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echo `ls *wma | cat | grep wma`
Elijah Moore
You may want to reread the purpose of the distro you have chose
#Then calls ls #In computing, ls is a command to list files in Unix and Unix-like operating systems #From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ls
#Followed by the wildcard operator * #* asterisk: This can represent any number of characters (including zero, in other words, zero or more characters). #From tldp.org/LDP/GNU-Linux-Tools-Summary/html/x11655.htm
#In combination with the wildcard, we want to find wma files #Windows Media Audio (WMA) is the name of a series of audio codecs and their corresponding audio coding formats developed by Microsoft. #From en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Media_Audio
#We then combine this with a "bash pipe" #Pipes let you use (very simple, I insist) the output of a program as the input of another one #From tldp.org/HOWTO/Bash-Prog-Intro-HOWTO-4.html
#Into the cat program #cat stands for "catenate." It reads data from files, and outputs their contents. #From computerhope.com/unix/ucat.htm
#Followed by another pipe, into GREP #grep, which stands for "global regular expression print," processes text line by line and prints any lines which match a specified pattern. #From computerhope.com/unix/ugrep.htm
#Thanks for using my awesome script! Until next time!
FTFY
Ethan Allen
>no metacomments about how to read the comments 3/5 not good enough for man page yet.
Justin Phillips
Does i3 use tags? As in you can toggle one on and off?
Adrian Perez
What are the main fundamental differences between similar distros? For example, what are the differences between CentOS and Debian? Is GNOME any different on either of them?
Cameron Myers
package manager level of SJW allowed
THAT. IS. IT.
Cameron Brooks
>level of SJW allowed whats a distro with the lowest?
Daniel Myers
The main difference is the package manager and the modifications (if any) they make to upstream software when they package it and then there's the base system and how it's setup, the defaults and other small things.
>Is GNOME any different on either of them? If it's the same version it will be mostly the same on all distributions.
Ethan Rogers
Hard to say. But there's one distro that's infested with SJW beyond danger level
Robert Moore
yeah we all know about *****n
Colton Campbell
SJWS!! XD
Chase Wood
Stop meme shouting, the villagers are getting nervous :-DDD
Nathan Wilson
Reminder that Debian is the overall best distro: 1. Respects your freedom first and foremost, according to a social contract. debian.org/social_contract 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. Has a constitution to give no single entity too much power over decisions. debian.org/devel/constitution 6. One of the eldest and most influential distros to this day.
Jayden Allen
Here we go again...
I'm out, see you in the next thread.
Joseph James
fortune -o -i -m 'debian'
The good old days.
William Johnson
Does Debian come with a boot manager when installing? I.E. Can I set up dual boot while installing Debian?
Matthew Hughes
Reminder, No one gives a fuck and go shill elsewhere.
Justin Kelly
Fuck off
Angel Phillips
Yeah, it installs grub and has a thing called os-prober which finds other OS's partitions and adds them to grub. It's all done automatically on install, and can be easily configured afterwards.
David Bailey
>Stable by default. KEK
James Collins
>hibernation works >resume just freezes everything and disables all peripherals forever >all PM tests pass without problems, even core >even with all modules disabled, and replacing init by /bin/bash, shit dies in resume >freebsd doesn't detect my harddrive at all What do? I tried everything I could think of to debug PM debugging, I tried my distro's irc channel but they didn't have anything to say. Google doesn't help. Is there anywhere else I can't ask if no-one here knows what I should be doing next?
Gabriel Martinez
When debiantards say 'stable', they mean 'doesn't change' and not 'doesn't break'.
Ayden Roberts
probably dumb but how much swap do you have?
Owen Johnson
16GB (same as memory). Note that if I didn't have enough swap, I wouldn't be able to hibernate in the first place - the image would just be restored immediately with a message in the logs. Right now, the only log messages are get are 'success' across the board.
