/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Previously on: Welcome to /fglt/. We are always open to users of all levels, including absolute beginners.

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

Before asking, please search for answers to your questions in resources.

Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.

Understand that much of your software from Windows will be unavailable, although maybe WINE can make up for it.

IRC connection details:
Server: chat.freenode.net:6667 (no SSL, 6697 for SSL) - Channel: #flt
If you don't have an IRC client (which you should), go to kiwiirc.com/client/irc.freenode.net/flt to use IRC on a web client.

Visit the Friendly GNU/Linux Thread/Website:
fglt.nl/

Resources:
man
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
gnu.org/

Other urls found in this thread:

github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules
techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/
segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/11/answering-controversy-stability-vs-security-is-something-you-configure/
stackoverflow.com/questions/30992855/randomly-swapping-file-names-in-python/32560484#32560484
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

I fucked up, the correct previous thread is .

I seemed to have fixed my issue by purging all nvidia drivers and reinstalling.

Ok. So update on .

I have installed to usb. USB now boots my GNU/linux.
I don't understand why sudo command does not work. Typing su also just rings me to the next line in shell.
Any help would be appreciated.

So guys I have a question

If I attempt GPU-passthrough but I only have one GPU, will I have to leave my GNU/Linux installation with the integrated GPU while the virtual machine basically owns my dedicated GPU?

If I were to need the GPU on Linux itself, would it be easy to just turn off the pass through temporarily and use it?

Ok i just fixed the issue i think. I created a password for the boot up, or something.

I'm curious /ftl/, what do you use for backup? I used to use FreeFileSync on Windows like the baby I am, but there's nothing of the sort on the official repositories. Copying files through rsync is nice, but what about when I delete stuff from the main drive? Wouldn't I want to delete that same file on the other drive? I could do a very crude script to check for filenames in both drives and delete what is not in the main drive, but I'm sure someone has done it prior.

>/ftl/
>friendly thread Linux
Be right back, going to kill myself for a while.

when dual screening with my shitty ass laptop (HP) , while on xubuntu ,
this thing on my left monitor appeared.

does anyone know what might be this?

What programs do you guys use for the "open with" FF extension, except mpv? Thinking about some shell scripts, but I'm lacking ideas.

youtube-dl

Debian Stable is kind of a pain in the butt to use for desktops, isn't it?

Once I switched to Testing and Sid it was like a night/day difference. Was juggling custom backports before that often never built because of dependency hell, now everything Just Werks(TM)

I love Debian but Stable is just not a good desktop distro. mpv doesn't even let you watch streams for goodness' sake.

Testing and Sid are where it's at

which DE that doesn't look shit is best for 2gb machine?

LXDE is the lightest, and it's very customizable. Good base for ricing if that's what you want

Of course. Stable is when you want all the uptime all the time on your sever. Testing is neat since it's a little up to date with the bleeding edge, but a little wary of early adoption.

>mfw Stable doesn't even boot up new GPUs
I wish they updated the damn kernel, their current one doesn't like Maxwell.

What would be the best DE for Linux?
I'm looking for a DE that is: Good looking (not really necessary, but appreciated), lightweight, doesn't take my resources and shreds them in a blender,
and convenience.
>inb4 use a fucking window manager

see

>Debian Stable is kind of a pain in the butt to use for desktops, isn't it?
yes.
Some hardware will have a better support with a recent kernel release. And some softwares, as you said, will have more features

should i use swap if I have SSD?
mfw 2gb memory

Lad, I'm in the same boat as you.
>inb4 2gb ram master race

I have an external hard drive. Sometimes I plug it in, copy paste all my music, videos and pictures and for the documents I remove those I no longer need.

I use swap with 8GB. Pic related, ahoviewer is pretty shit at memory management.

What are the merits of openSUSE?
I never hear people talking about it here, was curious if any of you were fans

I have both externals and internals, that's not the issue. The issue is removing those that exist on the backup but not on the main drive. For example, I might have decided to sort some of the huge cesspool that is my pictures folder. The pics would still be an unsorted mess on the backup, but they would be sorted as well.

rsync does deltas so I'm not sure what you are getting at here

Better read the fucking manual then.

>fglt

..Really? When did this happen?

checkout rsnapshot, it's an actual backup solution built on rsync

Wait, fuck, I know that it does this. It's a copying tool, it doesn't outright delete the files on the destination.

>It's a copying tool, it doesn't outright delete the files on the destination.
>it's a copying tool

>rsync
>sync

No, it's a syncing tool.

>rsync - a fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool

Talking about backups, I had a question

I have an external HDD. I own two computers, both running Debian Testing. I'd like to configure them so that folders A (in 1 machine), B(in the other machine), and C (in the external) are sync'd up. Meaning, whenever I plug in the USB external drive, that it checks for any extra files either of them has and copy them to the one that doesn't have them.

