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2019-07-22 05:01 71993866 Anonymous /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread (1563807682074.jpg 1000x1500 396kB)
Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.
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>What distro should I choose?
https://wiki.installgentoo.com/inde x.php/Babbies_First_Linux
>What are some cool programs?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.ph p/list_of_applications
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main _Page
>What are some cool terminal commands?
http://www.commandlinefu.com/
http://cheat.sh/
>Where can I learn the command line?
http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuid e
http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/
http://overthewire.org/wargames/ban dit/
>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/phil osophy.html
>Which web browser performs best on GNU/Linux?
https://linuxreviews.org/firefox-vs -chromium
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Previous thread: >>71975508
1 min later 71993887 Anonymous
install hurd
6 min later 71993942 Anonymous
>>71993887
Based
16 min later 71994056 Anonymous
install /g/uix
learn /g/uile
17 min later 71994070 Anonymous
>>71993887
based
18 min later 71994082 Anonymous
Best program to use with a drawtablet?
scribus?
25 min later 71994148 Anonymous
>>71994082
emacs
28 min later 71994179 Anonymous (guixvsarch.png 500x849 519kB)
>>71994148
There's an emacs mode compatible with drawtablets?
Forgive me RMS for I have been doubting
30 min later 71994213 Anonymous
I found a way to start all shells in a new sessions.But i found i would create too many sessions and it would cause problems. Is there a way to have the tmux session close if the program that was run in that session stops doing anything?
if [[ $DISPLAY ]]; then
# If not running interactively, do not do anything
[[ $- != *i* ]] && return
[[ -z "$TMUX" ]] && exec tmux
fi
44 min later 71994361 Anonymous (tzuyu_0087.jpg 540x675 67kB)
Hello, I'm trying to install gentoo and I'm confused as to which architecture I'm supposed to use? I'm using an i5 but the gentoo wiki page only lists an 32bit architecture suggested to be used with intel chips. I'm confused; why the fuck isn't there a 64bit install?
46 min later 71994387 Anonymous
>>71994361
I have no idea what you're talking about. There is a 64bit version.
47 min later 71994392 Anonymous
>>71994361
amd64 should be right for you
48 min later 71994398 Anonymous
>>71994361
>>71994387
Perhaps you're confused by the term "amd64"? It's not just for amd chips or anything, that's the same download you want on intel.
53 min later 71994466 Anonymous (GENtileTOO.png 1172x267 10kB)
>>71994387
>>71994398
>>71994392
is this a joke? I'm uninstalling this piece of garbage and never touching it again.
1 hours later 71994597 Anonymous
>>71994466
The world "offensive" has no meaning anymore.
1 hours later 71994609 Anonymous (p4anudtahn831.jpg 3413x2225 1065kB)
>>71994466
I think you're confused.
Have you tried going outside for a bit?
2 hours later 71995677 Anonymous (1558371943061.jpg 700x525 90kB)
3 hours later 71996267 Anonymous (1512689392441.gif 500x375 179kB)
>>71995677
Just look at that based logo birb. It's protecting the whole united world of america.
3 hours later 71996409 Anonymous (1532645446404.jpg 601x601 36kB)
What are some chilling console codes?
3 hours later 71996450 Anonymous
Should i put pop os on my little brothers computer? i want to guide him away from windows and stop being a brainlet
3 hours later 71996459 Anonymous
>last slackware release was three years ago
3 hours later 71996472 Anonymous
>>71996450
pop os is a meme distro whose only value lies in the fact that it perfectly supports the hardware system76 ships it on. there's not much point in using it if you don't have one of their systems. honestly if you're doing all the setup for him then the only thing to consider is the selection of software available for him to choose from without having to go outside the package manager
3 hours later 71996547 Anonymous
>>71996472
The world "meme" has no meaning anymore.
4 hours later 71996595 Anonymous
>>71996409
emacs --no-window-system --funcall doctor
4 hours later 71996815 Anonymous
>>71996409
$ shopt -s cdable_vars # Make variables cd-able.
$ code="$(mktemp -d)" # Set variable $code to a randomly generated directory in /tmp.
$ cd code # Start koding.
4 hours later 71996840 Anonymous
what is the recommended beginner distro in 2019?
4 hours later 71996862 Anonymous
>>71996840
Linux mint
4 hours later 71997029 Anonymous (1563824357698.png 742x828 154kB)
nobody will ever think of linux as serious operating system when it doesn't provide the most basis features
4 hours later 71997075 Anonymous
>>71997029
You probably mean GNU/Linux, a variant of the GNU system which uses the Linux kernel.
5 hours later 71997458 Anonymous
Hey, I decided to install arch on my desktop, and I dug out an old HDD to use as an isolated environment just in case I accidentally'd my storage. I partitioned the boot, swapspace and main directory, mounted the main to /mnt and the boot to /mnt/boot, and generated file tables, locale, etc, then installed GRUB.
The install exists and I can reach it with arch-chroot once I mount it, but I can't boot into it from the BIOS, or device selection. Despite having a separate install from Win10, if I boot from ANY attached EFI hard disk, it goes right to windows, even if I boot from the HDD that is filesystem'd with arch.
I went with efibootmgr and created a efi boot entry for grubx64.efi, but it still won't boot anything but Windows, no matter what I select. What else could I do to fix this, other than ripping out winshit? Should I ditch GRUB and use another bootloader?
5 hours later 71997509 Anonymous (i3.png 2560x1024 1724kB)
>>71993866
what's better, vanilla i3 or i3-gaps?
5 hours later 71997530 Anonymous
>>71997458
You need use os-prober to properly setup windows/linux bootloading
5 hours later 71997542 Anonymous
>>71997530
I used os-prober, but the install guide didn't really do anything with it. I assumed that GRUB uses the package, but if I do have to directly run some commands, what should I do with it?
5 hours later 71997593 Anonymous (IMG_20190722_162436.jpg 2123x3621 2232kB)
>>71997542
to clarify, here's my fdisk -l
i have two seperate EFI locations on separate disks, one for windows on sda and one mounted to /boot/ for arch. Should they be amalgamated to one record, or is it fine to keep them separate?
5 hours later 71997678 Anonymous
>>71997509
>better
at what? appealing to your specific tastes?
5 hours later 71997974 Anonymous
>>71997593
how did you get a terminal to look normal on a portrait monitor
6 hours later 71998036 Anonymous
Is it worth it for me to learn to do LFS, and use that as my main "distro" for regular use?
6 hours later 71998155 Anonymous
>>71997974
its not portrait lol, it's just a cropped edge of a landscape oriented monitor.