Parker Powell
(You) forgot to mention the retarded package manager
Chase Martinez
>When debiantards say 'stable', they mean 'doesn't change' and not 'doesn't break'. When a package changes, those changes are more likely to cause issues/bugs. By 'stable', I mean just that: stable. The packages aren't perfect or without bugs, but they typically have far less bugs compared to newer packages because they've gone through a long period of testing and usage. They also receive security updates for critical bugs.
Apt isn't amazing, but it's perfectly adequate. What's your problem with it?
Daniel Miller
sorry senpai, that's the only thing I could think of off the top of my head. Just in the slim chance but 16gb should be way more than enough.
Owen Wright
l8r Except for the people who do give a fuck no
Ayden Lewis
>people who do give a fuck *person you're the only one
Brody Gray
Too bad the exact opposite is true. The 'stable' in debian means every package is a buggy unusable mess, and the bugs will never ever be fixed.
Landon Powell
Parrot 3.2: >This new version comes after a long while due to some buggy packages in the Debian Testing repository that we were forced to fix by our own (it’s about the latest GTK updates that broke the MATE interface). This is the typical situation in debshit land: everything's broken and people have to fix that shit themselves because shit's NEVER EVER getting fixed.
Jose Roberts
what's a good music making program for linux
Hunter Lewis
Whats the point in lying on the internet?
Isaiah Rodriguez
it's called trolling
Bentley King
He's right
Andrew Brooks
You could literally google it.
Jackson Cooper
Just ignore. There's no point in arguing with trolls.
Leo Hall
audacity
Lucas Gonzalez
thank you
Gavin Anderson
He's right you know
Jayden Garcia
Write a metalanguage for generating these comments. Then use it to document the metalanguage.
Leo Morris
This thread is 99% disinformation memes and 1% actually helpful/informative. Fuck this shit I'm out.
Luis Morales
So is there an election going on or something?
Grayson Lopez
I don't know what an anguage is but I like that there's a metal version
Henry Watson
>no Makefile how do I even install this
Thomas Myers
miss nude Australia
Ryan Scott
huh? No way What's really going on?
Ayden Richardson
murkatronk is deciding what hole it wants to get fucked in for the next four years
you must be joking. I haven't heard anything but I live here
Benjamin Wood
Write a curl wrapper that caches these scripts for performance and in case you are offline.
Aiden Baker
>1. Respects your freedom first and foremost, according to a social contract. But people enable non-free repo anyway - people that are not running poorfag thinkpad in their basement. >2. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to non-free software, if you want/need it. See 1 >3. Stable by default. Bullshit. Debian stable ships with decades old KDE bugs. It also has some distro specefic bugs in OpenSSL >4. Allows you to knowingly opt-in to a rolling release, if you want/need it. Running out of points? >5. Has a constitution to give no single entity too much power over decisions. >debian.org/devel/constitution See picture >6. One of the eldest and most influential distros to this day. Debian adds NOTHING to the Linux community except for an SJW hugbox. It gave Linux absolutely ZERO new projects. What did debian ever do? Developing/contributing to BTRFS? Snapper? Kcraft/Kernel hotpatching? FreeDesktop? GNOME? KDE? Wayland? Mir? Snaps? Flatpak? LXC containers? OpenZFS? OBS? Convergence? KVM? High-end Xeon (or instanbul) support? GRO? Systemd-ui/kcm? KIWI? What DID debian give back to the Linux community in all these years?
On that same note though, Slackware is even more trash. At least debian gave birth to the far superior Ubuntu, it has negative contribution to the Linux community.
Slackware gave nothing bad but unlike debian, it's there to bitch and moan about Systemd - that's ALL what Slackware is good for. Unlike debian, Slackware is THE bloat of the Linux community.
Luke Cox
nope, dead serious
Ian Richardson
Is there a resource that lists hardware that works without proprietary software/drivers, and by which means?
Aaron Williams
crazy shit lol I thought it was some local election or something
