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prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux/
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
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Other urls found in this thread:

gnu.org/software/bash/
wiki.bash-hackers.org/
grymoire.com/Unix/index.html
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls
pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt
google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
commandlinefu.com/
shellcheck.net/
explainshell.com/
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts
github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts
github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface
github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts
github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts
int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration
ghostbin.com/paste/b6gpb/raw
linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=218
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide
lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html
gnu.org/software/gnu-arch
linux-libre.fsfla.org/
archlinux.org/groups/i686/base/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

Thanks

How do you put man pages, errors messages in the terminal in english without changing anything else? I want to keep my keyboard layout etc.

> Shell pasta:

The based GNU Bourne Again SHell:
gnu.org/software/bash/

The community driven BASH wiki:
wiki.bash-hackers.org/

The Grymoire - home for UNIX wizards:
grymoire.com/Unix/index.html

Greg's (also known as GreyCat's) wiki:
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

SED and AWK; your new best friends:
pement.org/sed/sed1line.txt
pement.org/awk/awk1line.txt

Google's Shell Style Guide:
google.github.io/styleguide/shell.xml

The Linux Command Line - A Book By William Shotts:
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php

Interesting, useful and dangerous one-liners:
commandlinefu.com/

Great online (and offline) linting tool:
shellcheck.net/

Know what you are doing:
explainshell.com/

For manpages only, save this into your ~/.bashrc:
alias man='man -L en_US.UTF-8'


Or start your shell via:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8 bash

Or in your current shell:
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

I don't know what I didn't test it first, I thought LANG would modify other things.

It works well, I'll have a use for the three ways you described. Thanks

> Font pasta:

General informations:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fonts

Huge list of font resources:
github.com/brabadu/awesome-fonts

List of monospaced fonts for programming:
github.com/chrissimpkins/codeface

List of monospaced bitmap fonts for programming:
github.com/Tecate/bitmap-fonts

You may also need to enable bitmap fonts and rebuild the font cache:
rm -v /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
ln -s ../conf.avail/70-yes-bitmaps.conf .
fc-cache -v -f


Fonts patched with shitloads of icon glyphs:
github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts

The Ultimate Oldschool PC Font Pack:
int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/

Premade fontconfigs:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Infinality

Configure your own fontconfig:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_configuration

Read the documentation:
file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig/fontconfig-user.html

>all those pasta
Can't we just use a pastebin as everyone ? And if there is a specific pasta, someone can ask it and we will post it. And use the wiki to save those pasta or link to the pastebin.

Updated copypasta pastebin: ghostbin.com/paste/b6gpb/raw
Feel free to contribute, post new pastebin here.

Thanks.

Is there a way to add a bunch of torrents as magnet links to a text file then some torrent client just opens the file and starts downloading the magnets it finds? Some user intervention would be okay

Import/Export like? Or do you already have a list?

I just set up an Internet connection in my grandparents house; have an old PC here running Win XP, gonna refresh it now.

Which OS does /biz/ recommend that will be extremely simplistic and limited for communication (skype/viber), reading news, checking the weather, possibly listen to some radio channels or watching videos etc. They are 73 y/o and don't speak English or have ever used a mouse before (they regularly use a tablet though).

I was thinking of Xubuntu or something? Recommendations?

I like this pasta.

100% serious.

Also, Sup Forums**

Xubuntu is alright. Alternativly Ubuntu Mate or Cinnamon. Canonicals philosophy is shit, but it's retard friendly.

Well, either would work for me

>that table
>those clothes
>Windows XP
Definitely an old person's PC.

Try LXDE (like Xubuntu, but with a nicer configuration and set of preinstalled apps out of the box), Korora (user-friendly Fedora), or possibly ElementaryOS (a Mac OS-like)

Ahem, I meant "cloths"*

LXDE is a desktop environment. Xubuntu is a distribution based on Ubuntu with Xfce. You cannot compare those, LXDE cannot be "like" Xubuntu.

Stop recommending shitty, niche, spin-off distributions like Korora. Fedora is already "user-friendly". There is nothing Korora can do to make it "friendlier". The same applies to Elementary Os. It's an immature distribution, with a relatively new desktop environment which offers nothing other environments or self-assembled ones don't. THe only thing it offers are more bugs due to its immaturity.

It's like you heard someone mention those things and are now recommending them without actually looking into it yourself. What kind of person does that? You're not helping anyone when you perpetuate some "memes" or latest myths.

this

screen or tmux?

this

Debian, Fedora, Ubuntu, Arch are the only distributions. The others might work well, but the more united we are, the stronger we'll get. Stop with forks and meme distros, please. (inb4 Ubuntu)

One Gentoo to rule them all.

