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>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/

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mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
linuxcommand.org/tlcl.php
grymoire.com/Unix/

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gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

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prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

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here for source mage

>is there a way to redirect mouse clicks between clients?
Clients? What clients? Can you be more specific about what you're trying to do?

>For example, if I click one window, the mouse click should register on another window
Another window on a different device?

windows

I think they mean something like what xkill does, where clicking on an application to be killed tells xkill what application to notify the xserver to disconnect from.
user, you'll have to let us know what you're actually trying to accomplish by this.

I'm seriously considering taking the red pill and nuking my Arch system in favor of Debian. I'm bored of running Arch, it's too easy at this point and I've never ran Debian so I've been looking into it and come to the conclusion that stretch is rolling and has very up to date packages and might be worth a look. Pic related is influencing me a lot too. He makes several good points. Arch is really good but they do play it fast and loose and don't seem to take their users seriously.

I want to simmulate what unity panel does, I have compiz and lemonbar. I have maximized windows decorations hidden and I want to be able drag lemonbar to unmaximize the focused window. I have looked into unity panel source code and it uses a wm.StartMove construction, so I assumed that compizz must have an interface to recieve such signals.

Is distro X working? Yes? Then shut the fuck up and stop hopping like an idiot.

>archlinux
>working

I'm just beginning my foray into serious Linux usage so I don't understand the full implications of those points, but I'd say those were good arguments. So far I enjoy Debian more than Ubuntu, Trisquel, or UberStudent. I've been having some issues with Debian Jessie KDE Stable, though; shutdown and logout dialogs didn't work OOB on my desktop, and system notifications sounds have to be disabled for it to work.
Distro hopping is unproductive, sure, but if a distribution is advertised as stable, up-to-date, configurable, etc. and it frequently breaks or has issues which are contrary to how the distro was advertised, then it will encourage users to try other distributions regardless of the productivity hit.

t. guy who has never ran Arch or a derivitave

t. paid shill, nobody who's used arch for more than a month ever ends up with a functional system unless they never restart anything.

Exdee

obviously, that's why they get so good at installing it

You are either retarded or new
Neither.

>Is clearly an implication that kde is bloated.
No it's not. I had just went through my logs and compiled that image and thought it was interesting and I was looking for an excuse to post it t.b.h. I would like to see the same thing for every other DE also. I don't have any hate towards it, I even have it installed and use it sometimes. It's quite nice.

>>"look, mom, how this kde thing is a bloatware See? Packages (414)"
Yeah. I added up the sum of plasma-desktop and kde-applications and put it at the bottom and they are clearly separate in the image. And yeah it is quite a large number of packages. I thought it was interesting.

Reposting image for new thread. Isn't this interesting guys?

I've used it for almost 2 years delightfully with no real issues. Can't say the same for my experiences with Fedora and Ubuntu.

Does anyone know what caused/how to fix Ubuntu fonts getting smaller in 16 as compared to 14? Attached is a picture of the issue in Mint, looks exactly the same for Ubuntu, it uses the same font in the terminal.

16 probably reads the DPI from the monitor more "accurately" and scales the font up/down.

It happens in a non fullscreen VM, too, so I'm not sure, but you still could be correct. Even adjusting the DPI doesn't get it quite right though, a 2 DPI increase is a huge increase in font size, and 1 DPI doesn't do anything.
They are both set to be 96 on Live CDs, so probably not the issue, right?

How do I install .bin firmware in Debian? I was able to find the specific binary from the Debian website, but it's either install this manually without a Debian-provided guide (the one I found only covers .deb fw installation) or hope that by added the non-free repo to my sources.list will allow my software manager to download the relevant firmware, if it can even detect the hardware.

I just installed Trisquel Linux but I have no sound. How do I fix that? I checked to see if it was muted but it wasn't.

for what kind of device?

sometimes you have to add it to the initram-fs
sometimes you have to add it to the bootloader as an init=... line.

>Hi, is there a way to redirect mouse clicks between clients? For example, if I click one window, the mouse click should register on another window. Thanks.
Come on, help me.

So I recently decided to have more control over my personal computer's network traffic and wrote a few iptable rules.

However, I found it to be a bit time consuming, as I had to troubleshoot why some services we're being filtered and some weren't, look up their default ports and protocols, etc.

The one thing that did it for me was setting up my home printer, basically guessing if it's using CUPS or AppSocket or whatever proprietary protocol EPSON has for their printers. The manuals didn't help because they were aimed at normies, just a bunch of instructions of how to install it on Windows XP, but nothing about the advanced network configuration.

You could argue I need to lurk moar, but I guess my question is: is it worth it? Should I just give up and plug the ports I'm concerned about people accessing? Or if we go a bit deeper: should a personal GNU/Linux machine have a configured firewall? What about a work station?

What really started this whole thing was me trying to block incoming traffic to a Docker service I have on my computer (an RSS reader), and a couple of databases.

you could do it with xdotool and a little elbow grease

A wireless card. I have the missing firmware listed from just after LVM decryption, it's rtl8192cfw.bin.