Anyways, I wiped and started again. I think the main issue I'm getting is that despite having os-prober installed, grub-mkconfig won't detect a windows 10 install on /dev/sda1. I guess I'll prod around to see why
6 hours later 71998184 Anonymous
>>71998155
just found out that you have to mount the Windows EFI partition and run the mkconfig again to have it detect it, but where would I mount it to? I already have my Linux EFI partition mounted to /mnt/efi
6 hours later 71998225 Anonymous
Pill me on Weston.
Started studying display managers and came across interoperability between system.
6 hours later 71998241 Anonymous
So I ran gparted to reduce the size of my main linux partition, which completely fucked it up.
I managed to recover it, but why did this happen?
6 hours later 71998320 Anonymous
What's the difference between funtoo and gentoo? reading the distrowatch funtoo page, funtoo looks like gentoo but better(?)
6 hours later 71998503 Anonymous
>>71998036
It's definitively worth reading it. It's worth doing it, if you enjoy doing fun things. IMHO it would be too much work to use the result as daily driver.
>>71998320
Funtoo is made by the original Gentoo developer. AFAIK he wanted to do things that wouldn't be possible in Gentoo, but actually many things from Funtoo are used in Gentoo today as well.
>>71998184
GNU+Linux*
6 hours later 71998505 Anonymous
Is there a way to have an individual directory encrypted (in the sense that its contents are encrypted on disk and reads and writes and encrypted and decrypted on the fly)? I'm a lazy ass and don't want to figure out how to encrypt my whole partition.
6 hours later 71998540 Anonymous
>>71998505
Just tar.gz | gpg it?
6 hours later 71998609 Anonymous
>>71998503
>but actually many things from Funtoo are used in Gentoo today as well
oh ok, i'll still go with gentoo because i like their logo owo
7 hours later 71998701 Anonymous
>>71998540
>in the sense that its contents are encrypted on disk and reads and writes and encrypted and decrypted on the fly
anyway this
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.ph p/EncFS
seems to do what I want
7 hours later 71999171 Anonymous
>>71998184
>>71998155
>>71997458
to anyone curious, I think I found the problem
after converting windows to UEFI, dicking around with cfgs and os-prober, I found that the efibootmgr boot record for GRUB isn't written properly, and disappears on reboot. Apparently, boards with Intel's Z77 chipset don't accept efibootmgr edits, and only look for windows bootmgr locations (thanks intel, you fucks). So, presumably I'd have to go into the EFI shell and copy grubx64.efi to bootx64.efi's location, but I want to see if I can get around this without fucking with microsoft boot partitions
11 hours later 72001065 Anonymous (1563847359985.gif 500x390 27kB)
11 hours later 72001235 Anonymous
>>71999171
dumb windows user
11 hours later 72001257 Anonymous
>it's another episode of wifi no longer works after returning from sleep
t-thanks manjaro
11 hours later 72001493 Anonymous
>is Fedora user
>see 2 Kernel 5.2 packages were built two days ago
>they are still fucking "update candidates"
>while another 5.1.19 Kernel is under testing
>not to mention F30 is still stuck on Mesa 19.0
Should have installed OpenSuse Tumbleweed or even Manjaro as they already have the latest Kernel and Mesa packages ready.
11 hours later 72001512 Anonymous
>>72001493
Which kernel?
12 hours later 72001632 Anonymous
>>72001512
Why do you ask in such a way? I complain about Kernel for F30 being a little bit outdated.
5.2.1 and 5.2.2 are under the tags of f30-updates-candidates, but at today a 5.1.19 is now under f30-updates-testing, which means F30 users still have days being stuck at Kernel 5.1 series. Disappointing.
12 hours later 72001648 Anonymous
>>72001632
>Why do you ask in such a way?
he's doing the epic "linux is a kernel" meme
12 hours later 72001663 Anonymous
>>72001235
i need it for uni dev software and a few games
12 hours later 72001899 Anonymous
Ive narrowed my choices down to the following three
-void
-nix
-deepin
I read that void is dead, and deepin is apparently spyware and I know nothing about nix other than its reccomended to me a few times.
My ultimate goal is to have a system that uses wayland easily and runs davinci resolve (I couldnt get it running on arch). I'd ideally like everything to be up to date and have a fast rollout, unlike debian which even sid is fucking slow to do anything. Also a lack of nvidia issues would be nice. DE doesnt matter too much to me but I would like something that looks nice with minimal config.
If not these three I would like an alternative suggestion please. Thanks
13 hours later 72002081 Anonymous
>>72001899
>I read that void is dead
the guy who made the distro was missing for a year but it wasn't ever really "dead" since he didn't maintain it alone
there's a boring blog post in https://michaelwashere.net/post/201 8-11-28-enobdfl/ if you like reading but it was written before he came back in january
https://repology.org/repositories/g raphs (closer to top left = higher percentage of up-to-date packages, void still does well here)
13 hours later 72002101 Anonymous
>>72002081
wow that was a boring read. imagine wasting time writing all of that.
thanks for the graph, interesting to see that nix has the freshest packages
14 hours later 72002929 Anonymous
manjaro is fucking trash
15 hours later 72002938 Anonymous (1444869381286.jpg 924x558 91kB)
>>72001899
install gentoo
15 hours later 72002954 Anonymous
>>71994466
Do you know that the majority of tech guys are fedora'd atheists? What are you even doing here?
15 hours later 72003018 Anonymous
>>71998503
>Funtoo is made by the original Gentoo developer
it also has a shitty logo
the man had mojo when he did gentoo's artworks, now he doesn't
15 hours later 72003033 Anonymous
>>71996840
gentoo, guix, nix, the list can go on
15 hours later 72003048 Anonymous
>>71998036
not really, you can't make a working distro-tier system with LFS unless you are a team of programmers whose intent is creating a distro. There's simply no such possibility for a lone enthusiast.
15 hours later 72003066 Anonymous (roflmao.png 312x145 91kB)
>>71993887
the turd kernel
15 hours later 72003067 Anonymous (d25d093d8bc0361ed0312a896dad5bac.jpg 563x1020 165kB)
Anyone knows what do i need to do in SculptOS? I want to try it but the virual box setup doesnt give me much info on what to do, really want to use it tho
Pic for attention
15 hours later 72003089 Anonymous
LibreBooty TwinkPad
15 hours later 72003108 Anonymous
is there a version with Torvalds?
>>71993856
15 hours later 72003138 Anonymous
>>71996459
>the last mandriva release was 8 years ago
15 hours later 72003217 Anonymous
>>72003048
well, actually you can, but only if you are some kind of a madman who can spend months and years working on your os alone
16 hours later 72003461 Anonymous
>>72002938
like it unironically seems like its good for my needs, but i really dont wanna waste time compiling and following a bunch of stuff. a simple installer is what i need
16 hours later 72003499 Anonymous
Did I just find a bug in gnu ls? Or some sort of locale implementation? Way too embarassed to post to a bugtracker due to my taste in manga
# printf '%s\n' *
魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz
魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz
魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz
魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz
# ls --version
ls (GNU coreutils) 8.31
# ls
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz'
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz'
# ls -w80
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz'
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第1話 邂逅.cbz'
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz'
'魔法科高校の劣等生 司波達也暗殺計画 第2話 対峙.cbz'
Turns out all widths 111+ are broken.
