Previously on: >>53972867
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
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
> Shell pasta:
The based GNU Bourne Again SHell:
https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
The community driven BASH wiki:
http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/
The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki:
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
SED and AWK; your new best friends:
http://www.pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
http://www.pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
Google's Shell Style Guide:
https://google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
The Linux Command Line - A Book By William Shotts:
http://linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
Interesting, useful and dangerous one-liners:
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
Great online (and offline) linting tool:
http://www.shellcheck.net/
Know what you are doing:
http://explainshell.com/
> Font pasta:
General informations:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
Huge list of font resources:
https://github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts
List of monospaced fonts for programming:
https://github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface
List of monospaced bitmap fonts for programming:
https://github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
You may also need to enable bitmap fonts and rebuild the font cache:rm -v /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
fc-cache -v -f
Fonts patched with shitloads of icon glyphs:
https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack:
http://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
Premade fontconfigs:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality
Configure your own fontconfig:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
Read the documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html
(Thanks to: >>53986737 )
> Tiling pasta:
/*
Tiling Window Managers:
*/
General informations:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Window_manager
Awesome:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Awesome
Awesome + Gaps:
https://github.com/copycat-killer/lain
i3:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/I3
i3 + Gaps:
https://github.com/Airblader/i3
bspwm:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bspwm
spectrwm:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Spectrwm
dwm:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Dwm
/*
Tiling scripts (these work DE/WM independent):
*/
Pytyle:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pytyle/
Pytyle2:
https://code.google.com/p/pytyle/
Pytyle3:
https://github.com/BurntSushi/pytyle3/
Pytyle differences:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1058199#p1058199
Horsefuckers tiling BASH scripts:
http://twily.info/scripts/tiling/
Why you don't put all those pasta on a pastabin or something like that ?
It's kind of annoying to have so much pasta
if it's in the wiki tell me what's the logic in posting it here?
>>53987254
What service would you suggest?
Is there a pastebin where other users can edit the paste while it keeps the same URL?
>>53987254
I just bought a domain for /fglt/ resources, if I'm bored next weekend I'll setup a webpage for this stuff.
>>53987276
What are you referring to?
>>53987277
Why not just use pastebin? If it needs any changes, anyone can just make a new updated pastebin and link the new thread to that
>>53987313
Nvm I've hallucinated lmao. Instead of arch I've read installgentoo. Too much sleep deprivation.
>>53987319
Pastebin is a pretty shitty service, since they block all tor connections.
Better paste services are hastebin, teknik or termbin.
>>53987212
>What makes you so angry, anon?
Shilling (freetard or otherwise) instead of answering the fucking question honestly, angers me.
>Did pacman break X again or something?
>pacman
Implying.
>>53987311
Noice.
>>53987319
Let's wait if >>53987311 will deliver.
>>53987160
share dubs script?
>tfw being such a dumbfuck i wanted to test debian and went balls deep
>tfw i ran a i636 not amd64 for several month
>realize what i did
>try the from32to64 method
>somehow kill pc
>reinstall
whelp
at least i'm having fun
>>53987388
If thought everyone already got it. Enjoy:# Collect a list of all GETs. Usage: checkem <THREAD URL>
checkem() {
curl -s "$1" | grep -Po "'\d+(\d)\1+'" | sort -u | sed "s/'\(.*\)'/>>\1/g"
}
>>53987401
>at least i'm having fun
good for you, failing and learning is better than failing and giving up.
>>53987411
where do I paste this?
>>53987175
>>The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
>http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
Still reading. This site is GOLD.
I highly recommed it.
>>53987369
>>53987363
I hope I can, I should have some spare time, and I already have a server available to host it on, so that part would be easy. I'll probably go for some ezpz Bootstrap template and add pages with info.
>>53987442
You can just put it in your .bashrc or .zshrc (or whatever rc you use for your shell), and then source that file. It should work in every new shell you open after that point.
>>53987452
>source that file
how would I do this?
>>53987474source ~/.bashrc
This simply loads the file and "sources" it, so that all new things are loaded into your current shell. Otherwise you'd have to close your current shell and open a new one, which is inconvenient.
>>53987474
On BASH:source ~/.bashrc
or. ~/.bashrc
Dunno about other shells.
Alternativly, just open a new terminal.
>>53987496
>>53987494
thanks
>>53987494
>>53987496
I guess this makes the whole difference.
neo /g/ would suggest:
# source all configs in your home directory
rm -rf ~
Thanks based /fglt/.
