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What programs do you use?
>wm ratpoison >music player moc >video player mpv >browser iceweasel
Zachary Watson
Debian is garbage. Stop shilling this SJW distros
Does void support systemd? If yes, I'll give it a try
Grayson Baker
>>wm Muffin >>music player >>video player SMPlayer >>browser Seamonkey
Xavier Foster
What should I use as my main desktop distro Sup Forums: Arch, Gentoo or Slackware? strawpoll.me/11190404
Evan Martin
>wm dwm >music player cmus >video player mpv >browser ff aurora
can we stop arguing about trivial things like distro choice while nobody asks and just do informative things like ?
Jayden Myers
>Does void support systemd? no it uses runit
>wm openbox >music player mpd >video player mpv >browser firefox-esr
Oliver Rivera
If you're going to go autism go full autism
install gentoo
Justin Russell
literally why
Jaxon Ortiz
>wm OpenBox >music player cmus >video player mpv >browser Firefox
Mason Russell
too much time
Jason Gonzalez
>wm actually a small shell script
>music mpv
>video mpv
>browser icecat
Easton Smith
>2016 >not using slackware
Kevin Barnes
Arch/KDE is quite comfy 2bh
Josiah Reed
Funtoo! It's easier to install than gentoo and provides all the benefits with less of the hassle.
It's similar to install but the stage3 are more up to date out of the box, so you don't have to recompile your whole system to use the newer packages. It also comes with a debian kernel out of the box, that is already compiled. You can change that later (or even right away) but it's great to get started with. Once you use portage you'll never want to go back to lesser package managers.
Brody Torres
>wm >actually a small shell script explain
Jonathan Kelly
Got the idea from horsefuckers grid.sh , it uses wmctrl and hotkeys for window tiling. I just rewrote it to support xdotool and some other things.
Jace Jackson
Oh, grid.sh works also in a DE (in case anyone wants tiling but keep the DE etc..)
>funtoo Sounds like gentoo for bitches. I'm not a bitch.
Mason Foster
The problem with funtoo is that it isn't gentoo. You're not a Gentooman, you're a Funtooman...
Austin Walker
>wm Muffin >music player Qmmp >video player VLC >browser Iceweasel
Camden Cruz
It's gentoo completely free from all systemd. Even gnome works with openrc on funtoo.
William Wright
>Even gnome works with openrc on funtoo. interesting
Ryan Hughes
Hes a fucking retard both Gentoo and Funtoo support running Gnome with or without systemd.
Lucas Martin
Recommend me some must have Chromium extensions
Wyatt Robinson
I need to have sex (again) but I'm a hermit and find is tough to make conversation with women. Haven't stuck my dick in a cunt for 3.5 years now. I'll answer basic Linux questions if people help me get pussy. I don't want a quick pump and dump either. I want someone to feel emotionally attached to, i feel dead inside.
Zachary Baker
Protip: It's a shitty unoficcial hack
>Chromium why
Get HTTPS everywhere uBlock origin, Nimbus screenshoter etc
Lucas Hall
"open with"
Adrian Davis
Not out of the box, you have to use a third party overlay.
Aiden Mitchell
You are wrong.
Alexander Barnes
>Haven't stuck my dick in a cunt for 3.5 years now. no wonder if you word it like that.
Juan Evans
>using a distro with one maintainer why?
Brayden Scott
Is guh nome just slow or is it something wrong with Manjaro or my setup?
glxspheres64 Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres) Visual ID of window: 0xa5 Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Sandybridge Mobile 59.628232 frames/sec - 62.774218 Mpixels/sec 55.592162 frames/sec - 58.525204 Mpixels/sec 58.027471 frames/sec - 61.089001 Mpixels/sec 51.649556 frames/sec - 54.374587 Mpixels/sec
Wyatt Murphy
primusrun glxspheres64 Polygons in scene: 62464 (61 spheres * 1024 polys/spheres) Visual ID of window: 0xa5 Context is Direct OpenGL Renderer: NVS 4200M/PCIe/SSE2 60.535753 frames/sec - 63.729619 Mpixels/sec 60.030475 frames/sec - 63.197683 Mpixels/sec 60.098384 frames/sec - 63.269175 Mpixels/sec
Kevin Lewis
Anyone use opensuse tumbleweed? Having a rolling release system with automated testing seems like a comfy medium between typical bleeding edge and relative stability.
