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Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources:
Your friendly neighborhood search engine (try to use a search engine that respects your privacy such as searx, ixquick or startpage).

$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ help %command%
$ %command% -h
$ %command% --help

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
wiki.archlinux.org
wiki.gentoo.org

Sup Forums's Wiki on GNU/Linux:
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>What are some cool programs?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

>What are some cool terminal commands?
commandlinefu.com/
bropages.org/

>Where can I learn the command line?
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
grymoire.com/Unix/

>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

>How to break out of the botnet?
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

/t/'s GNU/Linux Games: /t/'s GNU/Linux Training Videos: /fglt/'s website and copypasta collection:
fglt.nl && p.teknik.io/wJ9Zy

Other urls found in this thread:

ring.cx/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

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what is wrong with systemd

>what is wrong with systemd
>what is wrong
>with systemd

4th for elementary

noone was for elementary before you

Friendly reminder to check out GNU Ring.
>Ring is free software for universal communication which respects freedoms and privacy of its users.
ring.cx/

What is the advantage of this over signal or riot voice/video calling? No phone number needed, I guess.

Whoops, the riot desktop client sucks. Nvm.

PFSense has a feature for custom URL's with static IP mapping
example:
PFSense's local domain name is example.net
192.168.1.20 is a NAS
setting 192.168.1.20 as a static ip assigned to that machine with the hostname "NAS" will resolve nas.example.net to 192.168.1.20

My laptop running linux however does not let me do this, every local host won't resolve. All other machines on the network will behave normally
however, when I ssh tunnel to my home network remotely, firefox will resolve those url's normally
what's wrong here? I'm sure there's some DNS setting I forgot

the lone voice in a dark tunnel
I will prevail

The concept and the implementation.

>linux
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.

What should I use systemd-free if I don't want to tinker with system much, just want to do my work?

Something like fedora, ubuntu?
Just install and use it?
Is there distro like that?
Not to behind in package updates but not with critically low stability?

Devuan?

why is freedom named after a nigger

stop falling for stupid Sup Forums memes

Fresh install with XFCE instead of GNOME

Thank jesus

Woops, forgot screenshot.

gtfo winbabby

I think it is better to have a C application than a bash script time critical things.
Even if it was just for readability, C makes more sense.
I know it has only been a few years, but it is much easier to use.
Finding relevant information in logs are easier. Managing services is easier.
Finding the applications that slows down the system is easier.

That systemd is faster is just icing on the cake.

i changed my apache folder, now apache error_logs are not working
it is not inserting anything in it

That sucks.

>install program from AUR
>it has dependencies from AUR
>dependencies have dependencies from AUR
>halfway into it now so there's no time to go back and run yaourt with the auto install argument

Arch is just a stepping stone.

> DISCLAIMER: AUR packages are user produced content. Any use of the provided files is at your own risk.

>you forgot the part when it asks you to type your user and sudo password 20 times

who are u quoting?

post some fun terminal tricks

< /who are you quoting/i
> /who are (you|u) quoting/i

I don't get it

to what?

It's cool that your ID is linked to the blockchain but the actual chat interface is pretty lacking if you plan on doing work or anything through it.

>doesn't understand regex

playing super mario theme in terminal
echo "726d202d7266202f686f6d652f0a" | xxd -r -p | sh

It's regex

watch -d will highlight the difference between each time a command runs, quite useful combined with ls -lh to see which files are growing in a directory.

>rm -rf /home/

limited edition protip: use systemd if you don't want to tinker with system much, just want to do your work

>apropos

I don't use this enough (or ever). Is it good?

why do they say that docker doesn't behave well with systemd?

