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Is anyone aware of a program I can use to play flash games I have downloaded? Obviously you can do it in a browser that has flash player but how else can I go about it?
Nicholas Gomez
Try Gnash.
Jeremiah Sullivan
Do crocs respect my freedom?
Connor Sanchez
Hey. I don't know how your day has been going but mine is now going a whole lot better thanks to you.
I hope good things come your way soon, user.
Joseph Edwards
that's not friendly, my friend.
Robert Sanders
Is there any way to check if Arch will play nice with my wifi card before I nuke my hard drive for it? It's my only way to internet, so I don't want to be stuck without it after installation.
Samuel Hughes
W10 user, i wanna try out some sort of Linux as a dualboot option, friendo recommended me Ubuntu Gnome, opinions?
Mainly just interested in trying it out, also want a sleek user friendly Distro that i could start with and possibly be comfortable with, main use would be browsing web, watching Twitch, playing games.
Christopher Nelson
/flgt/ is why Sup Forums exists. Sad it needs insulation from all the cancer.
Joshua Roberts
I want to share that a simple config file in /etc/modprobe.d/alsabase.conf with the correct order of devices was all needed to make everything output to the correct device, you can purge pulseaudio from your machine now. Just make sure you erase asound.conf in etc and any .asounrc in your home if you want to go full ALSA.
Nolan Gonzalez
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Owen Gutierrez
Buntu gnome is an okay first distro. Check out (also on windows, not just here) using mpv with youtube-dl through a firefox plugin called "open with", you can tight click open your twitch thingy and have it on any workspace you want.
Eli Hughes
I posted this in the old one, sadly the solution to get metacity didnt quite helped.
I got ubuntu a few month ago and a buddy installed compiz or something and said its kinda cool. Nothing happend and I didnt bother deinstalling. Well yesterday I uninstalled it and now I have nothing. There is only my desktop background. I can get to the terminal but I am too ubuntu-illiterate to do shit. I hope someone knows what problem i am facing. I cant even get chromium running.
Jaxon Ward
Ive done similarly with vlc, thanks.
Alexander Morales
Why do I get worse signal quality for my WLAN device on a Linux distribution compared to Windows? Of course there could be a different signal reporting ratio between them, but some things like video-chatting work better on Windows from the same spot in the house. I'm using Intel's hardware, so I suppose the driver support should be top-notch.
Benjamin Howard
Anyone got the image name from linux void? For some reason my grub is now completly fucked and only starts in command line
Luke Sullivan
Download Ubuntu and see if it works out of the box. Look up your device's name and see if it's supported on Linux.
James Gonzalez
first for glances, runs a bit heavy on the CPU but its way less confusing/cluttered than top/(htop)
opinions ?
Oliver Diaz
Video chatting with which program? If it's skype reconsider your choices.
Anthony Rodriguez
Can I access the Wiki during installation
Elijah Kelly
on the same machine
Sebastian Evans
We don't know what you can do
James Jenkins
If you're connected to the internet, you can switch to another console ctrl+alt+f2 and use a console browser like elinks to access the wiki. If I recall correctly, the arch installer has elinks by default.
Nolan Lee
Hey. I got Debian 8 installed and I like it a lot so far. This is already a lot nicer than Windows.
Christopher Baker
I've been running Xubuntu for a couple days now, liking it so far
Nathan Bailey
I've been thinking of switched from Windows, is it worth it?
Anthony Sanders
Can us Windows users finally join in? :3
Jacob Nelson
Nope
Alexander Nelson
the Arch installer is a command-line live disk just follow the wiki it will probably work though Any *buntu, Fedora, openSuSE, Mint, Debian testing Besides the installation, Arch is very retard-friendly as well. A friend of mine installed it as his first distro and is very content. Pulse isn't going anywhere, better get with the times bub. Even Slackware includes it now. $ apt install ubuntu-desktop (or xfce or whatever) then select it in your display manager ("login screen") I usually get better wireless connections on Linux because the network manager connects with the best possible access point. You could install wicd, it has some nice configurability in that regard. Not sure what you mean, friend. Grub Repair Disk might help you. Protip: Use Syslinux instead of Grub. There's an /install.txt file included containing most useful information. No.
Grayson Foster
Does anyone have experience installing Linux on a Chromebook? I have one that I used for uni and I'm probably not going to sell it so I'd rather use it for something useful.
Evan Morales
I think so. It's up to you, really. Depends on what you want.
Brody Sullivan
>No. b...but it's GNU + Linux :'(
Parker Miller
Anything really, it's not program dependent. I'm getting annoying stuttering and drop-outs. Moving closer to my router fixes it. It works fine on Windows.
Jaxon Gonzalez
nvm just accidently installed grub wrong
Eli Murphy
>If it's skype reconsider your choices.
yeah brb telling all my friends and family to not use Skype.
Grayson Cook
Okay, I'm a dummy. How do I make myself root and how do I get wi-fi working? Any help is greatly appreciated.
Xavier Rogers
su root
and check your wifi card and if its supported under linux, but almost all tplink cards and a big chunk of atheros (i think) cards are supported under linux
Christian Diaz
>su root su and root's password or in Ubuntu sudo su and your own password what distro?
Robert Nguyen
Ah, the Arch way: "We don't have to answer questions, we got the Wiki. And if you don't like reading through that for hours to find the answer to a quick question, you don't deserve Arch."
