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First for I'll stop reporting bait pasta as soon as you stop interjecting ;-)
Jack Wood
First for Arch. Just installed it today. Feels amazing and fast
Jonathan Russell
>have only one old laptop to use for everything >installed WinXP on a spare harddrive just to fuck around with it >did all the updates including the posready 2009 ones >it's blazing fucking fast compared to Vista (which the laptop originally shipped with) >it actually happens to have working GPU drivers (albeit the ones supplied by the manufacturers work only on Vista and upwards) unlike Linux becaue ati went out of business and the last kernel version this card worked on was 2.6.x >thanks to the GPU drivers it also happens to run a tad cooler than my fedora install. >it runs
Josiah Young
You like anime, manga, cute girls, cute girls doing cute things, but above all else, cute girls doing cute girls? Then debian is for you. Nothing should get in the way of your yuri, especially unstable software. Just add deb-multimedia.org/ into your sources.list (or sources.d), install mpv from it, install mcomix for your manga and doujin, install a cute DE, put a lily background, then you're ready to go. Also it sound like "lesbian", so it's perfect.
Dominic Lopez
I did number 3 last week and don't regret. Playing the shit out of Nestopia in Mint 17 mate. Comfortable distro if you don't want to use console too much.
Aaron Edwards
I'd use it as a headless seedbox and get a thinkpad for 50bucks somewhere.
Levi Clark
>use an unsecure and unspported system and be able to play some games on really really low details vs >use an up to date system but no vidya/gpu intensive tasks if you can watch movies and browse the net on linux i would choose it. Not because any free or autism reasons, but because its supported. Also some MATE or LXDE if it works.
Luis Russell
Well, it happens to have security holes too.
Austin Rodriguez
I'll just paste what I posted yesterday because I don't feel like typing it again.
Yes, that's obviously a problem. They can't even secure their own servers, let alone your desktop. But there are other reasons. They also don't issue security advisories, because they don't know anything about security. They delay security updates because they're too incompetent to push them out immediately without breakages. They actually have a package blacklist[1], where they specify that some packages are never updated. Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list will not receive updates by default. Like your display server. And the Linux kernel.
All of this so you can get a pretty theme for Cinnamon out of the box. It's disgusting that you would actually recommend Mint to a new user.
>easiness of packaging >vanilla packages >stable Gonna try Slackware seriously this time. Coming from a Debian background, apart from no dependency resolution by default, what should I expect?
Jayden Russell
manual dependency resolving, shitload of compiling and a community full of old "get off ma lawn" type of guys.
If it's your thing, then enjoy it brother.
Adam Turner
>shitload of compiling You mean this slackbuilds.org/ ? Doesn't sounds so bad. >a community full of old "get off ma lawn" type of guys Some people say the same thing about debian, and even more people say the same thing about linux enthusiasts as a whole.
Camden Ortiz
Thanks. I can't seem to figure out how to insert an audio tool in the status bar. That shows volume, mute status, etc. Do you know what the standard application for this in e.g. ubuntu is?
Adrian Stewart
how is it that everytime i hear about an slackware install i also hear that it got malware later on?
Samuel Russell
>community full of old "get off ma lawn" type of guys. generalizing is bad dude.
Noah Sanders
It's called i3status iirc. the config is by default in ~/.i3status.conf
It's composed from units, you can read about that in the documentation. For audio volume and mute status my unit looked like
Wow, I'm done. When I copy-paste your command into the terminal and replace id 5 with 1, it works.. But when I write the command manually into the terminal, it fails. Wtf is this magic. Is it some kind of weird - symbol?
Anthony Jones
If I turn off a drive in my BIOS, is there any way to turn it back on without rebooting?
Jayden Hill
no, copied straight from the bug report
the most retarded thing about it is that on fedora it works as you'd thought it would work
Chase Phillips
Stupid me. It's the "--" that does it. I overlooked that. So "--" makes it work. Thanks man! Do you know what this -- accomplishes?
Christopher Rodriguez
I installed Red Hat 5.2 on a shitbox for the fuck of it.