Fuck, I wish more people started saying this. The others are just those base distros with minor package variations, hardly/no fucking development takes place with the minor ones
gentoo is invited in the fellowship, but it can't be a sauron or morgoth

Just add OpenSuse to the list, and I'll agree with you.

suse is basically fedora, so no

okay so im the guy who fucked up last thread.
i got the mint iso from linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=218
put it in a flash drive
put it in the computer
restarted

then i got pic related.

pressing a key says "no bootable devices —— insert boot disk ant press any key"

Using the same package format doesn't mean the distros are the same.
Ubuntu and Debian are much, much more alike than Fedora and OpenSuse.

tmux

It looks sexier and GNU software is generally bloated.

>leaving out gentoo
Are you ok?

>LXDE is a desktop environment
Sorry, I meant LXLE. My bad for not noticing a typo. I didn't mean to spread misinformation.
>There is nothing Korora can do to make it "friendlier". The same applies to Elementary Os.
Besides coming with pre-configured settings, drivers, and applications for everyday users (or something familiar in ElementaryOS's case). Korora is to Fedora what Ubuntu is to Debian.
>It's like you heard someone mention those things and are now recommending them without actually looking into it yourself.
I have tried LXLE, Korora, and ElementaryOS; as well as Debian, the various versions of Ubuntu, and Fedora. I recommended them based on personal experience and the context of the question. I think these distros are perfect for people who aren't very technology literate. They maximize simplicity and intuitiveness while minimizing configuration and advanced/complex features. I run Debian, myself, because it works for me.

Different distros for different purposes.

You can't just copy the iso onto the flash drive's filesystem, you have to write it directly using dd or unetbootin or a similar tool.

Yeah but Ubuntu is never going to be stopped from this point on, might as well back the winning horse (inb4 whinging about the 2015 spyware)

SUSE have taken far more than the package management from Fedora/RHL btw

so what do? the only computer i have access to is a win 7 with no admin permissions.

Has anyone here tried Source Mage? I'm thinking of trying it out and seeing if it's better than Gentoo.

How can I remove all the Antergos branding from Antergos so nobody can ever tell that it's Antergos?

Is there a brain-dead Arch Linux installer that isn't Antergos?

>Is there a brain-dead Arch Linux installer that isn't Antergos?

Yes, it's right here:
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide

Architect, but srsly, the point of installing Arch is installing Arch.

>no admin permissions

use a computer that has admin permissions and use a program called win32diskimager to write the ISO properly

also don't use linux mint you dumb shit, use ubuntu or debian, or follow our new rules about the 5 distros here

>the point of installing Arch is installing Arch.
You people need to be careful with your memes; too many kids come here and see INSTALL GENTOO and ARCH IS IMPOSSIBLE TO INSTALL and internalize it.

The point of installing Arch is to have a small base system and pacman+AUR's sexiness.

okay. do you know if theres a place i can go to get help in person? i just want to stop worrying.

This. Arch if you want a minimal system without bloat.

>SUSE have taken far more than the package management from Fedora/RHL btw
Like? From what I know, Suse descends from Slackware.

>minimal
lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2015-July/039443.html

>no bloat
kernel comes with every module enabled

>packman sexiness
packages come with binaries and sources, no able to distinguish free and nonfree packages

>aur
literally a git wrapper for retards

I'll give arch a chance if you tell me how to have an arch system without pulseaudio. I want it completely purged. I don't even want it on the so called "base system"

see A Debian netinstall would be actually lightweight.

What's your problem with pulse? It's useful.

What are you talking about? Arch has no traces of pulse unless you explicitly install it.

I started the Debian bug reporter on xfce for the first time yesterday and during setup it asked me to confirm a mail address that looked like username-hostname.home, only with a very old username I changed years ago. Where could that name still be stored? I thought I erased it from my account completely.

nearly lost all programs after executing sudo apt-get remove libssl1.0.0 libssl-dev
on terminal
any way to revert?

I have a better question for you. Why should I tell you my reasons? Either way you don't actually care. do you?

>Besides coming with pre-configured settings
So do other distributions. I seriously doubt Korora patches every package to change the defaults.

>drivers
So does Fedora and every other distribution which doesn't restrict itself to free software only.

>and applications for everyday users
So do other distributions. Windows doesn't do that and it's "user friendly".

>Korora is to Fedora what Ubuntu is to Debian.
No, it's not. All Korora does is install software from Fedora's repositories and apply a different theme and wallpaper.

>I think these distros are perfect for people who aren't very technology literate.
If you think that you need to be more technology literate to use Ubuntu than Korora then you're an idiot.

