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First for Arch.
>>54565043
First for inxi>screenfetch
O-OpenS-S-Suse is great guys i swear~
>>54565201
Tell us more about YAST
>tfw you stopped noticing your operating system
This means I can finally start using it.
>>54565214
good, have fun learning.
>>54565136
I'm not really impressed by inxi. screenfetch is far more sexy.
>>54565136
this is suprisingly proper good.
>drivers: ati,radeon
>GLX Rendered: Gallum
You using opensource drivers on that 290?
Hows the performance?
I kind of plan to build a freetard workstation/desktop in the future.
>>54565302
run inxi -F
it's far more informative than screenfetch
>>54565331
it's actually a 390 and the performance is rather good. i can't use it for rendering in cycles though but it really doesn't make a lot of difference for the things i use it for.
Is it me or when copying data to a flash drive loonix takes for ever?
>>54565383
did you forget to sync or set a blocksize?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dbAUrtMX4
Would I be able to do something like this with a GTX 960, i5 6500, and MSI Z170-A? Or should I just dual boot
>>54565352
Still not as sexy as screenfetch, there is no distro logo.
>>54565425
Just drag and drop.
>>54565441
I'm convinced you can echo the logos screenfetch uses or something. get creative.
>>54565491
lol
>>54565302
Screenfetch is a useless placebo written by a retard
Only inxi gives real information
>>54566052
implying I care about such info. I have lshw when I really want info
>>54566052
>placebo
How can it be a placebo? In what sense?
>>54566120
Nope, inxi is objectively more well structured and detailed
>>54566150
People use it for the logo
>>54566158
Compared to lshw? No.
>>54566217
Use it then
as a borderline normie, do I have a reason to use Fedora? Is the latest version of somethingutils-conf or whatever really important?
>>54566249
We're on 4chan and just want to have fun.
what's a good, stable minimal distro?
i've been using ubuntu lts for work stuff and another partition to fuck around
i've come to really like openbox and i3, but ubuntu seems to break everytime
>especially with i3-gaps
>>54566527
>stable minimal distro
arch
>>54566542
jej, no
i'd like to give another shot at bare bones debian, maybe
but i need it for actual work stuff, so i can't afford it to break
Any devs here?
Which distro do you use?
Arch was fun but i cant afford to have it break every month or so.
>>54566599
arch is more stable than arch
I tried a lot of distro, and arch is the more stable
>>54566639
>arch is more stable than arch
what did he mean by this?
>>54566668
Sory, arch is more stable than debian.
can i use centos on a laptop?
>we use it on the towers...
>>54566677
>Sory, arch is more stable than debian.
>>54566736
Yes it is.
>>54566784
>Yes it is.
>>54566625
>epic arch breaking meme
How about you refrain from parroting myths you picked up from others and instead acquire your own opinions from using it?
>>54566527
debian stable with i3 is as stable as it gets
>>54566806
older version?
>how do i acquire a minimal install iso?
>>54566801
Kys yourself.
>>54566256
responder por favor
>>54566527
Artergos
>>54566820
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.4.0/amd64/iso-cd/debian-8.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
if you need non-free drivers for wifi or something use:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unofficial/non-free/cd-including-firmware/8.4.0/amd64/iso-cd/firmware-8.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
>>54566874
p. shit, desu
tried it on my test partition, it took ages to install and offed itself
>>54566892
thanks, famalamalam
>how about a .torrent, though
>>54566932
i don't think there are ones for netinstall isos. their servers can handle it i guess.
>>54566912
It works great ATM, some bugs with the installer but it easily fixed by only enabling
AUR
Firewall
Printer Support.
>>54567002
will give it another shot...
how can i take an existing os's home and make it the same to all of my others?
how do i remove the games from cinnamon?
>>54567723
Cinnamon-core --no-install-recommends
I just installed Debian with Cinnamon. How do I edit a read only file?
>>54567961
chmod
>>54567961
sudo [text editor] [file]
Guys.
I think it's time.
I'm finally ready.
I'm going to finally fall for the meme and install Gentoo.
The semester's over and I finally have the time I've wanted.
Wish me luck.
Also, any final recommendations?
>>54568437
install gentoo
>>54568437
God speed on your quest adventurer.
>>54568437
I tried. Spent 6 hours on it to get walled by a boot error after i compiled the kernel.
Googled it and found out that it could mean a hundred differente things. One recomendation was actually brute forcing the kernel options because no one could figure what was wrong.
I'll forever remain a loser.
SSHD configured on linux host
Winscp windows client connecting to linux host
Valid user credientals.
ERROR:"Error changing remote host"
What the fuck is this?
I can dial in with the same user/pass via my phone,so i know sshd is setup properly.
