate?
>>55063933
>majaro
Thats why
>>55060205
Call it glitch art and upload it on here, i'd love that as a wallpaper.
>>55060263
Wget for 4chan threads, youtube-dl and mpv.
>>55063933
Have you tried setting your clock back to before that problem started happening?
>>55060408
In debian it would be a good idea to use the seperate multimedia repo. it's a licensing thing.
>>55063307
xev?
>>55060621
The one you configure to your liking.
>>55060900
About the time shitty apps guy was btfo.
>>55060900
When stallmanist spend all day spamming f5 to find out when the linux thread is auto saged so they can start of new thread.
It is forcing people use who the Linux Kernel, but use other uselands to force them selves to post in an politically incorrect thread
>>55062464
Looks like a seamless ground texture. Look in modding forums for uncompressed ones.
>>55064443
(You)
>>55064510
>truthurts.tiff
>>55064281
I can't, my clock is mounted read-only
>>55064281
Sick reference bro, your references are out of control.
>>55064281
10/10
>>55064419
Please don't try to imply that shitty apps guy is in any way representative of old /flt/.
We had enough fun getting that faggot to explain why he couldn't just stick to the fucking wiki OP post
>muh changes to the post
Faggot was literally too lazy to make a wiki account, but more than happy to waste his time making infographics that were out of date within the month.
I've been using Linux for about six years, but during that time I've never had a graphics card that wasn't outdated. The machine I was using when I switched had a card that was several years old at the time, and the machine that I eventually replaced it with uses the graphics built into its Intel CPU.
I've been considering buying a graphics card for a while, now, so that I can play games (now that there are some games for Linux), and since my HDMI port seems to have stopped working, I think the time is right.
As far as I can tell, AMD is the only good option for Linux, especially if I want open source drivers. It seems that they are about to release a new generation that uses 14 nm technology, which is a big improvement over the current 28 nm technology.
So, is AMD indeed the right way to go, or not? How long will it take for support for the next-gen cards to be added to the (Gentoo) kernel? Can you use older drivers to get basic functionality, or not? Anything else I should know about graphics cards in Linux?
Anyone with ubuntu here? Does your apt-get update works?
>>55064726
Nigga what the fuck did you do?
>>55064713
>amd only good option for linux
>amd open source
Both blod and open source drivers are dog shit
Nvidia is really the only way you want to go,unless you're one of the stallmanist,and resfuse to use anything sane.
>gentoo
Dont use gentoo,it has no support for nvidia(it is limiting your freedom to install what ever the fuck you want)
>>55064713
4.7 is the kernel you will have to wait for.
>>55064745
i have no idea. please help.
i have laptop with intel graphic as integrated and nvidia, with ubuntu gnome 15.10.
I have problem with dual screen with external vga screen, when i plug in the VGA, the laptop keep blinking with or it seems DE restart over and over with a blank VGA screen, cant make it work.
Still, if i switched with xfce, it works like charm, any solution?
>>55064796
you might have typed in your sources list in wrong.
>>55064713
AMD is in an awkward stage right now. Not only does Nvidia dominate AMD in every single way on performance, but AMD also has problems with merging huge stacks of code on newer kernels. There are benchmarks of Phoronix using a custom kernel with AMDGPU and AMDGPU Pro, but they're both really behind Nvidia even with the blob user space driver. You have to wait and see how Polaris performs and build yourself the kernel since it's going to be merged on the newer revisions.
>>55058700
I feel for the meme and the meme was real.
Arch Linux, for some reason, is so much faster than Ubuntu that I had installed. Everything is faster and more responsive. The system boots up so much faster and shuts down in like two seconds. I wish I feel for the b8 a long time ago.
I use Transmission as my torrent client, and whenever i want to open a file i've just downloaded by clicking on it, it opens the folder that it's located in instead of opening the file i click.
Is there anyway to fix this so that it opens the file instead of the folder?
>>55065090
modify the source code
>>55065026
>Arch is Faster than ubuntu
Wow, thanks for telling us absolutely nothing.
Could /fglt/ help me fix my broken packages problem? I get the following when trying to install g++ on Debian Jessie
http://pastebin.com/raw/wQSvyHU4
I figure not everything is necessary since I notice things like nginx and symfony in there, but there are probably things there that hint as to why this OS install seems fairly fucked
>>55065353
Dont use debian.
