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*sees OP image* *fucking guns down that pathetic animal the based penguin is lying on*
Lincoln Edwards
the LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE
Ian Edwards
First for Debian: 1. Respects your freedom first and foremost. 2. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to non-free software if you want/need it. 3. Stable by default. 4. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to a rolling release, if you want/need it. 5. Decisions are made by the community instead of a single entity. 6. One of the eldest and most influential distros to this day.
>5. Decisions are made by the community instead of a single entity. as a pro ahahahah *executes your dirty little ass* *preemptively shoots a few rounds behind his back so the katana user teleports into bullets*
Easton Wright
That's cute shit. Can i use it in the grub2 menu?
Nolan Edwards
That's just the host name. My browser not support reddit.
Austin Richardson
Drop it into /boot/grub/ and update.
Jonathan Hall
>1. Respects your freedom first and foremost. >5. Decisions are made by the community instead of a single entity. what did he mean by this?
Lucas Cook
hola senoras y senoritas is it possible to do a gpu passthru if you only have igpu? if not, i imagine it would be possible to do a gpu passthru with an external thunderbolt gpu yea? does linux even support thunderbolt 3?
Jason Gutierrez
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Wyatt Walker
original
Grayson Clark
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Should I use linux-ck for bfs instead of using cfs? Additionally, should I enable bfq?
Asher King
I'm going to fucking devalue the shit out of it just to spite you.
Ryan Ross
What's the best lightweight, user-friendly distribution that is webscale, for beginners, but also not hiding anything from expert users, that's customizable, offering long term support, supports servers, while also being optimized for desktop use and which has a version of libxau higher than 1.0.5, but lower than 1.0.8, also it should support my S3 Virge videocard and come with the Faenza icon theme that supports icons for Anki?
Joshua Anderson
How much of a difference does building with gcc 6.2.0 make over 5.4.0 and 4.9.0?
I'm using ffmpeg to encode about 4GB of videos to HEVC and it's taken like 5 hours on a i5 2.4ghz with 8GB RAM. Got me wondering if there were ways to make ffmpeg run faster for the same job
Nicholas Scott
How do you have separate wallpapers for your monitors without using nitrogen?
Connor Miller
>what did he mean by this? "Respects your freedom first and foremost" refers to how Debian comes with 100% free software by default, including a deblobbed Linux kernel. This is enforced by their social contract, part of which served as the basis for the Open Source Definition: debian.org/social_contract
"Decisions are made by the community instead of a single entity." refers to their constitution which lays out how decisions are made in order to not give one person or group too much power: debian.org/devel/constitution
Noah Nguyen
>constitution But a constitution isn't a fucking community. You clearly said the decisions are made by a community, not by a semi-independent piece of paper with rules on it.
Angel Moore
way to reset gnome extensions. Accidentally dash to dock somehow so it doesn't display right.
Jace Gonzalez
Debian has a voting system.
Alexander Lopez
>"I use X Distro because of how it looks" >It just uses out of the box cinnamon / unity / MATE / whatever
Is there any helping this people? Is it even worth correcting them? It's not like I care that people use Ubuntu / Mint, but when their entire justification is because of the DE it irks me a bit. I feel like it shows a fundamental misunderstanding of linux.
Sebastian Gray
Is ther a way to make urxvt stop underlining links?
Wyatt Butler
Is Xubuntu the best distro? >just works >stable but not as old as Debian >will always have support since it's basically Ubuntu >Xfce is the best DE, not bloated like GNOME and actually made for desktop use
David Wilson
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Bentley Harris
>But a constitution isn't a fucking community. True. I guess it would be more accurate to say that the decisions are made by the community of developers who collectively maintain all the various parts that make up Debian.
Tyler Young
Noice.
Camden Reed
BFS is deprecated, we MuQSS now (also written by Con Kolivas, linux-ck in arch at least now uses MuQSS by default)
Liam Roberts
from distro hopping I noticed "out of the box" KDE works better in suse Cinnamon works better in mint Unity works better in ubuntu gnome worked better in fedora and debian
xfce and lxde pretty much worked fine in everything.
It' more of those distros spend time so they just work, but if you know what you're doing you can make them work the same.
Noah Butler
is there a linux that works best on amd hardware?
8350 and 7970 here
Luke Brown
There actually is AMD Linux, but I remember it was always tricky to find it's website on AMD main page.
Parker Taylor
>BFS is deprecated, we MuQSS now
Not yet...
BFS Updated For Linux 4.8, To Be Succeeded By New MuQSS Scheduler
Ubuntu 16.04 or Ubuntu 16.04 derivatives because AMDGPU-PRO is officially supported on Ubuntu 16.04.
Camden Cruz
ck-hack.blogspot.com.au/2016/10/linux-48-ck2-muqss-version-0114.html >Announcing an updated version, and the first -ck release with MuQSS as the scheduler, officially retiring BFS from further development, in line with the diminished rate of bug reports with MuQSS. It is clear that the little attention BFS had received over the years apart from rushed synchronisation with mainline had cause a number of bugs to creep in and MuQSS is basically a rewritten evolution of the same code so it makes no sense to maintain both.
