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Does anyone here run Nix OS? Does it take a lot of time to set it up and do simple tasks?
Christian Gutierrez
broadcom or atheros for best linux compatibility?
Parker Hernandez
Broadcom is shit. Stay away. I can't speak for Atheros.
Liam Edwards
how can i fully encrypt my disk on a distro that doesn't give me that option on install?
Brayden Bailey
VeraCrypt
Thomas Flores
Want to try my hand at gentoo. Is there absolutely any reason to use the hardened version? Does it make it significantly more complicated? should I first do a regular install and try hardened later on
Jaxson Brown
Yo, i have to make a usb boot drive to go into my windows install and copy a lot of files to another hdd since my windows install has stopped working and nothing is working. What distro is best for this?
Henry Edwards
it really doesn't matter as long as it's easy to use. puppy linux probably because it won't take long to download.
Isaac Rivera
atheros
Andrew Jones
Do a regular install first. Hardened doesn't have a desktop profile and you would have to fuck around with having an insanely long list of USE flags copied from a desktop profile. You can also switch to hardened from a regular install but you'll have to recompile every single package on your system which will take ages if you have a shitty processor or have a lot of packages installed, shouldn't take that long though if you have a good one though.
Ethan Jones
>sudo yum install screenfetch user is not a sudoer, this incident will be reported log in as root >echo 'user ALL=(ALL) ALL' >> /etc/sudoers >sudo yum install screenfetch no package screenfetch available >git clone github.com/KittyKat/screenFetch.get bash: git: command not found holy fucking shit this is a fucking joke
E V E R Y D I S T R O I S S H I T A N D I T I S A L M O S T T W O T H O U S A N D A N D S E V E N T E E N
Brody White
>page 5 nobody cares about gnu + linux ;_;
Noah King
>yum found your problem
Evan Hernandez
I'm using handbrake, trying to rip an old dvd (bill bailey dandelion mind). When i select the dvd as source in handbrake it scans all the titles one by one and then does nothing as if ti failed. same for trying to play it in vlc, smplayer and mpv.
I read you cna install libdvd-pkg to make sure the encryption is being fucky so I did that, same problem. I can navigate to the dvd and look at the TS folders and such just fine, so the actual dvd hardware is working properly.
what do? this is in ubuntu.
Logan Kelly
allright I'm retarded, you need to install ubuntu restriced extras since you need a bunch of nonfree software to play dvds and whatnot.
I don't want to hear a smug word out of any of you fuken nerds either allright?
Zachary Ramirez
Anyone here creates/maintains Appimages? Where's the KDE Shill?
Tyler Green
>Where's the KDE Shill hopefully gone back to lebbit
Thomas Sullivan
Then you help me create an Appimage for KtechLab
Adam Roberts
I want to learn how to make basic scripts. I just switched over to Linux yesterday.
On windows there was a lot of pick up and go easy to use software that made making basic keystroke macros quite easy. But I can't find much on linux for it.
Should I just try and get autohotkey working with wine or what? I don't need to do anything more than hitting a key and having it type a sentence or two.
John Hughes
Python is a good scripting language
Grayson Ortiz
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.
The Grymoire and Greg's wiki is actually something everyone should read. Top content.
Lucas Moore
I have to read all of that to macro a sentence to a keystroke?
Hunter Sullivan
$ xdotool type "No, faggot. Install xdotool. Why don't you listen?"
Charles Cooper
>I want to learn how to make basic scripts so I dropped the pasta, if you don't like it, gtfo fagget
Caleb Garcia
how would I assign that to a specific key?
Nicholas Parker
the same way you set other keyboard shortcuts in your WM/DE
Caleb Lee
Use whatever your DE ships or use xbindkeys.
Jacob White
oh fuck, thanks
this shit is going to be so useful for shit-posting
Brayden Miller
>he doesn't already have an interjection-hotkey
Julian James
I'd recommend to use a individual program for personal hotkeys. Comfy when you're going to switch DEs or switch to a WM later, so you can keep your shit without reconfiguring everything. Makes ofc only sense when you have lots of hotkeys.
Hudson Turner
I'm trying to set up a fresh VPS on a new provider. The problem is that dhcpcd in Arch doesn't want to connect to the internet at all, but the prebuilt Ubuntu image has a working network configuration. Can I copy it over somehow?
I have saved the /etc/network/interfaces file from Ubuntu, btw.
Joseph Bell
>Arch doesn't want to connect to the internet at all That's normal.
Hunter Russell
I'm running into a problem where the hotkey won't work unless I press it multiple times, and even then sometimes it doesn't register the entire word/sentence.
Just using linux mint's keyboard shortcut system.
Evan Moore
Try giving it a short sleep.
sh -c 'sleep 0.5 && xdotool "faggot"' If it works, lower the sleep.
Josiah Kelly
+type
Cameron Powell
Try using a non NSA provider.
Liam Rodriguez
that works, thanks
Justin Reyes
What's the best way to learn more about how Linux works? Installing Arch or is that just a meme?
Mainly want to learn more about command line and useful stuff like crontab and log files.
