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>>55417927
>>55418042
Fuck off (thanks for the bump tho).
>>55418046
no u
What software can I use to control another computer remotely? Mainly to check that the temps are fine, turn it off, make it download and seed torrents. I'm willing to install any distro or even BSD, and I don't care if the tool doesn't have a GUI (but it would be better if it had one). Both computers would be connected in LAN.
>>55418175
ssh secure shell
>>55418175
see >>55417927
I hate when you guys do this, it's just nonsense.
>>55417966
>>55417927
>>55418197
Already abandoned that thread because it was shit. You're one of those retards that call GNU/Linux Linux.
>>55418223
This.
>>55418203
Blame the OP of this thread. He was too autistic to accept that GNUless Linux things do exist and created this thread.
>>55418223
No I'm not. I'm one of the people who accept that it's been known as Linux for years and that GNU/Linux isn't the only Linux.
>>55418239
Both OP are stupid.
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y'all posting in a troll thread.
for real help and friendly discussion, go here: >>55417927
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>>55418239
https://wiki.parabola.
nu/Parabola_GNU/kNuBSD-fire
https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/kFreeBSD
https://wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd
http://www.archhurd.org/
etc
>It's just Linux
aight
I'm dualbooting Xubuntu and Windows 7 and whenever I boot into Xubuntu, the clock in Windows gets set four hours ahead. Any idea why this happens or how I can stop it?
>>55418239
Show me one "Linux" that doesn't use GNU dumbass, you can't because it doesn't exist. Even if it existed, it would mean that this thread is for GNU/Linux and your thread is for retarded hobbyists who make their own OSes with the Linux kernel. I bet you call Coca Cola coke.
>>55418282
Well, he has the Alpine argument, which is using Busybox instead of coreutils. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BusyBox
>>55418296
>Warning: Do not expect full drop-in replacement and compatibility. Certain utilities may not exist and for those that do, there may be missing options. One purpose of this Wiki is to document missing features and the problems they cause.
kek
>>55418276
It's a known bug that happens in some dualboot combos. It happens because Linux uses global time and Windows uses some offset somethingsomething. You can either change the Linux setting so it uses somethingsomething as well, or just do ONE of these on Windows:
http://www.howtogeek.com/211144/how-to-get-windows-and-linux-clocks-to-display-the-correct-and-matching-time-dual-boot/
https://www.pretentiousname.com/timesync/
Whatever you do, remember to keep away from /flt/, because the place where you get actual answers to your problems is /fglt/.
>>55418267
>>55418282
Linux kernel discussion, Alpine Linux, Ångström (iirc), OpenWRT
>>55418310
That's because busybox was made for embedded systems like smart TVs etc, not for desktops.
>>55418320
screenfetch or it didnt happen
>>55418356
Where did I say I was running one of them?
>>55418320
Then you should call it /lkdalÅoWRT/. Your thread is doomed to fail because the OP isn't clear enough.
>>55418376
Allow me to correct myself, you should actually call it /flkdalÅoWRTt/. You wouldn't want to lose even a tiny percentage of the huge userbase of /lkdalÅoWRT/ systems by dropping the friendliness, right?
Let's just move on with the topic and ignore the troll?
>>55418398
Why the fuck does everyone keep calling me a troll? Eat a dick you piece of shit.
>>55418417
Why? Because you started a flame war and you know it. No leave and reply to yourself in your silly thread.
>>55418449
I started nothing more than a proper Linux thread.
gnu sjw
please rename the thread to /fsgnlt/ for Friendly SystemD Gnu Linux Thread to properly represent the operating systems that we are all discussing, or I and other members of my vocal but minor Cult of SystemD will spend our many free hours sliding this thread. Thanks.
>>55418488
No. This thread is for all GNU/Linuxes, even the ones that don't use systemd yet. Feel free to make your own and watch it die with 10 replies if you care that much.
>>55418488
SystemD isn't part of the core system, nor is KDE or Mozilla Firefox. Try harder.
Will installing Linux lower my power consumption? I've installed various distributions but looking to find one that fits my CPU the most.
>Pic related
it's my current setup. I don't hate windows 10, it's process management and inconsistency throughout the OS bothers me though.
>>55418530
What if I use linux and no gnu cancer?
What kernel is /fglt/ is using atm?user0@primary:~$ uname -ov
#47-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 24 10:09:13 UTC 2016 GNU/Linux
user0@primary:~$
>>55418565
3.13.0-91-lowlatency
>>55418547
Power consumption depends on your hardware as well. If you are virtualizing/watching/rendering HD videos, it'll still take power
>>55418565$ uname -a
Linux A-chan 4.6.0-1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.6.2-2 (2016-06-25) x86_64 GNU/Linux
>>55418554
Then you're a faggot hobbyist and you belong in the contention thread. Look up /flt/ and you'll find the place where people like you troll each other for endless hours.