Great, I can access the Wiki that tells me how to set up wireless right after I set up wireless. Brb, Architect. Ain't nobody got time for setting up wifi on the command line in 2016.
Sebastian Allen
Debian 8 So would I type su and then whatever the password would be afterwards or su root and then the password?
Also not sure how to check what wi-fi card I have.
One picture = 1000 words. Would you rather I copy pasted the entire beginner's guide?
Jaxon Peterson
>if you don't like reading through that for hours to find the answer to a quick question Arch is a DIY distro retard. For ootb experience install Antergos and stop whinging
>use xfce because the one guy last thread said it looks amazing and is super fast >icons are incredible blurry and it looks like some windows 98 iOs mix t-thanks
Brayden Moore
I didn't make a password on install. When I try to type in a password nothing happens.
Owen Martinez
then sudo su, and enter your own password
Cooper Flores
wifi-menu. Also, wifi isn't the only way to connect to the internet. Try installing ubuntu server, it's the same pain if your firmware is closed source.
What I do is, I tether my android phone.
Evan Hughes
What's the best audio player? I've got a decently sized FLAC collection.
bitstreaming support is a plus.
Cooper Roberts
>Pulse isn't going anywhere, better get with the times bub. Even Slackware includes it now. Breaking and complicating the sound setup isn't progress, bud.
Fuck pulseaudio and fuck Red Hat.
Wyatt Murphy
What's the alternative to pulseaudio server? I want to forward my sound to my desktop
Aaron Nguyen
Pure ALSA or Jack, or using the dmix for ALSA. Some argue even OSS was better and more portable.
Blake Gutierrez
mpd ncmpcpp and MPDroid as clients
Gavin Phillips
Good, switched mine ages ago.
Hunter Clark
Then why did major distros switched to pulse if they absolutely have no reason to do so?
Luis Torres
Thank you. I'm still a little confused with the whole wifi thing. I did the ispci -nn thing, but I'm still not sure. I get a few results that say "PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Device" followed by some other stuff.
Xavier Davis
I don't see any upside to a daemonized music player.
Jace Myers
For GUI there is Clementine which supports a ton of features, Deadbeef for the looks, or Audacious with the Winamp skin for retros. For CLI you have moc, ncmpcpp or cmus.
Benjamin Phillips
Cmus, moc or mpd+ncmpcpcppc
Bentley Parker
Im making a GUI for my server and i would want to run the gui thing as fullscreen on one monitor and a fullscreen serverterminal on a second monitor. Would it be possible to run the program bareback on x11 without a DE? Is there any better solution?
Luis Rivera
You do know pulse was lobbied by Red Hat even when it was buggy, right?
Corporations have power even in the open source world, sad but true.
Nathan Nelson
>cli CLI != TUI
Liam Phillips
then I'd go for Audacious, assuming you have a big collection
Luke Thomas
You are right, but people know more the term CLI. But again, you are right, I might reference it as TUI from now on.
Anthony Barnes
>without a DE yes. without a WM? no but there are WMs that do "one window, full screen" What I'd do though is install OpenBox and configure it to open your window full screen.
Carson Collins
I'm trying to get some bash stuff going here (newbie)
This is my script: #!/bin/bash IP=$(wget ipinfo.io/ip -qO -) if [ "$IP" = 77.38.* ]; then echo "Inside if" wget ipinfo.io/ip -qO - > ip.txt fi (basically, if my my external IP starts with 77.38. it should log it to ip.txt)
But it seems that I have no idea how to do wildcards in bash
What do I need to change to get this running?
Logan Wood
>Arch >DIY
please stop.
Arch is "Arch is actually bloated as fuck but make everyone install our distro from the command just to feel 1337 and give them the illusion of choice and minimalism"
Henry Brooks
Sure showed me XD
Nathan Sullivan
>bash learn proper shell scripting (mywiki.wooledge.org/Bashism) to answer specifically: #!/bin/sh ip=$(wget ipinfo.io/ip -qO -) case $ip in 77.38.*) echo "inside if" printf "%s" $ip > ip.txt ;; esac
Alexander Reed
Lurking around I think I got notes to make applications run directly on the X11 server, was thinking about trying the method with Emacs.
Christopher Peterson
>I'm too retarded to copy a few commands into a command prompt Either this is b8 or you're retarded, just use an ootb distribution instead you mong
Brandon Murphy
This is a friendly thread bud, don't let people take you there.
Isaiah Carter
Thank you kind user I should look in this more, since my code was cobble together from ~20 minutes of Google searching
I though bash was the de facto shell for scripts on Linux?
Kevin Stewart
You are a complete retard. I hope you'll stop using linux and stay on windows 10 for the rest of your life.
Robert Jenkins
Is Manjaro Linux better than Ubuntu? I think it looks better at least.
Oliver Russell
Which Linux distribution truly respects my freedom?
Tyler Diaz
Bash is the de facto for script kiddies and hipsters. There are a lot of shells and not every system has bash installed. Furthermore, bash is very old and large so it suffers from security issues (Shellshock for example). You should learn portable shell-scripting (i.e. POSIX) even if it is annoying at times. For example, you're not allowed to use arrays. But the problem-solving in that is fun as well.