Or how the fuck else do you transfer data to a fucking windows machine,without setting up the clutser fuck of samba.when its only needed once or twice a month
Do i really have to make a fucking torrent like back in 2003?
>>54568650
Try ftp. Filezilla provide a ftp server which work.
I accidentally toe'd my power strip, shutting down my computer. After I turned it back on I had no sound, when I opened Pulseaudio Volume Control I was met with this. I tried bothstart-pulseaudio-x11which game meConnection failure: Connection refusedand
pa_context_connect() failed: Connection refusedpulseaudio --startwhich game meE: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
Is there anything I can do besides uninstalling/reinstalling pulseaudio and/or alsa
>>54568677
what does pulseaudio --start -v say?
>>54568677
Arch?
>>54567002
>some bugs with the installer
Antergos is an installer and they can't even get that right.
>>54568760E: [pulseaudio] main.c: Daemon startup failed.
>>54568821
Gnome Ubuntu :^(
>>54568677
check /etc/pulse for any .pacnew files
>>54568848
BLINI?
>>54568913
Only things in there are client.conf daemon.conf default.conf and system.pa
>>54568981
Back those up if you changed them,if not just delete them and reinstall pulse
>>54568671
filezila bitching about some locale shit.
sshd provides an sftp socket aswell
Attempting to connect via sftp,results in the shit shit
>>54569045
Install a ftp server, don't use sftp.
>>54568848
R E K T
I'm having tearing problems with Linux Mint KDE and Nvidia drivers. Any ideas? Tried a lot of things already with no luck.
which kernel version is the one with no restart patching?
how about the one with amdgpu?
>>54569117
there's only one kernel and it's forks like linux-libre
>>54569151
meant like what dot release is the one with either of those things.
fedora is just on 4.4.9
>>54569196
amdgpu since 4.8
>>54569117
No restart patching is irrelevant for users. It won't work between kernel releases, it's literally only designed for applying critical security fixes for production machines that people would rather not experience downtime with.
>>54569117
>no restart patching?
I believe you fell for a meme.
Restarting is advised for applying updates because it's the most foolproof and reliable way to ensure every service was restarted properly.
Restartless patching is a chore (or at least back when i was using rh) since you have to restart every service manually.
How long does it take to restart? 5 seconds for a shutdown and 25 seconds for cold boot?
>>54569003
That worked, thanks friend.
>>54569329
>muh uptime
This is correct though. It's a little annoying that GNOME currently makes you restart for every update, but ultimately it's race-free and the Right Thing. When sandboxed apps appear you'll be able to update those live though.
>>54569435
You only need to reboot if you updated your kernel or changed libc
>>54569329
>it's the most foolproof and reliable way to ensure every service was restarted properly.
Not now that we have systemd, which unlike initscripts can actually guarantee services get killed.
Does anyone use schedtool?
I dont get what each time of switch does,or why i would want certain programs to be differnt
I have an ssd with my / on it on its own partition.
Suddenly when trying to access /,it just times out any program that is trying to use it.
I've kept it trimed with a weekly timer,and just checked it now with fstrim. There are no errors in smart,its only been up 5600 hours. Ran a fsck on it manually and nothing wrong with it.
I put a new sata cable on it.
What else is there to check?
How do I enable dht on ktorrent on Kubuntu 16.04?
>>54566256
It's a good distro, you don't HAVE to update every day if you don't want to
Reminder not to use Debian because it's a SJW OS.
Is there any way to get a reasonably fast mouse wheel scrolling speed in Linux without using fucking imswitch?$ xinput --list-props 11
Device 'Logitech G9x Laser Mouse':
Device Enabled (152): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (154): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (280): -1
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (281): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (282): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (283): 10.000000
Device Product ID (269): 1133, 49737
Device Node (270): "/dev/input/event3"
Evdev Axis Inversion (284): 0, 0
Evdev Axes Swap (286): 0
Axis Labels (287): "Rel X" (162), "Rel Y" (163), "Rel Horiz Wheel" (278), "Rel Vert Wheel" (279)
Button Labels (288): "Button Left" (155), "Button Middle" (156), "Button Right" (157), "Button Wheel Up" (158), "Button Wheel Down" (159), "Button Horiz Wheel Left" (160), "Button Horiz Wheel Right" (161), "Button Side" (273), "Button Extra" (274), "Button Forward" (275), "Button Back" (276), "Button Task" (277), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272), "Button Unknown" (272)
Evdev Scrolling Distance (289): 1, 1, 1
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (290): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (291): 50
Evdev Third Button Emulation (292): 0
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (293): 1000
Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (294): 3
Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (295): 20
Evdev Wheel Emulation (296): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (297): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (298): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (299): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (300): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (301): 0
>>54569905
Check whether it's OCZ-branded. lol.
