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I'm currently using Clementine for playing audio and managing my audio files in Debian. I don't like it, but I haven't found anything better. CMUS is nice looking and all, but my library is VERY large, and I want software that makes managing the library, editing tags, and so on simple. Can anyone make a recommendation?
Zachary Gray
puddletag. Use a player to play the files, use a tagger to tag them.
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8 sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found
What now?
Ethan Thompson
Install the deb
Hunter Taylor
>2014.02.17 ubuntu...
Kayden Collins
hurr durr. It's working, thanks.
Jonathan Perez
I guess your shitpost was meant for
Isaiah Kelly
Will check out puddletag, thanks. What player would you suggest though? The CLI players are really kind of a pain to navigate with my library.
Tried before, same problems as CMUS.
My library is currently 1.7TB of mp3s and FLACs. It's legitimately huge, with tens of thousands of songs that I've accumulated over the last 18+ years. Navigating this many songs with CLI is honestly kind of a pain.
Julian Carter
I usually use mpd and ncmpcpp or just deadbeef. Quodlibet is pretty good, gmusicbrowser is as well. Honestly though you might not have explored all the key shortcuts and options with ncmpcpp if you found it hard to navigate through your library, it's actually quite flexible an allows you to view your library by any number of tags, sort it is various ways including created/modified date, lets you view folders and browse outside of the library.
VirtualBox uses Qt for its GUI, so it won't use your GTK themes. The Arch Wiki has an explanation on the possible solutions to make Qt programs look like your GTk theme.
Wyatt Brooks
I have a X220t with a HDD and an mSATA SDD. I'm currently only using Xubuntu on the SDD but would like to dual boot with Windows 7 on the HDD and Xubuntu on the SSD. However, I want it to automatically boot Xubuntu (so if I turn on my laptop and go for a coffee, it should go directly into Xubuntu). If I want to boot into Windows instead, I want it so I need to do an extra step. How do I achieve this?
Levi Cruz
>sudo: add-apt-repository: command not found lol what, time to reinstall i guess
It took me 3 seconds to search the internet and find out what's happening. A reinstall won't help you, you should reconsider your life.
Ryder Lewis
Your point is?
Chase Howard
His point is that you're a retard for suggesting to reinstall over something that can be figured out in 3 seconds.
Gabriel Cox
So you're going to tell that if add-apt-repository returns command not found, the system isn't broken?
Thomas Cox
>offer a bunch of different downloads >don't explain what the differences are between them Why is this allowed?
I'm guessing virtual is for virtual machines, but I have no idea how extended and vanilla are supposed to differ from the standard release, and there doesn't seem to be a page on their wiki about it.
Jack Cox
the handbook literally explains it. Anyways since you can seem to rtfm I don't think alpine is the distro for you.
Hudson Martin
best tool to graph network/sysusage over time on ubuntu 14lts?
Chase Johnson
I asked /dpt/, but I think I'll also ask here.
I got two questions about software licensing. Lets say something is licensed under BSD 3 clause and GPL making it dual licensed. Would both the conditions of the licenses apply or do you have to pick one of the two licenses if you were to do a derivative? My 2nd question is that GPL requires you to use the same license again and BSD does not. If you took BSD licensed software and switched to GPL, would the BSD license apply anymore?
Levi Watson
Try lollypop.
Jaxson Rivera
add-apt-repository isn't included in Ubuntu, it's a "3rd party" program.
If you are referring to some other handbook, then please link to it, as it is not linked to either on the Alpine Linux site, nor does it come up in search engine results for "alpine linux handbook".
>Anyways since you can seem to rtfm I don't think alpine is the distro for you. Oh, sod off with your juvenile elitism.
Hm I swear they (used) to explain it somewhere. Anyways, extended is the only iso with some added packages on the iso, the other two are pretty much netinstall. Standart ships with a grsec patched kernel, vinalla a normal kernel, and I assume virt is for VMs
Jeremiah Cox
Thanks.
Eli Price
I just installed Ubuntu 16.04 Does it come with generic usb 3 drivers? Do I need to install my mobo's chipset drivers?
Logan Parker
Yes. No.
Andrew Ward
After a lot of hand-wringing about convenience versus Canonical cancer, I finally decided to just up and ditch Ubuntu for Debian Stretch on my laptop.
And so far it's been completely painless. I don't know why I didn't do this sooner.