16 hours later 72003549 Anonymous (1563128776755.jpg 388x443 29kB)
I want a launcher on panel for terminal in root mode
so it needs to run xfce4-terminal that gets piped pipe sudo -s that gets piped my password
how do I set that shit up?
I know I can do it differently, but I want to do it exactly this way, and I don't care about 'plaintext' and other reddit-tier paranoid shit
16 hours later 72003599 Anonymous
>>72003499
Turns out the issue was with conemu. Fuck I thought this was supposed to be better than sshing from powershell or mintty.
16 hours later 72003650 Anonymous
>>72003138
Mandriva kinda became Mageia.
>>72003549
You could have the launcher run "sudo xfce4-terminal" or "xfce4-terminal -e 'sudo -s'"
16 hours later 72003669 Anonymous
>>72003549
>>72003650
One more thing. If you don't care about security, you might as well allow your user to sudo without entering a password by editing your sudoers file.
I think that might actually be necessary for the first option I gave you.
16 hours later 72003680 Anonymous
How do I install libopencl on arch? is it fine to install opencl-nvidia? Is it the same thing?
17 hours later 72003740 Anonymous
>>72003669
I care about security in a sense that I don't want the browser and all the other shit to run as root. I don't care about lunatic scenarios where my computer is completely compromised by some mossad malware or fucking tom cruise mission impossible kind of motherfucker. if someone can go into my scripts folder and steal the root password from there, it's all fucking ogre already.
17 hours later 72003859 Anonymous
Could you please recommend a good general approach to stopping being a brainlet, getting good at linux and becoming a poweruser?
17 hours later 72003865 Anonymous
>>72003859
have sex
17 hours later 72003895 Anonymous
>>72002954
let's pray for the linux atheists and their gaylord leader torvalds
17 hours later 72003917 Anonymous
What's a good method of remote accessing my computer from either my Android phone or other Windows machines over the public network.
And SSH probably isn't an option given that I have no option of a static public IP
17 hours later 72003930 Anonymous
>>72003865
I'm afraid that once you do you lose all interest in linux whatsoever
17 hours later 72003931 Anonymous
>>72003917
>And SSH probably isn't an option given that I have no option of a static public IP
try noip.com
17 hours later 72003932 Anonymous
>>72003917
https://wiki.termux.com/wiki/Remote _Access
17 hours later 72003941 Anonymous
>>72003930
Thankfully that's not true
If anything it enhanced my interests because it removed the stigma of being a smelly virgin if I tinker with linux
Now I can fiddle with my system all I want and remain confident that I can maintain a social life
17 hours later 72003954 Anonymous (1560980728403.png 1024x576 287kB)
>>72003859
install distroo
use distroo
break distroo
fix distroo
17 hours later 72003970 Anonymous
>>72003859
https://www.kernel.org/doc/
17 hours later 72003975 Anonymous
>>72003931
I'm behind a carrier grade NAT unfortunately. I tried DDNS services before with little success, I suppose I'm not adept enough yet to get it working.
17 hours later 72004000 Anonymous
>>72003975
Is there a reason you need to do this?
What are you trying to accomplish?
17 hours later 72004019 Anonymous
ayy i got davinci working on manjaro. for anyone that has issues with it in the future, you have to install clinfo in order for it to work.q
17 hours later 72004084 Anonymous (proxy.duckduckgo.com.jpg 480x288 38kB)
>>72003895
myself and my family is not religious at all, but we still enjoyed christmas for all the non-religious parts of it (family get-togethers, gifts, trees/lights, the whole snow theme despite living in an area that never snows, etc)
using 'christmas' as in 'christmas is coming early', is not necessarily a religious statement, it refers more to the gifting part of it
what i don't understand is why the people who demand these kinds of references be removed think their preference is more important than anybody elses. it's not like he said "god-fearing users will love the new wiki changes!" or something
17 hours later 72004095 Anonymous
>>72004084
meant to quote >>71994466
17 hours later 72004115 Anonymous
>>71997029
all jokes aside, does anybody actually use thumbnails in their file picker?
17 hours later 72004120 Anonymous
>>72004000
Well I recently finished an internship at a position where you have a work computer you can use during your free time and trust me, there's a lot of free time.
I've kinda been half-suggested-offered a position there after I finish my degree but that's besides the point.
A lot of the coworkers there teamviewer into their home machines and use the work computer to edit their photos remotely or do graphic work, stuff like that.
Since I do some of that as well, I figured it'd be neat.
Should I just use Teamviewer then?
17 hours later 72004144 Anonymous
>>72004115
yes, theyre useful when picking an image, say from a screenshot folder or a video with a reel name (like whos gonna know what A001_07161829_C003.braw is just looking at the name)
17 hours later 72004153 Anonymous (1563871105562.jpg 570x779 54kB)
>>72004115
yes it's how I get the perfect reaction image for my posts
18 hours later 72004160 Anonymous
>>72004115
Yes for >>72004144 reasons
It'd be even nicer if I could have thumbnails on the RAW images from my camera like I do on Windows
18 hours later 72004253 Anonymous
>>72004120
Teamviewer does appear to work on linux so yeah. Occam's razor
18 hours later 72004261 Anonymous
>>72004160
>using windows
cringe
18 hours later 72004271 Anonymous
>>72004253
GNU/Linux*
18 hours later 72004303 Anonymous
>>72004261
Currently I don't, windows HDD resting on my right side in an external HDD enclosure.
Fully Debian'd right now
Though a quick google search did reveal something I could do to get RAW files to show thumbnails with gnome-raw-thumbnailer
Have to look into it
18 hours later 72004365 Anonymous
How do you grep the latest version of a package that's hosted on ftp/od? For example from here https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/
18 hours later 72004369 Anonymous
>>72004303
Use searx or DDG, senpai. Google is the enemy.
19 hours later 72004632 Anonymous
Adding a second gpu.
My current one is a gtx 1060 6gb which is good and all until I start rendering in which my pc becomes unusable. Would I run into issues if I added a gt710 for just display out? Mainly with drivers and whatnot. and how easy would changing between the two be (for when i want to game)?
19 hours later 72004639 Anonymous
>>72004261
sometimes youve gotta. Its better for games as well.
19 hours later 72004696 Anonymous
>>72004639
Windows is malware.