>>55418547
1.- If you're talking about energy and the money it costs, not that much really.
2.- Some light DEs can improve a laptop's battery duration.
3.- If you're talking about the general usage of resources, yes it can; you can even make the lightest distros run in 20ish years old computers.
>>55418565
4.4.6-gentoo
just got arch to run (almost complete linux newbie). installed herbstluftwm because I wanted to do as little with a GUI as possible for learning purposes, but now I'm thinking about getting a backup DE if I need something done quickly and don't want to look up the wiki or something.
Suggestions for a DE? I got Budgie, LXDE and Xfce on my list. LXDE looks horrible but battery life is of some importance.
>>55418537
>>55418530
Ah, I see we have non-believers in our midst. Well we have special ways of dealing with you. You see, when the soup-thin logic and rhetorical tricks that worked on the other suck- uh I mean cult members is found lacking, we have to use our secret weapon: nagging. Nag nag nag nag nag nag nag nag and nag some more. When the dumb non-believer gets tired of your nagging he will either give in to your demands to make you shut up, or not have enough time to keep up with the nagging (once again, our schedules are very free) and have to concede. Either way we win!
>>55418644
>when your bait gets 0 replies and you have to bump it
>whoreslaughter.flac
>implying that giving credit where it's due is a bad thing
Fuck off to your contention thread.
So I'm having a wierd problem: I'm dualbooting windows 10 and fedora 24. Fedora is my main OS, but I've noticed that I get a lot of slowdowns on my internet dl speed. I can never complete a speedtest because I always get latency errors. If I reboot to windows, my internet behaves perfectly and speedtest says I have my complete dl speed. Wtf is going on?
I finished my install of Gentoo yesterday. And today I've been compiling and fixing package conflicts.
Holy crap, portage is complicated. Ever other distro is Fisher-Price OS compared to Gentoo. I can see why people called it 'a time-sink OS'. I've spent six hours today reading documentation, fixing problems and I haven't even started X yet (I've compiled it though).
>>55418703
um are you using systemd?
>>55418703
With speedtest, do you mean a website for testing speed?
>>55418766
>Fedora
Yes
>>55418761
People meme it for a reason.
>>55418774
yes, speedtest.net
streaming trhough youtube-dl is also stuttering a lot with any quality
>>55418761
it is worth it in the end
offers a degree of customisation and perfection that is difficult to achieve elsewhere
>>55418786
monitor journalctl for helpful information
check the right Ethernet module is being used
use wireshark for further diagnosis
>>55418565Linux ci20 3.18.3-ci20-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Sep 1 16:40:39 BST 2015 mips GNU/Linux
>>55418814
make sure youtube-dl is updated to the july release, there's been some major changes to the delivery of videos
>>55418814
>>55418774
I've no solution, but an alias,speedtest='curl http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip > /dev/null'
Hope anyone has fun with it.
>>55418839
gonna have to compile it, fedora RPM packages aren't being signed
>>55418862
https://rg3.github.com/youtube-dl/
2016.01.01 is stable but has issues
2016.07.01 is the latest and works good
Does anyone here use openrc and what are some good resources to learn how to use it and write your scipts?
>>55418892
forget it, livestreamer is working without any lags
>>55418961
Manjaro has a OpenRC spin if you want to play with it in a VM.
>>55418823
Can't get past may 4th on journalctl, im getting a bad message error
>>55418961
man pages, gentoo wiki
>>55418296
>>55418310
OpenWrt uses ash
>>55419078
>>55419044
try
journalctl -b -e -f
to monitor error messages
>>55419104
Anonymous 4chan logs my ip address, nice contribution to the conversation btw!
>>55418310
Literally "how to be a hipster: the wiki"
>>55419115
IP addresses they log are dynamic, retard
>>55419132
>dynamic
That doesn't even make sense...
>>55419111
All it's reporting is a metric fuckton of QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow) every fucking second, which apparently is a kde bug that exists since 2012
>>55419143
I don't expect you to understand
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mouse_acceleration
Trying to disable mouse acceleration on xubuntu.
I've tried "man libinput" but there's nothing. Where would you find information for all the settings? There's all these profiles for mouse acceleration, how do people figure this stuff out?
>>55419150
Because you're trolling, attention whore.
>>55419217
This is the last pity (you) I'll give you.
1. The IPs they log are dynamic IPs and they do not pinpoint my username of my host, neither they track my browsing patterns.
2. There is absolutely no reason for you to post trips posts such as >>55419078. Attention craving like a hungry girl will make you look more pathetic
3. Trips are there for a different reason, where an identity is really necessary to verify the poster. I post trips as well. See >>55408211. Compare that post to yours.
4. Hate to break it to you but I am pretty sure NO ONE cares about your tripcode "!C4paIc36b", you are not famous and will never be with the retarded posts you make.
