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>You're an annoying moron. at least he doesn't have to ask help to find tutorials on command line
James Nelson
Mostly his live streams are programming and explanation of templeos, without anything special happening. Occasionally he has an extra special schizoid outburst, often explicitly complaining about "niggers" of various types, such as MIT Niggers, CIA Niggers and the "herd of nigger cattle" controlled by Bill Gates and the Illuminati. He once tweeted/said "I killed a CIA nigger with my car in 1990. Score one for the good guys."
Jose Allen
jesus christ
Colton Myers
What's the point of that? The underlying software isn't free (Windows). You get some shitty hack and you're meant to rely on it and hope nothing will go wrong.
Andrew Martinez
I have to heartily kek whenever a winfag mentions that they use git or cygwin
Ryder Williams
guys my gnu/linux install is working perfectly fine now what do i do?
Aaron Ramirez
Learn the shell, automating things, write comfy functions and scripts.
Blake Powell
>install is working perfectly fine >what do try arch
Christopher Cox
Guys can you redpill me on KDE and Cinnamon
Isaac Garcia
Guys can you redpill me on bash and zsh
Joseph Clark
im a noob using nooobuntu gnome, i actually wrote my first shell script to fix bluetooth being enabled by default on boot i have a short story i was working on, i guess i could finish that, but its a sad themed thing and im quite happy right now so not really in the mood /blog
kek, maybe one day, but that day is not today perhaps once someone gets the mmo i play easily working on bleeding edge preconfigured wine in aur that ubuntu doesnt have its dx11 tho so its going to be a while
Ryan Lee
Any tl;dr from the last threads systemd discussion? Is it good or is it bad?
Dominic Rivera
All systems have pros and cons Systemd suffer from a lot of cons
Jeremiah Reyes
>The underlying software isn't free (Windows). neither is the linux kernel, so what's your point?
Jace Carter
And none is relevant to an average user.
Jayden Rivera
>using tumblerd on windows the only thing i hate on xfce with its fucking disk hogs. xfce-desktop still can't do shit with it, and made me ignore to store anything in desktop folder.
Lincoln Williams
Saved
Isaiah Murphy
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Jayden Collins
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Alexander Carter
Some of my applications look really weird.
Is this a gtk theme thing? How can I fix it?
David Baker
Richard Stallman; with his smell.
Juan Campbell
>>>/funnyjunk/
Joshua Miller
Somehow I fucked my locale recently, it keeps getting reset. Correctly set in locale.conf, displayed via localectl but empty via locale and my cyrillic characters are fucked. Thoughts?
Tyler Morris
You can't fix gtk. I've been trying to get rid of it entirely for ages.
Blake Cook
So where do you find GNU stickers for your thinkpad? I can only seem to find them on websites that run non-free js and don't pay the FSF such as (((redbubble)))
Dominic Moore
Shitty devs and shitty practices and shitty design philosophy.
Could plausibly be an NSA op to compromise linux. That should give you a good idea of how bad it is.
Asher Sanchez
stickers are sticky dirt collectors
Jonathan Jones
Yes we can
Jose Scott
basically all systemd memes were debunked and we all agreed that systemd is a nice init system
Brayden Peterson
I set up another linux distribution and it looks different there
Lincoln Morgan
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.
Parker Parker
Finally a nice Sup Forums css waifu.
Evan Diaz
What is the best file encryption app you can find for linux?
>im using aescrypt
Samuel Sullivan
Have one more.
Cameron Phillips
clean it up faggot theres some shit pixels everywhere
gpg?
James Kelly
>Decide to take my mom's old Windows laptop and give it a new life with Mint >Been formatting the HDD to ext4 for the last two hours without any progress Am I fucked?
Grayson Price
Not my OC, but there, fixed.
Bentley Hill
for
Ryder Cox
Why Mint, just get Ubuntu.
Carter Reyes
something is afoot. Reboot the system and check the SMART data of the HDD. Optionally do a low lever format with any appropriate tool.
Noah Gomez
Does installing a distro from another, existing distro come with any disadvantages?
Jayden Gray
-you can order stickers directly from FSF: shop.fsf.org/ -from that link you can download the images on the stickers in pdf/png/svg so you can make them yourself or get them made
Juan Russell
Is GIMP bad for drawing images from a tablet or is it just another stupid meme made by microsoft shills?
