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Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources:
Your friendly neighborhood search engine (try to use a search engine that respects your benis such as searx, ixquick or startpage).

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ help %command%
$ %command% -h
$ %command% --help

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
wiki.archlinux.org
wiki.gentoo.org

Sup Forums's Wiki on GNU/Linux:
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>What are some cool programs?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

>What are some cool terminal commands?
commandlinefu.com/
bropages.org/

>Where can I learn the command line?
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
grymoire.com/Unix/

>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

>How to break out of the botnet?
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

/t/'s GNU/Linux Games: /t/'s GNU/Linux Training Videos: /fglt/'s website and copypasta collection:
fglt.nl && p.teknik.io/wJ9Zy

Other urls found in this thread:

youtube.com/watch?v=Ux-WCpNvRFM
i.4cdn.org/g/1492974240506.png
gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html
tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/index.html
tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption
phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-1800x-linux&num=1
wttr.in/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

if you aren't using ubuntu you're doing something wrong

The NSA thinks they're so clever and so smart, we'll see who is laughing when I have arch linux installed.

Does /fglt/ use Wayland?

youtube.com/watch?v=Ux-WCpNvRFM

>tfw you try out GNOME on Wayland
Weeew lad, it was bliss. Everything was so smooth. No tearing, resizing windows was so perfect with no black backgrounds or graphical glitches.

If only there were more environments to choose from though. Gotta give it more time, I guess.

Beware of x11 shills spreading fud about GNOME dependency.

wayland depends on gnome

The NSA doesn't even consider getting any backdoors into Arch linux because they tried and failed to install it (Arch Linux is notoriously complex to install!) so they think nobody else can either. Therefore, in fact, this is the best way to keep NSA off of your PC - to figure out the arcane and overcomplicated process of Arch Linux installation and then you'll be able to say "not today!" to NSA.
I know that that's what I am going to do!

What's missing though? Don't both GNOME and KDE support it? And then you have Sway (i3wm) for i3 users.

From what I've heard, it's still lacking some common and established features. But I'm sure it will get added to the protocol in time.

The problem would be assembling your own environment currently. You can't do that.

If you aim for security and privacy, install Parabola instead.

How does limit yourself strictly to free software increase your privacy and security? Especially when you're already using 98% free software on the other setup?

-2% security flaws

Stop mocking me you fed fuck.

how do i git gud at teeworlds?

+100% hardware not working

4u

> If you're not using ubuntu, you're most likely an adult

FTFY senpai.

Fuck Ubuntu for being so coddling. I can't even figure out how to view file extensions on this shit.


To the user who recommended I install Debian a few threads back:

Cheers. Arch is too obscure, Fedora's package manager is head-up-ass retarded, and Ubuntu is for people still in daycare.

But Debian? Just right.

arch is a stepping stone

Ubuntu and Debian are literally the same, just Ubuntu is maintained by paid professionals and not hobbyists like Debian. Ubuntu also comes with apparmor pre installed and configured so it is also more secure. Who would have guessed?

What are some cool terminal commands?

mkfs.reiser4 /dev/wife

I'm getting bored of that bait.

>Ubuntu is maintained by paid professionals and not hobbyists

And so is Winblows, yet both seem to suck major dick.

Usability > Security

Fedora has around 25 installed programs, Ushittu has 74+ bloatwares.

>iptables can't save rules to disk
>you lose all your firewall rules on reboot

fucking TRASH software what the FUCK i lost 3 HOURS of drop rules because of this SHIT

ok, funny frog btw

I'll sell you the rights for 4 shitoshis.

sudo touch woman

alias le='cd'

apt-get moo

convert -resize 500% my_weinor.svg my_weinor.svg

What's the best alternative for Pidgin on Debian Jessie ?

email

I've set up a cleverbot terminal client I'm talking to, sometimes.

o="-vvvvvv";for i in 0 {2..7};{ c="aptitude ${o:0:$i} moo";echo "$ $c";$c; }

Arch Linux is very simple to install

dpkg --force --purge dpkg

If I installed a Linux distro on my ps3, would it be possible to play games that are already playable on Linux? It would the hardware cause problems? Has anyone tried this?

this is so genious and sad at the same time

Richard Stallman is a commie cuck

is Ryzen well supported on Linux?

wget i.4cdn.org/g/1492974240506.png

GNU/Linux*

pidgin on linux mint cinnamon.

Are you implying Debian offers anything that Ubuntu doesn't?

