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yeah. your point though? mac >>>>> windows >>> Linux
Julian Rogers
GNU/Linux*
Ethan Ortiz
if you include gnu it would be like this: Mac >>>>>>>>>>>> Windows >>> Linux >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> gnu
Hudson Gonzalez
>a closed-architecture system made for hipsters and Starbucks-cucks
>a closed-source system that don't respect your privacy and it's not afraid to tell that they track your porn fetishes
Levi Campbell
>how-cucked-is-each project
Julian Wright
yeah, it's least cucked to most cucked like this: least cucked -----> most cucked didn't even read your post. nice try though
Easton Turner
>comparing malware to a kernel do you even tech, friend
Connor Fisher
>do you even >friend lmao. stay mad, linkek
Eli Morris
Hello guys, I'm searching for "/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread".
Joseph Fisher
hey, this is the Mac OS thread now. you lintards can fuck off.
Samuel Sullivan
wrong site, famine
Ryder Ramirez
What's some good software to check for rootkits and other crap for linux?
Adrian Sanders
linuxbabby here, so far so good I guess
how do I unpack and install a .tar.xz file?
Jace Cooper
>install a .tar.xz file are you using slack?
Easton Russell
no, debian jessie
just trying to setup an internet browser (iridium) other than firefox
well I managed to do the first part and unpacked it into a folder, but now I'm now sure how to compile and install it since there's no READ ME file
how would you compile and install this?
Liam Myers
linux? uninstall that shit right now.
Matthew Reyes
There used to be a thing called chkrootkit, but I overcame my windows legacy paranoia years ago.
Jacob Brown
You should be using you're package manager. >babby
Jack Phillips
Why is NetworkManager such a steaming pile? I guess I haven't completely ruled out other things, but this is getting silly.
Sometimes when I log in (Arch, i3) it takes an extra five-ten seconds for i3bar to show up, and whenever that happens Networkmanager won't connect, even after restarting the service. the log doesn't give anything useful either, just something like authenticating -> disconnected. I can't think of anywhere else to look for error messages.
Samuel Reed
never had a single problem with it. you might wanna try a non-pleb distro first
Aiden Sullivan
>dell latitude >ubuntu 16.04 >sound crackling when it needs to play a sound after a longer time of silence >hibernate/suspend kills the network manager so I have to restart it each time I wake up my laptop
thanks I guess. Anyone else got the same problems? it's pretty annoying.
Robert Foster
Hey /fglt/,
Is there anyway to implement rice-gaps when tiling in xfce/xfwm?
John Baker
use a superior wm
Gavin Morgan
does anybody use a tv tuner card with linux? Which one is the best to buy with good linux compatibility? I would like to use mpv to actually view the channels but looking on the arch wiki it seems somewhat complicated. Apparenly I do this first:
Taking a GNU/Linux class at community college for my degree requirement. I've been on Sup Forums for years but don't know shit about Linux. What should I read to get a head start on the class so I don't seem like a pleb?
Wyatt Reyes
install gentoo
Leo Smith
if you're hardcore ubuntu otherwise use vimtutor, install something from github
Jackson Gomez
Can I do all this on a virtual machine so I don't fuck with my main computer? I used them in my last class for some things
Brayden Phillips
i've never liked the things, but sure
Kayden Stewart
Used to be able to background startup processes just by adding a & to the startup script command. Sorry, haven't used arch for a couple years. Don't know how to do it using systemd though. Try searching the wiki or google for backgrounding a startup process.
Charles Robinson
yes, and if you want to get a little more in depth but still have an easy install, go arch with architect installer
Eli Williams
You might try that on your .config/i3/config
Adam Perry
or i3bar config
Leo Young
>install *buntu >insufferable blips and crackling when I listen to anything >take it as a given that I'll need to edit a config file upon installing a distro to prevent it
>install opensuse >almost no issues whatsoever with sound - still the occasional glitch but far less frequent
Just wondering - why is opensuse better with this? It's tumbleweed I'm using, is it newer packages or something else?
David Thompson
Well the system doesn't tie it to i3, I don't see how tying it to it would help. Looking at the startup plot, rfkill might be something.
Adam Anderson
probably that. Your sound driver setup might be odd.
Ian Robinson
systemd starts the service. But you may be able to background the applet loading in your status bar.
Owen Rogers
I already have that, but I don't usually start it since i3bar has an indicator.
Zachary Foster
...
Ethan Torres
Happy GNU/Year, faggots.
Jaxon Nelson
y-you too
William Young
remove this shit from my year. i don't want it anywhere near me
Aiden Long
I'm guessing that's toe jam flavoured?