>>54568677
Have you done any troubleshooting? Are you going to tell us what distro/hardware/kernel revision you're running, or is this some kind of sadistic game?
>>54570216
I'm too new to Linux to know how to get Kernel revision, didn't think of the rest of that stuff because of the same reason. Either way, another Anon told me to just reinstall and it worked
>>54565201
>openSuSe is great
You're god damned right it is
>>54570199
Nah,got the good shit
Samung 850 Pro 256gb
>>54569492
What about every other library on your system that may be loaded into memory?
do we have some news from wayland and vulkan ?
Is their a filesystem that will replace ext4 ?
Is their benchmarks comparing games performances running on linux ? (not something outdated).
Related question, did the drivers both proprietary and open source of AMD and NVidia evolved ?
Do we have some news about the linux scheduler ?
>>54566801
This
Arch was my first distro and I've been using for 5 years now and never had any problems
>>54564996
Missing comma. How autistic if him.
>>54566677
Arch Linux is for siempre solo losers. Just install Fedora Core or Debian and use a far more stable system. Arch users are fucking retarded.
>>54570377
>Is their a filesystem that will replace ext4 ?
There are many filesystems you can use instead of ext4, no one is forcing you to do anything. Your question makes no sense because ext4 is one of many filesystems.
>Do we have some news about the linux scheduler ?
Which one? Your questions could be better...
>>54570512
No, that's what it's called
>gnu/linux motherfuckers
Dear /g/entlemans, I want to start using a window manager, among i3, bspwm and Xmonad which is the most recommended for a noob to learn?
>>54570377
>wayland
Wayland is stil shit
>ext4
No
>benchmark
Play game.Does it look good to you? If yes then its good,if no,dont play it
>evolved
No,they are the exact same from decades ago and have progressed zero and have never developed any new features ever
>scheduler
be more vague plz
>>54570305
huh. Check its S.M.A.R.T. stats, make sure your controller is set to AHCI mode, check for firmware updates... for both the drive and your motherboard. Leave iostat 1 running on a console where you can see it and watch for any weird activity.
How do you guys scan Windows drives, ClamAV or something like Kaspersky Live CD?
Thinking about installing arch linux in an external HDD, how flexible are they with non free software? My biggest concern is wifi drivers and/or firmware.
>>54570753
>free
You install what you want when you want to.No one is limiing you on what they "think" it "right" for you to install.
Check the wiki/packages/aur for things you want/need
>>54570784
Does arch linux have any rules about proprietary software like Debian or Fedora does?
>>54570839
Nope.nvidia and amd drivers are hosted in the arch offical repos
Cant find something? Check the AUR
Nothing there?
Make a pkg build easily
>>54570607
>>54570662
>There are many filesystems you can use instead of ext4, no one is forcing you to do anything. Your question makes no sense because ext4 is one of many filesystems.
isn't ext4 the most used currently ?
>>54570662
>Which one? Your questions could be better...
It's like you guys weren't browsing /g/ when it appeared.
http://www.i3s.unice.fr/~jplozi/wastedcores/files/extended_talk.pdf
>>54570839
>like Debian
debian allows you to install non free software by adding "non-free" on a file. Most of them are available (flash, wifi drivers, steam...)
>>54570992
btrfs is the "latest" but there is no real reason to use it,and its still unstable with fs's randomly dieing.
Ext4 provides everything random joe blow needs.
Im not reading all that shit,so im assuming it is cpu schedulers,in which case nothing is going to beat bfs any time soon.
>>54571024
>by adding
Thats the point.They make you take extra steps to install packages.
>>54571024
You can also enable the non-free repo during installation if you pick 'advanced install' or whatever they call it.
>>54571074
>also enable
>"advanced install"
>GNU/Linux thread
Should I start a separate thread for the GNUless Linux distros?
>>54571102
name one GNUless distro worth mentioning.
>>54564996
It used to be Loonix but apparently we transcended into GNUnix
>>54571106
Tiny Core Linux, Alpine Linux, Damn Small Linux
>>54571106
thatsthejoke.png
>>54568437
KYS you're self.
>>54568437
It took me 6 months to successfully install gentoo for the first time. Good luck.
I want to switch to Slackware. Should I use 14.1, current, or wait for 14.2?
>>54571260
what is the difference between 14.1 and current?
Is pic related good for daily desktop usage?
>>54571272
14.1 is the stable release. Current is like Debian testing.
>tfw 4.5 kernel
4.6 is stable my niggas, 4.7 with massive AMDGPU changes soon™.
>>54570992
>It's like you guys weren't browsing /g/ when it appeared.
