/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

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There are four ways to try GNU/Linux, you can:

0) Install a GNU/Linux OS on a VM (Virtual Machine/VirtualBox) for "safety purposes"
1) Use the Live ISO directly without installing anything, that way, you can get a "full GNU/Linux experience".
2) Dual-boot GNU/Linux with Windows/Mac (recommended if you want to learn more about GNU/Linux)
3) Go balls deep and overwrite everything with GNU/Linux

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Resources:
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Your friendly neighborhood search engine (searx.me, ixquick, whatever)
wiki.archlinux.org/ (Most of the configurations and troubleshoots will work on various distros, including Debian)
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

Other urls found in this thread:

twitter.com/1990sLinuxUser
minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=✓&object_id=9882
beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/tagger.html
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ncmpcpp#Enabling_visualization
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

Reposting my question in the free thread: Why does systemd get so much hate?

>tfw Wikipedia redirects "GNU/Linux" to "Linux" and has a separate article, "Linux kernel" for the actual Linux.

It violates the UNIX philosophy; keeping things simple and programs doing one job.

Because it does things different than INIT and old fucks don't want to adapt

>old fucks don't want to adopt
Like this one: twitter.com/1990sLinuxUser

Well, technically, both GNU and Linux are (incomplete) operating systems.

>twitter.com/1990sLinuxUser
nice

Then emacs also rapes it.

Don't call it GNU/Linux, it gives that Poo in Loo Stallman too much credit for Linus's work.

What a fucking Pajeet. Remove Stallsham from the sticky.

Linus will be completely irrelevant once HURD is completed.

Stallman will be remembered for centuries.

>mom i posted it yet again haha!

>Those Skinless Fingers on his feet
>Those Skin Cracks

I somehow Feel apauled at the open source initiative staff.

minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=✓&object_id=9882

Tear that HACK FRAUD STALLMAN off this web zone

Stallsham is already irrelevant. It's only Linus's work he crawls to.

Everyone knows who Stallman is. I learned about him in World History class in high school. Literally NO ONE KNOWS OR CARES about sinus snorevalds.

Fuck off back to iFaggot

I have a question

Whenever I want to select a file using an application (e.g. selecting an image to be posted via firefox), I get this butt-ugly thing in pic related.

I don't care for the aesthethics, but for some reason this thing only gives me very limited access. I have four drives in my computer, and I can't access any of them with this dialogue box. It's no problem with a regular file manager, but this thing here for some reason can't access shit (or rather, doesn't even display it).

How can I fix this?

the init part does only that
systemd-timesyncd keeps clocks in sync with ntp
systemd-analyze analyzes boot times
localectl sets the locale
etc

That's the Qt filechooser. I don't know how you managed to make Firefox use it. Usually Firefox should be using the GTK2/3 filechooser which looks like pic related.

Beats me too, Firefox is suddenly using nemo again.

Thanks for the name though, that should be all I need to find out how to change it for other applications.

Is there a simple CLI opus tagger like metaflac? I can't find anything.

Beets. Beads. Bees? Beads.

beets.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guides/tagger.html

except GNU has multiple kernels thanks to the power of licensing and Linux only has one kernel and no userland.

When do I use [ and when [[ ?
What is the better practice?

mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/031

That looks rather heavy. I just want to set or print tags , and perferably that works with multiple formats.

>GNU has multiple kernels
That's a good jape mate

there's hurd, kfreebsd, linux-libre, linux, mach

>hurd[...]mach
listing mach 2 times

>linux-libre, linux

this is how free software licenses work

is there a way that i can save my mouse map settings so i dont have to type
xinput set-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 1
everytime i log in?

>this is how free software licenses work
Taking someone else's work, slapping a license on it and calling it your own?

what's the general method for installing something on linux? i'm trying to install racket so i'm downloading the linux version for my architecture from their website. what do i do with the .sh file?

How much longer till you guys grow up and stop using Linux?

Put it in your ~/.xinitrc if you use that

this is a friendly thread. Get out with your baiting and trolling and general nastiness.
(I mean this is Sup Forums of all places, if you want to shitpost try Sup Forums, Sup Forums or whatever, they will be happy to have you there. Just fuck off)

put it in your .xinitrc right abvove the exec line

you can't just change the license. the author of that software specifically wanted people to fork it, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen that license.
by using your package manager. if it is only there via sh file, you need to run it. in order to do this you need to make it executable first.

>gnu has loads of kernels
>lists a linux kernel with a gnu license attached to it
>cries
ok user

I have this little problem with the visualizer in ncmpcpp and CAVA when none of them show the visualizer, any way to fix it?

first step is to try and install the software you want from your distribution's repository.

Downloading things from websites should be the very last thing you do.

>has no idea what he's talking about
>posts anyways
ok kid

did you do everything described here?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ncmpcpp#Enabling_visualization

>I'll take this kernel code, compile it with certain options turned off and call it my own

got it, thanks

Yeah but now the ncmpcpp vis shows like this and the CAVA doesn't shows up

It's called a fork user.
Linux-libre is a fork of linux kernel with binary kernel blobs removed because inclusion of non-free kernel blobs (necessary for a lot of hardware combinations to work) is against FSF's philosophy.

Please refrain from using words and terms you don't understand.

Thanks

i want to install something into my usr directory, but it needs super user permissions to create the directory. and when i su to become super user, it messes up because i'm not the user whose usr directory i want it installed in. what do? i was doing ./filename.sh

change ownership with chown

Is there a real time voice modulator?

chmod -R 777 /home/user/folder_you_created

so i su, then chown the file, and then execute it?