>officially retiring BFS from further development literally deprecated
Jack Cooper
i dislike it, but forking for any reason has become the answer.
Hunter Long
Debian's Social Contract states the goal of making Debian entirely free software, and Debian conscientiously keeps nonfree software out of the official Debian system. However, Debian also provides a repository of nonfree software. According to the project, this software is “not part of the Debian system,” but the repository is hosted on many of the project's main servers, and people can readily find these nonfree packages by browsing Debian's online package database and its wiki.
There is also a “contrib” repository; its packages are free, but some of them exist to load separately distributed proprietary programs. This too is not thoroughly separated from the main Debian distribution.
Previous releases of Debian included nonfree blobs with Linux, the kernel. With the release of Debian 6.0 (“squeeze”) in February 2011, these blobs have been moved out of the main distribution to separate packages in the nonfree repository. However, the problem partly remains: the installer in some cases recommends these nonfree firmware files for the peripherals on the machine.
oh thats cool, is it open source? Also which buntu is best? xubuntu looks decent but should i just go for ubunutu? is it actually safe after the whole amazon thing
drivers or an actual fork?
Ryan Wilson
Actual GNU/Linux distribution with proprietary drivers included out of the box.
Colton Martin
So I just wasted about 6 hours recoding some videos from some crap mp4 shit into mkv+HEVC+opus master race but most came out with dropped frames so I have to do them from scratch.
It was the ones that were higher resolution (4K) that came out badly. How should I prevent this from happening?
Gavin Morales
Also I did use vsync 1 but it clearly didn't help
Cameron Richardson
are you sure you're actually missing frames, and not just struggling to play them back at full speed?
ffmpeg should have been telling you constantly that frames were being dropped while encoding
Aiden Ross
That's the thing, even with vsync 1, it was telling me about some dropped frames, but beyond using vsync, I don't know what the fuck to do to stop this shit from going on.
Liam Lee
and you're not changing the framerate manually? (ex. "-i file.mp4 -r 20")
Jose Watson
I know that's from gnu.org, but it has nothing against none of the points made.
It still respects freedom first and foremost, because it's 100% free software by default. e.g.: >Debian conscientiously keeps nonfree software out of the official Debian system. You have to go out of your way to get nonfree software on it, even if it isn't "thoroughly separated" enough by the GNU's standards.
Brody Gutierrez
No, this is the script I used (wrote myself so could be fucked/shitty)
for i in *.mp4 ; do ffmpeg -i "$i" -vsync 1 -c:v libx265 -c:a libopus -x265-params -out "${i%.mp4}.mkv"; done
Michael Hernandez
Nobody likes a shill. Are you trying to make people hate debian by making them associate debian linux with your annoying online presence?
Henry Johnson
Can software break hardware?
I got yelled at by Senpai over at /tpg/ a week ago, now I'm asking /fglt/ because friendly.
I don't know anything about Linux, can get my way around Windows and I figured I'd give it a try, it seemed interesting. I, for the fun of it, tried, and succeeded, to install Gentoo on my Thinkpad, it was too bothersome/complicated for me, so I installed Arch. I had no idea what I was doing, but the system was working, so I figured it was fine and seldom used it, swapping between it and my Windows install (physically swapping the HDD that is). I did notice, however, that the fans on my laptop were running much quieter than on Windows, I figured that it was because the system was more efficient or something, honestly I didn't think much of it. Now. A month ago, I started getting random BSOD on Windows, figured I had to format, so I decided against it and to use only my Arch install. It did work for about a week. The next day, the laptop wouldn't boot anymore, motherboard failure.
I got a new Thinkpad a week ago, but I'm afraid of installing Arch again because I'm scared that the software, not correctly configured, could have killed my laptop. Maybe the fans setup wasn't done properly and the laptop got too hot while in standby?
What should I do /fglt/. Could Arch have killed my laptop? Should I stay away from Linux because Windows Baby? The only reason I got into Linux was out of interest, I'd like to learn to code and I figured it would be much more concrete on Linux, I always liked to tweak and customize everything.
Thanks for reading /fglt/, have a cute anime for your trouble.
Tyler Wilson
you might need to specifiy bitrate
Logan Harris
gentoo killed it because you trashed her and switched to arch
John Kelly
not really sure, the only times i've run into dropped frames are when; - the input is weird and gives me some/lots of ... can't quite remember what the error actually said, but it contained some floating point number under 0, and probably "timestamp" or "pts", adding -vsync 1 seems to do the job for these - setting the framerate after the input, this causes a conversion, so frames and dropped or duped to suit
ps. you've specified -x265-params but haven't actually written any
also, while trying to find the error mention above, i ran into a similar one regarding invalid timestamps, and the fix for that one was "-fflags +genpts" (before -i) couldn't hurt to try it
Eli Rogers
Thanks. DIdn't realize the thing about -x265-params, as I said I wrote it myself by copying stuff here and there from the net. I'll try with the timestamps fix, sounds good actually.
