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Working sound output on Linux systems? That's pretty interesting because I've been using Linux for the better part of five years.
Here's a challenge for you: install a working system-wide equalizer. Hard mode: do it without PA.
Connor Rodriguez
First for smeagol
Adrian Butler
>Here's a challenge for you: install a working system-wide equalizer. Hard mode: do it without PA. Pretty easy, there's alsa-equal.
Henry Reyes
dem trips
Aiden Miller
>Here's a challenge for you: install a working system-wide equalizer. Hard mode: do it without PA So hard
Jacob Torres
>*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread. *** The biggest meme ever.
Why is the community so toxic about distro choices?
Nathaniel Johnson
Because only broken faggot autists use Loonix desktop to begin with
Benjamin Richardson
Mircosoft shills strike again.
Alexander Hall
It's not only distro choice, see zsh vs bash, etc. People are just insecure and bait for approvement (mostly underage people where the penis is not fully grown; this also explains why the Arch communty usually is the loudest when it comes to seeking for approvement).
Josiah Jackson
Is it worth upgrading to 4.7?
Jaxon Evans
Anyone experienced setting up openvpn? I've set it up on my VPS with tun enabled following this guide help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/openvpn.html. I've also opened up ports in iptables using these rules: iptables -A INPUT -i eth0 -m state --state NEW -p udp --dport 1194 -j ACCEPT iptables -A INPUT -i tun+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i tun+ -o eth0 -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -i eth0 -o tun+ -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 10.8.0.0/24 -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A OUTPUT -o tun+ -j ACCEPT
But when trying to connect from windows I get the following error. I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this. I'm almost certain the server is working. Any tips? MANAGEMENT: TCP Socket listening on [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25340 Need hold release from management interface, waiting... MANAGEMENT: Client connected from [AF_INET]127.0.0.1:25340 MANAGEMENT: CMD 'state on' MANAGEMENT: CMD 'log all on' MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold off' MANAGEMENT: CMD 'hold release' Socket Buffers: R=[65536->65536] S=[65536->65536] UDPv4 link local: [undef] UDPv4 link remote: [AF_INET]Removed:1194 MANAGEMENT: >STATE:1473705775,WAIT,,, TLS Error: TLS key negotiation failed to occur within 60 seconds (check your network connectivity) TLS Error: TLS handshake failed
Connor Hughes
Tried from a linux virtual machine and it also gets the timeout.
Lucas Peterson
Is it alright if I ask the common wich distro should I use question or should I do so somewhere else?
Anthony Ramirez
Why is desktop linux pure garbage when it comes to configure the system from a gui? I'm especially looking at you KDE.
Andrew Barnes
is there anything special i need to do to get the vlc browser plugin to be incorporated into iceweasel after i install it, or will it automatically be plugged in?
Kevin Bailey
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Samuel Brooks
You are going to be bombarded with personal opinions and very little useful comparison.
What is it you want from the system?
Wyatt Rogers
debian is maximum comfy. debian's like the best mix between not being a pleb and just werking. the only thing that didn't work for me right away was that jessie didn't have sudo for some reason so had to install it
Evan Phillips
>pure garbage when it comes to configure the system from a gui? As if Windows would not be garbage. Face it, configuring system through gui is always shit.
James Martinez
I want an empty distro that doesnt come with a lot of stuff I dont use. I remember a distro I installed that came with stuff like libre office and such, just a lot of stuff that makes it messy.
Jason Nguyen
There are "minimal" ISO's of many distributions in that case which will just install core packages really.
At this point it becomes, mostly, a choice of package manager and software philosophy, although there are a few quirky choices too.
Chase Anderson
Windows at least have some consistency. Using linux on desktop feels worse than a pre-alpha windows experience. For example I wanted to check what my local IP number was. I could not find that out from the GUI in KDE. I had to resort to using ifconfig, grep and awk.