There is more than one type scheduler you know.
>>54571621
>not using 4.5.2
>>54571732
And besides, it is very unlikely anything will change in the kernel. Linux is used in such a wide range of situations, it has to make sacrifices one way or another.
>>54571778
>not using 4.5.4
>>54571778
I think it's 4.5.3 my nigga. apt's naming scheme is weird.
>>54571805
>>54571810
>not using ck patchset
>>54571827
>not using a buggy placebo
No thanks son
>>54571841
Yeah totally.Using a realtime kernel,has zero affects at all to your system and your performance.
I assume you read all the relative data pertaing to bfs then?
http://repo-ck.com/bench/cpu_schedulers_compared.pdf
Is firecuck and gargle cum the only options for netflix still?
-- Also, anybody gotten youtube to work on suck-less's surf?
>>54571917
I have used actual realtime kernels and bfs, along with some other approaches. And yes, I have read the data from that site. That doesn't take in to account the kernel panics that were introduced about 3.18 and which have plagued bfs patches since then in certain situations, which I have experience more directly than some arbitrary and outdated benchmarks tests.
>>54571984
Just trying surf now out of curiosity. I get audio but no video on youtube, is that what you're talking about? Seems pretty shit if it doesn't have the ability to play videos.
>>54572101
how do you even get that? i get nothing
>>54572130
Not sure, I just installed it and it was just surf and webkitgtk. I think it must need gstreamer/gst plugins, this is what I have:gst-plugins-bad 1.8.1-1
gst-plugins-base 1.8.1-1
gst-plugins-base-libs 1.8.1-1
gst-plugins-good 1.8.1-1
gst-plugins-ugly 1.8.1-1
gstreamer 1.8.1-1
gstreamer0.10 0.10.36-4
gstreamer0.10-bad 0.10.23-15
gstreamer0.10-base 0.10.36-3
extra/gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg 0.10.13-2
gstreamer0.10-good 0.10.31-10
gstreamer0.10-ugly 0.10.19-16
Maybe there is another one which it uses for the images of the video.
>>54572165
emerging all this rn
would be great to be able to just listen to music through youtube
>>54572208
Try mps-youtube if you can't get it working, pretty nice for that.
>>54572236
this is sexy
Which windows manager is best with the keyboard? Awesome, i3, or openbox? I don't want to use a mouse.
>>54572513
They're all the same for that, they all can be configured as necessary.
>>54572526
alright, which is easiest to configure?
>>54572526
except openbox, that by its nature has less control.
>>54572538
Just pick one and try it out. You can always change.
>>54572513
Unity is great for keyboard.
When ever i run compton awhite lines appear around all of my windows,and it causes window lag.
>>54572864
Could you provide a little less information?
>>54573085
when i am running compton
white lines appear around my windows
when i move a window it lags
There isnt much more information to say here.
>>54565043
Solus >>> Arch
Hey /g/ so I'm using arch and earlier I did pacman -Syyu and did a system update. After I restarted simple display manager wasn't loading, so I booted from my installation USB, mounted my partitions, and went into chroot to try to figure out the problem. After looking through the wiki I decided to do another mkinitcpio to see if that would help, and it returned this:# mkinitcpio -p linux
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'default'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux.img
==> ERROR: 'lib/modules/4.5.1-1-ARCH' is not a valid kernel module directory
==> Building image from preset: /etc/mkinitcpio.d/linux.preset: 'fallback'
-> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-fallback.img -S autodetect
==> ERROR: 'lib/modules/4.5.1-1-ARCH' is not a valid kernel module directory
So after looking through some forums, someone recommended I check my versions, and I got two different versions (I couldn't figure out how to word this):# pacman -Q linux && uname -r
linux 4.5.4-1
4.4.5-1-ARCH
How do I fix this crap?
>>54568848
Fucking this
Antergos is so shit it sent me running into the arms of vanilla arch
>>54573194
Did you just try re-enabling your DM in systemd?
>sudo systemctl <dm>.service enable
>>54573194
You're using a different version of the kernel
>>54573226
Yes, but now I'm getting a different error. When I boot I get "could not mount /boot" and it boots into emergency mode.
>>54573248
Right so how do I fix this?
>>54573194
Have you tried reinstalling the kernel?
If that that doesn't work do it thoroughly like remove existing kernel, clear your cache and download a new one.
Or download linux-lts for now and see if that works.
>>54573477
Yup, that worked. Thanks man.
>>54564996
I just got my NAS set up. For now I just have a 320GB drive in it that I had laying around, but I am probably going to get a 4TB drive for it soon.
>>54565435
I passed through a r9 270 with my 4690k. It is working very well.