19 hours later 72004707 Anonymous
>>72004365
wget -qO- "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/" | grep -Po 'href="\K[^/]+' | sort -n | tail -1
19 hours later 72004731 Anonymous
Which calculator do you guys use?
xcalc is alright but it's far from the most visually aesthetic choice
19 hours later 72004737 Anonymous
>>72004731
bc
19 hours later 72004749 Anonymous
>>72004737
>not using dc
19 hours later 72004774 Anonymous (1563877162270.png 1493x882 98kB)
>>71993887
19 hours later 72004782 Anonymous
>>72004731
browser console
19 hours later 72004783 Anonymous
Oh another question, whats a good utility for monitoring real time cpu/ ram / gpu usage?
19 hours later 72004788 Anonymous
>>72004783
ps
19 hours later 72004883 Anonymous
>>72004788
specific command?
19 hours later 72004982 Anonymous
>>72004731
SpeedCrunch
20 hours later 72005328 Anonymous
>>72004774
>Hurd is not Linux
obsessed
20 hours later 72005372 Anonymous
>>72005328
i think its more to specify that linux isnt hurd. its a completely different os
20 hours later 72005415 Anonymous
>>72005372
kernel*
21 hours later 72005534 Anonymous
>>72004731
calc
www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc /
21 hours later 72005771 Anonymous (1563885232972.png 791x246 18kB)
>its free and open source
>comes with proprietary software, blobs and drivers
Linux is a lie and its community hypocrites liars.
21 hours later 72005800 Anonymous
>>72005771
>lie
kernel*
21 hours later 72005815 Anonymous
tfw your packages count keeps rising
I need to remove stuff but I don't know what I should remove and what not
21 hours later 72005865 Anonymous
>>72005815
Package count doesn't mean anything. What you actually can do is sorting your packages by size and look if you really need the largest ones. Further, depending on your distro, you can also remove useless Linux images. I recommend to keep the current one and the one before.
That should give you a nice debloat.
21 hours later 72005932 Anonymous
>>71993866
What's the best OOTB Arch distro?
21 hours later 72005970 Anonymous
>>72005932
Manjaro
21 hours later 72005978 Anonymous
>>72005771
The world "linux" has no meaning anymore.
22 hours later 72006316 Anonymous
>>72005970
Manjaro has its own repos so it isn't really OOTB Arch but rather an independent Arch-based distribution.
22 hours later 72006359 Anonymous (screenFetch-2019-07-23_15-32-37.png 209x236 16kB)
What's the point of shipping with all these terminals?
22 hours later 72006405 Anonymous (1563746985159.gif 403x369 170kB)
>when you neglect to update gentoo for a while
>and then you try
>and emerge just ejaculates 10 miles of irreconcilable error after incorrigible error all over your monitor
>doesn't even give you taxi fare after
I'm getting too old for this shit
22 hours later 72006549 Anonymous
What's a good way to check how much memory a process consumes?
I'm working on a game engine and wanted to see if what I have now is leaking anything. Used pmap which resulted in a stable 900876K. And apparently that's 900MB?
Because the same program compilated for windows consumes roughtly 7MB according to the task manager on win10.
It's possible that the APIs SDL2 uses on Linux kind of suck, but I want to know if I'm making a mistake in reading the memory consumption on Linux.
22 hours later 72006553 Anonymous
>>72006405
>he fell for the source distro meme
it's don't
23 hours later 72006598 Anonymous
>>72006405
switch to guix.
23 hours later 72006668 Anonymous
>>72006553
I fall for it, realize I fell for it, switch to a non-bullshit distro, but I always get this... itch that my computer isn't optimized, and that I don't have total control over it so then I fall for it...
23 hours later 72006713 Anonymous
>>72003461
it's a meme
23 hours later 72006747 Anonymous (huh.png 326x483 175kB)
Install Parabola
Don't support user-subjugating software and practices, avoid proprietary programs, avoid so-called Open Source, support free software.
23 hours later 72006786 Anonymous
>>72005771
use libre linux
>>72005932
vanilla arch with an installer.
>>72005970
i cant even remember the differences
>>72006359
you got the wrong distro man, you shoulda got the smaller one
23 hours later 72006803 Anonymous
>>72006786
Smaller distro such as?
I'm a noob as one might say
23 hours later 72006818 Anonymous
If tomorrow Hurd became as stable and as supported as GNU/Linux, would you switch to it as your main system?
23 hours later 72006819 Anonymous
>>72006405
a clown deserves a clown distro
23 hours later 72006827 Anonymous
>>72006818
100%
23 hours later 72007075 Anonymous
I've duplicated the firejail discord.,profile to ~/.config/firejail. I changed the config location to a different folder then used --profile=~/.confir/firejail/new.pr ofile to launch the profile, but it dosent use the profile and loads the default
I want to run two instances at the same time and firejail should sandbox the 2nd profile with the new profile right?
23 hours later 72007130 Anonymous
I've visited gentoo.org, and what do I see? Open source this, open source that, open source babble everywhere. Are they concerned with their users' freedom, or with being attractive to corporations.
Also, I've found out its creator was a Microsoft employee? Wew. And he likes open source corporate babble too.
Gentoo? No, thanks.
23 hours later 72007170 Anonymous
>>72005932
>OOTB
a.k.a. "I'm incapable of executing a couple of simple console commands"
24 hours later 72007190 Anonymous
>>72006803
its debian right? they have a few different versions. you chose the one that hs all the softwares preinstalled
>>72006818
absolutely. but would it atill support my nonfree software or would it have full libre alterntives.
>>72007130
next your gonna tell me linux torvalds uses a mac.
24 hours later 72007225 Anonymous
>>72007190
>next your gonna tell me linux torvalds uses a mac.
It's irrelevant since the issue at hand is software, not hardware. You can install a free OS on a Mac computer.
24 hours later 72007276 Anonymous
>>72006803
EasyOS
24 hours later 72007289 Anonymous
>>72007225
but hoe is it relevant? its open sores
24 hours later 72007326 Anonymous
>>72007289
Open source doesn't care about your freedom and dignity, it cares about corporate efficiency.
24 hours later 72007403 Anonymous
>>72006818
Yes, linux is pretty much microsoft by now.
24 hours later 72007426 Anonymous
>>72007130
Everything liscenced nonfree is disabled by default.
24 hours later 72007436 Anonymous
>>72007130
>Also, I've found out its creator was a Microsoft employee?
That's not difficult, microsoft is a major employer on the market.
24 hours later 72007452 Anonymous
>>72007326
>>72007130
While Open source doesn't automatically make software free, most open source software is free.
24 hours later 72007455 Anonymous (appel.webm 960x558 2067kB)
when I was removing hidden folders from my old, mostly unneeded home folder, the "rm -r ~/.* " command mentioned something about refusing to delete the ~/. and ~/.. folders. Wat was that about?