Curious why the desktop experience was so shit I found out that network manager doesn't start by default which was why the GUI failed to even recongize that there were other network options than mounting a SMB share. Windows may be shit etc but at least it's somewhat logical. You want network settings? Press network. It just works.
In linux you want network settings from GUI? Google it, troubleshoot it, edit config file, manually start it. It's like there is zero QC because everyone falls back to the console because everyone knows the desktop experience is shit.
Liam Lopez
Is there a place where I can read about these "minimal" distributions or maybe like a list of them? Like advantages of x over y and why y could fit better in another environment?
Jonathan Rivera
if you're not willing to learn and use the terminal i agree, you shouldn't even try to use linux because you're going to fail
This could be a good start. Other anons may be able to recommend other resources too
Luis Jackson
>At this point it becomes, mostly, a choice of package manager and software philosophy, although there are a few quirky choices too. the truth right here
Landon Scott
>Face it, configuring system through gui is always shit. A desktop machine I expect to configure from gui. This is how my ideal workflow with a fresh OS is: 1. install desktop OS 2. follow simple guide with few options. Many distros got this now 3. base system should offer to configure network etc from a gui and it should be built up in a logical manner with sensible names. No guesswork, having to install extra utilities or google to achieve a simple task to configure the system. 4. No freezing or crashing gui programs.
Desktop linux simply fails step 3 to 4. The only sensible desktop linux experience is Android and that is sad. I have several VPS and I configure and administrate all of them with vim and bash scripts. I'm not afraid of the command line. My point is I should not have to resort to use the command line for the desktop version. I rather not use the keyboard at all.
Chase King
Go and add a second, static IP to a Network device running DHCP in Windows.
Andrew Butler
then i guess you should either use windows/ios at home or make a linux distro with a better gui
Jordan Foster
Thank you! As there are 1000 recources saying 100000 different things, approved recources will be useful
Carter Green
Can you not change Icons on MATE?
I am not using the actual Ubuntu_MATE ISO but I installed ubuntu-MATE core etc
Camden Morris
how do you deal with spaces in filenames? tried quotes around the entire thing and it didnt work
Nathaniel Moore
>distrowatch.com/ This website needs to be removed from the web finally. I just leads thousands of newfags to install the most popular distros instead of high quality distros. (see the popularity of Mint)
Colton Long
I agree, newbies need some sort of GUI config tools. That's why stuff like Linux Lite should be promoted more.
Adrian Thomas
What site would you recommend for information instead?
Henry Butler
what are you trying to do user?
Ryder Price
I mean you could just Google it and find a variety of articles with various opinions, or reddit discussions, or possibly archived /fglt/ threads.
You'll find a wide variety of answers and no consensus overall because everyone has different tastes, priorities, and experiences (not to mention different hardware and software preferences). Also because every distro has pros and cons.
Just try out the most popular ones (or whatever interests you) and see which works best for your hardware and your preferences. Distrowatch has decent summaries of every distro on their site, and general popularity stats (just based on clicks on their site).
Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE, or Manjaro (or derivatives of these) should all be pretty simple to install and use as a beginner. They're all pretty widely used and generally accepted to be good.
If you want to do something more advanced or have more control over your system (which is usually time consuming and involved), you should probably go with Gentoo or any source-based distro.
Also some people really like Arch, maybe you're one of them. Nothing wrong with that.
Nathaniel Sanders
i genuinely like secret clubs though. it doesn't affect me if 15 year old install mint and quit linux because its so shit
Anthony Turner
horriblesubs filenames all have spaces in them and i want to be able to use the terminal to move them to my anime folder after deluge finishes downloading them
Nathan Scott
>If you care about freedom, then use Debian No longer true thanks to systemd fanboyism. Devuan offers the choice of installing other init systems.
Adam Bailey
Fuck this. Even idiots should be allowed to have freedom and a good operating system.
Dominic Ramirez
Systemd is free software. The discussion is about philosophy and init system structure, not about freedom.