If you are not able to cope up with anon board culture you should crawl back to twitter or blogspot where you think you are remotely important or relevant to anybody in the internet.
Bottomline: Go back to where you just came from
>>55419217
>>55419385
#rektandburied
New laptop will come today, and I've already downloaded Xubuntu. Laptop has DOS on it, so I think there's only one partition. I know that installing Ubuntu is pretty straight forward but I don't know how to create partitions. I tried it a few years ago and I remember it messed it up. Any help, anons?
>>55419541
bump
>>55419541
use the guided setup and you'll be fine.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lib32-gnutls28
>they still haven't fixed this package
holy fuck, how hard is it to fix a fucking pkgbuild?
>>55419718
seriously guys why the fuck can't I install this?$ sudo pacman -U gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz
[sudo] password for user:
loading packages...
error: missing package metadata in gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz
error: 'gnutls-3.3.23.tar.xz': invalid or corrupted package
default / zoomed
does this look weird to anyone else? it seems squashed.
In what way is Ubuntu 16.04 worse than 14.04?
how do i fix glitchy audio? Its fine for the most part but especialy when i'm listening to spotify web it will start crackling constantly
>>55420030
sorry i forgot to mention i'm using a 970A-DS3P, that might be relevant.
For the Germans among us, I've translated the "open source" and "GNU/Linux" copypastas into German so we can now enlighten non-English speaking people.
Ich muss dich kurz unterbrechen. Was du da Linux nennst, heißt tatsächlich GNU/Linux, bzw. wie ich es seit kurzem nenne, GNU plus Linux. Linux ist an sich kein Betriebssystem sondern nur ein Teil eines vollständigen GNU-Systems dessen Funktionalität vor allem durch die GNU corelibs, shell-Werkzeuge und andere wichtige Systemkomponenten bereitgestellt wird. Die Summe all dieser Teile bildet ein Betriebssystem, wie es im POSIX-Standard definiert ist.
Viele User benutzen unbewusst täglich eine modifizierte Version des GNU-Systems. Aufgrund von einigen historischen Gegebenheiten wird die heute am weitesten verbreitete GNU-Version Linux genannt, und vielen Benutzern dieses Systems ist nicht bewusst, dass es sich im Grunde um das GNU-System, welches vom GNU-Projekt entwickelt wurde, handelt.
Linux gibt es wirklich, und diese Leute nutzen es auch, aber es ist nur ein Teil des Systems das sie nutzen. Linux ist der Kernel; das Systemprogramm, das die Ressourcen des Computers den anderen Programmen zur Verfügung stellt. Der Kernel ist ein integraler Bestandteil eines Betriebssystems, für sich allein ist er jedoch nutzlos; der Kernel kann nur im Kontext eines vollständigen Betriebssystems arbeiten. Linux wird normalerweise in Kombination mit dem GNU-Betriebssystem verwendet: das gesamte System ist dann GNU, dem Linux hinzugefügt wurde, oder GNU/Linux. Alle sogenannten Linux-Distributionen sind in Wirklichkeit Distributionen von GNU/Linux!
Hallo! Du hast gerade den Begriff "Open Source" verwendet.
Dieser Begriff wurde von einer Gruppe erfunden, die nicht mit dem Free Software Movement in Verbindung gebracht werden wollten. Bei "freier" Software (was einer der zu bevorzugenden Begriffe ist) geht es nicht um den Preis; man würde dann von "gratis" oder "kostenlos" (free beer) sprechen. Stattdessen geht es um Freiheit! Die Freiheit von Software und ihren Nutzern ist es, wofür sich das Free Software Movement einsetzt.
Also was ist freie Software? Freie Software ist jedes Programm, das dem Nutzer die vier Software-Grundrechte zusichert:
> 0. Das Programm auszuführen, wie und wann man es wünscht.
> 1. Den Programmcode anzusehen und zu verändern sodass das Programm tut was man möchte.
> 2. Exakte Kopien des Programms weiter zu verbreiten.
> 3. Die von einem selbst modifizierte Version des Programms zu verbreiten.
Einige Leute entschieden, dass sie die Rechte des Nutzers einschränken wollten; aber den "offenen" Quelltext nur studieren und modifizieren zu dürfen ist nicht genug! Damit werden die Bemühungen des Free Software Movement untergraben weil es den soziologischen Freiheitsaspekt freier Software ignoriert und sich nur auf die technischen Aspekte konzentriert.
Aus diesen Gründen bitte ich dich, in Zukunft die Begriffe "frei" oder, wenn notwendig "FLOSS" (free/libre and open source software) zu nutzen, wobei der letztere trotzdem vermieden werden sollte.
