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did any of you try refind instead of GRUB? how is it?
Ayden Cooper
B U R G U R G
Joseph Thompson
get back there. I want a friendly thread, not your trollfest. how does it compare to GRUB and refind?
Elijah Davis
Looks like mods are being faggots and deleted the other thread. You win this round, freetard. >still calling me a troll user, just because you don't like what somebody is doing does not make them a troll. I wouldn't be surprised if GNUless threads started getting started for autism research, you guys reach new levels of sperg every time I make one.
MODS=GODS has been true ever since i first used the internet. your input is not friendly and seems like you only do it to make the free software crowd and the open source crowd hate each other. this makes no sense. GNU/Linux is neutral, nobody asks you to call it just GNU. and even if you don't use GNU (and i still doubt it because you never proved it) using just Linux in the OP doesn't make a lot of sense. the more complete and detailed one is on gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html
Landon Adams
Anyway............... What's the deal with those DEs, huh? Why are they all trying to be like Windows/OS X? And why aren't you using a low-resource WM? >inb4 GNU/Linux vs. Linux starts up again
Jack Kelly
Well, DEs are bundles of software that aim to be consistent with each other and share a few common things, if you don't have the time and experience to know what you want and do it they are a good choice. dwm user here.
Sebastian Evans
>wake up >need to click through 2,1 threads These threads have high speed lately.
Ian Howard
That's mostly my fault. I've been shitposting like crazy for the last two days. The last 4 threads have been like 30% my posts.
Brandon Jones
>your input is not friendly It was till the shitstains in the last thread started it. I simply created a new thread then I was getting insulted and called a troll. >and seems like you only do it to make the free software crowd and the open source crowd hate each other I do it because GNU/Linux is an unfair and inappropriate term. >GNU/Linux is neutral No it fucking isn't, are you daft? Linux would be the neutral term, you just call it what it's always been called. >and i still doubt it because you never proved it Nobody ever asked me to. I don't just go around proving things in case somebody asks for proof, you fucking dipshit. >using just Linux in the OP doesn't make a lot of sense. Yes it does, because to 99.99% of the people who know what Linux is knows it means Linux based operating systems. You know it too, you're just being a twat about it.
Carter Roberts
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Anthony Bennett
Hellooooo X60T.
Logan Mitchell
Is there a retard friendly, /fglt/ approved step by step guide or infographic for double booting?
Jacob Richardson
Oh, X61T given the license sticker.
Charles Bennett
Anyway............... What's the deal with those WMs, huh? Why are they all trying to be like special snowflake hacker interfaces? And why aren't you using a low-resource DE? >inb4 Arch vs. Debian starts up again
I was searching for libreboot tutorials. Seems it's a lot of work.
Cameron Price
How do I batch rotate videos? I've got a folder of videos that need rotating clockwise, so far I know I want to do
ffmpeg -i in.mov -vf "transpose=1" out.mov
But this requires putting in the input name and output name of every file. Is there a way I can avoid this?
Cameron Hughes
I was looking at it but am a nub so can't work out how to put it on a usb to try it out, also interested though
Christopher Collins
the debian install guide covers it nicely. but basically install windows, open the disk manager in windows, shrink the biggest partition you have by the amount you want for GNU/Linux, make an installer-usb using win32diskimager or cp/dd, start the installer, install GNU/Linux to the empty space, make sure grub is installed and configured. (grub because if you need help you should stick with the defaults)
Ryder Johnson
You can do a for loop, I prefer using find. Have a example (replace with your settings): find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.flac' -exec bash -c 'f={}; ffmpeg -c:a libopus -b:a 192k -i "${f}" "${f%.*}.opus"' ';'
Elijah Jackson
loop version
for i in *mov; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vf "transpose=1" "$i"_converted.mov done
Dominic Lopez
F5 F5 F5 F5 DID ANYONE RESPOND? Better post a clarification in case they haven't seen it yet!
>trying not to waste this post since people seem to be getting pissed So I've been using aircrack-ng to play with my horrible neighbor. Anyone have any idea which one of these is the most retarded wifi name, because he is the most tech-illiterate person there has ever been. >uses iphone to play music through his boombox >constantly hear message alerts while volume goes down for about 2 seconds.
Also guess my wifi name and I'll give you +1 internets.
Jeremiah Ward
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Adam Wilson
Sorry but pretty new to this so I want to try and understand what I'm doing
For the first one you're basically specifying your files using 'find' to regular files in this folder of a certain file type. I don't quite understand the next bit, using the -exec bash -c tag followed by the part in quotes...