>Fork a package, change a few options in the config, say it's mine

post mpd.conf and cava config

Can anyone tell me if Ubuntu Gnome has the driver detection thing that comes in the standard Unity package?I ask because I hate using Ubuntu's software centers for installing drivers.

do you mean /usr
or /home/user?

If its /usr,you should use your packager manager to install it.

go file a complaint to fsf :))

I don't know the answer, but Ubuntu 16.04 has Gnome-Software now, doesn't it? So at least you don't need to worry about Ubuntu Software Center

sorry im a nub, literally installed linux last night.
i opened xinitrc in /etc/X11/xinit and it now looks like this
#!/bin/sh

# /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
#
# global xinitrc file, used by all X sessions started by xinit (startx)

# invoke global X session script
xinput set-button-map 8 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
. /etc/X11/Xsession
I restarted but my mouse didnt get remapped
was this the place i was supposed to put the command?

audio_output {
type "fifo"
name "my_fifo"
path "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
format "44100:16:2"
}

and the cava one is the default config

No, not there. How do you start your session? What DE do you use?

Have you tried it? 99% of the Ubuntu packages aren't even in there.I'm now juggling three shitty software managers(including Synaptic).Way to go Ubuntu!

using Cinnamon in Linux Mint

you know that these are just frontends right?
just use aptitude and be done with it.

that may be your problem the default cava config does not provide anything because everything in it is a comment.
remove the ; infront of
method = fifomethod = fifo
source = /tmp/mpd.fifo
bars = 0
bar_width = 3
bar_spacing = 1
and restart cava
source = /tmp/mpd.fifo

I haven't really used cinnamon but there should be a place to set the startup programs, you might be able to just set it there or you might need to put it in a .sh script and load that at startup.

Can I use Facebook with Linux?

Of course not and Linux got no web browsers, instead they use Freedombook on fidonet

Absolutely not, facebook® hasn't released proper drivers for the Linux™ kernel yet

Okay, found startup apps and added the command. Thanks for the help user

unfortunately cava still the same, but, how i can fix the ncmpcpp one? that one still fucked

OK thanks, I'm going to keep my Mac then.

10/10

Use an Xorg conf file instead. Here's how mine looks like for reference.

Section "InputClass"
Identifier "Ergo Mouse"
MatchIsPointer "true"
Option "ButtonMapping" "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8 10"
EndSection

post your ncmpcpp config

# Visualizer
visualizer_fifo_path = "/tmp/mpd.fifo"
visualizer_output_name = "my_fifo"
visualizer_sync_interval = "30"
visualizer_in_stereo = "yes"
#visualizer_type = "wave" (spectrum/wave)
visualizer_type = "spectrum" (spectrum/wave)
visualizer_look = "+|"

# Playlist
song_columns_list_format = "(6f)[blue]{l} (25)[red]{a} (40)[green]{t|f} (30)[yellow]{b}"
now_playing_prefix = "$b$5»$7»$1» "
now_playing_suffix = "$/b"
playlist_display_mode = "columns" (classic/columns)
autocenter_mode = "yes"
centered_cursor = "yes"

# Bars
song_status_format = "$2%a $1• $3%t $1• $4%b {(Disc %d) }$1• $5%y$1"
progressbar_look = "─╼"
titles_visibility = "no"

# Browser
browser_playlist_prefix = "$2plist »$9 "
browser_display_mode = "columns" (classic/columns)

# Colors
discard_colors_if_item_is_selected = "yes"
header_window_color = "black"
volume_color = "cyan"
state_line_color = "black"
state_flags_color = "yellow"
main_window_color = "white"
color1 = "default"
color2 = "green"
main_window_highlight_color = "red"
progressbar_color = "yellow"
statusbar_color = "black"
active_column_color = "red"
visualizer_color = "yellow"

# Others
mpd_music_dir = "/home/user/music"
mpd_crossfade_time = "5"
#song_window_title_format = "MPD: {%a > }{%t}{ [%b{ Disc %d}]}|{%f}"
search_engine_display_mode = "columns" (classic/columns)
follow_now_playing_lyrics = "yes"

So basically, when programming in bash, even when [ is possible, I should use [[ because it's less error prone, but when I write something simple in sh, I use [. Am I doing it right?

y

I have no idea whats wrong with your ncmpcpp because the config looks good to me

Thank you.

No. You can use [ safely. And [ is portable, not [[.

Welp, when he writes a BASH script, why not using superior [[ ]]? Since shell scripts are declared by a shebang, nobody would try to run it with sh or zsh anyway.

Why write a bash script when a simple shell script will do the job?

Hi there, 1990sLinuxuser

Some things are better done in bash. Nobody want's to write cpu eating emulations for simple things, just to be portable as fuck.

>Some things are better done in bash
They're really rare. And if you really need something more complex than shell, maybe you should try python.

Well, I probably did something wrong when i was installing the whole thing, who knows, I'll figure it out eventually. Anyway Thanks for the help I appreciate it.

Using Kubuntu, how do i disable middle click paste?

I switched to Linux Mint at about the same time Windows 10 came out. How do I make all of my friends switch, too?

by showing them neat and useful stuff. don't force it, they will ask when they are interested.

I am about to install fedora23.
Should I go with mate or cinnamon spin?

I installed KDE but now urxvt have this weird black border.

How can I fix it?

Tell them the reasons you made the switch.

How long is a piece of string?

>has
Fix'd

Cinnamon