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Now my computer is LOUD. Help me wizards. on HP "envy"
James Wood
not sure if it's intented to be funny, but I chuckled, thanks
Brayden Long
>finished arch install >using i3, switch to cinnamon for a minute >now my home directory has seemingly been switched from /home/username to /root/ >download, documents folders etc all exist in /root/ and x uses the config files in /root/, but all my config files and actual downloads are in /home/username how do I fix this
Brandon Sanchez
why are you not using devuan in 2017, anno domini
Matthew Davis
How did you launch i3 & Cinnamon? DM or startx? You probably ran startx as root or something
Grayson Perry
UP
Adam Ortiz
btw, I'm on arch if it matters
Angel Richardson
it actually could matter fuck these stupid memes that prevent people from asking for help
Brody Young
Only way to get a gui is to either login as root in lightdm or sudo startx. just realised it's obviously just using /root/ as the root user home directory. the real problem is that logging in as myself gives a black screen
Camden Nelson
Looks like you started Xorg as root. (Never do this).
Evan Jackson
what do archfags always need to point out that they're using arch when asking questions?
(kek at cut up post)
Landon Flores
Happened to me too, no idea what is causing this. Are you using 4chanX?
Adrian Edwards
>4chanX works on my machine(TM)
Michael Flores
no I just accidently the send button to early
Tyler Baker
You may not have configured your local .xinitrc correctly
Nathaniel Smith
how do i take a screenshot of a txt.document opened in the bash shell? Since the document is open I can't input commands.
Owen Robinson
Hotkeys. Try xbindkeys or whatever your DE ships for managing hotkeys. Alternativly, why not try pressing the PRINT key?
So do I just learn GNU/Linux by searching the web when I need to figure out how to do something?
Nathan Cox
more or less, yeah
James Wood
yes
Grayson Bell
man man The only correct source. Also the Arch wiki is good. Dont trust crap posted on random blogs/websites.
Levi Allen
gtfo
Nathaniel Perez
Do Mint/Ubuntu normies even use the bash shell like us?
Charles Phillips
>man man
Kevin Kelly
>8 we're the few keeping GNU/Linux alive
Carter Brooks
what is a non-arch distro that doesn't come with 2000 packages upon install
Zachary Richardson
Hi GNU/Linux Friends,
I come to you with a problem. I can't seem to get a live USB of Fedora 25 (workstation) to boot to desktop. This is a similar problem to the bug in bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1282244 , except that I'm running Windows 10 Pro 64-bit here. Still UEFI. USB target drive is a 32gb Kingston Data Traveler 100 G3, confirmed working. The Fedora ISO's sha256 hashes check out. It's good to go before it hits the USB.
Have so far tried the following processes: >1) dd with a copy of dd for Windows result: fail during test at the Fedora boot menu >2) Using Fedora's Media Writer application; this downloads a fresh ISO (cunts) result: fails during test at the Fedora boot menu. Hilariously also manages to not copy data to the USB. 3 partitions: 45mb unallocated, 5mb EFI, 28.86gb unallocated >3) Using YUMI v2 result: apparently doesn't support UEFI in its boot loader, and I can't be assed >4) Manually creating a bootable usb with diskpart, extraction of the ISO, etc. result: still fails to boot to desktop and fails the test
Pulling my hair out here and can't figure out what the fuck makes Fedora a special snowflake in comparison to Ubuntu and the like. Can anyone run me through the linux boot process at a high level, with UEFI in mind?
Jackson Martinez
gentoo most gentoo derivatives lfs slackware
Luke Green
Arch may come with fewer packages but their packages have ~everything enabled. Debian netinstall comes slick and their packages are split more so you have bigger package count. Try apt-get --no-install-recommends , less "bloat".
Nathaniel Bailey
is notepad++ not Linux friendly?
Angel Fisher
Why is KDE the most comfortable DE?
Hudson Collins
Do you enjoy crashes and bugs?