Dont use any distro that dosent use pacman.
Copy and past that list to a text file,and start manually making a one liner with everything you need to install
>>55065395
Kill youself, dumb Archfag.
Jesus christ, why must you fucks be such annoying dicks.
>>55065395
Take your memes somewhere else
Let the man use whichever solid distro he chooses, Debian is one of them
>>55065353
Have you considered upgrading it to testing? might help with your dependency hell
>>55065426
>>55065428
>>55065433
>HURR DURRR YOU HAVE NO VALID POINT CAUSE ARCH MURR
I dont see anyone else trying to help him,yet you come out of the woodwork to throw shit around.\
Get cuck'd stallmanist
>>55065477
Nowhere in my post did I mention Arch
I mentioned memes
That you equated memes with Arch is on you, bud
>>55065477
>everyone I don't agree with is a freetard
#gnumatized
>>55065026
>feel
>>55065395
>>55065477
>>55065648
Thanks for reminding.
>>55065426
>>55065428
>>55065433
>>55065490
>>55065570
>>55065653
All this effort,and still, no one has tried to help him
This is why i started using it 9 years ago. Best wiki ever, every thread links to it. Yet you call it meme and come out of the bushes to throw it around instead of trying to help someone.
You're cancerous.
Say it again
>>55065744
You're destroying the organism of a nice and friendly thread with bait and disinformation. You are the cancer buddy.
>>55065744
I did suggest something, he has not replied back.
>>55065744
replying because dubs:
the arch hate in the last half hour or so started because of this post:
>>55065395
it shouldn't need explaining, but someone saying "don't use debian" and implying that only arch's package manager is useful is very provocative.
As to "nobody has tried to help him", see this post:
>>55065428
Arch has many good qualities, but answers like the one that caused all this uproar show a questionable attitude of some of it's users. And it's obviously just a small fraction, but it's there.
>>55065775
>bait and disinformation
Fuck off, Arch is the best distro and provides the best wiki.
>>55060621
Cinnamon I'd suppose
Can we all collectively rise above the intelligence of a 10 year old and just ignore shitposting, so we may keep peace and friendliness in the general?
thank you
don't reply to them
>>55065775
>>55065795
>>55065799
>still not attempting to help him
>what i said will literally help him
>dont say dont use debian
If i have an old powerpc, and im having trouble because nothing new suports it,what would you tell me to do?
>inb4 hypocrites
>>55065840
If your help means "To solve your problem, uninstall your system and install the system I think which is the best", then, nobody needs your help here. Take your help to 9gag.
>>55065864
Dude.
Stop. Replying.
>>55065825
don't know if repost but here:
useful one-line scripts for sed
>>55065864
>Copy and past that list to a text file,and start manually making a one liner with everything you need to install
>Copy and past that list to a text file,and start manually making a one liner with everything you need to install
>Copy and past that list to a text file,and start manually making a one liner with everything you need to install
>>55065874
You like oneliners?
There are also these (if interested):
http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
http://www.catonmat.net/download/perl1line.txt
>>55065911
thanks man! didn't know about these
>>55065919
I'm lazy, is there a gui webm converter like 'webm for retards' for linux?
Few weeks ago this board was spammed by a couple of arch hating spammers.
I actually fell for the meme and installed Arch. It's bretty gud 9/10.
KEK how is the backlash treating you, /g/?
>>55066037
ffmpeg
Make a one liner one time,then call it when ever you need it
>>55066037
i only know one with GUI for windows...
>>55066037
Online conversion?
>>55066062
:^)
>>55066078
All I really need it for is the 3mb limit, I don't know if there's a option for it.
>>55066080
>converting something online when I have 2 quad core xeons at my disposal
>>55066113
find ./ -name '*.mp4' -exec bash -c 'ffmpeg -i "$0" -preset medium -an -vcodec libvpx -acodec libvorbis -cpu-used 5 -threads 8 "${0%%.mp4}-low.webm"' {} \;
„There is only one best distro,
- and it's the one I'm using.“
-- Chinese wisdom
>>55066037
ffmpeg isn't really hard. Example:
ffmpeg -i porn.mp4 -c:v libvpx -an 4chanriendlywebmwithoutsound.webm
What program would have motion tracking?