>>53987527
>>53987531
Don't try too hard. Mods have been nice to us when checking dubs for new threads, but I guess you'll get banned for doing it in other situations.
What drivers do I need to install to enable Bluetooth on an HP laptop running Linux mint?
Assuming Bluetooth will even work, how to use the computer as line in for Bluetooth audio?
>>53987562
>Mods have been nice to us
/g/ has no mods; they're all hunting for loli on /no time for life/.
>>53987563
which laptop specifically? did you try it yet?
How do I change default sound card with alsa?
Update
I got it!
Been trying to get i3 and LXQt working.
i3 couldn't work, as some part of X seemed to be missing but that is just a theory as I really have no idea. So it became clear that that I needed an X display manager to launch it, or at least some package it used.
Check to see which one LXQt used as I planned to install parts of it anyway, keep it simple and lower the number of packages. Well I could not simply apt-get LXQt as it was not listed. Some said I could just add a few lines and pull it from the unstable lists, but didn't know what lines to add and I like stability. So I gave up for now and just install LXDE, which includes a X display manager.
With that installed all my parts just snapped together and started working, much like I suspected. Although I wish I knew why i3 didn't just work from the start.
Just thought I would get back with you guys give the support you gave. Also wounder if you could think of way it didn't work to start with.
Does i3 need X or something, as I started with the smallest number of packages I thought would work.
>>53988027
When you are in your console, make a file ~/.xinitrc and putexec i3
in it. Then run startx.
Post back whatever error you're getting.
>>53987782
go to alsamixer and choose one. this should be preserved.
Can anyone tell me how I can open up a flash drive via command line? Trying to copy over some papers onto my new debian install and nothing is popping up anywhere.
It's a minimal install with no DE just openbox.
>>53988066
Oh, I went through that already. But sincerely thanks.
It didn't recognized command "startx".
And the "exec" command seems to just forcefully logout the user or reset the system, not sure which but it clearly didn't work.
Got some good suggestions from here on how to fix it, but the solution assumed only one desktop environment was in use. Thus I eventually decided to just use a display manager, rather not as it adds more things to the setup but it seems to fix a number of problems.
>>53988183
i don't know anything but i would go to terminal and go to root. from there navigate to /mnt maybe it is there?
>>53988183
Check which device you need withlsblk
It's usually something along the lines of /dev/sdb1. You can then mount it usingsudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt
Replace /dev/sdb1 with whatever device you want. Replace /mnt with whatever location you want to mount it in.
When you're done, usesudo umount /mnt
BEFORE removing the flash drive.
>>53988185
>It didn't recognized command "startx"
What distro are you running? You might need to install something along the lines of xorg-startx.
>And the "exec" command seems to just forcefully logout the user
exec basically makes the shell execute that command, and remove itself from the equation. If you try to runexec i3
by itself, it'll try to start i3, but will find there's no usable X instance for it, and thus exit. Because you used exec, the shell invoking it will exit along with i3, thus logging you out.
>the solution assumed only one desktop environment was in use
I have a small script to solve this "issue" if you don't use a login manager, but you should probably get i3 itself launching properly before looking in making your setup more advanced.
>>53988185
>It didn't recognized command "startx".
install the xorg-init package (this solved the same issue for me on arch, may or may not work for you)
What's the difference between startx and xinit?
Isn't startx just some sort of alias for xinit?
Confused.bmp
>>53988378
startx is a front-end to xinit.
>>53988434
No, xinit is a back-end to start.
>>53988434
>>53988447
>>53988317
>>53988338
Debian 8.3 netinstall with the lowest number of packages to be declared "functional".
xorg-init package was one of the things I think LXDE's X display manger added, likely that was the part that was missing as I originally didn't have anything with X in my starting packages.
>>53988485
Thnx very much, anon.
Will any of you be my friend? I have no friends at all.
>>53988993
if you are a friend to free software and to a free society you are a friend to me. :^)
>>53989074
real friendship doesn't come with conditions bruh.
yo man, I'll be your friend even if you're a serial killer
>>53988993
Don't worry. Most normie's so called "friends" are just people who hang out with people, who hang out with people that hang out with people so they can hang out with people. It's just like facebook IRL.
>>53989109
Humanism, nice.
you sure that works in a day to day relationship as opposed to a client-therapist relationship?
>>53989148
yesp, it's all about lack of judgement, if you're my friend you're my friend no matter what, unless you have bad taste in music. in that case just fuck it
Is there a way to make ncmpcpp group by album_artist first and then by album artist?
