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stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg
youtu.be/5Z2O1PUuRGE?t=1m35s
ghostbin.com/paste/zrxp9
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fontconfig#Disable_bitmap_fonts
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

stallman.org/guantanamero.ogg

youtu.be/5Z2O1PUuRGE?t=1m35s

err I put the .iso on to my regular hard drive, then used Rufus to configure the usb drive as a bootable. Seemed to work, and it took me to the Ubuntu installer. I'll try the install again and report back. The problem before was that it was stuck on creating ext4 directory or something like that. New to all this.

Why should I use Linux when it has no video games?

are you trying to install ubuntu TO the USB stick in the installer? or to a hard drive?

I want ubuntu ON the usb drive.

...

can someone tell me why "open with archive manager" shows up twice when i right click a compressed directory. is there a way to remove one of them? i'm on xubuntu 16.04

So, a certain family member of mine always installs crapware, toolbar shit and other malware on her windows laptop. I think I'll install linux on it and see how it goes, just tired of being a constant windows support slave.

What do you guys think is the most idiot-proof desktop linux distro? Usage scenario: basic web browsing, reading PDFs, playing music/video, etc.

I check out a few and sort of thinking about manjaro/mint/ubuntu

Getting a new PC soon and I have the option of either buying Windows 8 or just putting Ubuntu on a USB and going with that.

Be honest, am I going to hinder myself with Ubuntu as a student? I've tried opening Microsoft Word docs from my school in LibreOffice before and the formatting was fucked. Should I just keep Ubuntu in a VM on Windows maybe?

Re-Requesting for the CSS Freinds;
>

Use Wine.
You need a second drive. Get a USB Drive, install ubuntu, plug the second one it. Select it as the installer. Be sure to install GRUB

Fuck off, also: filtered.

There is nothing but quake clones and shitty indie games.

Rarely works

>Being so immature you can't handle a tripcode
lol. Enable forced user if you're so easily triggered

Autism

didn't read; filtered

i dont even know why i answer this question but you have a point.

if you dont need windows to game i would have windows in a virtaul machine not the other way around.

Fag

wasnt there a win xp killer/clone as a linux flavor? maybe that one?

>be sure to install GRUB
The bootloader? If I grab the ubuntu iso from their website, it should be included by default right?
So you need 2 drives to install ubuntu? Or is it purely because I'm not using a Cd to install?

Hi there!
You seem to have made a bit of a mistake in your post. Luckily, the users of Sup Forums are always willing to help you clear this problem right up! You appear to have used a tripcode when posting, but your identity has nothing at all to do with the conversation! Whoops! You should always remember to stop using your tripcode when the thread it was used for is gone, unless another one is started! Posting with a tripcode when it isn't necessary is poor form. You should always try to post anonymously, unless your identity is absolutely vital to the post that you're making!
Now, there's no need to thank me - I'm just doing my bait to help you get used to the anonymous image-board culture!

But Adolf, you are the fag here.

>I'm just doing my bait

Ok this makes more sense now. So basically what I did was turned the USB drive into an installer. It wasn't working because I was trying to install Ubunut onto said installer. Is this more or less correct?
Apologies, I'm essentially learning from scratch here.

yes, that's it. And you can't install Ubunut (I like this typo, has a certain sound to it) because the source is the same as the destination. You would erase the system you're trying to install.

>go to new thread
>no posts
>wait
>1 hour later no posts
>turn off filtering
>every single post is filtered
>what are you doing

anyone try mycroft yet?

haven't had the time to try it after i couldn't get it working the day the core was released. now i see there is even a gnome extension for it.

your filters might be a bit too aggressive. That said, people are arguing with tripfags about being tripfags atm.

What's the best remote desktop software for linux now that teamviewer is kill?

>Using filters

try remmina

what about for the server?

if its on windows i think you only need to enable remote desktop. i havent tried it with a linux server but it's probably something similar

i'm talking about the pros and cons between using x2go, vnc over ssh tunnel, xrdp, etc? You are in the /flt/, remember?