I've tried blender,cinnerra and apprently they dont do what i need
>>55066141$ ffmpeg -i 0613161339.mp4 -vp scale 720:-1 -fs 2.9MB -vp scale 720:-1 faggot1.webmUnrecognized option 'vp'.
Error splitting the argument list: Option not found
http://webm.land/media/tmp/537d7714-b56d-40c9-a525-d9662313953e.webm
>>55066223
replace vp scale with s
>>55066236
>invalid frame size
it doesn't like the -1
I can convert it just fine without it
Being serious tho why ext4 and not better fs
>>55066223
Read:
>>55066121
>>55066266
filesystems aren't a thing to change willy nilly
BTRFS isn't stable enough for autistic devs to feel safe using it
>>55066282
Well you said it, autistic devs
Normal desktop users though
>>55066303
people are just used to ext4
Is there a browser for linux that can display webpages, but stripped of everything but text? Images and other content should be displayed with their appropriate size (so that the pages design does not fuck up), but purely blank until I right click on them and select "load content" or something. The reason I'm asking is I want to browse on the go, but I have a data connection that is capped to 2 Gigabytes and I want to choose how to "spend" this capacity. Any help is much appreciated.
>>55066323
lynx, w3m
In Windows, Notepad++ opens pretty much everything, even if it's encrypted garbage. Why can't gedit? (throws up some char encoding error) And what are some alternatives?
>>55066421
There is no reason to?
It isnt meant to open binaries
good evening/morning/afternoon /fglt
Why doesn't sudo command work on my slackware OS?
I just installed my distro, and i just put an admin password at boot.
I have access to root and /.
I am a beginner at linux.
>>55066323
Check FF's addons page. Get ublock, umatrix, switch plugins to "Click to play", get an addon for toggling images. That should be enough. Else: Terminal + w3m.
>>55066421
vim
>>55066354
Thanks much. It's not exactly what I wanted (no mouse support) but especially w3m looks great for most of the sites I visit.
Another question. If I want to buy new, powerful hardware (including a new gpu) and it's a top priority for it to be completly FLOSS compatible because I want to be able to look into and change anything I feel like software wise, where would I start?
>>55066478
Great advice on the firefox addons, I will check them out. Thanks.
>>55066495
There's a small hardware section at gnu.org. It's not much but it's a start. But you could also just check the web if free firmware for a specific piece of hardware is available before you buy.
>>55066495
>FLOSS
AMD but it is shit
Nouveau but it is shit
Nvidia blob is the only working option
>FLOSS
The bios is proprietary
The CPU controller is proprietary
The RAM controller is proprietary
The SATA controller is proprietary
ETC.
Unless you're reflashing everything you wont be FLOSS
>top priority
Plz stallman plz go
>>55066544
>Nouveau but it is shit
>Nvidia blob is the only working option
nouveau works fine for me, with a GTX 570
>>55066544
There he is a again. #gnumatized
(Also you're completly wrong.
Just one example: https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-x200/ )
Can somebody please explain to me how to remove the GUI off of my linux? I don't want it.
>>55066544
>The bios is proprietary
>The CPU controller is proprietary
>The RAM controller is proprietary
>The SATA controller is proprietary
>Plz stallman plz go
Yeah I thought it wouldn't be that easy. You see I am a dumb as bread software developer who works with high level bullshit like C++ and all that stuff and I want to get into the nitty gritty of the interface between hardware and software. I don't give a shit about the ideological side of it all.
This post was sent from a windows 10 machine
>>55066584
CTRL+ALT+F6
>>55065428
I hadn't considered that, but I might.
Any short-term suggestions to get g++ installed?
>>55066457
i found the answer
>>55066581
>>55066533
Thanks
>>55066604
Or to add, an explanation as to why my shit won't install
>>No.55066568
Enojy running stage one reclocking(no, not oc, basic throttling that EVERY gpu has ever had) freq's.Check the feature matrix friend
>>55066604
>>55066617
>but it is not installable x100000
Hm. Is it the first time you ever get this? I've been using Debian for a while and I've never had this happen.
What's your sources.list file look like?