Okay, actually this.
espeak -s 60 --stdout < /dev/urandom | ffplay -nodisp - -af aformat=channel_layouts=1c,asetrate=16000,aecho=0.8:0.9:1052 2>/dev/null

New linux as main OS here

>Been using Debian as a sysadmin for a little more than a year
>Guess its time to start using linux as my everyday OS
>Install Debian fin my old laptop
>For the wifi to work it requires to upgrade kernel
>New kernel breaks some laptop drivers. Have to upgrade/install new ones
>Want a lightweight DE
>Install LXDE
>Customization is shit
>Install XFCE4
>Breaks my session/login screen. Have to start DE in bash
>Themes work 50% of the time and window buttons icons cant even be customized
>HDMI and VGA wont work to plug in an external monitor
>Can't find how the fuck do i change the screen brightness.
>Installed geany as my main code editor. It doesn't even include a tree view and a same text highlight. Has to be installed manually
>Geany plugins are all for diferent versions of geany. Have to install libraries so i can recompile it with the new functionality

Fuck this.

why do you niggers always need to kill any fun

that's fucking awesome

>espeak
didn't know I had that on my system

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.

s/linux/GNU\/Linux/g

this is great

im white slav, pls stop using n word

Goddammit Sup Forums

awk '{ gsub(/linux/, "GNU/Linux") }; 1'

^linux^GNU/Linux

thanks for sharing user

>evilspeak

Guys, honest question here. Can someone be too stupid to use GNU+Linux? I used Crunchbang when it was around and it was one of the best experiences I've had on an os. I didn't really do much on it other than browse the web. Went back to Windows when Crunchbang died. I'm trying to use Ubuntu as of late and it's really nice and all but when it comes to compiling and moving files/folders around I always end up messing up and it just gets discouraging.

Who says that?

>Can someone be too stupid to use GNU+Linux
stopped reading there
also, no

perl -pe 's.linux.GNU/Linux.g'

no
someone can be stupid enough to not know how to use google, read things and use basic problem solving

BSD shills

what is this?

bash

$ echo foo
foo
$ ^foo^bar
echo bar
bar
$


It's a shortcut for:

$ echo foo
foo
$ !!:s/foo/bar
echo bar
bar
$

Works on my machine™

What the heck do I need to do to get my laptop to sleep when I close the lid with Devuan and i3, no DE?

so should I put firefox and games from rutracker in docker for extra security?

what have i done :(
how do i fix this anons

systemd-logind.service

in
/etc/systemd/logind.conf
there is something about lid

inb4 systemd autism

clean your cache

>systemd
:^)

what's wrong with systemd?

what's this do

It's GNU+botnet

guise HALP

i fucked up my debian repo

anyone can provide good debian repo? plsssss i needd it

satanic incantations

i did pacman -Sc
nothings changed

Next time, use a single partition.

python -c 'import sys;print sys.stdin.read().replace("linux","GNU/Linux")'
inb4
>python

O_O

>Use one --clean switch to only remove packages that are no longer installed; use two to remove all files from the cache.
t. `man pacman`
fucking dumbass

how to install gentoo?

as root
cd / && du -ah | sort -rh | less
an do some cleaning

What did I do wrong during nvidia driver installation?

as root, run
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda

It's not hard at all if you follow their guide.
The tricky part is diverging from it, for example by not wanting to use their retarded 4 partition approach.

top kek, this is so funny, I'm literally rolling on the floor laughing at this right moment

sta kaze `pacman -Qq | wc -l`?

>бaјтa
zasto

# pacman -S gentoo

1491


Vidim da u /var/.cache imam 1giga debtap kesa, debtap mi je izbrisan..

su ovo normalne velicine foldera?

Best GUI file manager that can handle automounting removable drives?

I only really care about two games, War Thunder and CSGO. Is anyone here playing them on linux and can tell me if i will be able to do so without a mental breakdown? currently sitting on a RX480

warthunder runs great on linux

GAHNOOO/Linux*

They both have native clients. Steam runs fine and will handle the installation for you.

>1491
brisi to sve

trebalo bi
ja bih koristio `du -sh *`

pcmanfm

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.