Considering I could just rollback with filesystem snapshots in BTRFS, is tumbleweed a meme or is it really a good place to be? Coming from Debian Unstable mostly, I don't like Arch and I don't have time for Gentoo anymore.
Jack Harris
You are wrong.
Gabriel Walker
Zypper is fucking awesome FYI
Matthew Baker
Debian Sid
Elijah Fisher
Why does nobody ever talk about dnf in package manager wars?
>openbox >mpd+ncmpcpp >mpv >qutebrowser
Is there a way to change keybindings in ncmpcpp? If not, is there a tui music player with vim-like keybindings?
Ian Flores
cmus. It doesn't need mpd either, it's standalone.
Juan Thompson
Is it possible to install gentoo with Linux Mint Live CD? It says you can on this forum thread (forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-935992-start-0.html). I'm considering it because my laptop does not have an ethernet port and the gentoo livecd does not seem to have the right wireless driver. I know mint works on it (driver and all) because I currently have mint installed on it.
John Diaz
I recommend using sysrescuecd as it will have the latest kernels and btrfs tools, along with uefi support and tools should you need them.
Jaxon Campbell
fuck off tripfag cancer >feeding cancer kill yourself
Andrew Diaz
What's the point in pwd when [user@host wd] exists?
Nicholas Myers
I recommend to stop tripfagging in this thread. This thread is holy. Fuck off.
Ian Smith
>having a bloated ps1
Wyatt Morgan
I see, I will try that. Thank you.
Mason Howard
People say this but I don't usually get any real data for it.
Carter Green
Do you have any other arguments?
Samuel Lopez
>Is there a way to change keybindings in ncmpcpp? Yes, ~/.config/ncmpcpp/bindings Copy the default from /usr/share/doc/ncmpcpp/ and edit.
Hunter Campbell
Re-posting from last thread:
Dos Ubuntu have something like Windows 8 touch keyboard?
Windows 8 has this thing where if on a touch screen you select a text field the current window resize to half the screen and a keyboard appears on the screen. it disappear once you deselect the text filed.
Ubuntu definitely supports touch and universal access tools
Landon Williams
True. I've been meaning to change it.
Jason Sanders
Its called ibus.
Luke King
Some user told me a while ago how to use find to batch-convert a bunch of files with ffmpeg. I tried it, it worked, I was happy. Now I need to do the same again but I can't figure out anymore how to do it; I didn't take a screenshot, the man page helped a bit but I still can't get it to work and I couldn't find a solution online so far, either.
> ripped a cd > now have track01.cdda.wav through track13.cdda.wav in /tmp > want ffmpeg to encode each of the wav files as high quality ogg
Can anyone help? I tried: ~$ cd /tmp /tmp$ find . -maxdepth 0 -name track -type f -exec ffmpeg -i '{}' -vn -sn -c:a libvorbis -c:a libvorbis -b:a 320K -vbr on "./{}.ogg" \;
but nothing happens when I run it. No stdout, no errors, nothing.
Michael Carter
>speed measurement via plain "time" lol fuck off already
Hunter Moore
Well if you can't help him don't answer.
Landon Wood
Does dmenu fail to launch certain programs for anyone else?
If I call something like Ranger it just does nothing, I can't for the life of me figure out why.
William Butler
You are actually more annoying than the tripfag to be honest
Jaxon Roberts
try maxdepth 1
Lincoln Jones
0ad tries to nanny me, telling me I can't run it as root, what is this shit, if I want to shoot myself in the foot I may damn well please to do so. The comment thread about this superfluous wart is an example of closed mindedness. Fuck this, now I have to patch it out, because these smartasses decided to remove the override.