Does anyone know where I can find very old versions of KDE in source or RPM form? I don't think KDE themselves have archived them, and the Windows clone riced FVWM it ships with by default is kind of boring.
Aiden Price
curl wttr.in/ curl wttr.in/tokyo
>Noice
Julian Taylor
s/t/r/3
John Anderson
Separates flags from arguments.
Christopher Sanchez
curl wttr.in/moon
Sebastian Thompson
shizzz
Isaac Martin
Compton is turning all my windows borders white,and spamming "glx_render:missing rexture" I have never used compon previously and it seems to not exist as a searchable issue
Christian Bailey
>seems to not exist as a searchable issue so how on earth do you think anyone of us will come up with a solution?
conjuring?
get real
Isaiah Fisher
You're overusing this picture attached to a shitpost.
Aaron Anderson
try backend = "xrender"
Ian Turner
enjoy your tearing
Brody Smith
You could in your infinte wisdom, bless us heathens with your holy commands on how to resolve this. As such, i image there are more then just my install of compton installed in the entire world, the chance people are having an issue with it, is highly likely.
Carson Martin
It's just to understand if the problem is caused by nvidia/amd drivers.
Isaiah Ross
Xrender cluster fucks every thing glx works minus the orginal error
Justin Gutierrez
It was over 320 posts.
It's a miracle it got to the bump limit at all.
Christopher Turner
Well, old threads usually get archived, except this one.
Brayden Campbell
Free Software Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman, 2nd Edition Download: gnu.org/doc/fsfs-ii-2.pdf
Matthew Thompson
but I'm using busybox
Brandon Harris
This is an actual good read.
Alexander Hill
I just installed mint and apt-get update is stuck on 100% [Connecting to extra.linuxmint.com (68.235.39.11)] Is this their servers fucking up? How often does this happen? I can't install anything.
Well, I tried manjaro and it was a lot of fuckery, in the end couldn't get it to run on two monitors. Don't like XFCE either, Cinnamon is the best DE I've tried.
Jonathan Rodriguez
My laptop's webcam doesn't work. When I open Cheese or Skype, its light turns on but all I see is a black screen. What do?
Alexander Phillips
Whats the meaning of ~ in the name of some hidden files? Temp files of some sort?
Kayden Wright
Using i3 on a dankpad. Added a second monitor and it works perfectly, but I want the second monitor flipped. How can I config i3 so that the second monitor screen is on its side?
Owen Allen
Backup. Some programs create them before modifying a file.
Sebastian Flores
I want to try emacs, any hints where to start? On Vim I had vimtutor, is there something related for emacs or could you point me to a good website?
Easton Martin
If a hipster told you AIDS was cool, would you let a man fuck you in the ass too?
Just stick with Vim, if you're already used to that emacs isn't going to be of any more use. If anything, the chords will just slow you down.
Robert Wilson
The included tutorial: C-h t
Austin Brown
I'm running Cinnamon on Ubuntu. Is there any way to add the missing settings to the System Settings app? Like language and stuff?
Grayson James
Hey /fglt/, got a couple questions.
Got a fresh Arch Install and trying to decide what DE to use. I installed XFCE4 but after trying for hours to get sound working, I figured I'd try installing gnome to get all those dependencies so:
1) Would installing Gnome to get all the sound and wireless menus for xfce4 work?
2) I want to install lightdm over Gdm. Would using that with Gnome cause any conflicts if I just stick with Gnome?
3) I tried to install Antergos' webkit2 greeter from the AUR and I just get textless objects and cursor?
Thanks famalamaring dongs
Joseph Sanchez
Thank you.
Lincoln Gutierrez
I take it you haven't tried KDE.
Adam Young
I'm trying to mirror a Tumblr site for personal use. To go through at my own pace later.
Here's what I tried wget --random-wait -k -r -p -e robots=off -U Mozilla/5.0 Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 site.tumblr.com/
but this doesn't download the images. All the html and css/js points locally, and it does save the javascript gallery, but when browsing offline all the images are broken (i.e. they still point towards the tumblr domain).
Do I need to set the recursion level deeper and specify .png and .jpg for --accept? I tried with -H and just downloaded other htmls from the other sites referenced, no images.
