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wish i was there with him it's probably really easy to kill a """"""""person"""""""" in that kind of terrain
Aaron Powell
is that actually him? I thought he was fatter
Andrew Gomez
Finally a pic of rms without a fucking notebook. Rare item.
Dylan Rivera
idk. didn't take a close look. yeah. you like it? i bet you collect them and jerk off later huh?
Jackson Watson
$ ls ~/.archives/tech/rms/ | wc -l 1065
Asher Butler
Hey guys, I used Putty in Windows to connect to a few Cisco equipments at work, but I replaced my OS with Mint, anyone know a similar program to Putty that runs on Linux?
Bentley Clark
nice one chuckled
Angel Cruz
I ain't even joking. Probably a dumb question but it's my first Distro :(
Luis Nelson
How about ssh?
Jason Stewart
I don't know much about programming.
Brandon Carter
kek, you got us good user, you can stop pretending now
Asher Smith
stallman 1
Jeremiah Brown
stallman 2
Caleb Myers
I wasn't the one who made the programming comment.
Fuuuck I just want to telnet to a equipment
Benjamin Fisher
If you have more, please drop them here:
Logan Ward
Step 1. Ctrl+Alt+T Step 2. type telnet [SERVER ADDRESS]
Here's a rare action-figure Stallman for your troubles
Mason Ward
Why does nouveau or nvidia respect my /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf ?
I'm trying to get passthrough working.
lspci -nnk shows that vfio is loaded first
Ethan Nelson
And why would I need this literal piece of garbage?
Jayden Murphy
Thanks man, will cherish it.
Carson Miller
One day you'll see
You'll all see
Alexander Cook
Please help
Logan Ramirez
couldn't boot my system for an hour because i misspelt root as rood in a config file hahahaa
Ethan Williams
i was playing around with making users
Somehow i ended up loosing bash by default in the terminal. I can still get it by typing bash but im just curious what happened.
Any ideas?
Joseph Watson
Maybe you forgot to set a "login shell"?
Luis Brooks
what.cd is dead lel fuck you all
Landon Thompson
>private tracker botnet nothing of value was lost
Jaxson Brown
I'm running Arch Linux and I'm having some recent difficulty with Bumblebee with the proprietary Nvidia drivers. I have only recently noticed this problem and it has not always been like this. If I have my laptop plugged in, restart my laptop, and then use optirun or primusrun there are no issues. As soon as I unplug my system optirun and primusrun fail to work, and continue to fail even if I plug my system back in. Restarting the bumblebeed.service (or bumblebeed, not sure which is correct) does not fix the problem either (unplugged or plugged in). Any help would be appreciated.
Additional information: Running a program from terminal with optirun yields this >[ 691.476815] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not enable discrete graphics card
>[ 691.476847] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled. If I try to use primusrun from the terminal it just fails to run.
Charles Turner
>he fell for the arch meme
Justin Bell
>I'm running Arch Linux Well there's your problem right there. Fag.
Andrew Sanchez
I'm having some recent difficulty with Bumblebee with the proprietary Nvidia drivers. I have only recently noticed this problem and it has not always been like this. If I have my laptop plugged in, restart my laptop, and then use optirun or primusrun there are no issues. As soon as I unplug my system optirun and primusrun fail to work, and continue to fail even if I plug my system back in. Restarting the bumblebeed.service (or bumblebeed, not sure which is correct) does not fix the problem either (unplugged or plugged in). Any help would be appreciated.
Additional information: Running a program from terminal with optirun yields this >[ 691.476815] [ERROR]Cannot access secondary GPU - error: Could not enable discrete graphics card
>[ 691.476847] [ERROR]Aborting because fallback start is disabled. If I try to use primusrun from the terminal it just fails to run.
Please no meme answers.
Ethan Hernandez
the shell / terminal is the 'putty'
from the shell just do this:
ssh 10.111.111.111
or whatever IP you want to connect to. Putty is an ssh client for windows. on Linux, you can just run the ssh utility from the shell
William Perez
oh sorry, you wanted to telnet into some machine. ignore my comment: I assumed you wanted to ssh into it.
Hudson Phillips
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Gavin Thomas
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Gabriel Murphy
kys
Austin Sanders
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Benjamin Ortiz
My pc doesn't wake up after suspending to RAM no matter what I do. I tried upgrading the kernel from 4.4 to 4.6 but it didn't work. I'm using kubuntu 16.04 btw.
Lincoln Cox
You know what annoys me about Linux is copy and pasting. Sometimes I can just highlight and middle click, other times I can press ctrl+c then ctrl+v, othertimes it has to be ctrl+shift+c but ctrl-v still works, or vice versa.
Christ it's annoying.
Dominic Garcia
That has nothing to do with Linux, the kernel. You're most likely confused about some of X's clipboards. Spend 1 minute reading summaries instead of complaining on here and it will make sense.
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.
Aiden Walker
No, I just don't care enough about the GNU/ Linux distinction to bother. What's the secondary one? CTRL+SHIFT+C/ CTRL+SHIFT+V?
Logan Scott
there is no gnu it's just a myth invented by retards like 57556084 to justify they're autistic compulsion to police other peoples language
Dominic Turner
No I get this, I just truly don't care enough to change my established habits. It's like how I use "who" instead of "whom", despite completely understanding the distinction between them. I'm very okay with being wrong, for the sake of convenience.
