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I accidentally ran the command reflect instead of reflector while updating my mirrorlist and this thing opened. What is it and why is it installed? (Arch)
Brayden Evans
Terminal font in pic related?
Alexander Flores
bump for interest as well. nice looking font.
Christian Morris
...
Mason Rodriguez
Probably just some simple graphics test program like glxgears
Henry Long
In Debian there is a osgreflect binary in package openscenegraph
systemd cucks in denial, they wave it off as potential DoS but is full LPI.
Juan Morris
Ubuntu
Logan Davis
Arch/Manjaro/Antergos
Henry Rivera
I have Arch on my desktop, I won't be using the XPS13 as often so I want a distribution I don't have to update as often
Josiah Rivera
Debian. Fedora is a decent distro but you're basically beta testing red hat. Debian has a much better community and is slightly more stable (obviously sid throws that out the window). Fedora might just werk in a few more situations though. If you want something stable why use sid?
Jonathan Perez
What do you idiots get out of someone using "your" distribution?
Elijah Cooper
Software has security bugs which get fixed?! STOP THE PRESSES.
Everyone should just stop using any piece of software that's not a one line "hello world". That will solve your problem.
Lincoln Powell
There is a difference between software and software that wants to do everything.
and enabled export FREETYPE_PROPERTIES="truetype:interpreter-version=40
in /etc/profile.d/freetype2.sh the fonts look better than the default state but still nowhere as good as the infinality fonts
btw is "bohoomil" kill
Ian Watson
>pic related (font after following these steps)
Samuel Moore
Who knows. Aside from package managers, every Linux distro can be made to function like any other. just pick your favourite package manager. If you want something that just werks then pick an easy install like mint or Ubuntu.
Christian Fisher
cure GNU/Linux*
Eli Cruz
Kind of want a rolling release distro, should I install Atnergos or openSUSE Tumbleweed? Fan of both so far.
Jaxson Sullivan
Or lemon.
Camden Kelly
What's the best tiling window manager?
By "best", I mean "works properly without giving me a reason to scrap it all and go back to W10"
Ryder Rodriguez
Where do i get the font? Apologies for retardation
Ethan Ortiz
It doesn't do everything, you utter retard. It doesn't browse the web, it doesn't edit videos, it doesn't view images, it doesn't encode audio or video. It's a set of seperated system management utilities developed under the same roof.
Kill yourself for being a retard who can't inform himself, but instead jumps on to every tiny bit of edgy and controversial sounding information and adopts it as his opinion just to masquerade your actual incompetence.
Jose Gray
Cure is part of the artwiz font package, lemon (I guess it's actually that font) from git: github.com/phallus/fonts
I've used most tiling window managers and they all require some config editing to get things comfy. Awesome is probably the easiest for people new to it.
>Kill yourself for being a retard who can't inform himself
"Friendly GNU/Linux thread"
Owen Rodriguez
>trump kys
Ian Cox
Recently I've started working with some lab equipment featuring a TI c6454 DSP
I went to the manufacturer, but safe to say while they are best in the world when it comes to high precision lab equipment they are not computer savvy. At the training we used code composer studio on windows, but I'd like to just do everything with make from emacson gnu + linux without that code composer studio shit.
Anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?
Jacob Perry
I'm sure systemd wants to be all that, maybe you should inform yourself about anger management
Ryan Richardson
After many hours I got Arch to work. Now what do I get a DE or use one of those windows managers?
Joshua Morales
Forgot to add: I'm on Arch
Cooper Sullivan
DE's are for pussies, just use the tty.
Joseph Ward
We don't know,user. You need to know yourself.
Jace Jenkins
install gentoo
Isaac Garcia
fixed
Jeremiah Torres
>dat pepper gr8 m8
Noah Allen
Add a GNU/Linux deflecting a >linux post
Robert Fisher
/fglt/ - friendly GNU/Linux tank
Josiah Cox
grep
Joseph Perry
brb pewdiepie
Juan Jenkins
sed
Colton Thompson
Decided on openSUSE, installing now.