No, xdotool only simulates mose click, it doesn't actually redirect anything. I wish I had the time to write a statusbar program, it is a really simple concept. Meanwhile I look for utilities that do the mouse redirection.

i think in that case it just goes in /lib/firmware.

then reload the wifi module with modprobe

Not him but I'd say there's a simpler solution to that problem.

Debian currently has Linux 3.x, try installing a newer kernel, or do a LiveCD of Ubuntu 16 which is currently at 4.8, and see if the wireless card is working there.

Thank you both, but mv *.bin /lib/firmware/ seems a lot simpler than upgrading the kernel and changing the entire system configuration from Debian stable. If the first suggestion doesn't work, I'll try to understand a forum post I read earlier, or I'll link it.

stop posting penguins

Try restarting the sound service. Whatever application is used to mute and control volume should be restarted.

Why? It's GNU + Linux. Stallman doesn't need to be in every OP.

best distro that doesn't have systemd by default, and doesn't have compiling from source autism?

Are nvidia drivers botnet? They can't fit that much spyware if they are only 10mb (Arch package size).

yes

Why would NVidia want a botnet? How would a backdoor through a GPU be a useful tool to the intelligence community?

We don't actually know.

vrms doesn't like them though

people who write nonfree software have something malicous to hide

>he fell for the arch meme

>a backdoor through a GPU
a backdoor to the kernel

Like profit margins? I watched an interview the other day where Stallman didn't seem too caked up about closed firmware. As long as it works, the user isn't likely to be poking at it anyway, so there's no need for it to be open. The firmware is critical to component performance as well, so why would they want to make it open? So Joe Blow Paranoido can rice his GUI to watch for spikes in activity, because the CIA wants to know what damned porn hes watching?

What would nvidia gain from keeping the driver proprietary unlike AMD? Possibly some performance optimisation AMD hasn't figured out. Better question: why would a wifi driver like iwlwifi need to be closed? Something fishy's going on there.

I think a lot of it is business practice. Not that everyone releasing closed software or firmware has malicious intentions, but that it's just what they've been doing and they keep doing it. Why switch to publishing everything when you can just put the finished software on disk and sell?

Setting up a firewall properly isn't easy.

Though, if you don't know what protocols and shit your printer uses you could just capture the traffic and then print something.

If you need one is a whole different question.

For some reason, my wallpapers are changing very fast on their own even though I set them to rotate every 1 minute.

What's going on? Is Conky fucking shit up?

>tfw have ascended to the ultimate level of freetard, and disabled my laptop's gtx 1050 instead of using proprietary driver
Intel is more than enough for muh games anyway

Sounds freetarded enough. Why don't you sell the laptop and buy some Stallman approved chinkware instead?

>have ascended the ultimate level of freetard
>Intel is more than enough to run this proprietary software

Kys poser

how is a laptop with hardware that requires nonfree drivers for some unnecessary hardware unapproved? Stallman himself uses a laptop that shipped with a proprietary BIOS, and he once used a laptop with a nonfree wireless card.
T. using nonfree JavaScript to post on a Mongolian puppet show imageboard

Are there nonfree kernel blobs/firmwares for anything other than wireless cards? What else is there? Why aren't nvidia drivers included in the kernel?

>compiling from source autism

I meant compiling my own kernel and stuff in Gentoo. I would use it because it's basically the only distro with more than ten users and no systemd by default, but I don't have time for compilation on my shitty dual core.

>bored of his operating system

How to spot a pretentious idiot who doesn't even use it. You most likely have Windows installed and you only switch to your distribution once every fortnight.

I think Void fits this description

Just use an easy abstraction layer like UFW.

I'm not an integralist freetard. I'm just saying that claiming to be one while admitting to continue using proprietary software like Steam is completely idiotic.

>How to spot a pretentious idiot who doesn't even use it.
You mad bro? I use Linux constantly and I have for years. I've been through the rounds extensively with Ubuntu, Fedora, and Arch most recently. I've been using Arch for nearly two years and it has just become too familiar to me and I'm starting to see the flaws in it.

>You most likely have Windows installed and you only switch to your distribution once every fortnight.
Nope. How did you manage to draw that conclusion?

Must have struck a nerve with you for you to chimp out like that. In a friendly thread no less. Stay cucked.

>Then shut the fuck up and stop hopping like an idiot.
Not hopping. I've been on the same shit for a long ass time and it's not like switching is a big deal.

How do I launch the individual parts of libreoffice from the command line? What do I type in to launch Libre Office Calc for example instead of the default menu with the different options

Sorry, I can't understand you from all the memes and buzzwords you use.
An operating system is a tool and tools are supposed to be boring. Enjoy your pretentiousness, idiot.

