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*Should I turn my laptop into a thin client for my desktop or should I just SSH in when needed. I like the idea of keeping my operating systems synced in some way.
Jace Morgan
yep, surveillance, censorship, media control
Carson Cook
So I fixed it, you would never guess, it was a monitor setting.
And of course, this crops up another issue. The DPI settings get fucked up when I keep the monitor plugged in across restarts, so when I log in the text is fuckhuge for my laptop screen. This seems lika a simpler problem, but I just thought I'd ask.
Luis Gonzalez
What's the problem?
Caleb Murphy
I only use it for Messenger. But I'm the surveillance part will still stand. I might setup an IRC server for a few friends
Ethan Kelly
>(Dead) >(Dead) >What's the problem? Looks like he's just confused by having a different PS1
Charles Morgan
If GNU/Linux is an extension less system, and /usr/bin/file is able to pick up what type of file I have, how come I still need to specify an extension for source code files (mainly compiled languages)?
Joseph Thompson
>need do you?
Ethan Ortiz
uhh, yes?
Hudson Brooks
There is probably a flag to specify that the input file is a ".c" file but the man of gcc is too huge.
Evan Torres
That's not OS related, but program related. run this: gcc -x c hello_would
Hudson Bell
Yeah, that was it. Thank you.
Carter Smith
>an OS is not a program I came.
Landon Turner
ACKTCHUALLY an os is just and application, started by init
Eli Walker
I just came here to let you know that I'm using Arch Linux.
Dylan Sullivan
Cool kids use Void now.
Alexander Nelson
qBittorrent hasn't been using my system theme since around November or so (Arc Dark GTK2) and I haven't bothered doing anything about it until now. How can I make it use Arc Dark again?
Any way to get global hotkeys on cmus? They were my most used feature on foobar2000
Nathan Murphy
Can someone help
Tyler Howard
>terminal won't start in Mint 18.1 >look in Cinnamon menu >new program in addition to Terminal called LXTerminal >Never installed it >it starts fine
What the fuck is this
Should I be worried?
Christopher Adams
spyware NSA is watching you masturbate on cp now
Julian James
Why is Solus supposedly so great?
Josiah Parker
...
Sebastian Bailey
Kevin, ask your users.
>transporting guns in plastic cutouts >not foam i see why americans treat guns like toys now.
Jayden Allen
does (k)ubuntu have a system restore thingy? My install is fucked up when I tried to install proprietary drivers. I can still access the tty but it doesn't load up the desktop.
Mason Scott
i forgot my debian (stable) password from my installation 3 months ago, what do I do
Julian James
Can I use neovim to copy and paste from the system clipboard? How is it done? Do I need to set up the nvimrc?
Well in regular vim the + register is the system clipboard. So think "+Y to copy the current line into the clipboard, or "+p to paste. You can also use the * register. In Windows, they're the same, but they are different in Linux for reasons I can't remember.
Isaiah Baker
Ok, so I just finished installing Ubuntu, customized some stuff, and am wondering why doesn't Sup Forums x properly work.
Either way, is there a "best" music and video player for this, as well as office-like programs? Or are the pre-installed ones already good enough?
I also think I accidentally formatted the Ubuntu partition while trying to format my pendrive, but I'm posting this from Ubuntu, so I'm not exactly sure what happened.
Henry Parker
mpd + ncmpcpp mpv
Jeremiah Ramirez
rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf
Jace Baker
I can't into installing ncmpcpp, but the other 2 apparently come preinstalled already, thanks.
Blake Torres
You need to setup mpd correctly to be able to use ncmpcpp.
Carson Hill
>can't install
Hudson Butler
Pic related, my vim airline has shitty rendering (the arrows are ascii instead of being drawn like on the bottom of the pic), how do I fix this ?
Jace Brown
You need a patched font for this. Search for your font + powerline. Install the font. Restart terminal.
Joshua Miller
okay thanks
Adam Anderson
And then prepare for the joy that is trying to get those stupid fucking arrows to line up with the boxes next to them. Even on the picture there, they're about one pixel down and left of where they should be.Look near the top of the green one, the break is most obvious there.
I stopped using that theme for that reason.
Carson Cooper
What are the best distros for watching anime?
Mason Young
arch + gentoo
Xavier Ortiz
What about just one of them? And what makes them better for anime?
Gabriel Evans
just dualboot
Jackson Wright
Do I need to install the Nvidia CUDA toolkit to get mpv to use the hwdec=cuda option?
Elijah Jenkins
>cinnamon menu >are you sure you're not looking at the lxde menu?
Owen Butler
how bad of an idea is it to upgrade kernel from backports on a server running debian stable?
Kayden Long
stupid question, is the gcc installed by deafult in all linux distros?
