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Anyone know a good VPN that will actually work in China?
Asher Foster
I miss shitty apps guy.
Jaxon Baker
>try to upgrade Gentoo all day >still havent
John Gutierrez
Setup an SSH tunnel to some VPS and route all your traffic through it. Chinks are fucking cucked by their gov. feel bad for you for that. Other than that you're the scum of the earth and deserve all the shit you get though
Ethan Martinez
Thanks. I'm moving there in a little over a week.
What is a VPS and how do I do what you suggested?
Nathaniel Stewart
Im not actually Chinese. Im here on business
I work with a crowdfunded 3d printer company, we are having supplier issues with some of our factories. I am supporting my other team members in person to get stuff cleaned up
Angel Allen
Depends on how you define work.
Protecting your privacy and going through the Great Chinese Firewall? No
Camden Nguyen
why?
Justin Torres
It's China. I don't mind foregoing privacy. I just want to be able to access Youtube and porn sites.
Joseph Collins
Package conflicts and blocked packages. Every time I fix one, another problem happens.
Lincoln Richardson
That should be possible. Ask the Chinks how they do it.
Christopher Walker
Aren't blocks considered bugs in gentoo? Maybe that's just funtoo.
Joseph Gonzalez
The average Chinese person doesn't really need to bypass the firewall. It's the foreigners who live there that have the greatest incentive to do so. Most of them just buy shitty VPN services that only work half the time. I'm looking for a more Sup Forums solution that will work better.
Thomas Rivera
what does robin williams have to do with linux?
Xavier Morgan
I'd suspect there are Chinese who also want to watch Porn and stuff
Note that they monitor all traffix so they will immediately know if you connect to a known VPN. SSH traffic is a whole different story, they won't be able to distinguish. Anyway, they won't give a rats ass if foreigners or upper class people peek out of the firewall, it's the plebs they want to keep down.
It has raspbian preinstalled but I don't know if that's any good
Anthony Perry
>Why doesn't Linus get sued for violating the GPL? Because he doesn't implement the modules, other kernel developer do it for him. It's also actually tricky: The modules are dynamically linked, which means, inside the GPL zone is a link that points to the binary module outside the GPL zone. If this violates the GPL is discussed for years.
Landon Garcia
Install Gentoo
Eli Morgan
What is a cool app menu icon to use in KDE?
Christian Anderson
Fedora 24 user here, trying to set up my PIA VPN, moved the .crt file into /etc/openvpn and proceeded to set up as usual but SELinux prevents it from connecting. Is this a known issue or am I being an ignorant fool and making a mistake?
Angel Rogers
Now that I'm a Linux nigga, what music player should I get? What's a good one? Is MusicBee any good?
Wyatt Ward
>app >icon normalfags...
Joshua Hernandez
Web server, robot that you can speak to, magic mirror, torrent box/seed box, home automation, etc. Google around and you'll find something to do with it. Raspbian is probably the best distro for the raspberry pi since you will be using SSH to do anything with the device most of the time.
Robert Kelly
Since you're new to GNU/Linux, the first thing you need to learn is to make your own choices. I know it's a new feeling, but try it, you'll love it.
Asher Phillips
The one I'm using.
Joshua Mitchell
Musicbee is windows only. I find mpd + ncmpcpp a lot of fun to use and its so simple. But thats if you like playing music from the terminal.
Robert Green
That's not what I was asking. Not all music players are created equal. Maybe you guys know of some really good ones that I wouldn't otherwise know about. Why you gotta bring me down, mang?
Wyatt Moore
mpv
Hunter Hill
So I've been trying to fix this issue on the in Xubuntu where the filenames seem to overlap. I've tried restarting X and all that, but nothing seems to help. Any suggestions?
Using it on Virtualbox.
Justin Campbell
What are the Pros and Cons of Debian and Ubuntu?
Luke Jenkins
cli: mpv tui: mpd+ncmpcpp gui: deadbeef
Joshua Moore
Learn to make your own decisions already.
Isaiah Perez
not friendly
condescending dingleberry
not even a proper response
classic completely sidesteps legit question with vague, useless and insulting answer
On this friendly thread
shame on you
Kayden White
Lollypop
Anthony Allen
that sounds gay tb h
Elijah Russell
Convince me to use Fedora for my new build
Jeremiah Richardson
I was just making a suggestion man. It's whatever.
Anthony Robinson
no
Caleb Garcia
I like Cmus. Uses a TUI.
Ryan Ward
What am I looking at here?