Hey fellas i was wondering if i can install linux on a part of my hard drive. New to all this stuff so i wanna try Linux master race™
/flt/ pls, been stuck on this for a while now
I am using Debian. I'm trying to install PeaZip. I got the .deb file and installed it using
sudo gdebi peazip_6.0.3.LINUX.GTK2-2_all.deb
sudo apt-get -f install
When I try to open a .zip file I get an error message:
>Failed to open file "file.zip"
>Failed to execute child process
>"peazip" (No such file or directory).
what do
>>55420213
>>55420222
>>55406726
ext4, Samsung 850 EVO 250GB, barely over two weeks. I should add that this happened after I set ibus-daemon to open at startup.
>>55420292
And another ibus-daemon is located in /usr/bin.
I tried dual booting Ubuntu once so I could learn what Linux was about.
However, I had this one problem where, after restarting my PC, I would instantly get into Ubuntu. When I was supposed to see the options between Windows 7 and Ubuntu.
To this I concluded two things.
I either fucked the installation up and Installed Ubuntu over the Windows partition.
Or something happened and I dont know what, since I did everything as indicated on your regular dual booting guide (create a partition of X size using X windows utility, boot into the ubuntu cd, etc)
Now I am afraid of trying again. How do I do this right?
Why do so many distros freeze? I've tried many but after a little while they just freeze completely.
>>55420399
What did your logs say?
>>55418547$ uname -ov
FreeBSD FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE #0 r297264: Fri Mar 25 02:10:02 UTC 2016 [email protected]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>>55417966
Working on installing arch. (We have the ability to start a MATE session! Wew!)
So I'm not sure how else to normally do it (IE, is startx the only way to?) but I had a question about how I made it work.
I edited the xinitrc file, and in addition to adding exec mate-session, I also needed to comment outexec xterm -geometry 80x66 +0+0 -name login
What does this line mean, and why does startx work to start a MATE session when I edit this out?
>>55420596
exec xterm created a basic xterminal -geometry specifies the dimensions of that terminal +0+0 the location and -name login.
Idk what that does to this very day.
>>55420596
you can eliminate the entirety oftwm &
xclock -geometry 50x50-1+1 &
xterm -geometry 80x50+494+51 &
xterm -geometry 80x20+494-0 &
exec xterm -geometry 80x66+0+0 -name login
>>55420627
>>55420641
Cool good stuff then. Appreciate it anons
>>55420357
If your disk is /dev/sda you make two partitions /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2. First install windows in /dev/sda1 as normal, then install Linux in /dev/sda2 but place the loader in /dev/sda (not /dev/sda1 or /dev/sda2, just /dev/sda). You can make other partitions if you want, just don't be retarded.
>>55420674
no prob, was gonna condense the post but my trackpad is annoying me, keeps acting like firefox's back button.
use slim for a graphical login (my preference) and use the command
sudo systemctl enable slim to have it run at startup to avoid the console login
>>55420563
Yeah... I didn't think to check them. If it helps, Debian was the only one that didn't freeze.
How can I automatically start services on boot with systemd? I tried systemctl enable dhcpcd but it's not starting on boot. Weird thing is that the wpa_supplicant hook I configured for dhcpcd is causing wpa_supplicant to start at boot (or maybe I enabled it separately, but I don't think so). Assuming what I'm saying is right, how could I start debugging the issue?
>>55420706
oh hey, I was gonna install lightdm since I'm used to it (Xubuntu babby) but I actually like how this looks. Cheers, man.
>>55420762
do you really want dhcpd running for all interfaces on startup?
see if you can dosystemctl enable [email protected]
of course I'm assuming you want it to run on ethernet
>>55420773
Sweet, Yeah I'm a sucker for slim+MATE
>>55418662
>needs a backup GUI
You couldn't be more try-hard.
Most of the things you wrote are stupid and there's no point in explaining them to you because it would be lost on you.
>>55419196
Then you don't have libinput installed and aren't using its driver.
Dogrep -i "using input driver" .local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.logto find out which driver you're using. If it's a touchpad, then you're using synaptics most likely. Check the Arch Wiki page for that.
You can also ditch the Synaptics driver and go for libinput which is THE FUTURE.
>>55419718
>>55419889
If it's not so hard, fix it yourself.
>>55420213
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian version. Translation licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Dozvoli samo na trenutak... To što ti zoveš Linux, je zapravo, GNU/Linux, ili kako ga ja volim zvati, GNU plus Linux. Linux nije operativni sistem sam po sebi, već samo jedna slobodna komponenta potpuno funkcionirajućeg GNU sistema koji koristi GNU osnovne biblioteke, pomoćne ljuske i vitalne sistemske komponente koje čine puni operativni sistem po definiciji POSIXa.
Mnogi kompjuterski korisnici koriste modificiranu verziju GNU sistema svaki dan, bez njihovog znanja. Kroz čudan niz događaja, verzija GNUa koja se danas koristi je često zvana "Linux", a mnogi od njegovih korisnika nisu svijesni da je to u osnovi GNU sistem, razvijen od strane GNU projekta. Postoji Linux, i ti ljudi ga koriste, ali on je samo dio sistema koji koriste.