Hudson Campbell
Another solution I thought of was to go through each individual post.html with sed, extract the image url, and download with wget, but it seems like an extremely awkward method. It seems like something vanilla wget should be able to solve by itself
William Garcia
I'm using Xubuntu, and when I scroll on webpages, it looks like the middle of the screen is hitting a speed bump. Or rather it's more like a single solitary wave that's stuck in place when I scroll. Same thing when I watch anime and there's a lot of movement on screen.
Any ideas what I can do?
Brandon Clark
So people here were helping me out yesterday writing a sed script that performs multiple changes on "project*" files in the current directory then saves them as "assign*".
When I check the archive of yesterday's thread someone suggested a change which has worked.
Can anyone help me also get a file named "corr*" for each "project*" file that notes the which lines are being changed by the script before they are changed?
I swear this is my last sed question -- ive been digging around the man page and net for hours.
>--restrict-file-names=windows can you explain this one please? >--domains website.org tumblr image domains are all like 67.media.tumblr and stuff like that. should I use *.media.tumblr/* or what?
ok I'll read this I actually had found a few backup scripts but they all seemed excessively complicated going for dinner. will report back later or tomorrow
Lucas Garcia
Get out then?
Michael Reed
great pic
Nathan Powell
>replies to bait summer
Jacob Wilson
>is there a way to de-GNU my system? >what are the alternatives?
>please help, someone interjected me and told me to call it GNU/Linux and I want to rekt him
Oliver Jackson
Last thread in a nutshell.
Gavin Turner
stop
Gavin Carter
I'm going to need to add more space on my home parition soon, but I have never repartitioned linux before. I am sharing half of my HD with OS X and I know what I need to do with OS X. I'm just a little worried I'm going to fuck it up and will have to reinstall my OS. Any help would be apreciated. I prefer to use Gparted.
Oliver Harris
>Shitposters from /fglt/ constantly bombarding /flt/ threads telling people they should come over to the _real_ linux general >Tell non-gnu users to go away
You can't have your cake and eat it, Stallmanite.
Besides, replying to poor bait, how silly does that make you look?
Jayden Foster
This place wasn't meant for posting blogs though
Logan Hernandez
It's not meant for many things, and yet here we are.
Even if it wasn't meant to be a friendly thread, how does feeding the trolls help? And to be clear, interjections are trolls just as much as any "muh busybox/alpine" post is.
Dominic Perry
How are you planning to get the extra space? Remove the OSX partitions? Shrink root?
Leo Diaz
Interjections are useful, since this is a friendly thread, why not educate new users to use the correct terms?
Owen Powell
because it's not the fucking correct term, it's the raving of an incopetent madman. and all you stallmanians are just as deluded and idiotic as your so called messiah
Leo Morris
So you're telling me my system is lying? :^)
Jaxon Brown
>Being rude and pedantic to new users about common colloquialisms is "educational"
You can stop your FUD now.
Alexander Cook
yes, it's a lie perpetrated by your fellow stallmanians, it's not gnu/linux it's just linux, that's what the guy who invented it named it so that's what it's called. rms saying it should be gnu/linux is no different than if the creator of C# demanded that all things programmed in that language be called C#/program name
Owen Hughes
>Interjections are useful, No they aren't. I think you may have been shitposting too long, and are starting to believe your own posts.
Brayden Nelson
Linus wrote only the kernel, m8.
Joseph Garcia
yeah and rms can't get that right, hence the state of gnu/hurd
Aaron Young
My raid array, is performing like shit,only getting 5mb/s. I'm out of ideas/options of what it could be
Ryan Foster
Linux is just a part of the operating system. GNU is an incomplete OS. Linux is an incomplet OS. Together it's a full working OS. (Except that the kernel is interchangeable)
Bentley Evans
so is the toolchain bruh, and it's far to minor a part of linux to get billing, let alone top billing
Ian Foster
>b-but my dishwasher runs linux with busybox!!!
Sebastian Ortiz
someone sounds insecure
Brandon Lee
Shrink the OS X Partition and add the free space from it to my home.