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how does it compare to arch though? ive been meaning come out of the ubuntu-closet but i dont want to be memed to use a shite os
Charles Foster
He wrote GCC, the program you compile Linux with.
Andrew Morgan
If you don't want to be memed on, stay away from Arch.
Austin Robinson
you can just install emacs like a normal operating system on your Linux, Windows or OSX kernel.
Connor Flores
That's why I'm using exa.
Carter Moore
Please avoid using the term “photoshop” as a verb, meaning any kind of photo manipulation or image editing in general. Photoshop is just the name of one particular image editing program, which should be avoided since it is proprietary. There are plenty of free programs for editing images, such as the GIMP.
Camden Morales
Can I play Minecraft on EmacsOS?
Oliver Rogers
Yes.
Isaiah Allen
Do you have the version without emerge and without the cumdumpster?
Blake Price
You mean just a Gentoo logo?
Lucas Moore
digging the archives, maybe I've luck
Leo Rodriguez
Any opinion on Slax Linux and Salix?
Jason Butler
How could I achieve this? $ cd ~/Documents/newfolder bash: cd: newfolder: No such file or directory Would you like to create directory ~/Documents/newfolder? [y/n]
either modifying cd or creating a different command?
Nathan Flores
yes
William Thompson
Any good rice for Plasma desktops?
Kayden Wood
Easy mode: create a new command. Man mode: modify cd.
PATH_TO_CD=`which cd` alias cd="~/.scripts/myshellscript"
put this in your .bashrc then do in the script whatever you wish use $PATH_TO_CD if you want to use the original cd. share results if you want.
Jaxson Smith
who's that boy
Aiden Cooper
Richard Stallman
Julian Jones
you'd wanna toy with aurorae themeing and kwin scripting, right?
Charles Garcia
...
Asher Wright
I am considering switching to Linux. Currently I use some programs that only work on Windows, like iCloud Drive and FL Studio. FL Studio is no problem, I can just dual boot because I usually have "sessions" of music production. But iCloud Drive is a problem though. I use it to sync my password database (I use a password manager, but it works on Linux) to my iPhone. Is there any nice solution to this?
Another thing I will miss from Windows which may sound strange is the ability to do stuff in MS Paint, copy it, and paste it right into a facebook conversation. Can one do a similar thing in Linux?
Lucas Ortiz
The thing with gentoo is that you compile everything from source, which can be useful because you can use (USE) flags to enable or disable specific features of a program.
That said, you can also just use any other distro, because most if not all package managers can download the packages source and compile them for you. The difference it, that you need to add the configure flags yourself.
tl;dr same autism as arch
Christopher Turner
add that to your .bashrc cd() { if [ -d $1 ]; then builtin cd $1 else echo "bash: cd: $1: No such file or directory"; echo -n "Would you like to create directory $1? [y/n] "; read opt; [[ $opt == y ]] && mkdir -p $1; fi }
Charles Rogers
>Use this OS goy. It's free, just don't make any money off of it Why should I use linux? The license is communist and ran by a literal jew. I'm not going to work like a wagecuck on an OS that has no customer support of any kind and has no games.
Evan Brooks
Very nice, but quote your variables (or it breaks at spaces) and don't be inconsistent with your brackets. I'd write it like this:
cd() { if [ -d "$1" ]; then builtin cd "$1" else printf 'bash: cd: %s: No such file or directory\n' "$1" printf 'Would you like to create directory %s? [y/n] ' "$1" read opt; [ "$opt" = "y" ] && mkdir -p "$1"; fi }
Joseph Cook
Which is the least Jewish OS?
Carter Richardson
Linux is the most jew OS there is. It demands everything be free and is highly communist.
Isaiah Wood
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux!
Mason Thompson
>Isn't it ironic that the proprietary software developers call us communists? We are the ones who have provided for a free market, where they allow only monopoly. … if the users chooses this proprietary software package, he then falls into this monopoly for support … the only way to escape from monopoly is to escape from proprietary software, and that is what the free software movement is all about. We want you to escape and our work is to help you escape. We hope you will escape to the free world.
Brayden Brown
Nice pasta homo, don't you have work like a wagecuck should be?
Noah Barnes
That isn't what "free market" means.
Sebastian Harris
>no games >no good software >jew cuck
David Reed
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as GNU/Linux is in fact GNU. Linux is not part of the operating system itself, but is the kernel that is not covered by the naming system of an operating system as defined by common sense.
Many users run operating systems such as Windows, OSX, and a variant of BSD yet do not use a cumbersome naming system that includes the kernel, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, GNU has been the exception to this for no reason and has just been called "Linux" for no good reason, and many others use the insane, cumbersome term "GNU/Linux", mostly because the GNU project doesn't want you to think that Linux is a part of GNU.
There really is a Linux, and it's not part of GNU, but it's a kernel, and no one really specifies using it. GNU is the OS; the actual base system you interact with, and is useful with any compatible kernel; it can function with many different kernels such as GNU Mach or even kFreeBSD, so the whole system should only specify the kernel when it matters, because all these kernels are really irrelevant regarding GNU.
Jeremiah King
kek
Grayson Thompson
Are there any ISO's for debian unstable or testing that come with Cinnamon?
Hudson Howard
And who asked your biased and stupid opinions?
Josiah Harris
>cuck educate!
Robert Allen
I used salix as a platform for building lfs. seemed neat. no experience with it other than that.
Evan Thompson
>muh games >good software >christian still cuck, because it's loonix.