Is this possible with rsync, or am I looking for another tool?

jesus christ are you really arguing with me that rsync can't do destination deletes?

/usr/bin/rsync -aAXq --delete --exclude-from='/home/user/.config/rsync/exclude_dirs.txt' / /media/backup

what do you think the --delete option does?

Currently my mouse buttons are bound to homerow number line. Yesterday xev reported them as F13-F24 correctly. Randomly(have not restarted since it was working) it is bound to the home row again.
Configs are as below. Did i miss something in the process?
.xinitrc:
if [ -s ~/.Xmodmap ]; then
xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap
fi
remote_id=$(
xinput list |
sed -n 's/.*Naga.*id=\([0-9]*\).*keyboard.*/\1/p'
)
[ "$remote_id" ] || exit

mkdir -p /tmp/xkb/symbols
cat >/tmp/xkb/symbols/custom

BUMP

you can do it with rsync, you will need to run it as systemd service that checks for when the external drive is mounted and runs the script then

No, I'm actually not. I'm just pointing out what the man page says about rsync. I'll go read about it some more.

I installed linux mint on my toshiba laptop two times and it still doesnt boot. Asks for me to stick in a boot device and press a key or restart. wat DO

It's called "glitch art".

>I installed linux mint
Why? It's crap.

It's not crap.

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.

[1] github.com/linuxmint/mintupdate/blob/master/usr/lib/linuxmint/mintUpdate/rules

techrepublic.com/article/why-the-linux-mint-hack-is-an-indicator-of-a-larger-problem/

*Fist bumbs u*

kek, is this now pasta?

Is this good partitioning?
First time using GNU/Linux.
Will probable stick to this distro for the next 4 months

Would it be possible to randomly swap filenames on a lot of images? They're all the same format.

>Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list will not receive updates by default. Like your display server. And the Linux kernel.
Proof? Everyone can say everything. Like: Anything with a 4 or a 5 on that list is a double whopper.

My personal preference is

250 MB for the EFI boot partition
20 GB for the root partition (/)
8 GB of swap
everything left for home

So you're not very far off.
Maybe consider reducing the root partition to 20GB, you seriously are not going to need more than ~10 GB in most cases, but 20's a good compromise. 32 is a bit overkill

You'll use a window manager either way. Your question makes no sense, is highly subjective and inane. It gets asked all the time and has been answered countless times (worthless answers).

Shouldn't be hard to implement in bash or python or something

raspbian is my first experience with linux, kinda frustrating sometimes but fun in general. now i want to try something on an old laptop

Try Debian with LXDE. Upgrade it to Testing before you do anything

You'll be delighted

Thanks
Root is now 20 and added the 12 GB to home
My friend reccomended me a small partition for EFI because it never fills up past 10 MB
107 MB was the minimum

If you have more then 2gb of ram, you dont need swap. Rest looks fine. I would also leave unused space at the end of the drive,inscase you need to expand any part of your system.
50gb-100gb depending on your useage.

>20gb for /
NIgga you're retarded
Maybe for the base day 1 iinstall sure.
5 years down the line, fuck no.
Systems grow, you also dont know if he is going to use multilib and have two copies of the same libs.

you can just enable the updates
segfault.linuxmint.com/2013/11/answering-controversy-stability-vs-security-is-something-you-configure/

Windows users: b-but you can turn it off!
Ubuntu users: b-but you can turn it off!!
Mint users: b-but you can turn it off!!!

If he needed that much space for his root partition and he was dealing with that huge load of packages, he probably is very experienced and not a novice Linux user, m8

For most users 20 GB for root is more than enough

For advanced users of course it is not necessarily the case

F R I E N D L Y

is your swap part. in ssd?

Would you mind posting b.jpg?

>F R I E N D L Y

So 2 years down and he is 98% full on his root partition,because he is actually using it, and not throwing an epeen fight on disk space, he will be fucked cause of now way to partition more on to his / ?
My last desktop,that i ran debian on, was well over 300GB on / after 10 years of use

Yes, but it's barely used. I posted the pic as an example of going over 8GB.

I'm also interested.

Okay I found this, but it would require me to enter all of the files names and there are hundreds. It also only outputs a specific sort of file name (clip1, clip2).

stackoverflow.com/questions/30992855/randomly-swapping-file-names-in-python/32560484#32560484

I guess I could dump all of the names into a file with "ls". Then somehow shuffle all the lines and send it out again.

I don't know where to go from there though, I'm not very good at this.

It doesn't actually have to be a "rename" sort of operation either. It could copy a new set of files into a folder or whatever. As long as the names are randomized.