Just installed trisquel for my father on a relatively old machine with 4 gigs of ram. It's so ridicoulusly blazingly fast, I don't even know what to say.

That's because they're freetards and thus have only a small handful of shitty applications to bloat their OS with

Why Trisquel? Is your father Stallman?

He only uses a web browser, libreoffice and thunderbird anyway. I wanted the most lightweight stuff possible and I think I got it.

no that would've been LFS, but it's the thought that counts

>LFS
You know, I wanted something that justwerks

Guys, for some reason I cannot boot into Ubuntu anymore. After selecting it to boot (I dual boot with Windows 7), I get into a black screen and cannot get out of it.

1) Changing with Ctrl+Alt+F1 or any other has no effect. I cannot use a terminal.
2) I tried booting into recovery mode and checking for broken packages, no success.
3) While the screen is black, its brightness keeps switching between total black and a clearer black.

I can use and run commands through a terminal using a LiveCD, though. Does anyone have any idea of what I could do? Should I just format it?

worst case scenario, back up your list of packages and your entire /home/ directory. If you modified /etc/ file back up those too. Then you can reinstall, transfer the old home directory back and basically have your system back.

Sounds like driver/kernel issues. You definitely did do something before it stopped working (updated system, hardware)? If you have cached packages you might try downgrading your kernel to the previous version and run grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg if the *.deb packages don't already have hooks for that.

I don't think I did anything harmful. I think the only commands I used in the last 3 days were apt update and apt upgrade. This happened after the system was up for 3 days downloading anime. The HD where its installed still has plenty of space.

I tried booting into old kernels (there are some available in the boot menu, I didn't install them myself so I suppose apt keeps the old versions?), and got the same problem. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, ~2 months install.

I'd like to avoid formatting, but I guess its the only choice.

Ok so it wasn't the kernel. Then try the graphics-driver -- see if you can downgrade it. After that do the backup/restore path.

I'm sure you could figure out the problem -- possibly by analyzing the logs with journalctl -b, but I'm not sure if you would have to chroot into your installation for that since you can't boot into it directly.

You could alternatively try to disable your login-manager (probably a systemd-service), by removing the appropriate symlink from your filesystem and then boot into a CLI. From there you could check with journactl -b 2 what went wrong.

Well I followed the installer, it said Ubuntu was successfully installed on the USB. I restarted computer, waited for Bios splash screen, selected the usb as boot device. I got this screen and it's been there for a couple minutes without moving.
What does recovering journal mean? Did I do something wrong?

By the way, this is what you get for using a distro that uses a bootsplash that hides the init/systemd output and is (imho) pretty much shit in general.

After about 5 hours my mouse turns full retard. Tracking issues,flat out stops.
I reconnect it but it dosent change.
Nothing in journalctl or dmesg. wtf is going on

Welll i set it to first boot priority in BIOS, restarted, and then it did this instead.
If you can't tell from my terrible picture, something about clearing orphaned inode. I have no idea what any of this means and Google isn't helping a lot.

It means it's clearing corrupted data from a forced shut down.

> (You)
>It means it's clearing corrupted data from a forced shut down.
Should I just let it do its thing then? None of the numbers on screen have changed in about 10 minutes.

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is it safe tot delete the ~/.thumbnails folder?

i mean clearing the cache by deleting the contents of that folder

It's already clean.

thus the "/dev/sdc1, clean" message from systemd
Hmm... I've had kali linux stick on the screen as well. I usually did a few reboots and it fixed itself.

Reboot by pressing alt + SYSRQ / Print screen together and then typing REISUB. This is a "clean" restart without fucking up your filesystem.