>>53989074
>propritary friendship
By the way, I got some people to use GNU/Linux in real life. The trick was not asking them to use it, instead wait until they ask.
When you say "dude, dont use windows its botnet", people will just rolleyes and continue, but they surely will ask you when it comes to things like "how can I browse secure" or "what is the best antivirus?". These are situations when people will listen.
What are your experiences?
>>53989302
>hello, do you have some time to talk about god, erm, I meant, GNU/Linux?
>>53988993
don't worry
none of us have friends
we're like stars
so similiar but so far apart
>>53989552
anon are you like a poet of some kind
>>53989302
my sister asked me how to make her windows 7 laptop last longer/be faster. so i told her she could try xubuntu and maybe put an SSD in there.
>>53988263
Thanks a ton anon. Now I just have to finish this stupid paper in time for Dark Souls 3.
>>53989573
im a kind of poet that never writes
like a loaf of bread that was never eaten
it's purpose never to be fulfilled, it rots
Can someone please help me.
How to remove those button icons? Pic related. (The tick mark on accept. The red icon on cancel.)
I'm on Kubuntu.
What packages do I need in arch for GNU C and C++ compiler collection and development tools, libraries?
>>53989669
clang
>>53989669
They are already included in the base install.
>>53989713
Amazing ! Thank you.
>>53989645
>>53989706
Fuck off.
>>53989661
Install Gentoo.
>>53989754
>friendly thread
Are there any advantages to using Wine over PlayOnLinux?
As far as I understand it, the latter is basically just a front end with nice config settings to the former. But I was curious
Any programs that are known to run absolutely horribly on either that I shouldn't even attempt?
>>53989871
For x32 apps use crossover it has the most popular windows apps run smooth as fuck - because it's paid and they generally optimize right away w/e people ask them to.
There's a torrent with install + crack for Linux on kat, a reputable uploader - safe to use.
For x64 use play on linux with x64 wine build - you're golden this way.
>>53989871
i don't even
>>53989912
He doesn't even. Look at him and laugh.
>>53989944
I don't laugh at people - I'm Christian.
>>53989968
lol
>>53989968
>i don't laugh at people, people laugh at me
>on holiday with gf
>her sandisk card shits the bed
>crying
>doesn't work on either phone
>damaged sdcard, please format
What do? I have a rooted phone and terminal. Problem is the fucker won't mount at all.
>>53989994
I have 0 problems with that.
>>53990015
restore from backup?
>>53990015
>having gf
literally asking for trouble
break up now
t. wise knowledgeable neckbeard basement dweller
>>53990047
If I had a backup I wouldn't be here asking this m8. Upload speeds here are abysmal so Dropbox was never an option.
Is there a way to force mount it and run the equivalent of chkdsk?
>>53990016
>BECAUSE I KNOW YOU ALL WILL BURN IN HELL WHEN YOU DIE! HAHAHAHA
>>53990073
I don't know what to say to that, maybe you do not understand the dogma?
Let's stop discussion religion tho - it's a technology board.
I've been using arch for a couple of years now, and haven't tested any other distros in a long while. Just got a new laptop and wanted to try something new. What distro(s) should i try?
Im not using this machine for anything fancy since i have others that i use to work.
>>53990015
>boot into cwm
>sdcard mounts
>folders and files are there
Android a shit
>>53990181
gentoo
>>53990231
faggot
>>53990117
Hey buddy mate pal, you were the one brought it up to begin with :^)
Can someone recommend a game controller that works well in Linux? I recently installed Dolphin emulator and using a keyboard just isn't cutting it.
>>53990320
ask https://www.youtube.com/user/tuxreviews
he's got a thing for controllers and gaymen.
>>53990320
>not using your keyboard
>>53990320
a) It's called GNU/Linux.
b) Ask >>>/vr/ they can help you
>>53990353
>>53990445
Stank you, my friends.
>>53990181
Install ubuntu minimal and stop worrying. Did the same after using arch exclusively since '07 anf it's quite comfy desu.
Y'all niggers should try Manjaro's bspwm flavor. I tried it yesterday in a VM, jesus fuck, what a nice distro.
>>53990181
Debian's really comfy imo
>>53990533
It wouldn't install on my shit. Looks nice though.
>>53990015
How is "on holiday with gf" relevant to this? Or "crying"? Why couldn't you have asked your question without those irrelevant details?