David Lopez
Yes but that's $10 for 2 or 3 nice stickers, the other ones (iBad / eliminate DRM...) are not as good looking imo.
Jaxon Carter
Not really. Gentoo installed from an ubuntu live CD and a working slackware installation can be as good or as bad as if you installed it from the gentoo installation cd or gentoo dvd. Same goes for every other distro that can be bootstrapped from an already running system.
Liam Butler
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Jack Nelson
i really need browsers red pill >firefox is trash, no point of using it anymore >google browsers, i dont want them know that im watching shemale porn :'(
What should i use?
Cameron Torres
Thank you. Is there a way to shrink a Windows partition beyond the size Disk Management is offering? Right now it offers to shrink the partition by 7 MB while there is 40+ GB of free space.
Mason Rodriguez
GNU Icecat.
Lucas Wilson
what about search engine? qwant or searx
Evan Ortiz
something is not right with that windows partition. start up windows, disable fast booting, schedule a chkdsk (just run chkdsk /f c: and it will do it for you) and reboot. After the check finished, try resizing it again. Alternatively, get Hiren's boot CD and use a windows-based partition manager program to resize the partition. The might have better NTFS tools that free software.
Nathaniel Watson
Icecat is firefox. It's literally just a recompile of firefox with a few extensions out of the box and the fsf is too lazy to recompile it on time to update it often going months till you see an update.
Luke Williams
Searx. Make sure to configure the engines and disable what you don't need to speed things up.
Ryder Edwards
nice meme
Gabriel Price
ALL web browsers are trash user, absolutely all of them.
Let that sink in, you have been red pilled
Adrian Brown
Well if you have time to configure the about:config of FF, disable all the privacy issues and add some privacy addons, you can aswell use FF, right. Just using Icecat is just the convenient way.
Eli Fisher
anyone using ungoggled chromium? is it usable/good/really botnet free?
Brandon Anderson
What's the problem exactly with systemd?
Tyler Cook
what about slimjet, is that any good? also qutebrowser?
Easton Brooks
some argue it turns gnu/linux into redhat os
Carter Campbell
If you install the correct version, it is.
Dylan Bailey
Cyberfox, even though it's dead. and freshplayerplugin to get pepper-flash if you need it.
I used GNU Icecat for a while but some of it didn't work and annoyed me.
Camden Williams
>something is not right with that windows partition It has always been like that on this SSD on multiple Winders installs; after chkdsk I could shrink by 86 MB lel, using gparted now fingers crossed thanks chum
Leo Flores
>using a dead project >using flash what is wrong with you
Daniel Ramirez
I don't use flash I use mpv to watch everything, and I don't want to search for another browser again.
It only died some weeks ago, I think I'll continue using it for quite some while if I don't stumble upon something better.
Gabriel Martinez
ayy you /fj/ ?
Dylan Morris
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Nicholas Ross
arch linux
Ryder Walker
he said lightweight
Samuel Roberts
So what distro is the real #! successor? Apparently bunsenlabs and #!++ claim they are.
my arch + chromium(10+tabs) runs at less then 1gig ram, that is light for me
Adam Richardson
Not him, but it's the opposite. Distros like debian split software into many packages, allowing you to only install the parts of a program you need and libraries without headers. Arch mostly uses a single package for everything. You have fewer packages, but the packages are significantly larger so you end up using more disk space and installing more crap you don't need.
Of course unless you're running it on a toaster, it doesn't really matter.
Wyatt Price
Wasn't it just debian with openbox preinstalled? Why does it need a successor?
Juan Russell
>2000 packages well that's what can arch provide without cucking you into aur insecurity
Eli Rodriguez
Why all the Arch hate recently? I though Arch was Sup Forums's preferred distro?
Nathan Garcia
because it is getting popular and Sup Forums are hipster faggots
Juan Foster
>Arch was Sup Forums's preferred distro That's reddit. Sup Forums is using Gentoo.
Zachary Morales
The same way K/X/Lubuntu come with DE preinstalled?
Michael Sanchez
butthurt newfags searching for reasons to justify their inability to install it
Isaac Bennett
found the redditor install gentoo is a meme, just like delete system32