Kevin Anderson
Never had them with KDE
Gabriel Diaz
>install emacs via repository >installed >try to execute >nothing happens what in tarnation
David Foster
Thanks friends.
Re-ran the Fedora's media writer as administrator and wiped/re-did the drive. Sacrificing a Gnu helped along with some incense offering and voodoo play. No fucking clue what the fuck changed. Still has fucky partitions.
On another note, I am not experiencing wayland, haven't found a proper solution to get thinkpad acpi working with hot keys and battery control (can echo to /sys/), and have yet to find the repos with the proprietary nvidia drivers (or at least a way to disable the card on boot, not in bios). dnf has a nice and clean output.
Jeremiah Collins
>using sub-par kernels for political reasons
No thanks.
Evan Sanchez
I absolutely cannot get mpeg4 and h264 working in firefox or chrome on Fedora 25
I've followed every guide, installed every codec, but nothing works. What the hell am I doing wrong, Sup Forums? Please help
I suppose you are using the last version of firefox, which should ship with the plugin in pic. Check if all the flags in about:config starting with "media.mediasource" are set on true. If you are using the gstreamer backend then you should also install gstreamer-libav and whatever your distro calls the base and "good" plugin set.
I have all the plugins installed, and the mediasource flags are all true. I've enabled that plugin but nothing has happened.
This is also not working in Chromium.
Jaxon Garcia
I should say that I also installed the nonfree plugins from rpmfusion
Jayden Martinez
Does Devuan not work with mainline kernels?
Nicholas Thompson
Yes, it's called debian
Ryder Ward
I was upgrading debian and a thing that says "configuring mdadm" popped out inside the terminal. It says to type "none" if i'm not interested in the configuration but when i type i don't see anything, the letters dont come up anywhere. I've also tried to type "none" and then press enter but nothing happened, help please
Ryder Evans
Is there a portable version of Virtual Box for linux?
Robert Gonzalez
Finally ended up with raster fonts. Feels like problem solved forever for any distro to the end of times. Feels good man. t. -user
Jonathan Jenkins
you could run it in a portable manner, but you'd still need to take care of compiling and loading the host kernel modules
Ayden Phillips
>you could run it in a portable manner How? Can you elaborate? I need to run a several windows only applications across several machines running linux.
Gavin Davis
you'd need root access to load a kernel module anyway, so why not just install virtualbox normally?
Samuel Wright
how do i do this
Camden Reed
Limited resources, and I don't want anyone to know I have root access.
Isaac Cook
well, you can run qemu without needing root, at the cost of no kvm access, which will make it slow or you can use wine, if your windows program works with it
Hudson Roberts
>without needing root I do have root access, but I don't want to use it. >QEMU with no KVM Does it have a portable application? >WINE My problems would be solved if it could run under wine.
John Carmack being sued into slavery after stealing from ZeniMax. Got subpeoned to hand over his computers so he tried to wipe them the very same day. had to google how to do it despite being a programmer for like 20 years.
Quick without looking it what's the command to securely wipe a HDD?
I would use the srm utility of just: dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/
Liam Butler
>Does it have a portable application? yea, just get a static build, all in one executable >I do have root access, but I don't want to use it. that's why i said "without needing", and not "without having"
Alexander Rodriguez
At least i will not go blind this way. Perfect eyesight is too precious 4me.
Nathaniel Clark
shred -z
>had to google how to do it despite being a programmer for like 20 years. Hardly a surprise for me in all honesty. It's incredibly common for specialists to be absolutely clueless in other fields. Rings especially true for Americans.
We have a stereotype that an american can be a certified specialist in screwing in a lighbtulb, best in the country but will call another guy to unscrew it.
Iirc Louis Rossman (the italian kike Sup Forumsentooman who repairs apple devices on youtube) had like an hour long video on this particular topic
Christian Adams
>yea, just get a static build, all in one executable For linux?
Eli Barnes
yea, duh unless you want to get the static build for windows and run that in wine
Luke Carter
What's your experience with copying to usb drives on linux?
I just read about the whole routine of writing to cache and periodically flushing to the physical storage.