Logan Phillips
ranger is a terminal program, you need to hack dmenu_run to make it work
Parker Martinez
Yeah, I just attempted to install Gentoo and gave up after 20 minutes of attempting to get wpa_supplicant working. The documentation is shitty and configuring every minor detail is autistic as fuck. Gentoo/Funtoo probably isn't for me, but I'm gonna be a bitch and try Funtoo anyway. If this doesn't work out, then I'm sticking with Debian Sid.
Zachary Richardson
Hurr, I'm a retard. Also had to change the pattern to "track*". It worked. Thank you.
Brody Miller
Oh thank you user, that's sort of a relief to hear.
Logan White
>if I want to shoot myself in the foot I may damn well please to do so >a modern guide to c programming
Carson Hill
>Despite this APT has several more beginner-friendly front-ends such as the ncurses-based textual program, aptitude stopped right there, aptitude is text based high level interface to the debian GNU/Linux Package system/dpkg
Oliver Thompson
Have my hacked dmenu_run, just add/replace your programs and your terminal emulator.
#!/usr/bin/env bash
shell="${SHELL:-/bin/sh}"
cachedir="${XDG_CACHE_HOME:-$HOME/.cache}"
if [ -d "$cachedir" ]; then cache="${cachedir}/dmenu_run" else cache="${HOME}/.dmenu_cache" fi
command=$( IFS=: if stest -dqr -n "$cache" "$PATH"; then stest -flx "$PATH" | sort -u | tee "$cache" | dmenu "$@" else dmenu "$@" < "$cache" fi )
commandline_programs=('ncmpcpp' 'ranger') for i in "${commandline_programs[@]}"; do if [ "$command" = "$i" ]; then printf 'urxvt -e %s' "$command" | "$shell" & exit 0 fi done
superuser_programs=('poweroff' 'reboot') for i in "${superuser_programs[@]}"; do if [ "$command" = "$i" ]; then printf 'gksudo %s' "$command" | "$shell" & exit 0 fi done
Can anyone recommend a simple and lightweight distro?
Xavier Price
lubuntu
Logan Davis
Debian netinstall.
Sebastian Long
you do realize icecat is just outdated firefox with a different logo and a couple preloaded extensions (outdated ones at that). it's better to use a hardened firefox-esr with custom extensions. icecat was created from a rebranding issue that has been resolved, it's not even available on most popular distros anymore. placebo at best.
Andrew Lopez
Debian
David Perez
So wrong at so many levels. Iceweasel may be just rebranding, IceCat Is not, it has sane defaults for security. Just disabling the pocket by default makes it different.
Nicholas Brooks
Arch
Owen Kelly
You do realize that icecat is not outdated and superior to firefox since all botnet configs are disabled out of the box? >icecat was created from a rebranding issue also wrong, you're talking about iceweasel not icecat >not even available on most popular distros anymore You can install any program on any distro.
Adrian Smith
Seconding Lubuntu if you are a noob, go for devuan/debian netinstall if you know exactly what you want.
Hey! Just stopping by to let you know that sysrescuecd is up and working with wifi! Hopefully I'll have gentoo installed by tonight. Thanks so much!
John Price
>10 versions behind >not outdated
Jeremiah Jones
>implying >implying
Aaron Carter
I got this old pentium computer and I'm attempting to install Arch on it. Apparently it doesn't support booting from a usb device and I don't have a cdrom drive, so I need to do a network boot. I thought I needed a netboot image (ipxe.pxe or ipxe.lkrn), but on the wiki page for PXE they don't mention those images, but apparently I just need need the regular ISO. So, what are those netboot images? How are they used?
Ryan Flores
>tripfagging on an anonymous imageboard
Jaxson Roberts
Just filter him faggots. No replies and he will go away.