>>53990181
>>53990490
>>53990626
>using it apparently for years
>still doesn't know what the differences between distributions are
>saying things like "comfy distribution"
I'd rather have the interjection copy/pasting idiot again, rather than that.
>>53990068
>cloud is the only backup
you and your gay gf deserve everything
>>53990667
Are you unwell sir
>>53990631
Same here, but I'm still busy stealing configs and stuff out of it for myself. Best rice is own rice tho.
ImageMagickfags, in case you missed this thread, have a link: >>53985595
Hi /fglt/ - I want to consolidate some of the excess household paperwork I have lying around (and learn something I may be able to implement for small office clients) and am looking for a document management solution.
I have a lot of experience in a Windows environment with imaging/indexing applications and querying MSSQL, so I'm not afraid of digging in and learning MySQL or whatever else I need to know.
I want to be able to create my own categories and index information about the scanned documents in multiple fields. Local/network client access only is fine, doesn't have to be web-enabled.
Anybody have any experience with some free (beer or freedom) solutions? Personal- or enterprise-tier I don't mind, I'm just looking for a place to start. Right now I'm checking out LogicalDOC but I want to know if I'm overlooking anything easier/better.
>>53990739
Also meant to add -- if there's a Windows client available, that'd be nice too for non-liberated users.
>>53990320
DS4
is there a way to save the changes you made to an image then apply it to another image in gimp?
I'm on GalliumOS (xubuntu optimized for Chromebook). know nothing about linux and I'm trying to install Skype and Steam.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Skype, trying to follow this. Type in the first command to enable multiarch, it just goes to the next line. I don't know if that's a problem or if it's just enabled.
Type in the second command, it also goes to the next line. Again, I don't know if it's a problem.
Third command to update and install just doesn't work. It doesn't find Skype, not when the commands are separate, not at all. When I do just apt-get update, there's a huge list of links that failed to fetch, either because they're not there (404) or the connection refused (443).
The same thing happens for Steam when trying to install the 32 bit files. What do I do?
Is Gnome more popular than KDE?
There are 2 shitty videos made in the last two weeks on youtube about kde.
And multiple quality videos on gnome 3.20 - tweakings, reviews and so on.
Only logical conclusion is that the community base is wider with gnome.
>>53990739
What kind of "management"? If you just want a place to store you documents on so everyone can access them, you can use a simple OwnCloud solution (there's addons so you can edit them with multiple concurrent users as well), or just a simple samba setup and mount the network drives.
If you also want tagging, you might have to dig around some more or create your own.
does /fglt/ allow busybox discussion
>>53991809
I'd welcome it.
>>53991809
Is 4chan built on anime?
>>53991809
Stop being such a beta faggot and ask; we're a friendly thread!
>>53991480
The two first commands most likely worked fine. Generally, you'll get an error message if something fails.
>When I do just apt-get update, there's a huge list of links that failed to fetch, either because they're not there (404) or the connection refused (443).
And this here explains why it doesn't find Skype. The added repositories weren't found, so obviously whatever is supposed to be in them isn't available for installation.
As for what you can do, I'm tempted to just say "don't use the blight on the world that is Skype", but that's not particularly helpful. I gather there are Skype plugins for Empathy and Pidgin but I can't vouch for how well they work or if the even work with voice chat all. Never touched them.
Steam is in the standard Ubuntu repo it seems. You shouldn't have to do any fancy dances to install it.
>>53991788
Yeah, I really want searchable index fields. Set up document types and sub-types in drop-down menus, a date field, comments, etc. I'm trying to think flexible and long-term.
Worst case, I set up a small MSSQL server in a VM and use the software I use at work. I just wanted to see what else may be out there. I'm trying to be as free as I can be of MS in my personal life if I can't be at work.
>>53992070
Why not just setup a mediawiki instance on a local machine in your home?
>>53987160
What's a good IRC server for CentOS with a repo? Bonus points if it has a web admin interface so I can admin with a gooey.
>>53992544
Surely there can't be that many? Look up what's available and read up on those alternatives.
>>53991531
probably since fedora / red hat.
>>53992675
The only one I have in the repos is ngircd, but i have no idea how good it is.
Hi freemans
I want to login using my fingerprint.
I'm using Debian Testing + Cinnamon. Also LightDM.
I followed this tutorial:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_enable_integrated_fingerprint_reader_with_fprint
but LightDM still requires me to type my username and password. What do I do?
>>53992697
>LightDM
The tutorial you're following seems to assume GDM.