Chase Campbell
Debian testing is comfy as fuck.
Debian is general is pretty great: >stable releases are really stable >netinstall gives a nice barebones system for those that want to customize from the ground up >testing has loads of good packages, some practically in the bleeding edge >it's definitely a free GNU/Linux distribution, but the FSFfags don't like that it has an option for non free packages
Owen Nelson
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Evan Wood
lol
Jonathan Carter
Thanks!
Jose Martinez
Would like to move from stable to stretch but am kind of not sure how to do this without fucking up. Do I really need a clean install?
Carson Hughes
Well friendos, I must be dumb, because, not only can I not solve this problem, but I can't even find the "detailed report." I'm trying to install Chrome because I would really like to watch my Taiwanese claymations on Netflix, but alas, I am unable. Anyone got ideas?
Juan Lee
in that nice little terminal to the right type in the following
sudo apt-get install google-chrome
Connor Baker
Install Chromium, which is a FOSS version of Chrome sudo apt-get install chromium
Dominic James
Uhh, no, you don't. Because that's not in the Debian repos.
Chromium doesn't support Widevine, which Netflix requires.
Blake Morgan
afaik it's just a matter of changing your sources.list, replacing instances of stable or jessie with testing. then just upgrade as normal
Alexander Thomas
apt install
Just drag and drop into the terminal.
Adam Barnes
I like KDE and all the features it provides, but I don't like how there's a chance of a feature breaking with every new update. Any DE suggestions?
Andrew Lopez
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Thomas Lewis
You may like Cinnamon. I legitimately like Gnome3, too, but it definitely won't make everyone happy.
Mason Brooks
Try adding contrib non-free to sources.list.
Jaxson Cooper
Any word processors for Linux that are comparable to MS Word? I'm a collegefag who can't switch to Linux because LibreOffice isn't really cutting it.
Ayden Moore
sudo dpkg -i name.deb
Jordan Parker
Pretty sure the best options on Linux are LibreOffice, OpenOffice, or Google Docs
If anyone knows anything else, lemme know.
Blake Lee
contrib and non-free are already there.
I use LibreOffice in place of Office quite frequently. What are you finding is the problem with LibreOffice? My guess is that you don't need a new program, but rather, you need to understand how to operate LibreOffice or change its settings, unless you're having a really specific edge case.
Asher Young
Still errors without verbose output. Any idea where this would log?
John Torres
FUCK ME I AM STUPID.
REALLY I CAN READ. I SWEAR.
Juan Morris
Google docs is really great, if you don't mind needing a google.bot.net account.
Gabriel White
So I just updated KDE last night and when I woke up the next morning, my notifications widget wasn't working. I'm not at my computer right now, but it it said something like "org.plasma-notifications.something is inexistent".
Charles Russell
why the fuck don't you just add the official chrome repo ?
Matthew Cruz
the deb does that for you, the problem is that people tried to help him without know how to install a fucking .deb
Wyatt Wright
Need help with Ubuntu 16.04 gnome 3 Can't connect to the internet because no drivers for my wlan card
Adam Green
Can someone educated spoonfeed me on the topic?
Is there any technical disadvantage of NOT using a display manager to manage your graphical session?
I'm perfectly aware of the practical advantages of it as in the past I've been using GNU/Linux with a dm (most notably - lightdm) and without any DM at all.
But from the technical side.
My primary concern is security.
Does managing my graphical session without a display manager somehow create a gaping security hole I'm not aware of?
Jose Wilson
sent you the drivers ;)
Jeremiah Ward
Seriously fuck this It seems that I need touchpad driver, wlan driver and then I would be good before something surfaces up It really is handy to have two computers when you are troubleshooting this kind of stuff
Thomas Carter
See v I've never had this issue before with one not listing out what was breaking its install. I'll freely admit to being anything but a Linux power user, but I'm not a total goon usually.
Mason Powell
It's all good.
Alexander Murphy
Chrome works. Thanks for the help anons.
David Howard
Thanks, anons.
LibreOffice's formatting doesn't transfer very well (with MS). I end up having to fix formatting every time. Any tips?
Thinking of just switching then using GoogleDocs, since it's pretty close.
Isaiah Peterson
You know you could just torrent Sidonia.
Robert Fisher
And also What should I do when I'm on a dead end because of error "Unable to locate package X"
Ethan Flores
That means the package doesn't exist in the repos, maybe you misspelled the package name or something.