It has been fairly janky for me in recent days. Yesterday I tried to copy a 3,1G file to an NTFS-formatted drive and the speeds were abysmal. We're talking like 800kBps or transfer speeds and entire system freezing every 2 seconds despite the fact that CPU was pretty much on idle and not even 1/4 of available memory was filled.
Have you had any luck optimizing the process?
Joshua Perez
Oh forgot to mention. The pic is the result of mounting the usb drive with "sync" option.
Tyler Ward
I have a Tomcat web application running at work. Is there a big difference between having Tomcat's root directory set are /usr/local/Tomcat vs. /usr/share/Tomcat. share/ doesn't seem like the right place
Ryan Scott
"sync" is going to be slow as shit, that's expected behaviour
I never had any trouble with any usb drive (either usb 2 or 3) but I never used NTFS partitions, do you also have the same problem with other filesystems? If you are using ntfs-3g, check this: tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#slow
Kevin Hughes
outside of that, ntfs drives aren't going to perform as well as native filesystems, as ntfs-3g is implemented as a userspace FUSE driver
Grayson Lopez
'Android count?
Andrew Stewart
Get out
Christopher Rodriguez
:~)
Elijah Campbell
i could build you one if you don't know how to compile things
Wyatt Cruz
Just installed a fresh instance of Bunsenlabs. What programms can you recommend? I'm relavtively new to Linux.
Juan Wright
>What programms can you recommend? the ones you need, duh
Kevin Bailey
You mean Qemu is a portable application? So I just /.configure make And I'd get a portable qemu?
Luis Jones
>1228 packages woo nelly
Adrian Lewis
there's a configure option to make a static version portable and static mean different things, though static builds are portable by nature
Joshua Taylor
>taking screenshots from command line Nigger what is this 1988?
Just get something like shutter and bind shift+print to screenshot a selectable area
Jaxon Wood
Is there a proper way to install .deb packages on Ubuntu based distros or should I just start using Debian? I was using Arch mostly because of the AUR but just changed to KDE Neon since most of the stuff on the AUR is just .deb files anyways
Owen Reyes
You seem to have misunderstood me. I'm nor looking to create "installable" package. What I want to create is .sh file that would launch the qemu application.
Evan Clark
You can use package called gdebi which will install it by double-click (like on windoze) and handle the dependencies.
with the terminal you can use dpkg -i. But unfortunately it will not solve dependencies, so you have to install them separately.
Jason Garcia
a static build means all required libraries are built into the program's executable this means the program will run anywhere without needing to worry about available libraries or where they are
Angel Clark
OK. I've downloaded the source code, and unpacked it. What do I need to do know? I apologize for my stupidity.
Colton Bennett
>do you also have the same problem with other filesystems? frankly I am unable to replicate this error even If I wanted to. It seems to happen randomly when some requirements unknown to me match.
I have this drive formatted to NTFS for compatibility reasons. fat32 works a lot better but the 4G filesize limit is a bummer.
Joshua Adams
more obscure
Lucas Green
use the --static configure argument, along with whatever else you need
Ian Powell
cmatrix
Juan Mitchell
Installed openSUSE and it has something like 2100 packages. How do i slim it down
Zachary Foster
And I'll end up with qemu.sh?
Alexander Hughes
hey guys, i would like to use my old wii with linux, but the gc-linux project is dead, the latest kernel of this site has no usb ethernet drivers too. so i tried to compile my own kernel from this repository github.com/DeltaResero/GC-Wii-Linux-Kernels. i used the bash script to choose the drivers for the usb ethernet card and to compile the kernel, but after i compiled it and tried to use it on my wii, the firmware for the ethernet driver wont load. the wii linux recognize the usb ethernet card but it wont load the specific driver. wi
Benjamin Anderson
and what exactly do you expect us to do if probably you're the only one currently browsing this thread with a wiiu that you're willing to ruin in order to run linux?
be real user.
You haven't even posted what error does it print when you tried to load the kernel module for the wlan driver.