>>55420810
Thanks for the tip! Didn't realize that. I'll see if I can get that going.
>>55420825
Slim is deprecated, abandoned and not compatible with systemd.
>>55420993
Damn, well fuck guess I'll have to find something else.
>>55421013
The only viable choices are LightDM and SDDM.
LightDM has the GTK greeter which works flawlessly and a few other minor ones like the WebKit greeter. There were also KDE/Qt greeters, but I think those are deprecated as well.
SDDM is the default greeter for KDE now, but of course works outside of it.
There's also LXDM, but I don't know why anyone would use that over LigthDM with the GTK greeter.
>>55421052
LightDM looks great but I'm on FreeBSD, I'll probably stick with slim until either
a) it breaks everything
or
b) something like lightdm comes to FreeBSD
Today on GNU/TV:
Alternative Freedom (2006)
>A documentary about the invisible war on culture.
>While Congress changes our copyright laws under the behests of a few powerful corporations, individuals across the United States are losing their digital rights. Activists are working together to change this oppressive regime and create an alternative of freedom.
>Two filmmakers uncover the most important legal battles of our time: Copyright Law and Digital Rights Management. Featuring interviews with Danger Mouse, Andrew "bunnie" Huang, Lawrence Lessig, Jason Schultz, Doseone and Richard Stallman.
mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-k7ftaUw2c
I put john to crack md5 withjohn --format=raw-md5 md5file
# md5file
x:thehash
It's been going for about 12 hours.
How do I know if it's doing anything and how long does md5 cracking usually take?
Any unity 8 users here? Will unity 8 let me hide the top bar? I find it really unnecessary. If no, should I use xfce? Since gnome doesnt allow that either. Is xfce actually deprecated? I heard some anons say that and it hasnt been updated for more than a year it seems?
>>55420357
go into windoes disk management, shrink partition by what you want for buntu, reboot into installer, select install alongside windows, follow steps in installer. If that isn't enough update/reconfigure grub.
>>55421773
the panel?
>>55421818
This black bar visible on this screenshot. Its panel? I dont mean the dock. I would also be fine with mocing it to the side of the screen rather than top.
>>55421773
I forgot the actual name of the panel, but you will find it using htop or top.
How to get rid of it: Locate the executable and remove the execute permissions: chmod -x path/bar, then just kill it.
>>55421354
This is gold. Everyone watch this!
>>55421866
I don't think you can easily remove that panel in Gnome. Xfce isn't deprecated, so you can safely use that.
just switched from lxde(Lubuntu) to razorqt and I'm really impressed at what you can get away with on low end hardware using linux.
but.
>why does it use more ram than ubuntu mate on boot?
~50mb more for razorqt
>how to add shortcuts to the desktop
>>55422930
Also just realised I can't find my file manager
>>55422998
never mind, found the file manager.
But how do add shortcut icons to desktop?
Install KDE
what's the best live cd distro to have on a spare usb flash drive just in case something goes wrong?
it's a 2gb.
>>55423130
Ubuntu Mate
>>55423146
thanks.
>>55423119
This
>>55423083ln -s /path/to/file ~/Desktop
Thinking of switching from Debian Testing to OpenSUSE 42.1 because KDE is my waifu. Good idea or bad?
>>55423402
If you really want KDE5 I think it's a good option.
RPM distros never impressed me for some reason. Does Debian testing not have KDE?
>>55423402
Kubuntu has that neon shit going for it tho.
>>55423438
>Does Debian testing not have KDE?
It's got KDE but everyone tells me that OpenSUSE is the most polished KDE distro.
>>55423474
The most polished distro is the one you make from the minimal ground up. So Debain Minimal + KDE
Can anybody explain how I can fix the font/scaling in the title bar inside programs?
I've only just started using a DE on Linux.
>>55420962
lepo
Hey friends, what Linux should I put on my ThinkPad x201? Newbie here.
If I use genkernel will I get binary blobs on the kernel?
My hardware doesn't need any proprietary firmware to work
>>55424504
i have essentially ubuntu mate on my x200, and it runs pretty well.
it could run gnome well enough too, but decided to ditch it for mate since i use gnome on the desktop anyway.
>>55424504
Linux-libre
>>55424691
If your hardware doesn't require it then the blobs won't get loaded anyway
>>55424731
Ok, thanks
>>55422930
>why does it use more ram than ubuntu mate on boot?
Because you're an idiot who's comparing RAM usage in ridiculous scenarios. Your browser is open and I doubt you had exactly the same pages open. You also have 4GB of RAM and that's more than enough. Idiots like seeing a lot of RAM being free, while normal people want their RAM to be utilized for caching things to make things more responsive.
