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Time to remove all commies from the thread hey you, get the f*ck out of here!!!
Michael Cox
how to install Arch Linux (the easy way)
Lincoln Ortiz
REMINDER: This is a friendly thread.
Samuel Miller
everyone here is my friend.
Hunter Phillips
stallman is not a philosophically pure person. he follows his ideals when convenient, and ignores them or slightly alters them when the conflict isn't worth it.
stallman is an egoist in denial, afraid of admitting that he just wants some fucking source code instead of a world where he has to rely on other people because he knows he wouldn't get it that way.
his system has some practical merits but his attempts at creating moral justifications are completely pathetic and nonsensical. how low do you have to be to have to make up bullshit "oughts" when you can just say "it would be fucking better"?
Robert Gutierrez
REMINDER: Install Gentoo.
William Gutierrez
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Jacob Scott
REMINDER: No arch babies allowed in friendly threads.
Zachary Hughes
alright my dudes i need some input
i need a pdf reader that has the following features:
1. continue reading where left off 2. table of contents 3. tabs support (preferably) 4. actually renders the documents properly (chromium's pdf.js fails for some) 5. i don't want to install 500 gnome/kde dependencies
i've only tried mupdf, chromium's builtin and firefox's builtin. help
Wyatt Cook
What would be the most efficient method to encrypt my partitions AFTER a complete installation?
Fedora 23, if it matters.
I would like to do so without having to re-install, if at all possible.
Blake Sanders
REMINDER: Never use "NetworkManager"(tm) and purge it if it's taking up 1's and 0's on your system.
Daniel Cruz
Should I stop using android because of the dirty cow exploit?
Jayden Rivera
You should top using android anyway.
Ethan Bailey
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
The only ones I know that have all those features are Evince and Okular but as you've mentioned they pull a lot of dependencies.
Logan Wright
Free software has a lot of good things to offer, proprietary software has the highest performing drivers, and makes hardware interactions faster than free software. Fuck philosophy, we live in a world of pure bloat and uneeded and redundant features. Everything sucks. If you want a system that runs fast, stable, and secure you need to use both free and proprietary software.
Sebastian Walker
The lightweight Ubuntu variants.
Luis Fisher
I don't *need* to do anything. Now fuck off.
Dominic Lewis
Nonfree pig disgusting.
Charles Gutierrez
I strongly approve of FLOSS, but I also believe in using what's best for the job. I don't see a problem with developers being able to sell software, and it can create many awesome things. It's not required to only have things one way. While I think FLOSS for everything sounds great, I don't like the idea of disposing of some of the great stuff I've seen developers do. It just doesn't seem right.
100% agreed.
Daniel Rogers
I downloaded a game in zip format and it keeps complaining about missing libraries. I have to start the game, check terminal output for what it's missing and install the 32bit version of that package and repeat untill it doesn't complain any more. Is there an easy way to install these packages in one go?
Matthew Lopez
You're using proprietary imageboard software. You NEED to use it to post :^)
Adrian Davis
How can proprietary software ever be good? It actually stopps you being productive when you are only allowed to use a program in the way the developer designed it.
Anthony Flores
So is anyone using Snaps? There do in fact appear to be updated snap packages for many applications, making them viable for, say, Ubuntu LTS.
Carson Martin
snaps is cancer, invented for normalfags who miss downloading random .msi installers
Jeremiah Thompson
What else do you expect to achieve using this proprietary imageboard software, other then posting?
Chase Barnes
It's worked for MS, but that's mostly because they where really good sales people by flooding the market with their products.
Ian Sanders
When you want to do something in that way and it's vastly more efficient than what you already have, it can be good. You have the choice to get it or not — that's the entire point.
Noah Lopez
Non-free software doesn't need hours of configuring and workarounds to get a network connection with ethernet.
Aaron Harris
I just installed Mint18, a few teething problems from being on Xenial but otherwise bretty gud.
I went with Cinnamon but it was a coin flip since I didn't really know much about Cinnamon and MATE.
What are the pros and cons of them both?
Hunter Evans
But that makes no sense. For one, they're contained, unlike random malware you install on Windows.
Gabriel Robinson
there are no good PDF readers for linux
Jason Russell
Don't you miss hunting for malware? I miss it. It's like playing a hacking wargame. Searching the registry for bad entries, virus scanners, ccleaner. :D I guess I should get a Windows VM, just for the fun.
Grayson Young
I haven't used them but they seem interesting, especially for lazy devs like valve and vmware.
Carson Russell
Hello?
Adrian Jones
>highest performing drivers, and makes hardware interactions faster than free software And why is this, you goddamn retard? AMD drivers not performing well on Linux nor FOSS alternatives isn't due to FOSS, it's do to AMD and proprietary licensing. Look at Intel graphic drivers - they support open source, and their drivers just work.
>QUICK >CTRL+R shutdown -a I guess literally everyone was infected that days.
Xavier Parker
>Cinnamon and MATE they where both born from gnome 2 transforming to gnome 3 but both went a little different paths
Cinnamon has traces of the GNOME 3 look to it.
The Mate desktop environment is more menu-centric.
William Sanchez
>>>/friendly windows thread/
Jace Flores
>no good PDF readers for linux I quite like Okulus, it's got the core functionality.
I don't think there's a middle-ground between light-weight only reads PDFs and PDFbotnetOS-AlsoCanOrderPizzas-bloatware.
Foxit used to be the goto pdf reader in windows to avoid bloat but those days are long gone and it's almost as bad as adobe now.
I just reinstalled windows for gaming and I'm probably going to try and find a port of Okulus for it.
Justin Campbell
If you know the name of the packages, the yes. Check the games documentation. It should list the prerequisites needed. If it doesn't, then they are shit devs.
Easton Cooper
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring 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.