This guide helped a lot:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
I also have it set up so that I can play a game under GNU/Linux as a friend plays a game on Windows 7.
>>54573598
Are you asking a question or did you misquote?
>>54573687
Do you know if it's possible to switch a GPU from the vm back to the host without rebooting?
>>54574079
I think that would be difficult. I have a separate GPU for each OS. I am not sure if anyone has done that yet, or if it would even be supported by the kernel. You would basically be removing a PCIe device while the computer is still on.
Even just playing eroge in wine uses 40% of my CPU, I need to get a better CPU don't I? I currently have an i3. Even mpd constantly uses 6%.
Also, is it worth getting a graphics card? I have no interest in games that require high specs though.
>>54571346
No, and you can install all the tools on any distro.
>>54564996
Can Thunar connect to samba shares? I cant seem to get it to open them.
>>54574177
You need a new one when you hit 100 in day to day usage.
What linux browsers can view youtube?
don't want chrome or ffox
>>54574346
Chromium and Firefox.
>>54574346
Youtube-dl+mpv
>>54574285
Not him but, I am often at 100%, that just means it is working.
If your scheduler doesn't know how to give priority to other tasks, that is when you upgrade CPU.
>>54571621
>Packages 2327
Jesus wept
>>54570258
Apart from its partially owned by Microsoft
>>54574989
>retarded archfags thinking -dev is the same as the normal package
>>54574989
lol that just means your not a leet programmer like me xD so many -dev package lmao you wouldnt know archbabbie rofl
>>54574346
All of them
>>54570512
It's clearly an edit.
>>54570377
>do we have some news from wayland and vulkan ?
a lot, read phoronix
>Is their a filesystem that will replace ext4 ?
not soon but there are a few that could in the future
>Is their benchmarks comparing games performances running on linux ? (not something outdated).
look at phoronix again
>Related question, did the drivers both proprietary and open source of AMD and NVidia evolved ?
the proprietary nvidia driver improves at a similar speed as the one on windows. the open amd drivers became A LOT better.
>Do we have some news about the linux scheduler ?
not sure
>>54570720
clamAV
>>54574989
go back to your desktop thread or something
Has anyone managed to find the linux version for SanDisk SSD Dashboard?
They mention that they added a GUI for linux a few versions back in the changelog but all I can find are .exe files.
I'm trying to install Kubuntu 16.04 alongside my Windows 8.1 ony my Acer laptop, but every time i try to start the Kubuntu i end up with grub rescue. What do ?
How 'clean' is ubuntu when it comes to installing and deleting lots of packages? How much stuff gets left over?
Barebones Debian or Antergos for the AUR. For comfy tinkering?
>>54576114
What functionality do you need exactly?
>>54576312
So you can't boot into anything? Is secure boot disabled?
>>54576364
If you purge and exclusively use aptitude its pretty clean.
>>54576386
Between these two it can only be debian.
>>54576312
try another live iso and see if it's only a problem with Kubuntu
>>54576364
if you know what you're doing you can clean it up well. If not, well, it's a "fully featured" distro with lots of preinstalled things, so don't expect it to be lightweight from the beginning
>>54576386
Debian
>>54564996
So I just installed Arch, and besides from me not knowing what I was doing and it taking around a day, everything went fine.
Anyway, I tried booting several times with systemd, but I got an error message like <device ' ' not found>, which I took to mean that it could find the loader.conf and all that, but coulnd't read the acutal .conf file under entries, no matter what UUID or PARTUUID is entered - I should at least have gotten something like device 'UUID<whatever>' not found.
Anyway, rEFInd worked without problems, which is what I'm using now, but it's pretty fucking ugly desu, I much prefered the non-GUI setup. So does anyone know why systemd didn't work? Did I place the .img files in the wrong directory (/boot), is it just a shitty service, what's the deal?
is Alternate_ISO on lubuntu faster than the original one?
>>54576759
you can read all about the alternate iso on the official download site:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/GetLubuntu
alternatively, if your question isn't answered there, you can tell us a bit more explicitly what you want to know, namely: faster in what way exactly? To install? To download?
>>54576828
It installs the same things as original ? Does the alternate make my laptop faster? It has 500mb RAM.
>>54576857
you didn't read what it says in that link, did you? It says right there what the alternative install is.
>>54576857
yes, it installs the same things as the original iso. No it won't be faster. 500mb should be enough (for both original and alternative)
the only difference is that the alternative iso has no live environment and starts right with the installer
>>54576885
thanks
Why is *buntu the only distro that cares about good font rendering out of the box?
>>54577184
because people tend to like different things and configuring it yourself is not hard.
>>54577184
there are people who prefer the "worse" font rendering that relies entirely on free software, so it's really a matter of preference.