>>55423623
It's dependent on the toolkit used. Look up which toolkit your program is using and then look up how it handles HiDPI scaling.
>>55424504
I suggest the latest mainline kernel, 4.6.
I'm running Ubuntu 16. Is there a way to change the colors of the screens shown during boot? I frequently work in dark places and the flashing between a black screen and the violet background hurts my eyes.
>>55425387
I'm not sure, but I think that Ubuntu is using Plymouth. The solution is to either change its theme or disable it at all and only show error messages during boot by adding the "quiet" and removing the "splash" kernel line option.
I have a small Ubuntu 14LTS vps (500mb ram) running a few static websites.
What are some nice load/network graphing tools I can use to monitor it? Preferably via web browser.
So I'm working on my arch install and I need help.
I was working on changing my theme to arc (personal favorite of mine) and noticed it required a few things. gnomes-themes-standard and gtk-engine-murrine. So I went ahead and added those. I had a problem I had just reinstalled MATE for a while ago, in which my icons are absolutely borked.
A few of my applications are just flat out missing icons no matter what DEFAULT icon pack I use, and of course when I go to adjust screen brightness, it's missing as well. Anybody have a clue what the hell is up? Been crawling the arch wiki for a while, no solution I can find. Don't really want to remove and reinstall MATE for something this stupid, seems inefficient.
>>55425484
Forgot pic.
Is there any benefit to using btrfs over ext4 for storage drives if im not going to pool them together?
I'm currently using raspbian is there a guide to making it secure?
I plan to use it for torrenting however having it login as user 'pi' as the default doesn't seem very secure.
>>55425595
Create new user
Delete old user
>>55420231
shameful self-bump
>>55425601
I've tried that but its still possible to login as pi even when I delete user "pi" or when I unplug it and plug it back in "pi" comes back
>>55424839
Thanks for the heads up, fixed it now (see pic).$ xdpyinfo | grep -B2 resolution
it was 211x158 mm (231x174 dpi) and it's now set properly to 508x285mm (96 dpi).
I see that Deepin is based on Debian unstable, does that mean their packages are fairly bleeding edge? That's unusual for a visually oriented distro
I'm autistic.
Can I install Arch Linux on an iMac?
Is it same to change my username?
What's a good MyAnimeList tracker for ubuntu and where can I get it?
So since Mint is compromised and Ubuntu is a botnet what's the best alternative for babbies first linux distro?
I teeter on the edge of paranoid schizophrenia and want something quite a bit more private than Windows while retaining the functionality and ease of use it offers. But I'm not incompetent and can figure shit out if I need to. Used Mint once for a few days and I figured things out pretty easily but that was a long time ago.
>>55426159
Fedora
>>55426159
there is zero evidence Ubuntu is a botnet
>>55426245
>being this new
>>55426200
>>55426245
I'm just shit-posting, but I'd still rather not use it.
Is Manjaro quality? From what I've read it sounds like what I'm looking for.
>>55426159
Run *buntu for a week or two. Proceed to purge the boot drive and switch to Debian or Fedora.
>>55426275
if you're paranoid you won't like the fact that Manjaro devs are physically incapable of maintaining their website's security certificates
if you want literally Arch with an installer and a ready DE go with Antergos
>>55426303
I'll try that out then, thanks.
>>55425484
>>55425492
Okay update - if I just install numix theme, I have every icon installed.
So that leads me to a few questions
Why do I end up with empty icons for system applications for default system apps? I briefly installed Xfce4 to check, and it was a similar thing there.
Why would reinstalling Firefox not at least restore some sense of custom icon? Is this an arch thing or a user thing?
I find it extremely frustrating.
>>55425441
Thank you!
>>55417966
Can anoyone recomend me the best wifi usb adapter that i can just plug and use, also ide prefer if it was compatible with windows too.
>>55419963
there are still bugs
>>55426159
>mint compromised
>It's not feb 20 anymore.
>>55426821
mintfags on suicide watch
>>55426047
Should be okay
Hey /g/uys, just getting ready to start using Linux Mint and for the first time I am trying to create my own partition table. Is there any downside/should I create my root linux partition as a logical partition or is that not possible?
>pic unrelated.
>>55427334
Rephrase
>>55427334
Yeah I'm not sure I understood you
Back up my man.
Are you using UEFI or Legacy BIOS?
>>55427334
>Have Windows 7 taking up half of the hard drive.
>Other half is empty space.
>Desire arises to boot ~10 other Linux distributions alongside Windows.
>Understands that you can only have 4 primary partitions on a hard drive.
>Thinks about using a logical partition to install the operating systems on.
>Not sure if creating a root partition as logical is allowed.
>Goes to 4chan to figure out how to do this even though it is damn-near pointless.
>pic again unrelated.
gigs of different linux dis with windows.
>>55427458
>gigs of different linux dis with windows.
Ignore this. I forgot to take that out before I hit submit.