Cameron Smith
ag
Luke Smith
awk
James Russell
what's this
Adrian Gutierrez
p e r l e r l
Xavier Reed
but user, suse doesn't have the arch logo
Jason Rogers
pretty much the same as grep, I use it to search in emacs
I set up my user and when I startx the aero theme pops up but when more than 1 icon in the middle of the screen loads, it crashes back to command line.
Is it my monitor driver, nVidia driver or network settings? I don't know how to configure my dhcp.
Andrew Russell
>DE's are for pussies How so? Well if I do i3 or Awesome, it looks like I'll be up all night doing this.
Grayson Martinez
why the fuck cant i set the mouse sensitivity below 1.0? are xorg devs retarded?
Mason Campbell
why doesn't this work printf 'foo\nbar\n' | grep -P '(?m)foo\nbar'
Cooper Williams
It's just you.
Gabriel Cook
fpwp
Ryan Long
it's trash
Gavin Sullivan
no u
Alexander Richardson
can you spoonfeed me then?
Ryder Scott
How can I remove flickering from my LibreOfficeWriter?
I'm using Lubuntu 16.04 version.
Ethan Collins
>installing arch with archboot >Detects system as uefi64 (actually BIOS) >Asks if I want a BIOS bootloader such as grub >GRUB already installed from my last distro Do i install it?
Justin White
>he fell for the arch meme
Lucas Jenkins
no need, just update its config so that arch shows in the menu
Joseph Brooks
With update-grub? Where do i run it?
Wyatt Reyes
update-grub is a script delivered with ubuntu, not part of grub. You should install os-prober, so that grub can autodetect any install system, then run: grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
NOTE: since you probably installed grub in the other distro's pratition, you must set the correct path to grub conf file.
Sebastian Young
Or, after you have installed everything, just reboot in the other distro, install os-prober and run update-grub
Grayson Harris
How am I suppose to run that if I can't boot into arch because grub can't see arch? Any reason not to install grub again because this seems confusing
Julian Wilson
>How am I suppose to run that if I can't boot into arch because grub can't see arch? don't you have a shell in front of you?
>Any reason not to install grub again because this seems confusing It's fine, just remember that now grub will be installed in arch's partition unless you are using a separate /boot partition for the bootloader
Ryder Scott
How to rice?
I installed rxvt-unicode, and put some "colors/themes" whatever in. but what now?
my weechat looks weird with these colors.
how to fix?
Luke Ortiz
I'm on Arch. You?
David Gray
Gentoo get on my level
Owen Carter
>1920x1200
Eli Diaz
Downloading Sabayon Linux, what am I in for?
Jayden Taylor
A lack of packages. That pos doesn't even have ffmpeg.
Owen Perez
Any other cool distro I can try on a laptop then? Preferebly not debian or arch based. I tried opensuse once but it was pain in the ass.
Nathan Perry
idk, maybe void or fedora?
Jordan Long
Okay thanx, I'm sceptical of smaller independent distributions but I'll try void.
To set an evn variable globally (i.e. for any user) add this line in the file /etc/environment: export VARIABLE=value so in your case: export GPODDER_DOWNLOAD_DIR=/path/to/ext/disk/folder
If you want to set an env only for one user, then add the previous line to the file ".pam_environment" (mind the dot) in his home
Eli Jenkins
cat /dev/cdrom > cdrom.iso or cp /dev/cdrom cdrom.iso or dd if=/dev/cdrom of=cdrom.iso ?
Dominic Baker
>no rsync
Hunter Perez
>no pv
James Flores
The first one is bad. Second, as far as I know, will not even work. Third is perfect, but I would add a "bs" value for speed.
David Campbell
tac /dev/cdrom | tac > cdrom.iso
>The first one is bad. why >Second, as far as I know, will not even work. werks
Elijah Lee
I'm making a bootable USB image of Xubuntu.
I am using Rufus to create it.
Rufus asks what my partition/bios is >MBR & UEFI or BIOS >GPT UEFI >MBR UEFI
I know that my motherboard is UEFI, but what/how can I tell if I need to choose GPT or MBR
Austin Edwards
What's the best speed value and why?
Kayden Richardson
and should I format the stick to FAT32 or NTFS, when I intent to boot this off from UEFI Bios + Windows 10 PC?
Chase Torres
It's not this fucking hard, just leave everything as default