Have you checked for bug reports in the package on the Debian site? Or googling "debian not installable" or something
>>55066721
sources.list http://pastebin.com/raw/FNXk7c28
I might've added the last one, but I don't recall what for
>>55066721
>Or googling "debian not installable" or something
Yep, but I'll check Debian's site now
>>55066811
>>55066721
And I think I've had the issue in the past at some point but that's only the beginning with this machine
Why is it so hard to get compton to work?
Its causing the things that it should be fixing?
compton: v0.1_beta2.5-3
kernel: 4.5.7.1
nvidia drivers: 367.27
Is there anything im missing?
Running it from cli
what do you guys use to listen music on your computer?
spotify? youtube?
>>55067101
mpv
mpd/sonata
>>55067101
rhythmbox and youtube. But I should stop using youtube, delete my gmail accounts and start using openmailbox or some other alternative.
>>55067101
mpd + ncmpcpp for music library
mpv from ranger
>>55066584
uninstall your graphic drivers, X server, the DE and DM.
>>55067101
Clementine. I wish I had foobar back.
>>55066544
>amd but it's shit
And I can run any game in high setting with the open source drivers
>>55066842
>>55066811
Dude you may be guilty of a frankendebian
You're not supposed to add PPA's from Ubuntu into Debian
Maybe your problems come from there
>>55067203
Fuck, I think you're right
thank you
>>55067235
Only way is to purify with fire
Reinstall and only add extra sources if they're built specifically for Debian, like say, Spotify
Gentoo user here, I just switched from OpenRC to a minimal (de-bloated) systemd and holy shit am I happy about the move
Once you get past the whole bullshit like qrcode in journald (thank god USE flags), it's actually a much better init with much better tools
>>55067315
tell that to the memers that think systemd is the apocalypse and a microsoft inside job
>>55067345
Well I do agree with the fact that most of the systemd way and community is pretty cancer. I think most of the controversy surrounding it is not the software but the politics and the way it was handled.
Gentoo does it right: init is a choice, not a mandate. I can mix and match as I want, too, and even use systemd and OpenRC in unison (in fact, that was the default config - so I could just swap out sysvinit for systemd and still boot).
I think the freedom of choice is that matters to me more than the technical quality. I don't like a decision shoved down my throat. It took me a few years to come to realize the problems with OpenRC myself, and now I willingly embrace it - when *I* want to, and when *I* have free time to relearn.
That's the difference, IMO
>>55067345
>truth hurts
>>55067439
>difference
You either use *too, or you use a shitty maintaned derivitive that insecure an not dev'd properly
After 6 years i was FORCED to update,or manage my own repo, as simply,everything depends on systemd anymore.The orginal goal of it ,wasnt the issue. The current mentality of making everything depend on systemd, for no other reason then leenart decides you should to get upstream support, is the problem.Alot of devs just give up and join the boat because systemd changes the way things work and now you're trying to catchup
>>55067264
Removed all the PPA's (as well as others that were listed in Synaptic) and reinstalled everything, I've not restarted my PC yet but this seems to have sorted it (I can install things now)
Thank you!
Question!
Here it comes !
Which Linux is best for power management?
Does something like Lubuntu offer longer life compared to others? What do you recommend as a solution for power depletion?
>>55067665
Bump
don't you fuckin' die on me LOL
>>55067665
depends on how usable you need it to be
>>55067550
>After 6 years i was FORCED to update,or manage my own repo, as simply,everything depends on systemd anymore.The orginal goal of it ,wasnt the issue. The current mentality of making everything depend on systemd, for no other reason then leenart decides you should to get upstream support, is the problem.
Wait, like what?
I've been using Gentoo for 5 years and as far as I can tell nothing I've used has ever even remotely depended on systemd
>>55067778
Not gentoo and its derivitives.
Various other big distros that supported sysvinit until the point where they just couldnt support using it as the default,due to systemd's encrouchment
>>55067803
Blame their package managers. They don't have the luxury of USE flags.
It's easy for gentoo, because systemd or not is just a question of USE="openrc" vs USE="systemd".
Debian with Xfce is shit
>>55067816
I know you're overexaggerating, because the two systems are just that different, a single switch isnt going to work.
WIthstanding
It is simply not the package managers.
When EVERYTHING pulls in systemd,because all the other calls are simply no there, there is nothing a package manager is going to change,from the way CORE services are installed
>>55067846
>I know you're overexaggerating, because the two systems are just that different, a single switch isnt going to work.