I've asked this before and didn't get a straight answer.
What can GNU Linux do for me? What can I do with it?

Is "chmod u+s /usr/bin/xinit" unsafe to use? The startx command doesn't work if I don't do that.

Hello /flgt/, I just started really getting into GNU/Linux recently and I'm getting pretty comfortable with the CLI.

What I wanted to know is how one can become a "super user" so to speak.

Also, should I bother with WMs if I'm a beginner or are they best saved for the intermediate-experimental phase?

I'm ricing i3 on arch and I'm using the font awesome package for my workspace names. I'm wondering how I can keep them listed in the right order without having to put a number in front of it. Are there some sort of zero-width chars that I can use to keep them in order, or some other workaround?

>What I wanted to know is how one can become a "super user" so to speak.
Simply log in as root user. If you own the box, you can run "sudo su" and do stuff basically in god mode

>Also, should I bother with WMs if I'm a beginner or are they best saved for the intermediate-experimental phase?
Skill level has nothing to do with it. Just get a WM since they're useful as fuck and because there's a shit ton of software that you will want to use that requires one

>Are there some sort of zero-width chars that I can use to keep them in order
This sounds like future regret waiting to happen

Sorry, I should have clarified.

Not superuser in the UNIX sense but superuser in the more colloquial sense as in one who has mastered GNU/Linux

Also i3 or awesome? That's probably a contentious question but I've tried awesome and it seemed over my head.

Why?

it does what an operating system is ment to do
what more do you want?

You can install a de and a wm at the same time.
Pick one or the other at the login manager.

By "super user", do you mean how2git gud? Or how to su root?

I'm guessing you meant to reply to not me.

Okay elaborate on that.
Because I'm willing to take the Sup Forums redpill if it can prove itself to be more useful than W10.
And all memes aside Windows is still a pretty useful OS, but I just wanna get more hardcore.

You won't be able to see the zero-width characters and will lose your mind trying to reference those locations

>superuser in the more colloquial sense as in one who has mastered GNU/Linux
If you can do whatever tasks you want to do with efficiency and without crippling your rig, then that would probably classify

don't switch just for the sake of it or being harcore. use the OS you have the most reason to use or want to use.

>I just wanna get more hardcore
If you can explain what that means, we can help point you in the right direction

>Windows is still a pretty useful O
Windows is malware (software designed to function in ways that mistreat or harm the user). More: gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

I do that a lot.

If you want to learn, you need to practice. Personally I learnt everything because ubuntu and unity was/is an unstable piece of shit and I had to fix all this mess.

If you want a good resource, there's something old but great :
tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/index.html
tldp.org/LDP/Bash-Beginners-Guide/html/index.html
tldp.org/LDP/abs/html/index.html


Maybe try to have a raspberry pi, or a small/old computer, put a distribution and try to manage it, set up some services, host some website, ftp server, mail server or whatever.

If you are autistic enough to want a particular order, just make your custom font. I think something like fontello.com/ might help.

I'm really just experimenting here. I wanna do "da kool computer stuff" but I wanna be real about it.
I don't really have an objective. I'm a wanderer, if that's applicable here.

I'm going to be moving over to Arch because of the more up to date packages and because I like the logo more. The one part I am nervous about is the fact that I have never built a system with Full Disk Encryption and Multiple Drives Under one LVM. I want to build a system that uses all the cool bells and whistles I want is something like in pic related for the partitions.

//I have a
2TB HDD

//And a
250GB HDD

//And a
250GB SSD


I want to all of my disks under one LVM with all the Large parts and the parts that get written to a lot under my 2TB drive. I want my 250GB drive to just put VMs and KVM's in. And then I want all the boot and root parts of my system that can benefit form being on a SSD on my SSD. Im not sure how I would go about encrypting this LVM so I only have to input one password when I bootup.

I looked at
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LVM
and
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Disk_encryption

but there is not info on how to do both any help would be awesome.

IT'S A DIY DISTRO
YOU DON'T ASK FOR HELP ON IT OK?
by asking for help you're lowering yourself to NOOBUNTU TIER
fucking pleb
people like you are the reason we got rid of beginners guide
jeez

>wants more people to get GNU/Linux
>spams retardation at anyone that asks for help getting started
People like you are the reason why normie shit is mainstream. You're the problem.

the levels of irony are absurd - spamming retardation at people asking for help is exactly what arch users do, no?

how can I learn if the information isn't out there do I just do trial and error until I get it right or brick my system or do I talk with people that have done similar things and try and learn from them?