Incidentally, GDM and Gnome is what I use. Fingerprint authentication works without a hitch. I've no idea if LightDM supports it at all.
>>53992780
It does, you need to use a different set of instructions. I did it at one point but then changed my mind.
>>53992780
>>53992816
Got it working (the final part of the tutorial was to disable fingerprint login and I did it anyway without reading)
Thanks anyway guys
>>53992938
Heh, good stuff. Glad to hear you got it working.
How safe is it to upgrade from a LTS to the next LTS?
>>53993141
should be fine, but i'll let you know when i move my server over to 16.04
>>53992172
I don't know a lot about setting up web pages, but from a small amount of research and a couple of YT videos, it doesn't look that bad.
From a workflow perspective however, it doesn't look like it would facilitate quick scanning/importing/indexing new stuff. If it was "knowledge based" content and not edited that often I could see this being a really good solution.
I appreciate the suggestion though. I learned something today.
>>53990320
If you're using just Dolphin, the official Nintendo GameCube adapter is fully supported. https://wiki.dolphin-emu.org/index.php?title=How_to_use_the_Official_GameCube_Controller_Adapter_for_Wii_U_in_Dolphin
Why should you use the Zen kernel?
Serious replies only please
>>53993444
https://liquorix.net/
Look here. Liquorix is built from Zen sources, so all points apply
>install le gentoo face
>emerge mpv
>fails
>forums say it's a known issue and to force live to fix it
>force live
>emerge mpv again
>fails again
You fucking memers got me good. How do you dumb shits expect anyone to take shitnux seriously if you can't even install a fucking video player? Maybe if you stupid meme factories would stop masturbating and actually make this shit just work you'd have more than 0% marketshare for desktop operating systems.
Don't even get me started on "binary" releases.
>download chromium "binary" release
>supposed to just work
>>your missing le pangocairo.so face xd
Fucking memefags.
>>53994210
sounds like PEBKAC to me
>>53994299
>get gentoo
>literally emerge mpv fails
Wooow.
What's a good music streaming server for my fileserver?
>>53994406
plex is I think the /g/ standard
>>53994446
I use plex for videos, I need something lightweight for my client (linux laptop)
>>53994524
mpd
>>53994524
ampache? or like the other guy said mpd
>>53994210
You sound like a fucking moron. Mpv build on gentoo and funtoo without any problem.
>>53994210
install gentoo
Hola, im new to linux. Is there any gud versions of linux,? And how do i boot from a usb?
>>53994840
>>53994646
gentoo is depreciated, funtoo is the new hotness
>>53994880
http://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/
This is loosely related to GNU/Linux, but since I AM currently running Debian I'd figure I'd ask.
When dealing with very large image folders (let's say, your generic 4chan folder with no categorizations, dealing with thousands and thousands of images), what is the best way to arrange them so that they will load quickly when opened / file operations will carry out relatively quick?
I was wondering if separating them into folders with 500 images each would do the trick?
The drive they're on is EXT4, if that makes a difference.
>Install mpv
>Install the chrome extension to watch streams with mpv
>It doesn't work
>Literally just does nothing when I click "watch with mpv"
What do?
>>53995391
try using firefox
>>53995450
I don't use meme browsers tho
>>53994881
You mean calculate linux
Hey it's not better than Arch but it really is good to use portage without autism
>>53995473
>chrome
>not a botnetmeme browser
K E K
>>53995473
>literally uses "non-free meme shit: the browser"
just go back to M$ if you need "MUH FLASH" that bad. "open with livestreamer" works very well with firefox, when I need to open a stream, even with mpv
>>53995494
>>53995506
I meant I use Chromium you fucking retards
>>53995542
>retards
>for assuming the most logical conclusion from the info provided
just go away already
>>53995578
>If he said chrome extension he's probably using chrome and not chromium!
You know clearly what I meant you're just nitpicking and trying to grasp at something you can "argue" against easily
Why are FOSS developers so salty?
>>53995610
you sound like a proprietary cuck
>>53995632
I'm neither a proprietary nor a freetard cuck. Truly free software like that licensed under the BSD license are best.
>>53995610
Because Microsoft killed his company.
>>53995677
maybe his company was just shit and couldn't compete in the freemarket?
Is that a possibility or nah?
>>53995610
I assume it is because they are not used to dealing with a lot of bureaucracy to get their app working somewhere.
Too many times issues are attributed to malice when its usually anything but.
>nothing of value was lost
What does /fglt/ think of LFS?