Ubuntu just tries to appeal to windows users, which is either really good (in, maybe, your opinion) or really bad (in my opinion)
So i installed ubuntu...
What now? The only thing i use my laptop for is taking handwritten notes and xournal/jarnal are both awful.
I was trying to make a linux distro my daily driver and then i realized my daily driver is my phone...
>>54577281
>my daily driver is my phone...
first you get off /g/, forever.
use QOwnNotes with owncloud or just emacs.
I'm trying to download a torrent file from kat.cr using wget, but rtorrent is unable to read the file. What am I doing wrong?
>>54577333
Lol cause internet and porn doesn't work on mobile, my note 4 is running better hardware than most of the shit laptops on this board.
you seem to have missed the handwritten part
>>54577382
Why the hell would you use a computer for handwriting? Pen and paper are a thing.
Because i have always found it easier to organize digital files than physical notebooks and notes. Archiving and reproduction is easier as well.
>>54577514
I'm curious, how do you take the handwritten notes on your laptop? Touchscreen? Is it a foldable laptop like the lenovo yogas?
Gentooman 4 life
>>54577814
>installing adobe flash
are you sure about that?
>>54577830
Yeah, I guess I probably should just use HTML5
I really tried using Gnu/Linux for a week, deleted Win moved everything to Linux. But it sucked on some aspects.
Is there any distro that gets everything done from the beginning.
•Ubuntu
Silly buggs, when my PC turns itself off when not in use I can't boot it up again unless I completely shut it down.
WiFi problems
Some other hardware problems that I fixed
•Xubutnu
Does not have some bugs like on Ubuntu, but XFCE had some fucked up GUI bugs that pissed the hell of me.
Wifi problems
•OpenSuse
Can't run it because laptop is slow
What pissed me the most was not being able to create .iso images easy like on windows. I downloaded UNetbootin and it sucked, couldn't even write one .iso image with it it just creates error. ( had to use the dd command for everything)
Some bugs with programs that I use on Windows that have a Gnu/Linux version, the program was KeePass, it wouldn't even show the numbers in the correct field but would move them out of the field and you could type them but not see them.
Problems with opening Office documents, I really didn't expect this to work correctly so wasn't disappointed.
Tried running a virtual machine with Windows so I can be productive but I would just wish to have everything there on Linux.
I had a lot of problems. I just wanted to do something with my computer but I was even more pissed then I was on Windows.
I really want to use it but I don't know anymore.
>>54577559
yeah it's a yoga, i use a waccom bamboo stylus and onenote and it's awesome. Was the whole reason i bought the yoga, no one else was really doing anything like it at the time
>>54577984
This is exactly my problem, i'd like to use linux but the productivity software just isn't there yet and probably won't ever be because businesses don't use linux
>>54577984
You didn't ask a question.
>>54578046
>businesses don't use linux
are you trolling or just uninformed?
>>54578046
You don't know what you're talking about.
>>54577984
That's because you're running bulky operating systems. I've been using UNIX and GNU/Linux for about 10 years now and if someone is having issues it's usually the user who fucked up and not the developer.
>>54578231
>That's because you're running bulky operating systems.
Care to explain
>and if someone is having issues it's usually the user who fucked up
I don't know how i fucked it up because I just installed it and it didn't work like it had to and I fixed some of my own hardware problems.
>>54577984
>changing your whole OS
>not being able to use different programs
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/List_of_recommended_GNU/Linux_software
https://prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
these exist for a reason
>>54577830
No more Flash. Thanks for reminding me about that.
>>54577814
>hideous eye raping borders
>>54574267
gvfs-samba
>>54578427
I don't see anything wrong with them
>>54578482
Does your room have 360 degree full windows?
Jesus christ
Why for christ sake do you call the freaking Linux "GNU/Linux" while calling othet os Windows instead of "DOS/Windows" and you call OS X "Mac" WTF
you are all retaded linuxfanboys
>>54578493
lulz you sound like an asshole
>>54578535
Most of us don't, it's mainly just a few gnu sjw retards.
>>54578535
GNU is the OS, Linux is the kernel, calling it just Linux is like calling windows just NT.
>>54578547
How can you use it after 4pm?
Shits rapingly bright and all over the place
>>54578535
DOS/Windows? Windows NT was based on DOS. It isn't DOS. You need a lesson in proper etiquette.
>>54578558
>GNU is the OS,
haha no, it isn't.
>>54578562
Post yours
>>54578583
Linus never finished his project. dude wanted to make an OS but stopped after nothing more than a single monolithic kernel.
>>54578583
GNU is the OS. That's what it was designed to do and it's pretty much done.