I'm this guy, so I wouldn't know about Arch users, just that autists (funny cause this is coming from someone with ACTUAL autism) like him are ruining it for the rest of us.

Gnu/Linux is just an OS that permits you to run your programs, you does the same shit you do on windows.
A power user might prefer it because of the cli, that have some nice tools to find easily a file, get the files where a string appears, creating small scripts that permits you to do some interesting stuff like renaming a bunch of files following a pattern.
A lot of tools are also great when it comes to programming.
Then again, even if you can use youtube-dl, mpv or ffmpeg on windows, the cli just make it seems better and easier to use.


Then you got a lot of advantages, like a package manager, an OS more secure, a lot of different tools, easy to customize, and it is always a good thing to know how the system work and knowing you can always fix things, mess up with it etc.

phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ryzen-1800x-linux&num=1
it seems so.

iirc some people managed to install it on the PS3 or PS4 and run some old games with emulation.

>find /path -type f -iname "*text*"
find all files with the text in the filename that are located on this path.

>grep -i "text" /path/*
get all the files with the text on it.

>mkcd () {
> [ ! -d "$1" ] && mkdir -p "$1" && cd "$1"
>}
create a directory and move to it

>alias please='sudo $(history -p \!\!)'
execute latest command with sudo.

>alias meteo='curl --silent wttr.in/ | head -7'
get the meteo for your location

it doesn't have a great support. I think we will need X for a while.

Is sway any good yet? Gnome sucks and plasma keeps crashing like there's no tomorrow.

it's clearly a joke satirizing die-hard arch linux users

Power user? Cli? Youtube-dl? Mpv? Ffmpeg?
I'm newer than I thought.

>find /path -type f -iname "*text*"
For daily use, just use globstar:
ls **/*.c # finds all .c files, recursivly.

zsh?

bash, needs to be enabled with: shopt -s globstar

>ls **/*.c
This only goes one level deep

$ mkdir -p foo/bar/baz
$ touch foo/bar/baz/poo.c
$ ls **/*.c
temp/parse.c foo/bar/baz/poo.c
$

How do i make that file explorer on the left side of sublime same color as the editor on the right?
How do i make it font bigger?

Got setup with Arch about two weeks ago. Figured it'd make a nice web-dev environment, as well as a nice learning experience. Learned a lot about Linux so far. But every time I sit down to get work done, I go down a rabbit hole that ends in a pacman pit and wind up learning more about Linux for a few hours. It's been educational, but I've gotta get some fucking work done. Should I just hop over to Debian/Fedora/something else and call it a day, or is this just a temporary liminal space I'll eventually push through?

...

that is only on beginning, later you will not lose time on setting shit up

~ mkdir -p foo/bar/baz
~ touch foo/bar/baz/pleb.c
~ ls **/*.c
ls: cannot access '**/*.c': No such file or directory


Is this zsh-specific or something?

What are settings? What are themes?

1. Preferences > Settings > Add ""font_size": 12" or whatever value you want.
2. Package Control > Install package > "ColorSchemeEditor" > Run that from the console > Select the color scheme you're using > Find the sidebar color and edit it

Can't go wrong with a flavour of Ubuntu user.

Did you enable globstar?

GNU/Linux*

This is the one thing stopping me from using Arch, our household all runs Fedora because and I can easily manage our devices if a problem does arrise, or if a reinstall is needed it takes 20 minutes and it's all back up and running. If I had to do this with the Arch installer it would be such an inconvenience and a pain.

this is what i get when i open color scheme editor

If you want .deb packaging then use Ubuntu, if you want .rpm packaging use Fedora, if you want source based use Gentoo/FreeBSD

install vim you stupid faggot

I originally said two weeks, but it's actually three if you count my first install haha.

That was it. Thank you, based user

i have it, and i dont like it.
I dont like to use it when projects are big, so suck my dick

Is there a CLI alternative to the gtk-theme-config program?

I want to change my colors in an automated fashion via terminal, not using some fucking retarded GUI
I shit you not this package is basically a single binary file that just shoots up the UI

no separate command line interface or anything
amazing

You may also want to enable extglob in order to do things like this:

# Print files ending with jpg and png.
echo +(*jpg|*png)
# Print files not ending with jpg or png.
echo !(*jpg|*png)
# Print files starting with abc and 123 and ending with jpg and png.
echo +(abc|123)*+(jpg|png)

etc

+1

If you want up to date packages and FDE why not use Fedora or Ubuntu 17.04?