Dude, I literally just switched from OpenRC to systemd. That was all it took. Flip the USE flag, unemerge sysvinit, emerge systemd, reboot.
Am running in systemd now.
>>55067846
>When EVERYTHING pulls in systemd,because all the other calls are simply no there, there is nothing a package manager is going to change,from the way CORE services are installed
Then why don't all these things pull in systemd on Gentoo? Oh right, because USE flags exist.
>>55067439
>>55067778
>>55067816
>>55067911
>>55067924
Oh look. The gentoos are out of bed and talking bout their use flags again,it seems that is the only redeeming "feature" it provides
>>55067834
You mean it's the shit. I'd say that but it tears for days and there's no window snapping to other displays.
If I chmod my external drive the file inodes are fuckup. What gives? I though it was easy to change permission to an entire folder, even a drive.
I am in Lubuntu btw.
Hi.
What does the d mean in front rwxrwxrwx in gnu/linux
>>55068078
directory
>>55068078
You mean -rwxrwxrwx ?
If the dash is a 'd', that's a directory.
First rwx is the user mode, second set is group mode, then last is the 'other' (everyone else) file mode.
>>55068078
The files is a directory(aka folder).
Tried to install debian, but the computer has no wired and only has wireless. However, the version with non-free software doesn't seem to work, either.
Whelp, time to try out one of the "it just werks" ones
>>55068003
what command are you using?
what does the directory look like after you run it?
>>55068128
is that a question?
Non-free usually means no wireless, unless you find the commands to make your own magic smoke so wireless works.
>>55068146
It was a bit more like a complaint that neither the default installation or the ones in here
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/
work on my machine for installation.
Guess I'll have to try Ubuntu, Mint, or Opensuse, and if none of those work I'll just keep using windows 8.1 forever.
Why is puppy linux difficult, and differen? Using slacko 6.3
>>55068135chmod 754 /media/externaldrive
I enter with the file manager and says something about inodes fucked up. If I chmod them back to original permission everything gets back to normal.
>>55068241
It's all because the manufacturers of wireless NIC's don't open source or standardize their hardware, and Debian prefers pure free software so there's a stalemate there.
Other distros might care less about that.
Guides to dualbooting linux on a rMBP, opposed to putting into a VM?I never get a straight answer on how/if I can do it.
>>55068310
what's the message?
First that command only changes the mount point itself, maybe not even the contents on the external drive.
I prefer to use chmod and use u/g/o +/- rwx because permissions on files work differently than files, e.g. executing directories means cd to them vs executing files means to execute them as programs.
>>55068378
Sorry, I did that command over the mount point. Obviously is wrong. It displays no errors on the terminal whatsoever.
What is the proper way to change the permission of an external drive?
So i gave myself permission to write in sys.
Why was i denied this permission in the first place?
>>55068444
I haven't perfected it, but I'd use something like:find /media/externaldrive -type f -exec chmod 644 {} \;
find /media/externaldrive -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
Paste the commands without the -exec to see what it finds first. It won't work well if there are spaces so you might have to add quotes, but I'll leave that to you.
Using blind permissions (644/755) vs bit adjustments (u/g/o +/- rwx) depends on how fucked up your permissions are.
>>55068478
sys?
>>55068496
Thanks.
Also another question, there is no problem in removing the lost+found directory in ext4 right? Google said no but I want a second opinion.
>>55068543
lost+found is where fsck will put any recovered files/inodes if you lose data out of the filesystem, but is partially recoverable. It's unlikely you will need to worry about it if you have a journaling filesystem (ext4 has a journal).
Keep it only if you are interested in recovering any data that you might lose, but it's just a directory rarely filled up, plus IMO it's cool to have a directory called "lost+found"
>>55068608
Thanks for clarifying.
>>55068505
Its a directory in / on my slacko.
Has directories kernel module power dev devices and other stuff
So the permissions for directories are sent to the kernel.
What part of the kernel is responsible for these permissions?
>>55067012backend = "xrender";
vsync = "none";
In your compton.conf
>>55068831
Then you shouldn't have needed to change permissions. Smarter people than us spent time making sure it wasn't easy to change those permissions, so you should leave it alone.