>>54578599
I have literally nothing on my desktop nor do i watch anime so no reason doing a screentfetch.
GTK theme pic related
>>54578610
Yes, but that doesn't make gnu an OS.
>>54578615
>being this delusional.
No text upon trying to install Xubuntu. I'm 99% sure this has something to do with Nouveau but I'm not sure how I can disable it.
>>54578625
Alright. You have no right to try and insult my desktop when yours is basically just a bulky turd.
>>54578627
GNU is an OS by virtue of doing what an OS does.
>>54578627
i wanted to post a list of all gnu packages but i hit the character limit.
>>54578658
>can read everything everywhere anytime without raping my eyes with the lux of a thousands suns.
>>54578661
If you say so anon, if you say so.
>>54578648
Does the Debian live medium do the same thing?
>>54578648
why not try the alternative iso without the live environment and use the text-based installer? I don't think you can troubleshoot the live iso, either the graphics work or they don't
>>54578679
That doesn't make it an OS anon. I have very few of those and it is possible to use linux without any of them.
>linux it is then
>>54578679
I've done that before but I always have divided it into two posts. I should have thought of capturing the list in an image.
>>54578661
Is there any gnu software on modern linux systems that cannot easily be replaced by an actively developed alternative? The one thing I can think of is ld whose only alternative is ld.gold which is also a gnu project.
>>54578702
it's also possible to run gnu without any linux, what's your point.
>>54578686
I have not tried Debian but the same issue popped up when trying to install Ubuntu 15/16.
>>54578696
That might actually work. Will look for the non gui version, thanks
>>54578710
Is there any linux software on modern gnu systems that cannot easily be replaced by an actively developed alternative? I can't think of anything.
>>54578702
That actually does make it an OS. Software is either divided into OS or application software. OS software is software that is directly related to manage or configure the system behind the application software. That list of software is filled with OS software and is a complete OS even without the application software.
>>54578702
Stallman is asking for GNU credit on a computer system that is fundamentally a GNU system. If your system doesn't make use of GNU software, then it's obviously not a GNU/Linux system. Android systems are examples of systems that use the Linux program and it doesn't include GNU. Android systems are not GNU/Linux systems.
>>54578710
No there isn't. By it's design, GNU software is intentionally easy to replace. This is because the GNU system is modelled after the Unix system and this system was intentionally designed so that it's not difficult to replace any part you need.
The important part of the GNU/Linux name is that the computer running such a system is fundamentally reliant upon GNU as its fundamental OS platform. It is very possible to have a computer that runs Linux that does not use any GNU software, such a system is not a GNU/Linux system and it's misleading to label it as such.
>>54578761
Android aren't even Linux.
>>54578819
please use a search engine to avoid sounding like a tech illiterate person.
>>54578819
Android is Linux by virtue that it is designed explicitly for its own version of Linux. You can't get any more Linux than that.
>>54578819
Android uses the Linux kernel
>>54578841
>>54578848
No free use of GCC => no Linux.
/G/uys, I want to >install gentoo. Can I do it completely without an ethernet cable since my laptop doesn't have a port for it?
>>54574989
>muh bloat
Come on, man. That computer isn't even a $100 Thinkpad.
>>54579106
Yeah, just use SystemRescueCD instead of the Gentoo live medium. SystemRescue even comes with a GUI and is based on Gentoo.
>>54579106
Does your laptop have wifi that works in Linux? If not, you're going to have to manually retrieve each package and then command Gentoo to install them.
can I get rid of those white borders around desktop icons?
>>54579135
Yeah but how do I set up the wifi on the gentoo install itself?
>>54579141
All the distros I've used set up my wifi without my interaction, so yea I guess.
>>54579185
Maybe you should try installing Gentoo on a virtual machine like Virtual Box. I like to do this so that I can experience the flow of what happens without committing anything to the metal.
>>54579215
I don't really have time to set it up twice. I just need to know what software I need for the wifi to work. If I fuck up, I can always chroot inside through SystemRescueCD,
>>54579185
SystemRescueCD uses NetworkManager, Gentoo live I think it's a manual network config. Everything is on the wiki. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Full/Installation#Automatic_network_detection
>>54578432
Thank you! I was looking for that for a while.
>>54578569
You fell for my bait.
See, you guys argue about DOS/Windows bait while no one said anything about OS X. That means /g/fglt/ has no one even semi-semi-professional, you guys only know stuff about what you use
>>54579396
Because obviously when people say 'Mac' they're referring to the hardware. When you stereotype you just make yourself look like a fucking idiot. Yeah, there's a lot of script kiddies here but some people like me still come here occasionally.
How can I turn any video/audio file into flac using ffmpeg?
>>54579966
Yes.