>They maximize simplicity and intuitiveness while minimizing configuration and advanced/complex features.
So do most of the handful of core distributions.

>Different distros for different themes/wallpapers
ftfy

You sure?

You're advanced enough not to need Pulseaudio, but you don't know how to not-install it? You need someone to spoonfeed you an answer, but you're such an advanced computer user who can't do some simple research for himself?
How to spot a pretentious, try-hard idiot: the post.

Correct way to remove package pkg with pacman
pacman -D --asdeps pkg
pacman -Rncs $(pacman -Qdqt)

hmm no idea what you're talking about. i am on xubuntu.

Sorry, use a true package manager next time. apt-get is a joke.

how do I setup compton in i3?

Not sure it'll do exactly what you want, but you could try using tasksel.

Nice meme.

I haven't use arch, last time i check arch was being compiled to use pulseaudio by default. and it required extra-steps to remove it
I didn't even bother trying it because of this

Also. I can't believe you got triggered by that
if arch people are like you then i really should not bother

compton -b --backend glx --vsync opengl-swc --paint-on-overlay

>pacman
>not a joke
next time use a true package manager, pacman is a joke

>arch was being compiled

pacman -Si arch
Repository : community
Name : arch
Version : 1.3.5-11
Description : A modern and remarkable revision control system.
Architecture : x86_64
URL : gnu.org/software/gnu-arch
Licenses : GPL
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : zlib expat krb5
Optional Deps : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Download Size : 327,50 KiB
Installed Size : 1014,00 KiB
Packager : Evangelos Foutras
Build Date : Pon 08 Feb 2016 01:27:08
Validated By : MD5 Sum SHA-256 Sum Signature

I don't see Pulseaudio as a dependency.

>if arch people are like you then i really should not bother
You're using a distribution, not people. YOu just proved again that you're an idiot.

>"""correct way"""
>not a single, basic default command
tell me again why pacman is so great

By reinstalling. Also read what apt prints out BEFORE you confirm.

>You're using a distribution, not people
>Yes the arch community are a bunch or faggots but you shouldn't care.
Thanks. I'll just keep using what i have.

I want to install Linux but there are so many different Linuxes, what is the BEST? Please help.

lubuntu, is a good one for people coming from windows. Not not the best, best depends on application.

AND THERES STILL A SHIT TON OF TEARING

fucking linux

Show me how you do it with your packet manager. I wanna laugh.

Not that guy, but Works on My Machine(tm).

>fucking linux
It's no the kernel's fault that you're experiencing screen tearing.

iirc that is a problem with i3 not working well with compositors

No.

On a more helpful note, my personal experience with every piece of software I have ever found worthwhile was: "It's is shit at the beginning. Configuring it to your liking as you go makes it not shit over time, sometimes even good."
So asking which default distro/software/anything is "the best" is like asking "Which collection of shit of which I will throw out 30-90% anyway is the one true solution to all my problems?"

If you never tried Linux before, go with one of the big pre-configured distro such as Ubuntu, Mint, or Fedora.

Take a quick look at them and pick the one you like most.

>being this new

The one I'm using.

>my shit is shit but your shit is shitier
nice argument arch faggot

GNU Linux-libre linux-libre.fsfla.org/

sure. I open a plain text file containing nothing but the ascii characters ^G^O ^F^U^C^K ^Y^O^U^R^S^E^L^F using cat -v.
If that doesn't work I use dnf remove.

Now go ahead and tell me in excruciating detail how I am wrong.
I am legitimately curious.

There is a reason why literally nobody start with a distro using that kernel
Then again, there is a reason why people call your kind freeTARDs

>implying I have to be new
ahahaha, joke's on you, I'm actually retarded!

install gentoo

Trisquel is quiet popular.

quick, free or open source ?

Both

I'll go with quick

You didn't need to say anything about trisquel. I already knew you where from there

go back and stay there

>Freedom is bad
You're trying too hard, user.

I basically said that people won't nor shouldn't start with linux-libre and that trisquel is shit.
not freedom

now go back to your safe place

Any good music/media players? Just downloaded Ubuntu

Are there emacs like hotkeys for sxhkd?

For example C-x f: firefox, and C-x Ret: urxvt

smplayer

You could make C-x to write a "enabled" file somewhere and then, for the f key use a script like [ -f /tmp/enabled ] && { rm /tmp/enabled; firefox & } || xdotool key f.

hello neo Sup Forums

Thanks, mates.

>you are new if you don't subscribe to my extremist ideology

fugg right off

who is richard stallman infographic

Free.

Yes.

archlinux.org/groups/i686/base/