It's just an image I found, sorry.

do you need to swap filenames or just randomize them?

for fname in *.jpg
do
mv fname $RANDOM.jpg
done

Your usecase =/ the average usecase for most people

Is there a way to change the cursor to a different color(in this instance red) when caps lock is on?

Both, I guess? Like imagine tearing all the pages out of a book and putting them back in a random order. Still the same book, but it's a mess now.

I'm SSH'd into a remote machine. Both my local and remote machine run tmux.
I have a feeling my ctrl-X keystroke isn't going through to the remote machine.
How can I verify if the remote machine is receiving my keystroke properly? What can I do if it doesn't?

TMPFILE=‘mktemp‘
ls *.jpg > $TMPFILE
for file in *.jpg; do read line; mv -v "${file}" "${line}"; done < $TMPFILE[/code[

completely untested, might work

This deletes a lot of the files, I guess because of random overwriting. But I combined it with first and also had to shuffle the TMPFILE and it seems to have worked.

Thanks guys~

Why do I get a kernel panic after a clean install of manjaro?

With current gen SSD's, is running a small server(lamp) benifical? Or will it kill an ssd as all reports from 5 years a go indicate?

>majaro
Thats why

Call it glitch art and upload it on here, i'd love that as a wallpaper.

Wget for Sup Forums threads, youtube-dl and mpv.

Have you tried setting your clock back to before that problem started happening?

In debian it would be a good idea to use the seperate multimedia repo. it's a licensing thing.

xev?

The one you configure to your liking.

About the time shitty apps guy was btfo.

When stallmanist spend all day spamming f5 to find out when the linux thread is auto saged so they can start of new thread.
It is forcing people use who the Linux Kernel, but use other uselands to force them selves to post in an politically incorrect thread

Looks like a seamless ground texture. Look in modding forums for uncompressed ones.

(You)

>truthurts.tiff

I can't, my clock is mounted read-only

Sick reference bro, your references are out of control.

10/10

Please don't try to imply that shitty apps guy is in any way representative of old /flt/.

We had enough fun getting that faggot to explain why he couldn't just stick to the fucking wiki OP post
>muh changes to the post
Faggot was literally too lazy to make a wiki account, but more than happy to waste his time making infographics that were out of date within the month.

I've been using Linux for about six years, but during that time I've never had a graphics card that wasn't outdated. The machine I was using when I switched had a card that was several years old at the time, and the machine that I eventually replaced it with uses the graphics built into its Intel CPU.

I've been considering buying a graphics card for a while, now, so that I can play games (now that there are some games for Linux), and since my HDMI port seems to have stopped working, I think the time is right.

As far as I can tell, AMD is the only good option for Linux, especially if I want open source drivers. It seems that they are about to release a new generation that uses 14 nm technology, which is a big improvement over the current 28 nm technology.

So, is AMD indeed the right way to go, or not? How long will it take for support for the next-gen cards to be added to the (Gentoo) kernel? Can you use older drivers to get basic functionality, or not? Anything else I should know about graphics cards in Linux?

Anyone with ubuntu here? Does your apt-get update works?

Nigga what the fuck did you do?

>amd only good option for linux
>amd open source
Both blod and open source drivers are dog shit

Nvidia is really the only way you want to go,unless you're one of the stallmanist,and resfuse to use anything sane.

>gentoo
Dont use gentoo,it has no support for nvidia(it is limiting your freedom to install what ever the fuck you want)

4.7 is the kernel you will have to wait for.

i have no idea. please help.

i have laptop with intel graphic as integrated and nvidia, with ubuntu gnome 15.10.
I have problem with dual screen with external vga screen, when i plug in the VGA, the laptop keep blinking with or it seems DE restart over and over with a blank VGA screen, cant make it work.
Still, if i switched with xfce, it works like charm, any solution?

you might have typed in your sources list in wrong.

AMD is in an awkward stage right now. Not only does Nvidia dominate AMD in every single way on performance, but AMD also has problems with merging huge stacks of code on newer kernels. There are benchmarks of Phoronix using a custom kernel with AMDGPU and AMDGPU Pro, but they're both really behind Nvidia even with the blob user space driver. You have to wait and see how Polaris performs and build yourself the kernel since it's going to be merged on the newer revisions.

I feel for the meme and the meme was real.

Arch Linux, for some reason, is so much faster than Ubuntu that I had installed. Everything is faster and more responsive. The system boots up so much faster and shuts down in like two seconds. I wish I feel for the b8 a long time ago.

I use Transmission as my torrent client, and whenever i want to open a file i've just downloaded by clicking on it, it opens the folder that it's located in instead of opening the file i click.

Is there anyway to fix this so that it opens the file instead of the folder?