I have jumbo frames enabled on my linux box and enabled on my windows computer,both set to 9k mtu.
My switch and router support jumbo frames.
Transfering between the linux box to the windows machine im getting about 3.2 MB/s .Transfering via scp to sshd running on linux
What can be going wrong here?
>>54578857
That simply means that it is not GNU/Linux. It is still Linux, as it uses the Linux kernel.
>>54579146
What WM/DE are you using?
>>54580305
The only goal of Linux kernel is to compile and run GCC. If there is no support for GCC it ain't Linux.
CASE CLOSED
>>54580061
But how
>>54580379
ffmpeg -i file.avi -sn -vn audio.flac
>>54580392
Thanks
Whats the meaning of this? Its appearing on every system startits just sort of annoying really
>>54580484
looks like sudo is borked, how about you update it and see if it's still broken? or report it so they can fix it?
>>54580484
Tryapt update ; apt upgrade
>>54580325
KDE, it's Kubuntu
>>54580354
u wot m8?
I'm a sort of new Debian Sid user. I'd like to learn how to use vim.
What is the most painless way to go about this? (best learning resources, best plugins/addons, etc)
I heard the learning curve is kind of a cliff, which is why I ask
>>54580879
Dont learn vim?
There is no need for it in moderen computing,only old unix neckbeards keep it going.
Needing a keybind to get basic functionality,is retarded.
>>54580879
in terminal:vimtutor
that will get you started
>>54580900
Huh. What do you use then? Just curious
It's called Linux with X, GNU, and other stuff. Why does Stalman think that GNU is such a big thing? It's basically a rip off of BSD and anyway everyone knows that Kernel is by far the hardest thing to conceive. That's why Hurd remains a turd.
>>54580957
not him but he'll say emacs. imo learn a bit of vims then learn emacs. that way you can work with others
>>54580879
Why would you bother with that when there's Emacs? Vi doesn't even have Org-mode.
>>54580979
so much retarded bullshit in one post, bravo.
>>54580979
http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html#content
>>54580996
What's that?
>>54580999
Name one GNU core util that was actually conceived from scratch instead of just being copied from BSD..
>>54581035
http://orgmode.org/worg/org-tutorials/orgtutorial_dto.html
>>54581067
gcc for one
BSD and GNU are not rivals, both are free as in freedom OS.
>>54581079
that compete for dominance and developers
So i sudo apt got vrms, now i tried to run it but nothing happens?
>>54581102
not really, both GNU and BSD programs are build with portability in mind. it's really not hard to get them to work on different UNIX like OS.
since both are free as in freedom, why would they compete? it's just a few retarded users pretending it's a race war or something.
>>54581102
GNU/Linux has the majority of them. BSDs occupy niches that are mostly separate from GNU/Linux.
>>54580879
Unless you're a heavy text-editor, there's no point in learning to use vim.
>>54581128
Those people are all over /g/ and reddit unfortunately. I get downvoted in /r/linux just for mentioning LLVM or BSD, even when the context is appropriate.
>>54581219
why even bother using it
I'm getting these errors while trying to compile Nomacs. Is this related to the new gcc version (6.1)? Does something else, Qt5 for example, need to be rebuilt with the new gcc for this to work again?
http://pastebin.com/XKmLNeYT
>>54581246
/r/programming, /r/linux and some other tech subs. I mostly use it for news but comment occasionally. I generally avoid the larger subs, especially /r/technology which has few people who are actually knowledgeable in tech at all. The larger subs exhibit the infamous bandwagon effect of downvoting channers make fun of, where you could be entirely in the right yet downvoted to hell by people who let their emotions do the thinking.
>>54581320
why not just use a few news sites and blogs via RSS for tech news?
NEW THREAD:
>>54581746
>NEW THREAD:
>>>54581746
NEW THREAD:
>>54581746
>NEW THREAD:
>>>54581746
NEW THREAD:
>>54581746
>NEW THREAD:
>>>54581746
>>54581776
>before bump limit
>friendly linux thread
fuck off
Why doesmakeflac () {
if [ -f $1 ] ; then
ffmpeg -i $1 -sn -vn $1.flac
fi
}
not work?
it returns
bash: [: too many arguments
>>54565211
>>54565466
>>54566344
>>54566599
>>54566677
>>54568677
>>54570177
>>54570199
>>54570255
>>54570377
>>54573477
>>54574177
>>54576411
>>54576866
>>54577333
>>54578599
>>54579966
>>54580900
>>54580999
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GNU/Thread:
>>54581834
>>54581834
>>54581834
>>54581834
>>54581806
Had the same problem. The test only expects one argument/file. If you pass it many files via the $1, it will give you that error.
>>54581879
But I am giving it 1 file