Carter Rodriguez
how can i install flash on chromium? i cant watch twitch. What other browser you recommend (32 bit)?
Dylan Jackson
Google's formatting conversion is far worse in my experience than LibreOffice's. We use Google Docs at work all the time, but then clients want to have files in Word format. It's always a struggle to get it to work properly.
The best suggestion I can make is to either simplify the way you're formatting a bit or export to PDF. What are the specific features you're trying to use that don't work properly? If you use a lot of tables or insert graphics, Google docs botches them a lot.
Yeah, but I have a Netflix membership. May as well stream it. I'm at work watching on my computer while I work on the company machine.
Brayden Diaz
Best Ultra-lightweight stuff? using a single core P3 1ghz /128mb ram laptop with Debian for a week.I currently have >Joes Wm >lxterminal /plain Xterm >Psi for IM >Dillo(looking to replace) >deadbeef
looking for a very lightweight file manager,browser, and generally stuff to do with this old laptop
Andrew Sanchez
Midori is a nice little browser if you don't mind it crashing every 15 minutes.
Daniel Johnson
Brave. Lightweight, built in ad blocking and privacy protection.
Carson Walker
So I'm new to Linux and I installed Arch yesterday by following a guide. Today I've run into a couple of issues. The first is this: when trying to download large files in firefox, chromium, or opera Arch crashes at some point during the download. Sometimes the system is competely unresponsive and sometimes the cursor is able to move, but in no instance will ALT+F1 or F-anything work. Any clues as to what's going on?
Also, looking at the screenfetch I just did, all of the theme information is wrong... what's that about?
I feel like I'm walking on eggshells and the system will crash at any moment.
Andrew Peterson
>my system is shit and broken >recently I installed X >X crashed >X is bad
Jeremiah Reyes
Some of the systemd compliant display managers set up a session with required things. Without one, you'd have to do it manually I suppose.
One question guys. Do I need to install the backports on debian 8 3.14 kernel? This is my nvidia card:
Detected NVIDIA GPUs: 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: NVIDIA Corporation GT218M [NVS 3100M] [10de:0a6c] (rev a2) Your card is supported by the default drivers and legacy driver series 304. It is recommended to install the nvidia-driver package.
What would be the best way to install my nvidia drivers? I read the wiki, but I am confused on which way I should install it. Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Carson Davis
Has Mint ever actually broken for anyone using "unsafe" updates? What do you guys recommend setting this at?
Robert Rivera
I recommend Debian testing. As a serious reply, I have no idea. I'm guessing unsafe is Debian Sid which has broken systems before.
Dominic Bell
Firewall tweaks, as requested. What should I make next?
Disclaimer: I didn't really check for typos.
Lincoln Wood
First hour using linux
What does pic related indicate?
Gabriel Kelly
It indicates you are messing with the bootloader
James Collins
Sorry, but Midori's instability is well known.
Liam Howard
What does the red text indicate? and the arrow with the path to a different grub.cfg file?
Ayden Miller
It's saying where the .cfg file is stored (symlinked)
Gavin Perez
right, but why is it highlighted...
total guess, but it looks like it's using a backup copy (grub2.cfg) or something because the original (grub.cfg) is borked?
can you be a little more specific, please? does the red text indicate an error of some sort?
Jason Allen
I don't think so. I think you don't have the permission to write on the file
Gavin Diaz
I'm not certain whether it has ever bricked a system in practice, but in theory, what it could do is critically break a dependency and thereby render programs (maybe many programs) unusable. This can go one of two ways: you update a dependency to a version newer than any program is using and things don't work well, or you update a program that needs a newer version of a dependency than is in the repo and the program requiring the new program doesn't work.
If you're not willing for stuff to break, don't pick the setting that says it might break stuff.
Hudson Richardson
systemctl --failed might be of some use here if you can't make sense of the output in htop.
Xavier Russell
Hi, random question here: what are the differences between scp and sftp, and should I care? I couldn't get pscp to work but psftp was ezpz. Would one be better for doing automated backups?
Also, does VNC kinda just... suck? It was way cray laggy when I tried it with TightVNC to the point where it wasn't even worth bothering with it seemed. What about X forwarding? Can I run graphical stuff on my local machine that way?
Thanks!
Sebastian Sanders
Firewall tweaks, as suggested. What should I make next?