Liam Roberts
the latest adobe reader for windows is actually pretty good
Adam Wood
the day i uninstalled realplayer it forever gave me odc about leftover files/registry keys.
Henry Hill
pedantic af, we all know
Carter Ross
>He uses amd Well, for those of us on real hardware, the FOSS alternatives are shit as well. Try making money selling a totally free and open source GPU, without being outclassed by your billionair competitors. It's over son, FOSS lost, and there's nothing anyone can do.
Jaxon James
Anyone have suggestions? I've found some ideas searching, but I wanted the /fglt/ version.
Levi Jones
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Isaac Taylor
>I have to start the game, check terminal output for what it's missing and install the 32bit version of that package and repeat untill it doesn't complain any more. Is there an easy way to install these packages in one go? Yeah, sort of. You could adapt a script I saved to do that for steam.
#!/bin/bash
# # Script that creates a directory with symlinks to a set of 32bits libraries for Steam # # Remember to run this script from ~/.local/share/Steam # Tempora mutantur... # Remember to run this script from ~/.steam DIR="$HOME/.steam" pushd $DIR mkdir -p $PWD/myLibrariesLinks
echo "Created Libraries directory. Remember to execute \"export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PWD/myLibrariesLinks:\$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" before start steam!
dependencies=$(ldd ubuntu12_32/*.so | grep "not found" | sed "s|\s\(lib.*\) => not found|\1 |" | sort | uniq)
echo "Creating symlinks for: $dependencies"
for i in $dependencies do object=$(locate $i | grep "$i\$" | grep "i386\|ubuntu12_32" | grep -v "x86_64") object=($object) if [ -z ${object[0]} ]; then echo "Could not locate $i!" else echo "Linking $i to ${object[0]} " ln -s ${object[0]} $PWD/myLibrariesLinks/$i fi done
popd
Wyatt Myers
None. reinstall if you want FDE
Lincoln Taylor
>steam what is wrong with you, just run the games without that cuck client
Christopher Hughes
I don't think that's the case, the GPU drivers have been (very slowly) getting better.
Josiah Carter
>drm
Jonathan Hill
Whoever wrote this should learn shell scripting.
Henry Young
Can you even encrypt after install if it's not just the /home folder
Owen Gomez
can we be civil this thread pretty please
Kevin Hernandez
The easiest method would be reinstalling, since the installer would do all the work for you.
There is no efficient method, that I know. All you can do is move everything off, wipe, encrypt, move back etc, or similar plans. I've done this before.
I have all my other partitions encrypted, but root is too much work.
Eli Flores
>He uses amd I never said I did. >real hardware >current x86 platform Enjoy your hardware-level rootkits via UEFI and anti-theft modules, as well as hardware-level backdoors operating above user-level thanks to Intel ME and AMD AMT. You're a fucking retard.
Henry Cruz
How do I make a synchronized, encrypted file storage with support for untrusted nodes?
Elijah Gutierrez
I'm sure theres a package in the AUR.
Leo Cook
is this the new meme
Carter Cooper
>UEFI What do you take me for? I'm not one for getting my asshole fucked either. My x58 motherboard doesn't even support that shit.
Michael Turner
What's wrong with UEFI?
Tyler Rogers
nothing, they have autism. ignore them.
Dylan Moore
NSA can literally upload files from your machine while it's unplugged.
Gabriel Williams
source?
Jose Peterson
His ass
Logan Bailey
I'm serious. That's spooky if they can do it. I only even just turn off my power source. Now i'm questioning if that's even worth it.
Elijah Barnes
>what is wrong with you, just run the games without that cuck client Because half the games I play are only available on steam and even the rest are (usually) easier to run on steam.
Steam on windows is great, on linux...not so much.
I'm using Fedora. How do I only show available packages(not installed) with dnf search
Henry Green
Which one is used on Fedora LXDE?
Juan Carter
>Steam on windows is great, on linux...not so much. On this note, any else have issues running Steam on Xenial based distros?
Justin Miller
LOOK AT ME I NEED HELP
I'm trying to run a ruby script by using a shebang instead of manually calling the ruby interpreter and using the script file as an argument.
Anyways, the shebang that I am using is #!/usr/bin/env ruby
I have verified that this path points to the ruby interpreter. I have changed the file permissions to make the script executable. The problem is that when the ruby script is run, it throws many errors. After fighting this for a while, I started to get a feeling that it was calling the bash interpreter instead of the ruby interpreter. So I wrote this as a test: #!/usr/bin/env ruby
echo "If this works, I'll scream" ls
This script runs fine, meaning that the shebang is referring the script to the bash interpreter instead of the ruby interpreter. I'm so confused. Does anyone here know what's going on?
Jaxson Rivera
Probably the GNOME one.
It's just called "notification-daemon".
Adam Richardson
probably lxqt-notificationd
Michael Johnson
or
Jackson Flores
Are you using Arch Linux?
Grayson Walker
lol
Jayden Campbell
No, I'm actually using a minimal install of Ubuntu. Have you heard of something like this before in regards to Arch?
Henry Johnson
>Xenial based distros What is this? I guess he's just trolling.
Dominic Reed
arch is pretty much retarded; they point sh to bash, python to python3 and I wouldn't be surprised if they also fuck around with ruby lol
Anthony Edwards
ruby is symlinked to perl which is symlinked to sh which is symlinked to bash on arch
John Wood
>sh to bash
No way that's right.
Bentley Miller
Just download any example ruby script and run it.
Caleb Collins
>Xenial based distros >What is this? Xenial is Ubuntu 16. It seems to have a few teething problems. I think 14.04 was broken at first too.
Xavier Kelly
>#!/usr/bin/env ruby Step 1 in debugging, simplify the code. Evaluate the path for ruby manually and use that, if that works, continue with other options.