24 hours later 72007501 Anonymous
>>72007455
I mean would sudoing the command delete the parent directory as well?
24 hours later 72007582 Anonymous
Someone/something wiped all the LUKS headers from all my hdd's, both the system drives and data drives
I do not have any internet facing services running.
No one else has physical access.
How do i find out what happened?
25 hours later 72007783 Anonymous
>>72007582
cameras?
25 hours later 72007944 Anonymous
>do an update
>somehow wifi adapter is now broken
Why the fuck does linux do this?
25 hours later 72007988 Anonymous
I saw a youtuber navigating through an unsent command in his terminal. He was navigating forward and backwards by word as if he was in vim. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Thanks
25 hours later 72008104 Anonymous
>>72007944
All OS do this now and then. One of the reasons I went and stayed on linux back in 2010 was that every other Windows update would break my wifi.
Linux always worked consistently.
25 hours later 72008119 Anonymous
>>72007988
zsh also OhMyZsh
25 hours later 72008177 Anonymous
Just swapped my CPU to 3700X (from older ryzen), why sensors doesn't show it's temp like it used to do? Obviously I have updated bios, ran sensors-detect as well as mkinitcpio (not sure if that was necessary) and doing a reboot.
25 hours later 72008322 Anonymous
considering returning to windows because I want to play a few games that arent available on linux
25 hours later 72008330 Anonymous
>>72007455
use -r
25 hours later 72008363 Anonymous
>>72008104
What can I do? How do I get started trying to resolve this issue? My adapter uses this driver https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en /users/drivers/rt2800usb
26 hours later 72008437 Anonymous
>>72006818
Yes!!!
26 hours later 72008461 Anonymous
>>72007075
>discord
cringe
>discord in firejail
the fuck are you doing, do you also use tor while logged into your google account?
26 hours later 72008486 Anonymous
Is anyone else having wifi driver issues on Fedora 30?
26 hours later 72008502 Anonymous (1518129210781.jpg 645x968 56kB)
>>72008119
26 hours later 72008522 Anonymous
>>72008461
I have to use discord for work. Its retarded but thats how it is.
>firejail
Do you not understand what a sandbox is?
If discord can only access its root folder in /opt/discord and ~/.config/discord. It cannot touch the system or start scanning my /mnt points
>you do realize by using 4chan and making this post, you submitted private information to google in the form of a recaptcha cookie as well as 4chan making a profile on you and selling it to the chinease
26 hours later 72008535 Anonymous
>>72008322
GNU/Linux!
26 hours later 72008554 Anonymous
>>72008522
>i have to use discord
lol, cuck
26 hours later 72008562 Anonymous
>>72008363
Hunt stackexchange and your distro's forums and possibly email lists of the distro if all else fails.
Just search the driver and the distro and see if the solutions work.
26 hours later 72008620 Anonymous
>>72008522
All what firejail will you protect from is discord spying on your process names. You should be more concerned about your chat, picture and voice logs - and get rid of that malware.
26 hours later 72008642 Anonymous
>>72008554
Is the system you use at work to sign in and get paid oopen source?
Is the system that sends you your check or direct deposits each pay period open source
HMMMM
Seems like you're gaining from proprietary software(literally)
>>72008620
Firejail creates a sandbox, meaning the process is restricted to select whitelisted directories which are needed ot run the program.
Chat is work related and not my personal information, nor am i posting pictures of my self or using voice/video chat
It is required for work,if i miss information, i will be fired as a result of not knowing that information.
26 hours later 72008667 Anonymous (2019-07-23-171120_957x974_scrot.png 957x974 118kB)
I wrote custom version of screenfetch for Arch GNU+Linux, who needs it?
26 hours later 72008694 Anonymous
>>72008562
Do you think I'm missing some random package? What do I do I can't find any helpeful information on this.
Should I just buy a new wifi adapter?
26 hours later 72008697 Anonymous (2019-07-23-172057_954x283_scrot.png 954x283 43kB)
>>72008667
Fix
26 hours later 72008708 Anonymous
>>72008642
How come you're not using Slack
Isn't that the *ENTERPRISE* solution the kids like these days?
26 hours later 72008728 Anonymous
>>72008642
>the everything is proprietary/spies anyway, why care - argument
That's just sad, tbqh.
26 hours later 72008740 Anonymous
>>72008708
Im not the owner of the company, i work t here. I dont dictate what fucking software they run or dont run.
Get that gnustick out of your ass and join the real world.
26 hours later 72008777 Anonymous
>>72008522
>you do realize by using 4chan and making this post, you submitted private information to google in the form of a recaptcha cookie as well as 4chan making a profile on you and selling it to the chinease
and if i have a 4pass?
26 hours later 72008814 Anonymous
>>72008642
You would be surprised what a machine trained with lots of useless "work" information may know about you and even more how powerful that information could be used against you. I get that you need it for work, but you shouldn't downplay an evil you've been forced into in order to defend yourself online. I'm pretty sure you'd prefer a libre solution as well.
26 hours later 72008835 Anonymous
>>72008814
Do you own the rights to the CPU controller software in your car?
Is it FOSS?
Didnt think so
HYPOCRITE
26 hours later 72008851 Anonymous
>>72008777
You gave even more information then those that dont have one
26 hours later 72008872 Anonymous (6a0120a85dcdae970b0128776ff992970c-pi.png 200x193 30kB)
>>71997029
works on my machine
26 hours later 72008892 Anonymous
>>72008740
>wake up gramps and join the real world, slavery is da best, everyone does it now
26 hours later 72008925 Anonymous
>>72008835
stop owning a car
26 hours later 72009028 Anonymous
>duel boot ubuntu vs windows
>windows teleports behind grub
>"this is a windows computer now"
how do these things happen?
26 hours later 72009057 Anonymous
>>72001899
Deepin is based on oldstable, and doesn't use wayland.
If you want wayland your options are pretty much sway or GNOME (possibly KDE, but it's pretty buggy)
Maybe try Fedora, or Manjaro net-install for sway or GNOME edition set to wayland. Fedora nvidia drivers are pretty easy with RPMFusion, but there's issues with using wayland with the proprietary nvidia drivers (stuff like no night light and general bugginess in GNOME, idk if sway supports nvidia at all).
Basically you're asking for too much, it's too early to really use nvidia proprietary drivers and wayland successfully, support in GNOME was just merged recently and is fairly experimental.
26 hours later 72009105 Anonymous (.png 649x365 288kB)
Is there some magic option I can add in my /etc/samba/smb.conf to tweak/speed up media streaming or is the unstable speed due to the fact I'm connected via wifi using a cheap usb dongle? (device is really close to the router)
There are times I can stream just fine and times when I struggle to cache
27 hours later 72009148 Anonymous
>>72009057
isnt wayland like years old at this point thou?