John Collins
Install arch
Noah Gray
:(
Parker Cox
MOC is also nice (works without lib). Used it back when I was too retarded to ncmpcpp.
Parker Lopez
I don't and I hope he rots in reddit.
Elijah Morgan
This is why nobody likes Arch users.
Mason Fisher
I like cmus because it is easy to make colourthemes for it.
Henry Torres
Why is shitty apps guy a meme? I want to be a meme too. ;_;
Aiden Sanders
Emoticons are not allowed on imageboards. We use images for that.
Jace Taylor
Lol I don't give a shit. Why the fuck would someone ask to be persuaded to use a specific distrio? If you don't already know the one you want to use them just try it out yourself.
Eli Gutierrez
I just installed it to try it out. I'm not really impressed with Gnome and right out of the box it's using 1GB of memory.
Lincoln Morgan
You want to be a retard that is universally hated?
Tyler Myers
Shitty apps guy detected.
Fuck off.
Isaac Reed
>halp, loonix ate my RAM Please don't be retarded.
Kevin Gonzalez
>I'm not really impressed with Gnome
Then install something else?
Evan Bennett
Arch + XFCE took up half that.
I plan on running multiple VM instances in the future. I don't want want to waste resources on useless shit.
I plan to! I'm really partial to XFCE right now. Xubunto or Manjaro?
Camden Martin
>it's using all this ram!!!
ram is meant to be used to fucking retards
Asher Stewart
What's the point of having a separate private seedbox?
Andrew Bailey
...
Liam Martin
Why would you switch to an entirely different distro just to change DE?
Austin Richardson
...
Brody Gonzalez
t. hynix
>arch
Christopher Price
What the fuck is this picture in the OP
Ayden Moore
Because certain distributions are more partial to particular DEs.
More support
If I want a good KDE experience I would use Kubuntu or openSUSE.
Nathan Gray
>using Arch >not using Void or Exherbo
shake my head to be honest
Evan Scott
>Kubuntu No, if you want good KDE support you don't touch any *buntu
Colton Parker
>ubuntu in charge of shadows kek
Cameron Howard
1. Saves time. Downloading and intalling an entire distro from scratch is actually faster than having to pick and download 1GB+ of individual packages through the package manager from slow servers.
2. Less bloat.
3. Safer. Convenient. Foolproof. No fuckups.
Parker Reyes
1. You're retarded
2. You can uninstall the old one
3. No, No, No and No.
Blake Reed
You are fucking dumb
Juan Jenkins
>Void Of packages*
Angel Jones
Hello
I use Fedora. What convincing do you want? Do you have questions or concerns about Fedora? What ails you?
Cameron Nelson
Fedora is trash
Bentley Gray
...
Levi Lopez
it's red hat beta.
getting better and better every release.
Connor Brown
He said convince me to use it, not the other way around
Aaron Wilson
Fuck off shitty apps guy
Kevin Torres
Redpill me on the state of packages in Void, or is this a just meme?
Brayden Bennett
How much time does the average linux user spend on simply keeping the OS running and searching for fixes when it wont boot after some update?
Serious question.
Oliver Jackson
lel he's still around shilling his shitty apps infographic
Angel James
next to zero mostly.
Evan Rodriguez
Using debian sid for over a year now, never happened. I automated updates.
Ethan Harris
>it wont boot after some update? Never happened to me.
Owen Flores
Use the shit in a VM and you'll see what a massive fucking trash it really is.
I'd rather use Fedora and I hate fedora if that gives you an idea
Nathan Richardson
Why do you use Fedora? What made you choose it over other distro?
Hudson Morgan
>zsh >infinality
Angel Sullivan
I just wanted to be a special snowflake. There's no real reason.
Jordan Ward
can be a walk in the park once you've lived the life and have some experience.
would be that for new people too, but they always find a way to fuck their system up and then they can't fix it afterwards.
honestly have had that problem, but it was due to drivers so just rolling them back fixed the won't boot problems.
Sebastian Brooks
He's called shitty apps guy for a reason.
Adam White
App is literally short for application. It's just convenient to say app like it's convenient to use contractions or & or any other shortenings of words/terms.
Owen Hernandez
>App is literally short for application
Jordan Hall
Why is Python better on Linux than Windows?
Tyler Peterson
>not zsh >not infinality
Chase Wright
What packages was it missing?
Samuel James
steve, how about program? that's what programmers do: they write programs
Justin Brown
Is it possible to get your own software into a Linux distribution repository?