Aiden Thomas
CTRL+C/CTRL+V is CLIPBOARD
Listen:
Stuff you select goes into PRIMARY, keeping stuff that you have in CLIPBOARD. So when you select text, you can paste it with middle click and then press CTRL+V to paste whatever you copied into your clipboard the last time you hit CTRL+C.
I home someone permabans your annoying ass.
Leo Reed
>they're cheeky
Hudson Reyes
the new GNOME update has me ENRAGED. GNOME was a great DE, in my opinion, because it was completely keyboard-controlled. Mainly, if I wanted to open a new program, I just had to press super and start typing. Now when you press super, the cursor stays in the window you were in previously, so you have to move your mouse to the search bar and click on it.
Whose fucking idea was this? Who complained about the feature that drives the fucking DE? FUCK THIS SHIT
Ayden Moore
Okay, thanks. I see know that CTRL+SHIFT+C/V is like an in-terminal alias for what CTRL+C/V does outside the terminal.
David Carter
Ok Sup Forums ,im buying a new pc in the next days and i want to copy all of my actual xubuntu/openbox setup, All of it configurations,programs and all that, does anyone know how can i do it?
Jace Cooper
Can't you popup an xfceish appfinder with superl?
Aaron Wood
Yep.
Dylan Rogers
Thank you, but I don't quite get what I should do now. I've provided a few screenshots in that github bugtracker: github.com/Alexey-Yakovenko/deadbeef/issues/1674 Is there anything wrong with those settings screenshots I've posted? What should I change?
Benjamin Collins
Hi /flt/, I've been using Mint for the last 12 months and I like it, but I'm ready to move on to a proper OS now. If I were reinstalling on Windows, I would back up my file system so that I can restore from it in case I fuck up/want to go back to what I had. What's the equivalent process on Linux? I could just manually copy my file system onto my hard drive (which I might do anyway since it's not that big), but is there a more sensible way of backing up Linux OS snapshots to restore from later? Thanks.
William Morgan
Try another icontheme.
Brody Diaz
I've also been using Mint for a year, but I feel like changing just for the sake of it. What do you mean by: >I'm ready to move on to a proper OS now What do you consider a "proper OS"?
Parker Bennett
>Linux OS it's just a kernel, the OS is GNU/Linux >backup look into rsync and dd
Robert Thompson
how do I get my laptop to have more than like 1.5 hr battery life under linux? On chromeOS it's like 8 hrs
Brody Green
Mint is often criticised for being a "gateway" or newbie distro. I'd like something a little less kiddie, that's all. I know, I am just being lazy with my terminology. Thanks for the refs, I'll look into them.
Austin Perry
>On chromeOS it's like 8 hrs who cares?
Oliver Rodriguez
cuz more hours is better?
Luke Sullivan
Then use ChromeOS?
Isaac Gonzalez
>Mint is often criticised for being a "gateway" or newbie distro. Hmm, I'm don't really understand that criticism. Is the argument that, in being easy to use for somebody coming from Windows/ Mac OS, Linux Mint has less value than a more difficult OS? How does that work? To me it seems to be a question of image over practicality, but I'm exactly that newbie that likes Mint.
Maybe it would help me understand better if you explained what you consider to be a "less kiddie" OS?
Zachary Green
I don't want to. Is it not possible to use linux and have good battery life?
Blake Moore
The problem with Linux Mint is not "being kiddie" it's that is horrible hacked together and insecure.
Wyatt James
Thoughts on Fedora?
Jason Brown
NSA
Brandon Sanders
install powertop
Daniel Hughes
how can I set bluetooth to be disabled at startup ? ubuntu 16 also whats a good way of getting the same mouse sens from windows on linux?
Eli Sullivan
Yet another useless distro, which doesn't fill any gap.
Elijah Taylor
Clementine
Jason Howard
>mouse man xset
>tripfag kys
Cooper Russell
>>>/reddit/
Jeremiah Parker
Suck my dick.
Y-you too.
Luke Wood
>Linux Mint is horrible hacked together and insecure. Ah, that seems like a more valid criticism. Could you expand?
Eli Clark
Trifags not welcome. Please leave. Thanks.
Leo Bennett
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Make me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alternatively, you could tell the retard running this site to disable tripcodes for normal users.
John Ross
No, he can't because it's bullshit he's parroting after some other shit head posted it
Levi Morris
What about duofags or quadfags
Austin Davis
>insecure Elaborate. Would tails be a better option?
Isaac Hughes
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He should come back when he can newforce
Robert Price
It's mixing ubuntu and debian packages, known as "frankendebian", highjacks package names and modifies packages in a way that makes them unable to get upgrades without breakage, so they just blacklist important packages like linux, systemd, xorg, etc from updates completely. So Mint basically provides a distro without security updates; if you can enable them you break your system.
Logan Jackson
lies, google "best linux distro", 90% of results recommend mint and ubuntu
Jayden Robinson
is there anyway of setting the touchpad to be automatically disabled if i plugin a USB mouse? i accidentally press my mousepad while typing and it pisses me off i would have preffered having a GUI but thanks