27 hours later 72009211 Anonymous
>>72009105
you could increase mpv cache to make it more consistent
27 hours later 72009216 Anonymous
How can I figure out which wifi adapter to buy that will "just werk"?
27 hours later 72009221 Anonymous
>>72009148
Kind of perpetually in a state of "ready in 2 years", but if you have an AMD graphics card or Intel graphics it works quite well. Main issue I had running Wayland is that games wanted to launch on my secondary monitor, and some games wouldn't give me the option to move the window and change the resolution. I'm using X with elementary OS for now.
27 hours later 72009379 Anonymous
>>72009211
that would help with overload problems but I literally struggle to fill the 4 min cache cap right now
I thought my pi was pretty close to the router but 1 wall was enough to cause the drop in speed so I moved it 2 meters from the router without obstacles between and now cache bumped to 40 seconds instantly
I also added these rules to my smb.conf
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic .php?pid=1525272#p1525272
I wonder if I have either buy a stronger wifi usb dongle or a more powerful ac adapter. it's weird speed drops so drastically with just one wall between the two, maybe stronger adapter can increase performances (using a usb ac adapter from a asus something)
27 hours later 72009461 Anonymous (ss-tzuyu.png 257x329 122kB)
hello, I just recently got manjaro working and a bunch of the fonts are broken, what do?
27 hours later 72009466 Anonymous
>>72009216
brodcomm if i rrc correctly
27 hours later 72009475 Anonymous
>>72009461
install them? reinstall them? i had an issue with japanese fonts and had to reinstall the adobe ones
27 hours later 72009533 Anonymous
are raven ridge apus just going to be fucked forever? i get a black screen on kernel 4.19. I have to use an old kernel to get even basic graphics and i still dont know where to get drivers.
27 hours later 72009552 Anonymous (tumblr_o0k34tPeJr1shjnqco2_250.gif 250x339 2085kB)
>>72009475
no, I've been fucking around with the font files themselves for days, I'm thinking it's some sort of issue with a program on the desktop which displays them.
27 hours later 72009621 Anonymous
>>72009461
I installed Manjaro and started configuring it.
Then I updated, and fonts on the desktop were broken when I logged back in. This was the KDE variant. I dunno if an update broke it but them's the breaks with using an unstable rolling release distribution.
Wiped it and installed a stable distro.
27 hours later 72009769 Anonymous
>>72008694
Describe the malfunction in detail, "it's broken" can mean so many things
27 hours later 72009847 Anonymous
>>72009379
Could be a power supply issue, rpi tends to have that problem, it expects peripherals to power themselves.
Also, what distro and apps are you using to accomplish streaming?
28 hours later 72009870 Anonymous
>>72009461
>>72009621
Honestly just use Mageia. Tainted repos supply all the nonfree/fusion/aur shit you'd need anyway.
It's a remarkable balance of stability and utility.
28 hours later 72009935 Anonymous
>>72007436
>microsoft is a major employer on the market.
according to your logic, Torvalds would be an Apple engineer by now. Luckily, he's not a market whore.
28 hours later 72009954 Anonymous
from kernel.org:
"The kernel is written using GNU C and the GNU toolchain."
So no, it's not just a kernel that has nothing to do with GNU apart from its license.
28 hours later 72009994 Anonymous
How active is Void? I wanted to install Void, but don't want to end up with an os that is dead.
28 hours later 72010076 Anonymous
>>72009769
It isn't seen by the computer
28 hours later 72010141 Anonymous
>>72010076
It was and now it isn't?
Can you tell me the distro?
28 hours later 72010204 Anonymous
>>72009847
It is a pi0 and the usb dongle is powered by the usb port that power the pi itself (soldered the dongle for convenience)
Something of notice is that not all ac adapter worked and only a set of adapters in my house could both power the pi and the dongle. Maybe the official pi zero adapter can help me in that regard
I'm using raspbian and I called it streaming but it's a simple samba share. I use mpv to watch the videos
28 hours later 72010254 Anonymous
>>72010141
Yes i'm using Fedora. It worked fine before the update. Now it even says packages are missing when I try to revert so I can't do that
28 hours later 72010429 Anonymous
>>72008694
There should be a 'file not found' error in your dmesg output concerning your wifi adapter's firmware. It probably got pushed into rpmfusion after a licensing audit.
28 hours later 72010448 Anonymous
>>72010429
My adapter is AWUS036NEH please make it work
28 hours later 72010505 Anonymous
>>72007988
If he used bash check out the READLINE section in the bash man page. M-f M-b (M is the alt key in my case) is forward and backwards one word at a time.
28 hours later 72010568 Anonymous
>>72003067
uh, sculpt?
28 hours later 72010605 Anonymous
How the fuck do you download shit from forums and shitty websites since downthemall is gone and no longer works on the 4x/5x branch of firefox?
28 hours later 72010612 Anonymous
>>72009533
sorry, we all use computers that are at least 10 years old here.
29 hours later 72010635 Anonymous (1530317002466.png 272x316 60kB)
>Looking up wifi adapters to use
>No information on whether it will work on gnu/linux just "maybe"
>Driver from manufactuer's website says it's only been tested to work up to kernel ~4.11
What does that even mean? Why is linux so shit?
Are usb wifi adapters a scam?
29 hours later 72010753 Anonymous
>>72010204
Okay, yes, def get an adapter that is rated for pi.
Also, consider using https://libreelec.tv instead of raspbian.
29 hours later 72010759 Anonymous
>>72010635
Yes fucker, I use Ethernet on everything that can. I ran cat 6 through my house and have cat6 outlets sharing with a useless rj11 port.
29 hours later 72010765 Anonymous
>>72010254
Try mageia, it's a much less buggy and nonrolling distro.
Fedora is basically a permanent-beta distro
29 hours later 72010791 Anonymous
>>72010635
Wifi drivers on linux is a nightmare.
29 hours later 72010802 Anonymous
>>72010759
What about PCI-e cards? I've heard artheros chipsets work best so should I just get that
29 hours later 72011161 Anonymous
>>72010791
unless you buy a usb wifi device for linux
29 hours later 72011284 Anonymous
What are some good DEs that have accent color support? Ones where you can change selection colors, window borders, folders, etc to any color you want without having to make a theme for each color.
29 hours later 72011319 Anonymous
>>72008835
>owning a car
wew
>owning a phone
wew
>owning a watch
wew
>owning anything
wew
29 hours later 72011323 Anonymous
i installed debian with the default DE (gnome) and when I idle, it goes to the lock screen, the monitor turns off for 1 second and then turns back on over and over again until I use the computer
Is there any way of fixing this? I couldn't find this specific issue anywhere
30 hours later 72011380 Anonymous
>>72011284
KDE.