>>55068859
permissions aka file modes are system calls sent to the filesystem. The kernel doesn't really participate.
Question, I have this function on bashrc and it works fine when there are no spaces on the filename, but it doesn't like it when I pass something like "OP can't stop sucking cocks.gif". What gives? Putting quotations is usually fine.function webm-converter(){
ffmpeg -i $1 -c:v libvpx -b:v 2M -threads 4 out.webm
}
>>55068998"$1"
Word splitting etc..
>>55069032
Oh, so I had to put it there. I should really read more on these things.
I have a geforce 610m which drivers do I install https://youtu.be/Si47Ces_cTk?t=6m27s I have the same options as this video
why are two of them the same?
Should I use openJDK or openJRE?
>>55064726
try changing mirror
>>55066544
actually Intel GPUs are the only ones with good stability...but having an intel GPU is like not having a GPU
>>55066568
>works on my machine
good for you
>>55067665
>solution for power depletion?
KDE?
>>55064713
intel drivers>nvidia proprietary drivers>amd foss drivers=amd proprietary drivers>>>>nvidia foss drivers
In rerms of performance at least. The good thing about foss drivers is that they don't break on kernel updates.
Hello all. I'm intending to do a dual-boot to try GNU/Linux. Should I partition my HDD with the Live CD, or with Windows? Also, Fedora, Bunsen Labs or Mageia for babby first Linux?
Why does /g/ hate Manjaro?
It's the first distro I installed that had working Bumblebee setup, sound and a pre-riced i3 you can easily tailor to your needs out of the box.
I get that people will hate on muh bloat but the hardware recognition tool is pretty neat.
>>55070001
what?
>>55067665
4.6 is pretty good if you pair it with tlp and a light wm like dwm or i3.
I'm about to install Arch using Virtualbox for the first time. Are there any differences in the process vs a real machine?
>>55071196
just like do it already, why are you asking silly questions like that
>>55068241
You could just find out which driver you need and add it to the installer. Or just use ethernet during the installation.
what are some cool stuffs to put on my ubuntu mate computorz /fglt/?
>>55071228
try out mycroft
>>55070899
If Windows is already installed then just use linux to partition. Just download a bunch and try them out (it doesn't really matter because you can just download a different WM/DE on each anyway which is the only difference you will notice). Just make sure it has up to date packages or you will be mad about how old every program is.
>>55071210
Ok so is there a difference?
>>55071261
could have installed it and figured it out by now.
Hello there, with linux mint 18 being in the beta stage, and one big difference over mint 17 is that they based it on ubuntu 16.04, I am thinking about upgrading to it when it is released. Looking online, I noticed that one big difference is the use of systemd over sysVinit and that a lot of sources speak very poorly about systemd. What is so bad about it? Is there any security issues or backdoor in systemd. Does it somehow make linux less secure? Should I keep running mint 17 instead?
My main concern is security. Is there anything to worry about here?
A good explaination about the differences between those two would be really appreciated.
While we're here, which non-live distro would be the safest?
>>55071281
ok I'm starting right now
I disconnected a display, but it's still active in xrandr, and I can still move my mouse to it. I triedxrandr --output VIRTUAL1 --offbut it won't go awayVIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
1600x1200 (0x101) 162.000MHz +HSync +VSync
h: width 1600 start 1664 end 1856 total 2160 skew 0 clock 75.00KHz
v: height 1200 start 1201 end 1204 total 1250 clock 60.00Hz
>>55071307
Its more the notion that systemd is overbloated with features. But from what i've heard it should be pretty secure.
>>55071331
I set up the partitions but it doesn't recognize my wireless card (thinkpad T400) so I can't go further yet. I'm assuming this is because of virtualbox. This is why I asked.
why does my linux do this
>>55071712
Linux doesn't do this at all. Try setting a wallpaper to fix it, otherwise your compositor might be at fault.
>>55071307
>main concern is security
>mint
you might actually want to switch to a distro that fixes security issues in a timely manner.
is there a way to get
>pic related
indicators working like that (xubuntu) on arch?
i've installed xfce4-indicator-plugin, but it just says "no indicators". is something missing?
>>55071712
it is a problem with X. Probably the repaint daemon might have been killed, so you only paint the new images. restart X and it should work.
How did it happen?