I'm sorry. appchanx fucked up my tripcodes for some reason.
sage

Yes

I had a screen say Ubuntu for a few seconds, then i got the same screen again but without the recovering journals part.

thanks for the reply.

so that folder has 91461 files (564 MB). (all .png files)

how can delete all files inside that folder with the terminal?

rm -rf ~/.thumbnails/*

>can't afford fancy nice laptop
>current chromebook falling into disrepair
>want to do some pentest stuff
>so no more chromebook
>end up buying an ideapad 100s
>go to install kali
>fucking faggot uefi bullshit
>spend forever trying to get uefi and grub to play nice
>finally get the thing to boot right
>login
>onboard wifi doesn't show up with lspci or lshw or dmesg
>same with sound card
>spend another forever fucking around with modules to try and get the wifi card recognized
>try a number of different modules
>nothing
>decide to just stick with using my usb wifi adapter for now
>sound isn't a necesscity I guess
also the touchpad is incapable mechanically of doing scrolling so I have to use scrollbars like a fucking idiot. fuck you lenovo fuck you microsoft fuck you realtek rrreeee

does anyone have any suggestions for a good wifi dongle, the one I have is pretty basic (2.4ghz only, slow as shit, low power, etc)

Well i did the restart again with the shortcut. I got it to boot to Ubuntu desktop yay! But now it is not recognizing my Wi-Fi but heyyyy progress.

Again I want to thank the user community for their help with this installation of arch. I have taken extensive notes and am sharing the 2 page install instructions on ghostbin.

ARCH INSTALL VM
ghostbin.com/paste/zrxp9

i hope noobs will be able to use it and if anyone wants to to edit bmg

-user noob
o7

I installed gohufont from pacaur, but it doesn't appears whatever the software (ide, terminal...) is there a way to fix it ?
Archwiki didn't helped that much

so i tried in my terminal
> feh *


but got

bash: /usr/bin/feh: Argument list too long


what do?

Thanks, I'll try that.

oh ps if you do update please reference

paste so us noobs can maybe google update or something

So, I chroot'd into my installation. I ran journalctl -b and it says no journal files were found.

ur trying to look at a pic of my dick :^)

you're probably trying to open an image

do this

feh -r images/*
# or simply
feh -r *

Not to be a cunt, all of that is on the arch wiki.

>Stallman in a hoodie
Can someone please photoshop this picture of stallman in with that guy from that Hacker show?

top kek

seriously tough, i have more that 50000 pics in that folder. how can i see it with feh ?

...

Duckduckgo gave me the answer

rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
sudo fc-cache -fv
and I realize I wasted quads.

still got
bash: /usr/bin/feh: Argument list too long

>feh: Argument list too long
what command did u runn?

You are blind
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fontconfig#Disable_bitmap_fonts

I meant photoshop/gimp them so that they're both in they're hoodies sitting together. Though this is funny too user, thanks

feh -r *

wierd what version? Im at 2.14

Maybe try, if you know the extensions of your images

feh -r *.{png,gif,jpg,jpeg}

stallman is looking at him now

[~] >>> feh -v
feh version 2.2

there are only png images on that folder. the thing is, its a lot of files + 50000..

hmm don know how later version will react

but still no luck with

feh -r *.png

still no luck.

well forget it then

What distro would you reccomend for a netbook with these specs?

Lubuntu or Xubuntu.

damn small linux

xubuntu all the way. i'm using it

Bunsenlabs.
You may or may not need to get the non-PAE version.

Question:


how to delete all files in a directory that start with 89?
like

89313431342.pdf

Fuken saved

give up trying to run an de even a light one

maybe lxde at best

but youre gonna have to install awesome or dwm for maximum memory because your de would suck out some free memory

rm 89*.pdf

swm

If they're not all pdf then do "rm 89*.* " without the quotes (make sure you're in the right directory though).

good

make sure to do
ls 89*.*


and check which files would be selected

I love this

I'm trying out KDE and I really like Dolphin but the one thing I've noticed is that it doesn't allow you to type something and go to a file with what you typed in the name. It works if the file begins with what you type but if I have a file like 'the.file.torrent' and I type 'file' it doesn't jump to it.
Is there a way to enable this or change this behaviour?

More shit needs to be added to this, it has potential

guy who posted the image here.

i'm open to suggestions. i'm no pro in gimp though

A tiny gpl in the background being stomped on by apache,bsd,mit and wtfpl.
gnu hurd mascot getting raped by Tux