Nolan Taylor
>some floating point number under 0 under 1, rather, like "0.89283737" haven't seen it since using -vsync 1, so i struggle to remember the rest
if +genpts does what i think it does (scans through the input to generate timestamps) it'll probably take a bit longer to actually start encoding
Ayden Morales
You should noticed the overheat and as i know the fan should speed up automatically on every TP and if it's overheat it should restart to save the cpu. I use a TP too with arch and i have no problems with the cooling. Are you sure it's the motherboard?
Andrew Walker
Yup, according to the beeps, it's a motherboard failure. System won't boot to bios, even without a HDD.
What confuses me, however, is that the thinklight and the leds still works.
Also, yeah, the fans would have probably kicked in if it overheat would have been the problem. It was a T400 so, maybe it just died by natural cause. I guess I'll install Arch, or maybe Antergos this time, on the new T420.
Thanks for your input user.
Luke Fisher
>What confuses me, however, is that the thinklight and the leds still works. they run on seperate microcontroller(s)
Liam Morales
That would make a lot of sense!
Yeah. I think I'll take the plunge and install Arch again. The more I think of it, Windows BSODing every now and then for no reason, yeah, it was probably slowly dying. Or is right, and Gentoo was poisoning it from the inside.
Joseph Rodriguez
Bump
Adrian Roberts
You can't,what's wrong with nitrogen?
Brody Campbell
Disables desktop icons, causes a bunch of problems
Nicholas Howard
you'll have to be more specific
Jeremiah Baker
Unrelated, but instead of looping, you could use find. Here an example: find . -maxdepth 1 -type f -name '*.flac' -exec bash -c 'f={}; ffmpeg -hide_banner -c:a libopus -ab 192k -ac 2 -ar 48000 -i "${f}" -- "${f%.*}.opus"' \;
Jason Jones
As Debian user I say: This.
Alexander Ortiz
Xfce can't do this?
Noah Thomas
Never had this issue on my machine,what de are you using?Are you sure nitrogen is up to date?
Henry Harris
How do I set the mouse acceleration to the same level on Windows? Everytime I boot up Windows for games it feels awkard because the mouse speeds up way less than Linux. What value should I set?
Matthew Fisher
What's the best Chromium fork? Iridium, Inox or ungoogled-Chromium?
>just use firefox
No.
Brody Stewart
>Half assed freetard distro with old as sin packages maintained by SJW dipshits
Sebastian Rogers
Linux doesn't change your mouse speed; X does it (man xset). Example: xset m a/a b Where a = acceleration b = threshold Real world example: xset m 1/1 1
Nathan White
Inox
Aiden King
Using it right no. I'm thinking iof switching to Manjaro Xfce
Jordan Brooks
>half assed that's why everyone is forking it, right >freetard stallman doesn't approve >old packages what is sid >sjw welcome to gnu/linux, it's not debian, it's the whole community
Brody Walker
>it's the whole community Arch gives zero fucks what the "community" wants.
Connor Myers
Doesn't change the fact that sjw's are everywhere, for example: archwomen.org/
Hudson Morgan
>Half assed freetard distro Half assed WANNABE freetard distro that allows you to run NON FREE programs >what is sid Old as sin packages >No male programmer privilage checklist >No mansplaining It's fuck ton better
Jonathan Gutierrez
Welp, no wonder, the buzzword "freedom" attracts all sorts of mental ill people... see the libreboot drama.
Tyler Bennett
That is the equivalent of a 10yr olds first geocities webpage, which has absolutely zero sway in what the developers do. Nor is it even officially acknowledged by the dev team, let alone the general user
Jaxson Davis
>distro that allows you to run NON FREE programs Just like any distro?
Jordan Stewart
>Can software break hardware?
In general, it is possible. For example, some failsafes exist in the drivers, and inaccurately written drivers could unknowingly bypass them and blah blah.
But honestly, it's extremely unlikely. Especially if we're talking something as widespread as Thinkpads or Linux.
Ian Rodriguez
Did you know that mpv devs recently replaces all "master" and "slave" words in the sources? Time to uninstall mpv, right? :^)
Cooper Hernandez
So much for being a freetard distro
Ian Gomez
I don't use mpv
Nathan Murphy
>To this end, we provide a safe space for people of all genders and backgrounds to share skills, learn, network and socialize.
Nicholas Myers
what are they called now?
Parker Roberts
master->women slave->mysoginist
Zachary Adams
Is rsync still the best backup tool?
Logan Bennett
> Use Linux Mint on my laptop for Android programming > Shut down Windows, boot Linux to do some work > External monitor is not working > It was working a minute ago > Restart computer > Wifi not working, monitor still not working > Reboot again > Everything works now I don't fucking even. Why is Linux so shit?
Gavin Bennett
dd or rsync are the only options
Eli Collins
>Stable by default. Wrong. This FUD is getting too old now