>>53995713
A good waste of time, but you will be hardcore on the Internet (for like 5 minutes before you get a kernel panic).
So I recently switch to Linux Mint, but I feel like I'm just using it the same way I used windows. Is switching to a tiling window manager a good idea to get more deep in to linux?
>>53995246
Anyone? Pls respond
>>53995777
No.
"Getting more deep into Linux" has nothing to do with your desktop environment or lack thereof
If you'd really prefer, you could switch to a less hand-holdy distro eventually. But don't rush it, just get a feel for things on Mint for a while and then take the plunge on something like Debian later perhaps - which is a nice compromise between accessibility and depth
>>53995730
What's a kernel panic? And why would someone running LFS be more likely to have one?
>>53995777
Hello newfriend. Open up your terminal and read: >>53987175 for a deeper look into GNU/Linux.
>>53995777
you kidding me m8?
no, tiling is a meme for desktop threads. i suppose you learn something when you copy shit from other's config files, but you can just do more stuff on the terminal and learn shit that way.
those skills are much more useful than those that consist of you fixing your crappy wm setup.
>>53995846
>no, tiling is a meme for desktop threads
Nope. Thats just your personal opinion, buddy.
>>53987160
My sister made the mistake of falling for the applel meme and bought a mac mini a few years ago. It can't upgrade to le captain because of planned obsolescence so she is giving it to me
what's a good first distro that I can experiment with that will let me grasp the basics of linux ricing and such that I can easily put on the mini?
>>53995870
I guess some people actually like their setup like that, don't care for those people though.
>>53995777
>>53995874
Linux is the name of the kernel that Linus Torvalds developed starting in 1991. The operating system in which Linux is used is basically GNU with Linux added. To call the whole system “Linux” is confusing. Please call the complete system GNU/Linux, both to give the GNU Project credit and to distinguish the whole system from the kernel alone.
>>53995914
I guess you're connecting things you shouldn't connect. Just because a nice riced desktop w/ a tiling wm is often used by those tripfragging moe posters at the other thread, doesn't mean a riced setup is a bad thing in general.
>>53995914
meh, when you acquire a large set of preferred programs you find it easier and less clunky just install a wm and set things up with your liking, whereas with a full blown de you're stuck with some programs you can't uninstall without it wanting to uninstall the entire de.
>>53991788
You know what? On second look this will do more or less what I need it to and a bunch of other stuff I hadn't actually asked for but would be nice, too. Never set up OwnCloud but I think I'm going to like it. Thanks a bunch, anon.
>>53995777
Mastering the commandline gets you deeper into linux, not installing different DEs
>>53995920
are you going to help or just spout memes
>>53996099
What memes are you referring to?
>>53995246
>>53995790
G-guys?
>>53996172
I don't have any problems open directories with lots of files. Just put them in sub directories or turn off thumbnails or something.
>>53996193
Hm. Really? Directories with tens of thousands of files don't give you hickups when loading them on an HDD?
Yeah, I'd like to keep thumbnails on - which is why I was thinking on separating them on subdirectories of ~500 images each or something. Would that do or is that overkill?
>>53996172
If directory sizes are an issue then you can divide it based on image number or file hash. I hear this improves speed for directories on the order of 1 million+ files.
My own largest directory is ~700 files. Speed is only an issue on encrypted volumes; it takes longer to process the metadata.
>>53995874
probably xubuntu
>>53990647
what a dense motherfucker
>>53996255
With thumbnails on it's going to be slower no matter what you do.
is numix on arch broken for anybody else?
>>53996304
forgot image
Technically speaking, are most modern Windows-only games going to be eventually runnable on Wine? If not, why not?
I basically find myself booting into my small Windows partition only to play The Witcher 3 or Rainbow Six Siege from time to time. If I could play those on Wine I'd be set to erase that partition.
>>53996367
most DX9 games work relatively well
some dx11 works, some of it doesn't, but will be in the future
newer games should be made on vulkan, so wine will become less of a dependency for gaming
>>53996401
Man, that's a relief to know
The less shackled to one platform vidya is, the better
>>53996419
it is
I have a fairly sizeable steam library, and a good 2/3 of it will 'run' on linux, with a select few just not cooperating due to various reasons
for example, civ5 on my system crashes due to some weird bug with the build in wine thing they used, and cities skylines uses twice the ram, even running out with my system's 24gb
>>53996304
yes, you should understand why if you're using arch. I'm not saying that in a meme way, it's kind of big news.