Lucas Taylor
yes, do sudo apt-get purge systemd
Nathan Robinson
If the new kernel offers something you need/can make use of it's not a bad idea. Backports get updates too.
Charles Anderson
gnu/linux*
Oliver Sullivan
trash/linux*
Colton Cook
what's wrong with systemd? why don't people want to use it? is it proprietary?
Aiden Turner
yes, it was developed by microsoft and then parts of the code were made free
Camden Ramirez
There are no security issues, Systemd is Free Software. The debate is more about the design of it. Peolple argue that it doesn't follow the "UNIX philosophy".
Gavin Howard
Is it possible to disable this ugly "gray when unfocused" thing they added in the recent update of KDE?
Nathaniel Davis
Grub Issues =========
I installed Debian (overwriting Ubuntu) and now the laptop boots to grub command line. How do I fix it? I only have a vague idea that something new has to be installed in /dev/sda1 but don't know how to go about it.
Robert Bell
yaas
Brayden Rodriguez
your issue has more to do with debian. i recommend you uninstall that piece of trash
Jace Garcia
i see, so free software = no security issues? what happens to the laws of this universe if i write some shitty code right now and post it here under the gpl?
Daniel Taylor
If you don't fix the bugs, then people will fork it and fix it themselves.
Evan Myers
10/10 contribution. Give this man an award.
Owen Wood
i see, so those people can't possibly make mistakes?
Alexander Morris
How would I go about doing that? I can't seem to find anything and it's really pissing me off
Thomas Butler
classic
Hunter Hernandez
saved, that makes a perfect css mascot
Jonathan Wright
that was a genuine recommendation though, i think you need to learn what "bait" means
Cameron Harris
>he doesn't use cute anime girls like a true Sup Forumsentooman
Benjamin Wilson
Yeah sorry, it's not bait, it's actually straight cancer.
Angel Ross
i agree, debian isn't even bait. it's literal trash and it's completely serious in its trashiness
Christopher Campbell
System settings > colors > edit color scheme or choose a different scheme
Lucas Brown
I'm thinking about setting up a linux from scratch system as my first linux system in many years (used to run arch about 4 years ago, have been back on windows since and will have a main windows machine). Is it a bad idea to attempt this as someone who hasn't used linux in a good while but isn't computer illiterate? Auxillary questions: is wayland worth looking into and how are package managers handled in LFS? (beyond lfs only briefly goes into them)
David Gray
Is running linux on a 2-in-1 viable or a bad idea? And what should I look into if I want to?
Jaxon Jones
Thanks but not thanks. I fixed it.
Connor Phillips
you uninstalled debian?
Jordan Hall
yeah, I'm running arch now, arch is the best
Nolan Nelson
not sure if retarded or just samefag
Hunter Edwards
Is there a reasonable (lightweight) set of tools for Linux for user switching, screen locking, and suspending? For example, with the login manager LXDM if you switch user that new user can just press ctrl+alt+F7 and have access to the previous users session without entering their password. There should be some kind of screen locking or something to prevent this.
I think wanting user switching with screen locking, or suspending with screen locking is a very reasonable thing. But the only solutions I can find involve some delicate scripting and config file edits that don't feel very reliable.
I've only tried LXDM and tried setting it up with i3lock. Is there something else I should be using? and I don't think I should have to be installing any gnome dependencies for something so simple.
Blake Williams
GNU/Linux*
Thomas Sanders
Both.
Jace Morgan
It's more advantageous having thousands of people auditing code compared to a select few who know the ins and out.For example, not even the current M$ devs know how Windows works and you can see inconsistencies everywhere even without knowing the code. Here's your (You)/(...).
Kevin Jackson
I fixed the grub thing.
faggot here
Christian Morris
Post inxi. I'd like to see what flt runs.
Grayson Smith
>Post inxi. I want to show off system. FTFY
Gabriel Rodriguez
But there's nothing to show off there. I don't have a huge NAS with 100TB+, I don't have a current generation GPU, I'm still on 1080p, etc. I'll post it on the laptop next time.
Gavin Clark
fglt*
Brody Turner
oh shit! REKT!
Oliver Rodriguez
STOP RECOMMENDING DEBIAN
You are all completely stupid. Debian is outdated and insecure. More over, it's just a noobuntu spin that was made to attract power users. All it's maintainers are SJW and the distro is sponsored by jews and the liberal media. The Debian project shows through it's public statements and manifests that it's clearly no aligned with the moral Christian values that made the US the great nation it came to be. It's degenerate.
Arch Linux is superior to it in every way. It has bleeding edge packages, what means more stability and security, since you get all the last bug fixes. It's rolling release, it doesn't randomly breaks during version updates. It's also more configurable and extensible. On overall you just have more control over your computer. Anyone that is serious about their OS uses Arch.