Compiz was always shit but Emerald was always based for this.
But yeah. XFCE is extremely flexible as well.
30 hours later 72011400 Anonymous
>>72011323
Debian is awful and Gnome is worse.
30 hours later 72011440 Anonymous
>>72011400
which distro is not awful?
30 hours later 72011441 Anonymous
>>72011380
Did this make it in to the latest builds?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9- N1t5wS98
I haven't used KDE in a while
30 hours later 72011505 Anonymous
>>72011440
Mageia
30 hours later 72011561 Anonymous
Should I install linux on my old laptop?
30 hours later 72011599 Anonymous
I just tried to install debian, and I think something is fucked up
When I boot, it shows the systemd startup, and at the very bottom it says "Restoring from hibernation", and then nothing happens no matter how long I wait.
Did I do something wrong?
30 hours later 72011645 Anonymous
>>72011561
I don't know. Do you need it?
30 hours later 72011647 Anonymous
>>72011561
Yes, but only the right distro, depending on how old your laptop is.
30 hours later 72011661 Anonymous
Is there a working n64 emulator for GNU/Linux with a graphical frontend that doesn't use qt?
>inb4 >>/v/
Remember, be friendly.
30 hours later 72011683 Anonymous
>>72010605
Depends on the site. There's usually always a specialized downloader out there (youtube-dl, gallery-dl, FMD). If everything else fails then I try wget or curl.
30 hours later 72011703 Anonymous
>>72011647
It's a 8 year old laptop
30 hours later 72011711 Anonymous
>>72011683
Jdownload isnt picking up the files, only the fuckign thumbnails
I tried downoadstar too, only the thumbnails not the actual files.
I can get video files with yt-dl that isnt a problem. Its when theres 1000 images on a page and i want to download them
Before i would just grab the link and throw a wildcard search in it, but nothing fucking suports that
>wget
>curl
Wont do shit cause of authentication
And being antiquated
30 hours later 72011737 Anonymous
>>72009935
>Luckily, he's not a market whore.
Hahahaha, good joke.
30 hours later 72011764 Anonymous (1563917621793.png 720x1012 186kB)
>>72009954
owo
30 hours later 72011765 Anonymous
>>72011711
What's an example for an obscure site that gives you trouble?
30 hours later 72011801 Anonymous
>>72011703
It will work just fine with most distros I believe, but you should choose one with lighter desktop environment, like XFCE, or no desktop environment at all.
30 hours later 72011820 Anonymous
>>72011683
What's fmd?
30 hours later 72011862 Anonymous
>>72011801
thanks
30 hours later 72011948 Anonymous
>>72011820
https://github.com/fmd-project-team /FMD
30 hours later 72012005 Anonymous (woodandy.jpg 750x872 81kB)
Is there a Linux music player functionally similar to MusicBee? Lightweight and customizable are my only requirements.
31 hours later 72012256 Anonymous
What is the easiest way to have my android phone display on my desktop?
KDEConnect works for alot of things but it does not have a way to show the screen on the desktops monitors.
31 hours later 72012310 Anonymous
>>72011599
>debian
31 hours later 72012327 Anonymous
>>72011400
thanks for your opinion, where do i unsubscribe?
31 hours later 72012345 Anonymous
Bios doesn't see my grub partition as UEFI and as a result - I can't boot grub from my hdd (I use an usb drive to get grub and then boot from it's command line). Any ideas why?
/dev/sda1 - fat32 efi (ef00 efi filesystem)
/dev/sda2 - ext2 boot (8300 linux filesystem)
/dev/sda3 - ext4 root (encrypted with luks, also 8300)
Other drives shouldn't matter. Should I try changing sda2 to ef00? How can I do this without altering partition contents?
I have partitions over 2TB so I think need GPT and either way I'd rather not reinstall.
31 hours later 72012394 Anonymous
Who among AMD/Nvidia has had the better GPU driver/support as of late?
31 hours later 72012448 Anonymous
>>72012256
You got some duct tape lying around?
31 hours later 72012460 Anonymous
>>72012448
Taping it to the monitor does not make the phone appear on the desktop.
31 hours later 72012532 Anonymous
>>72012256
>>72012460
https://github.com/Genymobile/scrcp y
31 hours later 72012537 Anonymous
>>72012310
What's wrong with debian
32 hours later 72012933 Anonymous
>>72012394
I'd say AMD
with Nvidia it seems fps in games gradually deteriorates. Their drivers are also generally shit and the software it comes with is bugged and outdated
But AMD cards run hot and are loud unless undervolted which is a tedious process with small payoff
AMD also tend to be more power hungry
But your question was about drivers which is hands down won by AMD
32 hours later 72012967 Anonymous
>>72012933
>unsubstantiated claims on both sides
32 hours later 72012994 Anonymous
How is Chromium supposed to be good if it doesn't have good extensions?
32 hours later 72013009 Anonymous
>>72012994
It's built with security in mind unlike other browser shits (see: firefox)
32 hours later 72013043 Anonymous
>>72013009
>built with security in mind
>is produced and developed by the worlds largest data mining and marketing company
Nigga wat?
32 hours later 72013048 Anonymous
>>72013009
ok where is umatrix for chromium?
32 hours later 72013058 Anonymous
>>72013043
Security and privacy are different
https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m =152872551609819&w=2
>>72013048
Obviously you want usability, I prefer security
32 hours later 72013059 Anonymous
>>72013043
Ungoogled chromium you brainlet
32 hours later 72013090 Anonymous
>>72013009
retard
>>72013059
learn to write
32 hours later 72013096 Anonymous
>>72013058
Any company that spies on their customers and sells the data is not secure. It is inherently insecure
>openbsd
The fuck would i click that?
>>72013059
Ungoogled-chromium is a REACTIONARY path set. And is always MANY VERSIONS BEHIND
They can only patch things that they discover, meaning for many versions you have things that are not patched because the project is run as a summer project by a high school student
32 hours later 72013122 Anonymous
>>72013096
>any company that spies on their customers and sells their data is not secure
Good thing that chromium is fully open source then
>openbsd
Is an operating system built with security in mind, therefore I trust their lead dev's opinion of browser security more than some permavirgin's on /g/
>>72013090
>retard
no u
32 hours later 72013136 Anonymous
>>72011599
Did you use the netinstall? I was having tons of issues where it wouldn't install grub no matter how hard/what I tried. But it sounds like you're selecting debian in grub... maybe try booting in advanced mode (single user) and trying to disable hibernation.
32 hours later 72013142 Anonymous
>>72013096
Not him but if there's one thing I can say about openbsd, it's that they're never wrong about security
32 hours later 72013146 Anonymous
>>72013122
wrong thread?