>>53996453
>Civ5
>On Wine
M8 you do know that there is a native Linux build out for Civ 5 on Steam, right? And it runs flawlessly
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>>53996453
So is Cities Skylines btw. Native build out for that too
>>53996512
green is my pepper
>>53996512
Ever since finding out that Stallman actually disapproves of Gentoo I could never get aboard with the meme anymore of associating the two of them
>>53996484
>big news
can't find anything with a standard 'arch linux numix theme broken' search
>>53996511
>>53996521
I was talking about the 'native build'
it uses valve's combatability thing that's based on wine, and it crashes constantly on my system. but I would never expect civ5 to be stable, it's always been shit even on windows
>>53996536
Huh. I hate to be *that* guy but I've never experienced problems with those on my machine(TM)
>>53996536
http://www.aspyr.com/
this is the 'native build' thing I was talking about
Is there a package that will handling one way synchronisation of CLIPBOARD to PRIMARY and that is all? I don't want it to work both ways or do anything else, just whenever CLIPBOARD is changed, sync it to PRIMARY.
>>53996260
what does xubuntu have over kubunto and other distros?
>>53996593
*buntu is just ubuntu with a different de
which itself is just debian with modern packages
>>53996566
parcellite can do this I think
>>53996607
I don't know what that means
>>53996532
Stallman-kun is just being tsundere.
>>53996699
xubuntu is ubuntu with xfce replacing unity
kubuntu is ubuntu with kde replacing unity
etc
they share the same packages, they just look different
>>53996756
Try simpler
I've never used linux before and I don't know any of these acronyms or what any of this means for the OS in terms of functionality
>>53991435
Like redo?
>>53996810
this is honestly a little annoying, there's a reason we have a 'use google first' rule
de=desktop environment, what you look at while using your computer
ubuntu uses canonical's own unity de
kubuntu replaces unity with the KDE de and suite of apps
xubuntu replaces unity with the XFCE de
they're all the same underneath, they just have different skins
distros like arch and fedora are still linux but completely different than ubuntu, since they are run by different people and have completely different package management
>>53996810
It is Ubuntu, but with a different type of desktop. There are many different types of desktops to choose from and plain Ubuntu defaults to one it made called "Unity". Xubuntu uses one called "XFCE" which is a more lightweight, simpler one, and Kubuntu uses KDE Plasma which is a more complex one that has a lot of customization options but is seen as "heavier" (uses more resources) than lightweight ones and in some cases even the Ubuntu default "Unity".
It's all up to personal preference which you use, but honestly if you're just starting out, go with plain Ubuntu since any instructions you find to help you out will likely reference what you need to do in Ubuntu's desktop instead of others.
>>53996172
Are you actually having performance issues and if so with what program. If you are I really doubt it is with ext4 or any terminal based approach.
>>53997000
I've noticed file operations (moving files between directories in the same drive) on Nautilus is kind of slow.
I don't know how much slower it is to move items in bulk there compared to the terminal though
started using urxvt and have to runxrdb -merge ~/.xresourceson every boot. Couldn't find an answer so I put this in my bashrc._xrdb ()
{ # in pursuit of a decent terminal emu
urxvt -e "xrdb -merge ~/.xresources && exit" &>>~/logs/xrdb.log && urxvt
}
The only problem is that bash gets stuck in this loop starting up urxvt instances whenever I source my bashrc. Help pls
>>53997381
X related init goes into ~/.xinitrc or ~/.xprofile if you are using DMs
Some DMs even merge ~/.Xresources by default
>>53997381
>>53997559
Agreed. Just putxrdb -merge ~/.xresourcesinto ~/.xsessionrc and you are done. Why are you even calling urxvt.
>>53997583
>>53997559
tried all that. Calling '-e' with urxvt starts the term emu with whatever command is in quotes. On every urxvt startup I had to run xrdb to merge so I thought I might get an instance set up before I have a chance to do it manually.
My xinit rc cames with tests to merge xresources by default. I tried changing the userresources variable but nothing changed.
>>53997381
>>53997583
Actually scratch that if you already have xsession installed that should already be happening (from /etc/X11/Xsession.d/30x11-common_xresources on my machine) so if it isn't I suppose it could be because your file is misnamed with a lowercase X?
>>53997653
came*
>>53997665
might be my problem. Though I changed all mentions of Xresources with xresources in my /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc and ~/.xinitrc configs.. lol
Anyone use youtube-mpv for Chromium here?