Evan Bailey
Installing Arch definately teaches you to get comfy with the terminal
Josiah Brooks
nice meme don't fall for arch
Ethan Bennett
Hi team, complete linux noob here. Recently swapped from ubuntu to fedora, because fuck ubuntu. After having installed fedora yesterday i decided to go for a celebratory wank, but to my surprise the videos wouldnt play, ive tried installing a few codecs to no avail. Any ideas on how i could get my online porn to work?
Nathan Morgan
gentoo
Ryan Gomez
Ur mum is a meme
Eli Gray
why do you think using fedora deserves a "celebratory wank"?
Blake Thomas
>Freetard distros Everytime kek
Install Korora
Easton Rogers
I don't need to justify my celebratory wanks to you, you're not my mum.
Nathan Hughes
Let me explain.
The meme people are falling for: >Arch Linux - A simple and lightweight Linux distribution
The reality: Kernel bloated with literally all modules available, packages twice as huge as on other distros, the only lightweight thing on Arch is the non-existant installer.
Jason Price
Fedora isn't a freetard distro, pleb.
Joshua Thomas
>Kernel bloated with literally all modules available, Oh you again. Proves how boring your life is for actively springing on a specefic distro.
The kernel parameters can be set according to your autism spectrum before installation. Not that you would know because you never really installed Arch.
Employed people use a kernel that works.
>packages twice as huge as on other distros,
Wrong. I always give you a simple example: install screenfetch. It's just a bash script. However, debian decides to install scrot as a dependency. The repo of debian is bloated no matter what you do with your package manger, it's not going to change anything on debian repo servers.
>the only lightweight thing on Arch is the non-existant installer. If you need an installer there is architect, arch anywhere and antergos.
Text installers are objectively far more flexible
Leo Rivera
It's one of those half assed freetard wannabe distros like debian that allow you to go non free
Mason Hall
anyone ever use kali linux for anything? thoughts?
Hunter Lopez
You don't know what you're talking about. You can install whatever you want on freetard distros; they don't "disallow" anything.
Dylan Morales
yum install git ;-3
Gabriel Moore
delet this
Matthew Russell
how do I string together multiple commands in a single line with xdotool?
I'm trying to get it to send a key stroke after typing something, then start typing again
Kayden Smith
You will never know unless you tried it yourself.
Jayden Nelson
Im using a cable to connect my internal ssd of a windows pc to my laptop running xubuntu (sata to usb) but its not showing up? What do i need to do
Grayson Collins
you guys are quite the jokesters
Blake Edwards
That wasn't a joke. Using an EU provider can cause this issue.
Nicholas Reyes
Nah, man. That was definitely a joke.
Xavier Kelly
I ran lsubs and its showing up there, but not under file manager
Henry Long
But it wasn't. It's a known NSA bug
Brandon Powell
I'm using debian jessie.
I want to update to strecth, so I changes all instances of "jessie" sources.list to "stretch".
The first will not attempt to upgrade any packages on your system, so if specific dependencies are not met, the install will fail. The second method will attempt to install/upgrade any dependencies. Of course, given the above example, 'apt-get' will ask you before proceeding.
It's a meme, you dip.
xfce+devuan
Lucas Lewis
Hey can anyone tell me how to make a keybind stick around?
If I run bind -x '"\eW":"/home/joaquim/Desktop/SSH"' The shortcut Alt+Shift+W works during that terminal session but as soon as I close and reopen it I have to bind it again. This is just so I don't have to memorize a IP address desu. Anyone has a clue?
Jordan Sullivan
remove the -x and save the line into your bashrc
Asher Hall
Thanks!
Luke Johnson
Install PCLinuxOS.
Asher Jenkins
Not to mention they use systemd.
Into the trash they go.
Samuel Moore
kde neon or maui? does anyone actually use either?
Jose Bennett
...
Levi Torres
What good distros don't use systemd? No seriously, I would love to switch
The fact that you're asking this question shows that you don't even know what systemd is or what it does. You just want to get rid of systemd because it's cool. Kill yourself.
Benjamin Harris
APT with RPM
Jacob Jackson
it's the init software the doesn't follow unix philosophy and is super fucking complex and involved with everything something something red hat's biggest customer is the government something something backdoor fucking kill yourself you stupid nigger
Dylan Sanders
Stop trying, Lennart. You're not convincing anyone.
David Hill
this
Landon Morris
sometimes I think people just parrot what they read somewhere else in order to look tech literate
for example, this faggot right here:
Easton Morales
>it's the init software the doesn't follow unix philosophy how is this relevant? are you a mactard?
Adrian Taylor
Lennart pls, you're not fooling anybody.
Christopher Diaz
>install Mint to get away from Windows 10 >decide to try new DEs that's different from Windows layout >end up just using Cinnamon
why can't i want to learn new things
Brayden Martinez
because most des are shit
Brody Garcia
All those floating window managers are exactly the same essentially, differing only on accidents.
Learn to use a tiling window manager.
Christopher Morgan
So basically
>Erlang applications store pipes in /tmp >System-fucking-d deletes these files when they get to a certain age and my app dies >I found I can edit a file in /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d and exclude /tmp/erl_pipes from getting fucked up >Occasionally, an update resets this file and I'm fucked
How do I properly exclude this directory permanently?