Brody Edwards
From memory but control panel->network and internet connections->open adaptder->properties->ipv4 properties->advanced->add ip
Linux GUI? No fucking idea because it's probably not possible unless I write the tool myself.
In windows I don't have to think. If I want to change a setting there is a GUI for it. In linux I'd have to google it, fall back to terminal and read a long manpage because the developer never bothered making sane defaults.
>make a linux distro with a better gui I guess this is why there is no good desktop distro.
Looks decent. Let's hope they don't revamp the entire interface every other year.
Julian Rodriguez
systemd is free software licensed under the LGPL
Luke Perez
Either use "" or '' or escape spaces with \, e.g. mv foo\ bar desu mv "foo bar" desu mv 'foo bar' desu
Nathaniel Nelson
maybe use a batch renamer like renameutils or GPRename to remove the spaces, or use strong quotes in your scripts
Jordan Evans
>control panel->network and internet connections->open adaptder->properties->ipv4 properties->advanced->add ip
Sorry, but that won't work.
Brayden Jackson
To get rid of normalfag spaces: rename -v 's/ /_/g' * How to move files: $ mv partoffilename[TAB]* ~/weebshot/animu/
Brody Butler
please don't start the apologetics, depriving the freedom to choose an init was not a good idea by Debian, and systemd itself takes your freedom away by requesting software developers to depend more and more from it
Liam Williams
i could've sworn i did the "___.ext" correctly but i guess not. thanks
Logan Thompson
nobody stops you from using a different init system on debian, devuan just makes it easy during install less convinience doesnt mean depriving freedom
Xavier Robinson
>dhcp OK but why would you need another local IP for the same adapter on a desktop computer?
Elijah Green
mv *.mkv ~/anime/ or just use tab complete and * if there are mkv's you want to stay put.
Jaxson Clark
A hint for newfagging: If you want to know what woulkd happen if you run a command, replace the command with "echo", so instead of
mv foo* ~/anime
run
echo foo* ~/anime
Jack Moore
I needed it to be able to communicate with a device in a different net, so adding an IP from that net seemed to be an easy way to do it. (Since this is a short, basic command on Linux, it couldn't be hard on Windows I thought) End of story was that I had to google it anyway since the oh-so-great GUI wasn't really helpful.
Ayden Diaz
Opensuse Leap 4 and something
Installed Nvidea drivers. Now tty1-tty6 are fucked up ― giant fonts that take half of the screen. Setting fonts as smaller ones make giant letters become large and unreadable.
Have been fighting with this thing for a couple of hours. I don't know what to do
Hunter Reed
>calling people "fag"
Hunter Thompson
>don't start with the apologetics I'm not, I'm just stating a fact. Systemd is free software. >depriving the freedom to choose an init was not a good idea by Debian Then feel free to use Devuan. I have no issues with it and I expect/hope it'll continue to work perfectly fine for years to come. >systemd itself takes your freedom away by requesting software developers to depend more and more from it Sure, people depend on it and I don't agree with stuff like GNOME requiring libsystemd, for example, but the primary reason for systemd is to make things easier for developers, which in turn allows them to work on more important things than the init process.
I have three scripts, script1, script2, and scrpt2.sh. when I use ./scrpt2.sh anywhere I Put it it says this user doesnt have permission. use it with sudo, it doesnt even know what im talking about(command not found). Same issues with the others. select 'run in konsole' from dolphin, and it says it cant find the script it just tried to execute and tells me to check my profile. Is this ubuntus fault? Is it time to just install debian? I have the netinst USB right here. tl;dr linux pretending my scripts dont real, jews did this y/n?
Oliver Roberts
I have less of an issue with Archfags signing on board but I still can't for the life of me understand why Debian jumped onto it.
John Rodriguez
run 'chmod +x file.sh' and then try and run the scripts
Julian Gomez
Thank you. Now I just get errors related to the actual content of the script to deal with.
