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If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following: 0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox or other software made for this puporse for safety purposes. 1) Use the Live ISO (if your distribution of choice has one) to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything, that way, you can get to experience the GNU/Linux operating system without installing it. 2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS, this is recommended if you want to know more about the GNU/Linux operating system. 3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.
Just started getting more familiar with the terminal. what are some fun or useful scripts I can write?
So far I've just written something called 'tree_time' which makes a picture of a tree from my back garden appear on the screen. Fun but not exactly useful.
Training videos for GNU/Linux (torrents) Ported videogames (torrents) We need a thread on /vg/ for gaymers because year of the GNU/Linux desktop motherfuckers, here is the pasta pastebin.com/7Xzi8e2H
Logan Collins
Those two options are not mutually exclusive. Being restricted by closed source licenses is inconvenient.
Evan Cooper
Amen.
Luke Foster
Not using useful software due to its license is more inconvenient
Brayden Flores
>protip: zoom in
Eli Foster
Are there girls autistic enough to install and use gentoo as their daily distro on a libre thinkpad with libreboot flashed on it?
Robert Foster
404 0 4
Carter Stewart
...
Elijah Edwards
No and even if there was you'd want to steer clear.
Ayden Foster
It's not freedom. It's free. As in free beer. Not freedom. >Beer is good though
Dylan Sanders
aalib? how?
Jack Morgan
lolwut, true story, anyone got a backup of the pasta?
Luis Peterson
>even if there was you'd want to steer clear. Why? Dating a tomoko like girl can't be that bad. Might even be kinky.
Noah Adams
...
Dylan Powell
some trannies, a very few real grills.
there was that tor dev that escaped to deutschland, still haven't seen her talk i downloaded.
Ok got it connected to my router, thanks. Do I have to manually reconnect after a reboot, or is there a way I can automate it with a cron job or something?
Hudson Richardson
So, for some reason, my Xubuntu installation won't run certain shell scripts. All the stuff on stack overflow is just >"ADD A CRUNCHBANG TO IT RETARD" But, there's already a crunchbang. I dunno, I even did chmod 775 on one of them and it doesn't work, I set it so that I could run it as an executable program, didn't work, I'm honestly rather lost.
Noah Jones
Post the sricpts you are having trouble with.
Dominic Williams
>write script.sh >"ADD A CRUNCHBAND TO IT RETARD" >chmod +x script.sh >./script.sh
Luis Morales
Post one of your scripts.
Liam Peterson
On top of every shell script, define the shell you want to run it in. Mostly you want bash.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
If you're programming POSIX and want to use a faster shell for your script, use plain sh.
#!/bin/sh
Some bashisms aren't supported here.
Isaiah Morgan
I'm a retard at coding, and they're most certainly not my scripts. #!/bin/bash
# # XMage test/demo application startup scripts for GNU/Linux #
No idea what you're doing here, but always quote your variables ($CP should be "$CP" as example, x=y should be x="y")
Owen Murphy
I've been dual-booting for a while and it kinda sucks. I like Linux and am thinking of deleting Windows, but I'm quite scared. I find I often have little inconveniences in Linux (I've used Arch and Ubuntu) that just piss me off and push me back to using Windows. For example, in my current installation of Ubuntu 16.04, if I close my laptop, when I open it again and log in, there's no mouse cursor!
Windows has its share of annoyances too, such as randomly disabling my NIC card, which never happens on linux.
I guess I'm pretty torn on which to keep; I don't really want to keep both anymore, but I'm scared to give Windows the boot since I won't be able to get it back. My recovery partition does not work, and I can't back it up since it's seriously like 50 gigs. What do you guys think I should do?
Brandon Williams
Please tell me you're using bash as your shell
Gabriel Jones
>there's no mouse cursor! That's a known bug. Try running this in the terminal and check if it helps.
$ gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.cursor active false
Nathaniel Mitchell
It doesn't matter. Even if he's using zsh, the shebang tells bash to run it.
Chase Powell
So, what you'd do if Windows fucks itself? If you have no way to recover your Windows you're treating on very thin ice already.
Hudson King
I am. ps -p $$ says so, at least.
Owen Green
thank you kind user
Christian Phillips
try bash name_of_script
Alexander Roberts
Jesus christ what are you guys doing? How has nobody asked yet:
What output/error(s) do you receive when you try to run the script?
Jaxon Parker
this
Hudson Peterson
Tried it. Got same error I received when I wrote in ./name_of_script
Kek, I was just about to type in the output error and then you posted this.
Output error is: "./run_xmage.sh: 9: ./run_xmage.sh: java: not found"
Which, I think, means there's something wrong with the script itself, which blows.
God, I'm such a scrub.
Tyler Hall
It didn't help. I'm using Xubuntu btw. Although I'm not too concerned with this because if I do decide to stop dualbooting I don't think I'd stick with ubuntu.
Aaron Evans
>java: not found You need to install java you dingus!
Lucas Fisher
um, do you have java installed?