Jaxon Clark
man exec
Benjamin Reyes
So i have just installed Arch for the first time, is there something that i need to install after installation? something important?
>repo.archlinux.fr/$arch What? Did you not install anything at all yet? You need X. You have pacman... right? You have to choose a mirror.
sudo pacman -S yaourt
Austin Jackson
REALLY? No1 wants +1 internets, REALLY?
Josiah Myers
I'm baiting.
DE's (only) make sense if you're using GNU/Linux and have a life, or simply want a preconfigured Desktop.
WM's (only) make sense when you are in love with your computer, have no life, or you're using GNU/Linux for such a long time, that you already have your favorite programs and know how to configure your system yourself. At this point, the stuff a DE provides just feels useless (why having 2 terminals, 2 file managers, etc). Maybe that's why WM desktops usually may look like used by a hacker, because the users are usually oldfags.
Then you can use a DE with a different WM combined, like KDE or GNOME with i3, because you're curious about other WMs, or you just like the look and feel of, as example, openbox while keeping your DE.
tl;dr All programs fill some needs of some people, there is no golden rule for "this is the best program" or "best way of using a computer".
>sudo pacman -S yaourt error: target not found: yaourt
Benjamin Sanchez
Here this guy is always easy to follow and pretty explanatory. Just skip to wherever you are in the install (after you've made sure you didn't skip anything) Should take you about 10 minutes to get up and running
Andrew Thomas
oops no link www.muktware.io/arch-linux-guiade-the-always-up-to-date-arch-linux-tutorial/ >listening to the guy who can't even ctrl+v
Jace Barnes
You need to update first
sudo pacman -Sy
Angel Martin
Anyone else having problems with the new vbox 5.1.*?
Resizing is broken, and I've already seen a lot of bug reports about it, may be tied with the new QT gui, but the real problem for me is that 3d accel (on windows guests) doesn't work, programs that use it freeze and crash, and I've only seen a single ignored bugreport on the tracker.
I had to compile 5.0.26 (which works perfectly fine)
Also another problem, after the last update of nvidia drivers, whenever I login and start an X server, I get a black screen. If I switch to another tty and back it fixes itself, but it's an annoyance.
Colton James
> -exec bash -c 'f={}; ffmpeg -c:a libopus -b:a 192k -i "${f}" "${f%.*}.opus"' ';' - exec executes a command on every result find comes up with - bash -c starts a shell, needed for this goodie here: "${f%.*}.opus" - it's a parameter expansion, which removes the old file extension so you don't end up with file.flac.opus - f={} usually, when you use fine, the result is in the variable {}, which is redefined here, so you can use parameter expansion, a normal exec command with a normal variable looks like this: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.flac' -exec echo {} ';' this will simply echo every search result or find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.flac' -exec mv {} new_{} ';' this will rename every result to new_result
>You need to update first that is what im talking about, archlinux.fr is not working, i cant connect there, like url is wrong
Andrew Diaz
follow spawnil's guide. should be fine. I can't remember the whole install process anymore
Ryan Johnson
Someone should write a AUR wrapper for us Debian fags. Shouldn't be difficult, right? git clone, checkinstall, done Am I missing something?
Joseph James
Did you enable dhcpcd?
William Mitchell
dependencies on debian sometimes have different package names, not that easy just do it manually
Luis Parker
is it really worth even writing one? there are so many packages in main i have a hard time finding stuff that is not in the repos or easily compilable. also
Christian Hall
How do i check? Cant find command
Matthew Gonzalez
sudo systemctl status dhcpcd.service
Liam Martinez
Cracking your neighbors wifi is a) illegal b) boring
Do something more complex, legal and useful. Here's an idea: Set up a local DNS spoof hosts file for your network, whitelist your own devices and route every other unknown device (someone who cracked YOUR wifi) to tips.fbi.
Bentley Wilson
I didn't say I was cracking anything. >inb4 tips.fbi ohnotoolate Surely there's nothing wrong with sending deauth messages to random bssid's with random mac addresses >it's 3am and he's blasting bass up through my spine again He's doing illegal shit. I'm just learning how to scan available SSIDs.
Jack Edwards
● dhcpcd.service - dhcpcd on all interfaces Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service; disabled; vendor pres Active: inactive (dead)
Andrew Myers
Yeah it says disabled and inactive (dead). That means its not enabled and not running. systemctl start dhcpcd.service systemctl enable dhcpcd.service You should now have ethernet activity. You can check with
Colton Cruz
still haven't figured out Sup Forums code tags one more try... ping -c 3 www.google.com
James Powell
Have you tried: sudo iw dev scan Benefit: No need for monitor mode.