Justin Bennett
What the other guy said but also you might want to put the directory they are in in to your $PATH. You can put this in your ~/.bashrc export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/.local/bin"
Or wherever you put them.
Eli Howard
>muh commandline is superior I'm not arguing that the command line is quite powerful. I'm arguing that it's quite different from having to install a network manager and ensure it's running to even see if your Ethernet interface is connected in a GUI. I don't want to have to deal with a command line on my desktop. It should just work out of the box which windows actually fufills.
Robert Scott
All these fucking linux experts arguing how superior the command line is over a GUI but yet no one can even give a little feedback to this. Fuck you all.
Connor Bennett
we won't help you out if you begin insulting us. it's possible we're not too sure on your issue or have no experience in it, and we don't want to make your situation worse by telling you information on a subject we're not too confident on
Carson Long
>having to install a network manager and ensure it's running to even see if your Ethernet interface is connected in a GUI.
I could add that to my GUI without Network Manager, though I don't see the point in doing so
Also, I rather use CLI than clicking through some unknown GUI.
Hunter Gray
first time using debian, what should i do command-line wise to get good
Blake White
know your way around apt. don't use apt-get for installing software, just use apt. for updating, run 'apt update' then 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
Lucas Lewis
>don't know how to do a thing >everyone always has like three awesome command line entries to do it and give blowjobs
How do I get like this? Is there some book people read and try all different commands to know what to do?
>it's the one guy who doesn't answer questions and links the first page of a faq
Mason Richardson
It's not like any of you have the competence to help to begin with. If you had you would already have answered. So fuck off.
Ryan Davis
if you don't bother to search the things you need to know before asking questions, not much i can do for you other than give a place to fall back to
Luke Diaz
Thanks!
2 pepecoinz have been deposited in your dank wallet.
Jace Williams
>hey guys can you help me solve my problem >wow wtf you're all incompetent why did i come here
David Kelly
>buy generic 10$ USB gamepad >play with it for years on windows >try a PS1 emulator on Linux >find out that the gamepad has that rumble thing which makes it shake
Real neato. This didn't work on Windows.
Christian Peterson
>tfw broadcom 43142 >fedora 24 Not even downloading Non-Free drivers for Fedora 24 for x86_64 from the RPMfusion doesn't work
What wizardy is this?
Noah Jones
Yeah I know. It's just like visiting any other linux forum filled with incompetent self important fucks.
Kayden Nguyen
well if you're so good :^)
Matthew Smith
>I still can't for the life of me understand why Debian jumped onto it I guess you're just retarded then, because I gave you plenty of reason why they would.
Charles Scott
I guess you're a prickly autistic faggot who can't hear the sound of his own voice like 99.95% of people in these threads.
Jeremiah Thomas
When I installed Fedora 24 with the default Gnome spin, everything could be configured easily from the GUI. Pretty much the only thing lacking was multimedia codecs.
With software centre your average user might never even need to open the terminal.
Ryan Clark
My neighbors are having sex right now, which makes me feel uncomfortable. Is there a way to fix this using Linux?
Dominic Harris
I have a zsh question
Why does it sometimes truncate command options like the bottom of pic related, even if they have detailed manpage descriptions and how do I fix that?
Dylan Kelly
Blast it with NSA aplay < /dev/urandom
Brayden Gonzalez
>I have a zsh question This isn't reddit.
Carson Watson
forgot image
Elijah Reed
Yes you can, what's wrong?
Juan Ward
>your distro doesn't matter, they said >a bunch of shit doesn't fucking work or has random obscure dependencies based entirely on distros
Nicholas Thompson
Okay so I happen to be a drooling retard when it comes to making an OS install from a flash drive. I am currently using debian, what would I need to do to create a flash drive installer of Windows 7? the dd method using the command line didn't end up working for me. Thanks in advance!