32 hours later 72013160 Anonymous
>shilling for OpenBSD in the friendly GNU/Linux thread
32 hours later 72013164 Anonymous
>>72013122
The world "open source" has no meaning anymore.
32 hours later 72013171 Anonymous (LOLBSD.png 1094x4290 382kB)
>>72013142
Until you decide to install anything not supported in their extremely small package list
32 hours later 72013188 Anonymous
>>72013096
>>72013171
>>>/pol/
32 hours later 72013196 Anonymous
>>72013146
What? You asked about how chromium can be good
I answered that it can be good via security over performance
Your rebuttal was basically a 50iq
>no it spies on you
At which point I pointed out a simple difference between security and privacy (and by the way, anonymity is implied in neither of those two, it's a seperate entity altogether, any securityfag worth their money would tell you that), and pointed you to a well known security developer that writes about what I'm saying in a more concise way than I can phrase it
Don't see what your issue is
32 hours later 72013206 Anonymous
>>72013171
That's why I don't use it and use linux instead
But you'd have to be retarded to think they aren't at least half a decade ahead when it comes to security practices
32 hours later 72013214 Anonymous
What's the utility of rolling-release distros? Who are they made for?
32 hours later 72013231 Anonymous
>>72013214
People with laptops or gaming pcs
Anyone using linux to work uses release based distros
32 hours later 72013234 Anonymous
>>72013214
4 u
32 hours later 72013241 Anonymous
>>72013196
I feel a bit dumber than.before after reading this. Please don't post again.
32 hours later 72013246 Anonymous
OK so after getting recommended to install Arch and struggling for hours I finally did it, now I want to settle on this machine so I need an antivirus but I couldn't find any good options for Linux so I just installed some exe from a tracker. How do I make it work? Also where do I download foobar?
32 hours later 72013250 Anonymous
>>72013206
Linux is a kernel.
32 hours later 72013251 Anonymous
>>72013241
Is this honestly the highest quality post you can make?
No wonder open source is dying
32 hours later 72013260 Anonymous (1563692440635.jpg 800x800 34kB)
>>72013246
32 hours later 72013263 Anonymous
>>72013250
OK sorry, my BSD/linux machine (aka Linux kernel running BSD coreutils)
32 hours later 72013271 Anonymous
There is no privacy in computers anymore, security is the only thing that matters. They have a backdoor on your shit
32 hours later 72013282 Anonymous
>>72013231
See >>72013250
32 hours later 72013295 Anonymous
>>72013260
so there is no antivirus on linux? how the fuck do i stay safe?
32 hours later 72013297 Anonymous
>>72013251
And this is a good thing.
32 hours later 72013310 Anonymous
>>72013263
>BSD coreutils
Coreutils is a GNU project.
32 hours later 72013311 Anonymous (1563692549256.png 625x626 185kB)
>>72013295
32 hours later 72013312 Anonymous
>>72013295
GNU/Linux*
32 hours later 72013315 Anonymous
>>72013282
By saying linux I imply the widely used agreement that people make to use a shorthand for something obvious
ie a Linux based system
32 hours later 72013328 Anonymous
>>72013310
You know exactly what I mean and who I am mocking by using that word
32 hours later 72013329 Anonymous
I'm running my jetbrains ide and other GUI programs inside a vm with a DE. I want to change to a headless option.
I read that x forwarding is terrible for performance.
Is there anything better? And does it works really well like does it handles 'popup' / modal windows correctly? Alt+tab?
32 hours later 72013332 Anonymous
>>72013315
If shortness is your goal, just call it GNU.
32 hours later 72013342 Anonymous
There is literally nothing wrong with using "Linux" as shorthand for "GNU/Linux" when dealing with normalfags who don't understand and cannot appreciate the difference.
Sadly, half of /fglt/ falls under that banner too in spite of people trying to force otherwise.
32 hours later 72013344 Anonymous
>>72013312
What the fuck is GNU?
>>72013311
Shut the fuck up, I hate how you negroes are elitist a fuck about your autistic OS and when someone comes in you shit talk them, no wonder why no one uses linux
32 hours later 72013352 Anonymous
>>72013332
But all linux systems run linux, however not all of them run GNU
Sane as I suppose you wouldnt call something running Hurd "Linux"
32 hours later 72013357 Anonymous (1563692695712.png 874x751 230kB)
>>72013344
32 hours later 72013360 Anonymous
I like Xubuntu but I wanna try something not Ubuntu-based. Where to next?
32 hours later 72013369 Anonymous
>>72013360
Anything else with XFCE as a DE of course
32 hours later 72013371 Anonymous
>>72013357
i get it, ill just read the wiki. thanks anyway
32 hours later 72013374 Anonymous
>>72013360
Debian if you like using apt. Fedora or Gentoo if you don't.
32 hours later 72013382 Anonymous
>>72013344
Fuck off back to your windows general
You'll never appreciate a good OS even if it hit you in the face
32 hours later 72013385 Anonymous
>>72013360
Fedora
32 hours later 72013386 Anonymous
>>72013352
Linux is a kernel; a program in a system.
32 hours later 72013392 Anonymous
>>72013352
This is actually correct
32 hours later 72013399 Anonymous
>>72013382
WIndows XP is the greatest OS of all time
32 hours later 72013401 Anonymous
New: >>72013390
32 hours later 72013408 Anonymous
I have never looked at the Bash man page, and holy shit theres alot to learn.
Since I only use bash my conception of my terminal and bash are one in the same, so I never considered it would be bash specific, I thought it would be terminal specific, but thank you.
32 hours later 72013411 Anonymous
>>72013386
However, considering you only know how to repeat words you heard from an ebin internet meme and are probably a CS undergrad/dropout, allow me to explain that semantics dont matter, unless you're autistic of course
If I say I use linux, everyone understands what I'm talking about
That's good enough and wastes no time
32 hours later 72013414 Anonymous
>>72013360
Three options for your consideration:
Fedora XFCE - up to date, almost bleeding edge, but fairly stable within a release. Adding proprietary stuff is as easy as adding RPMfusion, but it's an extra step.
Manjaro XFCE - extremely up to date, bleeding edge, unstable (things constantly changing). Choose this if you want to be on the newest version of everything
openSUSE - I think they have an Xfce version available, I am pretty sure it's only MATE that they don't offer in Tumbleweed. Two editions: rolling and up to date Tumbleweed, and stable point release Leap. Choose the former for unstable (changing) and newest software, latter for stability.
But there is literally nothing wrong with using Ubuntu based distributions. They just werk.
32 hours later 72013560 Anonymous
>>72013136
I'll try that, the keyboard doesn't work in the grub menu either since it's a wireless Bluetooth one (should have expected that in advance) so my computer is temporarily "bricked" until I can find a wired keyboard to plug in lol
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