Xavier Garcia
should "he" really be eating this much?
Brody Price
>""he""
Benjamin Clark
yeah, meant to say """"""he"""""" there sorry
Ryder Rodriguez
im sure you meant """"""""""""he""""""""""""
Landon Morris
yeah... thanks mate i forgot to hold the key down for a little longer
Leo Peterson
In a few weeks there is a possibility that under certain ritualistic circumstances GNU will be wiped from the face of this planet. I am trying to achieve this as we speak
Chase Sanders
> install tar -xvf filename.tar.gz cd filename autoreconf sh ./configure make sudo make install > uninstall navigate to directory sudo make uninstall But i strongly recommend you to use package manager for everything you build not only for experimental purpose. You'll understand later why it is best possible approach.
Jose Williams
Forgot code tag. Fuck.
Bentley Johnson
pssh, get on my level. >continuously emailed Trump's campaign about banning import of anime and manga, and criminalizing possession. >used examples like madthadd and deviantart links. >few times I received a "our staff will look into this" dismissive reply.
Hopefully my efforts aren't in vain
Josiah Lewis
how long till merifats have new yea?
Joshua Hill
idk. i'm pretty cool myself and i've already been in it for a quite a while now. i'm currently on a military base where we are planning something big soon hehe...
Jason Green
$ TZ="America/New_York" date +'%F %T %::z %Z' 2016-12-31 19:00:21 -05:00:00 EST
Cameron Perez
good. this will be our target. we are taking over
Connor Peterson
happy gnu ear fgltard
Cooper Wood
fuck off nomalfag
Cameron Howard
i watched so much anime today i'm feeling kinda strange. what is a good distro to deal with this?
Luke Thomas
arch and gentoo
Leo Mitchell
im running Arch btw
Lincoln Nguyen
what do you think i was watching the animations on?
Austin Martinez
Is this an anime thread?
Mason Adams
no, fuck off
Eli Jones
Huh? There are posts about anime here. Which must mean it's an anime + distros thread. Am I wrong?
Gabriel Fisher
yes
Dylan Lee
Do you reply because you're retarded?
Dominic Foster
Would you mind telling me why?
Matthew Barnes
Huh!? But there are posts about anime here?
Christian Young
yes
Jordan Murphy
Good thead.
Brody Torres
indeed a good thead
Dylan Rogers
good thead is best thead
Carter Thomas
I recently got a 2015 Retina 13" MacBook Pro. What's a good Linux distro that doesn't look like shit with good battery life and has built in scaling for Retina without fucking with HiDpi. Elementary OS scaled fine but I couldn't get Wi-Fi to work for shit. Manjaro XFCE was fine with wifi but HiDpi wouldn't work. Pls help, OSX is killing me.
Wyatt Morris
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.
Nathaniel Wood
Get an Ubuntu flavor.
Kevin Stewart
I was trying to refrain from this because it's seen as a "kiddie" OS, but looks like it's time to give in. Thanks! How's the learning curve after using Manjaro for about a year?
Adam Morales
gnu is shite though. nobody cares about that piece of trash
Xavier Bell
Ubuntu is the best first choice for IDK-waht-to-install, bro, "kiddie" OS is something retarded like Linux Mint that looks compelling but is trash under the hood. Canonical is a trash company, but they know what they are doing. Manjaro has a bad repotation aswell, but it's not as bad ad Linux Mint
Tyler Campbell
@58264801 guess you lost on your way to
Christopher Taylor
for
Nolan Garcia
*58264845 hmm... wait a sec
Jonathan Fisher
wants kernel
Angel Anderson
I'd like to have a hotkey-combination that posts pre-defined text blocks. So, for example, if I want to have the interjection pasta pasted on ctrl+alt+t, what would be the best solution?
Wyatt Fisher
install windows
Daniel Ross
its in the control panel
Nolan Bennett
thats actually interesting, I tried to do this a while back with xbindkeys and xsel (loading pasta into clipboard) and pasted it with xdotools, but it was simply shit
/r/ing solution aswell
Benjamin Bailey
towards 58265103 >/r/ing
Dylan Morgan
Friendly thead. Which means: No malware recommendations.
Thomas Walker
your stupid os can't do that yet. better switch to windows. windows is based. fuck off with your hobbyist trash OS
Lincoln Hernandez
friendly thead is best thead
Ian Torres
>Friendly thead. >Which means: No malware recommendations. kys
Robert Collins
>i don't know, so I'll shitpost literally rebbit
Anthony Morris
windows = best os this isn't a simple statement of "something is something". i've defined a mathematical constant. which means you have to delete your account and close this tab