Benjamin Carter
cool, I've just been exploring some tools is all. Never really got into burpsuite or aircrack-ng or anything so I thought I'd lash out a little Monitor mode definitely sucks cocks
Grayson Ross
I can ping without enabling it, im on wifi
Carson Richardson
>myths and memes: the post
Andrew Morales
>www.google.com Why not say hello to rms? nudge() { ping -c 3 "${1:-stallman.org}"
The downside is: You only get APs, no devices connected to them.
Nicholas Jones
+ }
Liam Brown
>partial upgrades
The whole reply chain is just one idiotic thing after another.
Mason Morales
Hey, I said I'm full of misinformation. That's a legally valid disclaimer. >sudo pacman -Syyu
Jace Scott
>who is this guy knocking on my door all the time?
Bentley Morgan
Also it's 3:30 and I've had bass blasting through my spine for 5.5 hrs Let me drink and shitpost in peace. At least my system is working
not looking for one. Just realized he played football just 2 seconds ago
Aiden Robinson
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Justin Fisher
What aliases should I have in .bashrc? I already have alias dir='ls' alias cls='clear' Anything else useful or did I nail it?
Noah Hughes
you are retard
Kayden Rogers
Trying to install xubuntu. Get this a few seconds after reaching the "try/install/etc" screen, every time.
What's the go?
Jackson Sullivan
>you are retard >Me fail grammar? Unpossible.
Jeremiah Hill
GFX=fried
Leo Jones
Nvm I'm retard, the USB I have the install media on is formatted as NTFS which caused this error.
Colton Flores
>you are retard >Me fail grammar? Unpossible Jeбeм ти мaтep, пpвo нopмaлнo a oндa y пичкy. фyцк гooглe тpaнcлaтe битцх acc ниггa
Robert Rogers
Not technically an alias, but I can't live without setxkbmap -option ctrl:nocaps
to change capslock into another control key. Much easier on the pinky.
Joshua Russell
May I ask why you chose Xubuntu? It's not google translate's fault that you're overdependent on it.
Luke Powell
bcuz it just werks™ and it's fairly lightweight
Jacob Ross
fair enough.
Nathaniel Johnson
i'm not, i was just showing you that i'm not gamberuger and english is not my first language.
Benjamin Price
dear /fglt/, i'm trying to install mint 18 cinnamon to escape windows but i'm too stupid to make it work
i downloaded the iso and burned it to dvd (i also tried booting from USB stick) and from what i've read i have to be booted from one of these first to install it to my hard drive partition. However the boot (even in safe mode) does not complete and at some point i get stuck with a black screen. What do i do now?
Matthew White
Did you used Rufus?
Andrew Young
What are you using to write the image to bootable media? Rufus is the only tool I trust, just make sure it completes successfully, and if it jumps during install you know something went wrong.
Angel Lopez
>However the boot (even in safe mode) does not complete Set your USB drive as the first device device to boot in your BIOS.
Jace Baker
What's the best looking distro in your opinion?
Zachary Rodriguez
So, I want to try one of these tiling wm that are all the cool kids are using What are my options? Is there a babby mode wm I should try first? Are there good tutorials or should I just read the manpages?
Levi Miller
Yeah, my bad. My system is UEFI even; just called it the BIOS for so long.
Jack Perry
mine
Jaxon Price
For learning programing should I try out Linux?
Logan Young
>learning programing what
Liam Watson
You don't learn how to program by using Linux. That's like learning how to assemble a car by driving it.
Jaxson Stewart
deleted my post. BIOS is colloqial for motherboard firmware, a subset of firmware in general. I'm just like the GNU/Linux fanboys.
Colton Bell
i'll try it now used universal usb installer for usb and infrarecorder/windows context menu for cd i hope it'll be as simple as that it does start from the DVD/USB drive and i can choose between verifying the drive, OEM install, booting and booting in safe mode
none of the options however seemed to actually work (three different ISO files from different mirrors (official mint page DL, torrent and sourceforge) all seemed to have 5 corrupt files
Andrew Robinson
Sorry not good at English. I was wondering if Linux is good for programming compared to windows?
Noah Fisher
Despite what these other grammar nazi's have said: the short answer is yes. Try compiling C/C++ from Windows or OS X. LLVM is a horrible piece of shit and Windows requires 200 lines just to spawn a window. And don't mention cygwin or someone will spit on you (not me, I prefer cygwin to anything but Linux itself)
Benjamin Bailey
anyone know of something i can use for mass conversion to mp3?
Lots of my files are flac and others which my phone and car stereo does not support