Hudson Flores
Well, then there's CTRL+ALT+F1 and then CTRL+ALT+F7
Instead of memes in OP post a useful wiki page or infographics
Share your projects and what problems you encountered and how to solve them
/fglt/ is not only a Q&A thread. Share your projects and help newfriends
Ryan Torres
God, I'm such a fucking dad when it comes to software.
Jeremiah Powell
So NVIDIA is fine? I don't think I want to dick around with LTS.
I should stay away from AUR.
Nathaniel Howard
I expected someone saying that a script doesn't run meaning that the script doesn't run, and not that it runs but throws an error. Sadly, my expectations were betrayed
Ryan Barnes
as you wish
Julian Parker
I for one like the memes, they are an expression of modern art.
Josiah Campbell
I moused over it and was automatically logged out... wtf.
Isaac Taylor
I'm currently working on a script that generates the most dominant colors of a wallpaper and generates a Xresources colorscheme. Most scripts use python, mine will just use imagemagick.
Problems: Still didn't implement support for gtk themes, not speaking of KDE, maybe I should just drop it and stick to X.
Jaxon Barnes
>>>/reddit/
Ayden Sanders
1 KDevelop and atom is better than sublime text 2. NFS backup is pertty good and so is syncthing
John Adams
Hey Sup Forumsents I'm running Xubuntu 16.04 and trying to install Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines via PlayOnLinux using Wine 1.7.8 following a guide. Everything goes smooth until I get to the 85% install point and I get "Runtime Error (at 69 445)". Can someone help me please? Trying looking online but no one seems to have this issue.
Andrew Moore
In case anyone wants to create something simliar himself, here's the relevant function to get the colors.
gen() { convert "$1" -define histogram:unique-colors=true -colors ${2:-16} -format %c histogram:info:- | sed 's/.*#/#/' } $ gen pape.png
Josiah Taylor
actually $ gen pape.png
John Powell
Never mind. Installation went through just fine. Weird. Have a good day, lads.
Ryder Morgan
>Although zim now exists for over 3 years there is no "1.0" version yet. What's up with this?
Cameron Jenkins
Check WineHQ for your game. Usually there are lots of workarounds. Save it for future trouble.
Josiah White
I suggest you use virtualization for modern gaming.
1. Set up PCIe Pass through in your desktop 2. You don't do heavy tasks in your laptop anyway
Good luck user, I'm clueless here
Adrian Flores
nvm fixed it, delete thread now :^ )
Joshua Baker
[closed]
Camden Collins
>Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines >modern gaming
Matthew Gray
What is this qt 3.14s name again?
Zachary Gutierrez
To the guy who's reading this 10 years later, browsing the archives: Pic related.
Noah Murphy
No idea.
Logan James
WineHQ only had the original release of the game. Grabbed the GOG re-release. Didn't know if the old threads were still relevant.
Adam Collins
Every thread is archived by multiple services (even deleted posts).
Jayden Richardson
> you don't learn linux you just learn how to interact with a computer more intimately > linux is like making love, only with your computer. > only linux will let you do that thing that no other girl will let you do. > hell she gets off on it. > windows is like a snarky bitch who wants to lock you and your freedom away after you pay exorbitant prices for the wedding and courting process, > and mac is nothing but a cheap thrill, something you use to get away from the world and return to the days of a carefree childhood. > linux is an open, lusty and trusting nympho, who will allow you to manipulate her internals like no woman will. her love is free, growing and eternal. > you will never want to go back to another OS after using linux. it would be like going from having crazy sex 24/7 to going back to the snarky bitch or the retard. > you will need linux eventually. > > Anonymous 09/04/15 Sup Forums Sup Forums technology (Fri)
Nathan Parker
Guess he means WineHQ.
Hudson Powell
I think I've seen this person post their laptop in a thread on Sup Forums
Jordan Lee
What command can I use to DoS someone that doesn't require SU?
Andrew Ross
why do they say free as in free beer? i don't get it, it makes it sound like there is strings attached
Nolan Stewart
This made me sad at my incompetence to maintain a stable relationship with another person.
Jacob Ortiz
He didn't get the joke.
Adam Thomas
well, linus "chose" convenience i think. there are a lot of blobs in linux by default.
Adam Edwards
Also WHERE THE HELL CAN I GET ALL THIS FREE BEER?!?
Wyatt Barnes
Alright, I've got arch up and running on a dual boot. Whee. (no really, I love this stuff.)
Anyway...it's pretty stock xorg/xfce on nvidia drivers. What's my best option for eliminating tearing?
Levi Long
Was is das, Maßkrüge für Ameisen?
Camden Barnes
WAS ERLAUBEN STRUNZ
Joshua Perez
you can enable vsync in the settings somewhere. if that doesn't work, try compton
Blake Anderson
yeah it's not supposed to be confused with the "No such thing as a free lunch" idiom. Maybe thats why he said beer instead of lunch. Or maybe there are a few strings attached. Someone (original developers) had to pay for it with time and sweat.
Matthew Gutierrez
Anyone here uses f.lux? Is it worth? Are there any alternatives?