Asher White
>cuckold thinks his opinions matter
That's an analogy for NEETs vs wagecucks. The NEETs are truly free and aren't slaves to make a jew boss rich while the cuckolds work and get cucked by NEETs.
Logan Robinson
>the jewish communist controls the users AND the programs
>In 2001 the term received broader public attention when Craig Mundie, Microsoft Senior Vice President, described the GPL as being "viral".[146] Mundie argues that the GPL has a "viral" effect in that it only allows the conveyance of whole programs, which means programs that link to GPL libraries must themselves be under a GPL-compatible license, else they cannot be combined and distributed.
based craig
Jason Parker
Can't see the problem here.
Robert Walker
sysV init vs systemd go
Samuel Wilson
"Craig Mundie" should educate himself about the topic. For such situations there's AGPL and other solutions.
James Barnes
Is there a USB WiFi adapter with the following features:
* support 5 GHz (802.11n at least) * support master mode * does not need non-free firmware
Bonus points for detachable antenna, but not important.
Wyatt Wilson
>commie license driving down wages, "freeing" software to pajeets and chinamen >literally forces you into its license if you so much as touch gpl-infected software with a dick hair >this is not anti-freedom because
Thomas Bennett
jesus debian website is so awful. i just want the debian testing ISO in torrent. the fuck is this. fuck it i'll use ubuntu
Carson Thomas
You're just new. Before I switched to GNU/Linux I had no idea either. Don't act like the man who knows everything "because" and watch this video: youtube.com/watch?v=jw8K460vx1c
Charles Lee
lel
Henry Brooks
There is no such torrent, retard.
Grayson Wood
>fuck it i'll use ubuntu based
Christian Kelly
You can't downlowd a repo, idiot. You change the links in your sources.list.
Benjamin Brown
green is my pepper
Jason Reyes
I am talking about debian actual website. I just wanted a Testing ISO from torrent and not slow as direct.
Their website is so ugly and confusing.
Ayden Rivera
You didn't listen, there is no testing iso. You also didn't visit the website, since they clearly explain how to upgrade to testing. Fuck off troll.
Jaxson Williams
Sup guys. I have debian and wangblows 10 in a dual boot configuration on my computer. I also have both OSs mount one of my other drives at startup as a media storage drive. Every single time I boot wangblows and then boot gnu+linux my other drive fails to boot cause windows didnt clean the drive properly or whatever and i have to run ntfsfix from an emergency shell and reboot. Is there a way to have this command run automatically during startup?
Sebastian Taylor
Turn off fast startup in windows.
Christian Thomas
didnt even know that existed. danke
Brandon Powell
While you shouldn't use them, there are testing isos.
Matthew Smith
>I have debian and wangblows 10 in a dual boot Scary, man, really scary
Brody James
Are there other router operating systems like OpenWRT? This one cannot be installed on my routers, so I need some other FREE SOFTWARE.
Elijah Lopez
Why can't you install OpenWRT?
Luis Myers
Hmm, I've gathered enough courage to try to install a linux called openSUSE!
Liam Phillips
Why?
James Martinez
Gotta catch them all
Julian Brooks
I don't understand american jokes.
Jonathan Johnson
It isn't. I've had this setup on one of my machines for quite a while now.
Godspeed, user!
Hey guys, purely aesthetics question because I'm kind of retarded at these things:
What do you think would look better on the black matte back of a thinkpad?
(First has white border which my gut tells me would look awful on black. Second has transparent border)
What say you, aesthetics experts?
Colton Reed
DD-WRT
Evan Powell
What's the significance of using "builtin cd" instead of just "cd"?
Jonathan Cruz
Because I'm tired of my fvwm desktop and a manually configured kernel. I'm tired of compiling source code. I need something shiny and wasteful. Something that does everything by itself, so I can just drink tea and listen to Debussy.
Charles Bailey
You can install the same "shiny and wasteful" thing on your current distribution. Nothing to see here, just another idiot switching distributions for reasons that don't make sense.
Owen Carter
Linus Torvalds once complained that it was hard to install. Now they seem to have upped it a bit and made it hard to download in the first place.
Charles Lee
It disambiguates the bash builitin from any other usage because it will cause infinite recursion otherwise. Also, that code has a blemish. The shinier thing is, the longer it compiles. It's still a manual process. Doesn't compare to the feeling of freshly installed operating system that just works. And you say like the switching is troublesome, while it isn't. openSUSE isn't OpenBSD that would decline to mount ext4 for the reason of incompatible features that aren't implemented yet.
Isaac Brown
thinkpenguin.com will be your best bet
Jonathan Bell
I got arch with openbox. How can i manage displays? I use laptop and external monitor and i would like to use one at a time.
Also this tight triangle on top of a box is not displayed correctly. Is that some encoding problem?
Kevin Phillips
Thanks but they don't have any 5 GHz adapters
I can't seem to find anything with 5 GHz and free drivers/firmware
Kevin Peterson
I would even accept non-free firmware, as long as the driver is free But there's nothing that works well, or doesn't support master mode
Benjamin Myers
Then it probably doesn't exist yet. :/
John Nguyen
Read the wiki
Nolan Evans
>testing iso why would you download the installers beta/alpha version?
Aaron Bennett
You could try xrandr. The command can be used both to query available video outputs and to configure the server to choose one and to disable the other.
Aaron Clark
Is void any good and why?
Jaxson Walker
If you were in a position to profit from (or even need) Void Linux you wouldn't be asking a stupid question like that.
Luke Parker
I wouldn't use a sticker at all. Print out a stencil and spray it like a true gangster.