>>55427458
according to this http://askubuntu.com/questions/464402/choosing-partition-types-for-swap-and-root-and-choosing-device-for-bootloader-in
you can put root on a logical partition
>>55426303
Oi
Which one of these should I use?
On the live boot right now I think.
>>55427609
kde
I have a 4k res monitor + 1080p monitor, what's the best DE for this kind of scaling / setup?
Almost all of them seem to have some problems.
>>55426047
Sure. Go ahead.
>>55426159
Mint is still #1.
My nvidia GPU runs several degrees hotter in linux for some reason.
I'm using proprietary drivers, and I notice the "performance level" likes to stay around the top level, even if I'm not even doing anything.
I switched from nouveau, because the tearing is slightly not as bad now. Like if I'm scrolling on a browser page, it will tear for a few seconds, and then stop. Is the adaptive performance thing just really dumb and slow to react or something?
>>55429452
Your video drivers don't make a difference on your normal usage screen tearing as far as I know, famalam. That's on what compositor you're using, and the settings on it.
>>55429005
>>Mint is still #1.
#1 of the most shitty distros, yes.
>actually needs to block basic updates so it doesnt fall apart
https://github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules
>>55428986
I haven't had any issues with unity. But I leave my scaling at zero. Having a 4k next to a 1080p will make your eyes bleed. It'll look like utter shit.
>>55429655
Mintbabbies will defend this.
>>55429694
meant to quote >>55429639
>>55429639
Nothing important is ever in there. You get all the security updates by default. What's the problemo?
>>55429815
>Nothing important
>Linux
wat
>/fglt/ on page 9
>speccy threads on page 1
What's a good alternative website?
>>55430272
I dunno.
>>55428986
Gnome/gtk3 has nice scaling.
Well I did it /g/ - had to reinstall it because of a mysterious problem with MATE icons that I couldn't find any solutions to and nothing else I tried work, but I am now officially on arch.
I'm not sure if I necessarily learned a whole bunch about my system, but it was still pretty fun to try it, and it will be interesting to see how it serves me coming from xubuntu. (I was tired of the way releases were handled.)
Any suggestions on where to go from here? Font suggestions, or just improvements on my font rendering (after infinality) would be nice.
Am on lubuntu, is there a way to keybind ctrl+shift+t to create a new document and ctrl+shift+b to open the default browser? Just like how you create a new folder with ctrl+shift+n?
Alright cashing in my autism coin here
GNU/Linux distro that has a visual installation cause I can't be bothered to input all the commends by myself and has a pre-prepared DE and preferably i3 WM. Thanks senpai
>>55431543
Manjaro has a i3 spin and babby installer.
https://manjaro.github.io/Manjaro-i3-15.12-released/
Enjoy.
>>55431643
Thank you very much
>>55421710
press any key with the terminal window/tab selected. It should spit out some progress info,
So I had to extract one page from a PDF file, so i installed PDFsam (PDF split and merge), and it did the job perfectly.
There's just one thing. The original PDF is 99KB big and has 3 pages. The new PDF that only has the one page is 89KB.
Why is this? Shouldn't it be much less?
>>55432165
headers and metadata
is it safe to install any theme? The stock ones kind of suck.
i mean, someone couldn't sneak "rm -rf" into a theme, could they?
i'm sorry if this is dumb
>>55432378
>>55432378
Depends on the way you install it. If you download an archive and just extract the pictures, it's pretty save, on the other hand, if you're using a PPA/AUR script, it's basically possible to delet system32.
>>55432378
Do you guys think NixOS is viable? It's a very different way of handling packages and does some pretty unconventional stuff like completely changing where files are stored.
As an example none of my scripts worked with
>#!/bin/bash
I had to change them to
>#!/usr/bin/env bash
Surprisingly most things seem to be working quite well though, and since the system's setup is completely determined by its single configuration file it feels so clean and seems like it would be an absolutely amazing "user friendly" distro (not right now but when/if it becomes more developed).
In the future people could just post various config files for different types of users and they could just pick one when installing their system and everything would automatically get setup exactly as that person had it with all the dependencies and software and even software specific configuration options, and apparently the way the package manager works makes it impossible for them to run into dependency hell.
But I'm curious what people think about the long term viability of NixOS because it is quite different after all.
>>55432540
Any distro that is not RHEL compliant, isnt one you want to use.
>/bin/bash
/bin is symlinked to /usr/bin
>one config file
This was a thing until systemd rolled around and fucked up the world.
>/etc/rc.d/
>>55432472
what do you mean "pretty" safe?
>>55432564
I've been trying to look at upcoming new package managers and nix was the most promising one I could find which is why I gave nixOS a try.
I don't really think any of our current package managers are that great. Portage is probably the best so far but it still has problems.
>>55432636
If something isn't executable, like pictures or config files, it (basically) can't do any harm.