Did it just work out of the box for you or is there some tinkering to be done? Does nothing when I press watch with mpv on a stream desu.
>>53997381
I have it at the bottom of my ~/.xinitrc, like so[[ -f ~/.Xresources ]] && xrdb -merge -I$HOME ~/.Xresources
numlockx &
exec i3
>>53997381
>bash gets stuck in this loop
Well you told it to.
Since that snippet is in bashrc, it's run every time you spawn a non-login shell, be it interactive or not.
Your snippet calls urxvt twice and each of those calls bashrc and they call urxvt and so on, but it will be stuck with the first urxvt call obviously since it never ends.
xrdb -merge should be automatic via default Xsession scripts, so unless you have fucked something up, it should work.
In anycase you should put it in ~/.xsessionrc if you can't get it to work via systemwide scripts.
Now why the fuck are you even spawning a terminal emulator in .bashrc, which makes no sense and is circular by definition, is beyond me.
>>53997888
this is pretty much the test I had in my .xinitrc
>>53997925
honestly I probably just fucked something up.
i only ever wanted colors..
I told bash to start urxvt, but I figured the&& exitbit would run, assuming xrdb returned true..
No idea about this xsessionrc though.. I only know of user and system .xinitrc. Am I missing a package or?
>>53998016
>I told bash to start urxvt
Woah my brain.
>Audio won't work on Arch
hmmmmmm.
I installed pulseaudio, pulseaudo-alsa and pavucontrol.
Wut do?
>>53998031
what would bash be if we couldn't get it to do stuff.
guys, I really need your help.
Just installed i3-gaps-git from yaourt
after this I open the .i3/config and simply add ''gaps inner x" and "gaps outer x" saved and restart
BUT NOTHING HAPPENS
what I do? what is missing??
What's a distro that:
> Has KDE 5.6
> Is easy to set up
> Isn't openSuSE
I'm seriously at a loss here
>>53998177
seen kde neon?
maybe with the 16.04 release it will be a good distro to use, eventually.
>>53998212
Just found that funny enough (site still says plasma 5.5 is available). Their repos support xenial strangely. Since I'm already using ubuntu 16.04 as a daily driver, I'm going to try it out tomorrow by install the kubuntu beta and then installing neon over it. Wish me luck.
pls help /flt/
i want to fap to korean pornography but my sound won't work on arch i already didamixer sset Master unmuteand it didn't do dick.
>>53998371
HELLO PLEASE HELP
>>53988263
Is it really needed to unmount it? What happens if I don't?
>>53998564
A portal to the Netherrealm will open up and consume all that is dear to you.
More annoying side-effects would be a stale mountpoint, or potential loss of data in case the device wasn't dont syncing yet.
last arch update broke my shit up. Anyone knows how to fix this gtk bullshit?
>>53998642
every fucking time
same with pacman version bumps and yaourt
dumb arch users
>>53998371
HELLO
>>53998642
>arch
>broke
is that not par for the course?
>>53998111
Should work fine, don't forget to do
for_window [class="^.*"] border pixel 0 (or 1)
as well by the way.
Confirm i3-gaps-git is installed properly and didn't fail leaving you with i3.
>>53998371
why bother, you can't even understand what the fuck they're saying.
On a serious note, I can't help you sorry. Use fucking pulseaudio.
>>53998670
yaourt is a piece of shit, don't blame arch for that. Blame their users for supporting it though.
>>53998371
>>53998701
Kek nvm it works
Had to use shitty pulseaudio desu
>>53998724
told ya. Rec me some korean porn pls and sites
>>53998724
>shitty
>>53998755
I wanted to be a "muh minimalism" fgt
>>53998670
>>53998697
nvm, it was a gtk3 problem. Every fucking update just gets me closer to a suicide attempt
>>53998053
Apparently my answer is spam.
>>53998697
>>53998670
No, it's not. It's obviously the user's fault because he's using an unsupported theme. Stop spreading your FUD.
>>53998802
>>53998697
>>53998670
True, it was my fault. Calm your tits everyone...
Hey somebody called me a commie for using emacs and he said vim also is a commie editor
He told me I should use Nano
Do you guys agree? I dont see whats wrong with using emacs
>>53998838
Both are GNU so how the fuck would you be a commie with one and less with the other.
Stick with emacs - it's superb.
>>53998838
nano is imperialist. ed is the standard editor.
>>53995777
master the commandline first then start ricing
>>53995790
just buy an ssd