>>55432747
I wouldn't say that.
echo "rm -rf ~" > pepe.png
echo "rm -rf ~" > pepe.conf
sh pepe.png && sh pepe.conf
>>55432813
hence basically
>>55432813
Why on earth would you run sh on an "image"?
It would only be dangerous if you know that the image is actually a shell script.
>>55432378
I need that cs grad pic with the Nvidia drivers deleting /usr/.
I was gifted a mouse that has 16,000 dpi(i dont even want this shit)
It is stuck at this mode for some reason.
Setting DPI in xorg and using xinput, is moot.
Fucking mouse is sittng on the damn table and flying all over not being touched
One quick question;
Can I transfer my windows font folder from windows into a Debian-based distro through USB? Do I have to put the fonts somewhere specific?
>>55433423
No.
Dont do it outside your package manager.
>>55433423
Yes.
Put them into ~/.fonts/
>>55433445
For what reason? I have more than the core fonts in my fonts folder
>>55433453
Oh, and run this: mkfontdir ~/.fonts; mkfontscale ~/.fonts; xset +fp ~/.fonts; xset fp rehash; fc-cache -f ~/.fonts
Reminder that .fon files wount work out of the box, so just copy .ttf and .otf stuff.
>>55433475
You will have to manually run fc-cache when ever you touch them, and fc configs will not apply to them, newer versions may come out, and you wont know, wont update, etc
>more then core fonts.
As do i.
>>55433501
>newer versions of fonts
?
>>55433610
>font update to reflect fc changes
>font update to fix subpixel rendering, fulltint
etc
Retarded hipster arch user here. Whats a good terminal web browser? I want to try living full cli meme.
>>55433406
You need to say what mouse it is.
Mice with very high DPI often are adjustable and the way you change the DPI will depend on what kind of mouse it is.
>>55433626
Oh, huh. so do you think I should transfer the fonts through a windows partition on my other HDD? I ask because these are two different computers i'm transferring from.
>it's a "compiler or web browser needs updating on Gentoo" episode
>>55433667
Lynx
>>55433667
Don't do it man, you'll ruin your life!
>>55418761
>Holy crap, portage is complicated. Ever other distro is Fisher-Price OS compared to Gentoo.
Wow, here I was, thinking Arch users were the autistic smuglords of Linux. A new king has been crowned!
>>55419889
The answer to that may be in the notes on the AUR's webpage for that package.There's usually a solution for broken packages in the complaints.
>>55433950
>mfw zelda has no balls in that pic
Don't tell me that he actually is a manly girl. I'm glad I never played those degenerate games.
Okay lads, installed Ubuntu for the first time. What are must-do things?
>>55433950
>Gentoo" episode
I legitimately wish there was a show about Gentoo Linux. Not a tech show. Just a show about Gentooans doing the things they do.
>>55434397
Remove Unity.
>>55434534
Forgot to mention it's Xubuntu.
>>55434425
It would never get published, no one is going to watch a 72 long youtube of how to install basic things, not to mention the file size, they'd hav to do 240p
What's maintaining a Gentoo system like?
I've got a laptop that I basically just want to use for controlling MIDI instruments that doesn't have any real need to connect to the internet (after install), and I figured that installing Gentoo would be a fun little project to help me figure out how to have a better time with my desktop Debian install.
Is installing programs really as big of a hassle as people tell you it is? I don't mind the install taking a week to complete, and I guess I'm fine with not being able to add new programs without effort since I'm probably not going to be adding/removing too many programs once I get going.
I'd install Arch just as a more sane option, but I'm not entirely looking for sanity here.
why does /g/ have so much hate for puppy? I think it's pretty close to an ideal solution for a persistent live distro.
>>55434425
>It's a "deciding to make package.use a file or a directory" episode
>>55434679
It's a solution looking for a problem.
>>55434703
but tails and liberkey are simmilar solutions to the same problem and you guys love them, what gives?
>>55434719
It's almost as if different people have different opinions. I don't care about any of the above. When asking others on /g/, your mileage will vary.
>>55434785
>ooh lookit me I'm a smartass
>>55434810
>ooh lookit me I'm a little bitch
>>55434834
>ooh lookit me I'm a copy cat douchemonger
Fresh install of xubuntu.
Two different Nvidia cards. 980 + 780 for hobo CUDA rendering setup.
I installed the proprietary drivers for the 980 from "Additional Drivers", rebooted fine.
Installed the proprietary drivers for the 780, which were a different version for some reason.
Now, X wont start. It hangs at a black screen with blinking cursor. When I switch to a virtual console I can login but X wont start due to "no screens" or some such.
Please advise?
>>55434847
>ooh lookit me I'm a 9gag using piece of shit
>>55434934
what are you on about m8? are you really so emotionally fragil that you blew up over being called a smartass after being a smartass? if you're that easily triggered then this isn't the place for you bruh