Redpill me on nftables

>libreoffice --help
or
>open web browser
>open search engine
>type question in
>get answer in 0,05 seconds
>look it up

>that diaper fur arch logo
triggered

>An operating system is a tool and tools are supposed to be boring.
Yeah it's that black and white huh. Don't fallacy me bro. Study up yourlogicalfallacyis.com/

This guy really doesn't like it when people talk shit about arch

I suggest you improve to at least elementary school level reading comprehension and then you'll be able to realize that it has nothing to do with Arch, but with the general retardation of his idea.

>being so obsessed and retarded with arch that you must shoehorn it into every argument
Kill yourself.

>dat pic
REEEEEEEEE

>Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

>*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

Fuck off self righteous prick

>>get answer in 0,05 seconds
>0,05 seconds
>0,05
>,

kys

Okay, it's a little longer on Google.

Just noticed you meant the use of a comma as the separator. It's not like one is the definitive standard.

What the fuck do I do on GNU/Linux with downloaded programs that don't come from the official repos (i.e. not installed via a packet manager) and that come "ready to use", i.e. don't have to ./configure and make install.
Do I just copy them manually to some /bin folder? Do I just leave them in my Downloads folder and run them from there (or create an alias pointing to the download folder) ??

I'm trying to make it so that if my VPN connection drops I want my entire connection to drop along with it so I don't end up leaking my real IP along with it if I don't notice the VPN disconnecting.

Are there any scrips or settings I can use to get that working?

How do you change your sound output on the Desktop Environment you use?

KDE is fucking dogshit when it comes to this, you have to navigate deep into sound settings and skim through a massive dropdown list that has every audio output profile that you can possibly imagine, many of which you can't even use. So on the few occasions where I'm plugging my KDE laptop into my tv to watch a movie, I'm fumbling around like a jackass to set it to output sound to HDMI, it's awful.

Meanwhile, in good ol' Windows 7. You just rightclick the speaker icon on the taskbar, go to playback devices, and choose the output you want. It doesn't really get any easier than that.

You can put it wherever you like. I would make a folder called .bin in /home/username and then add that directory to the PATH.

Make a folder (/home/username/.bin in my case)
move or copy the file to it
and then add it to your path
export PATH=$PATH:~/.bin

>How do you change your sound output on the Desktop Environment you use?
pavucontrol no matter what DE I'm using

What's the best GNU/Linux distro and why is it always the one I'm using?

What are some benefits of gentoo? Why should I care about use flags? I'm interested because openrc.

>apparently is such a big power user that he needs openrc
>doesn't understand that you can disable and enable certain features during compilation

How to spot a poser: the post.

I tried out Gentoo and I couldn't even install/compile a wm or a DE because I always needed to edit yet another config file for portage to just fucking do it.

Never again. I'm sure I made some mistake during the installation though, as no guide mentioned the problems I had.

What am I posing as you colossal autist? I don't like systemd because it's bloated constantly expanding buggy garbage made by Red Hat. I understand what use flags do, I'm just not sure how I would benefit from them.

Gentoo is shit. It's like fapping at expense of your time.

>because it's bloated constantly expanding buggy garbage made by Red Hat
Of course it's expanding. They are adding more features as requested by people. Half if not more software that you use is "made by RedHat" you hypocritical idiot. It's free software, no one cares by whom it's made.

>i understand what compilation options do
>i don't understand how it benefits me
Then you're a massive idiot, but that's no surprise, because everything else you say is symptomatic of idiots.

poettering please get back to freedesktop.org

Wanna know that too. Running arch btw

Don't. Not debian at least. Fucking apt.

Void.

Fuck off Poettering, the """features""" of systemd are not needed by 99% of users.
There are more than just USE flags, there are lots of other reasons to use Gentoo.
It's bleeding edge.
It's the most customizable distro (customizable in what packages you can have, not customizable like ricer garbage, although it can do that too.
If you have autism you can go full freetard with Gentoo pretty easily, there are lots of neat things with Portage.
But as for USE flags, it's really nice when you don't want to have certain dependencies built into your package, like polkit, and also for when you want to have your packages support a certain set of dependencies versus another like ALSA instead of Pulseaudio.

Any advice for passing LPIC-1?
>I'm not pajeet I promise

void seems like what i'm looking for. but, as a former arch user, the package manager seems shit (on arch if you install a package with tons of dependencies, it's easy to recursively remove them and get your system back to the state before you installed them. On void, the package manager often freezes when I try to recursively remove stuff, or doesn't remove all the packages.) Not to mention there is no mirror in australia at all. The repos have about the same amount of software as arch but I miss the AUR. despite the abundance of shitty, unmaintained packages, it's the easiest way for me to install stuff like fonts, themes as well as hipster wms.

I don't have any issues with xbps other than it's not intuitive at all to use and the lack of mirrors suck but the distro is basically what Arch should have been.
Once you get the hang of xbps-src building packages are a breeze, it's WAY simpler than PKGBUILD's.

literally the best distro. I wish it had kde but I've since switched to xfce.
runit is the best init system by far
>runit boots faster than systemd and is way faster than openrc
>runit does everything an init system/process manager should do, and nothing else
>xbps is fast and simple. I probably still prefer pacman, in terms of syntax and package format though. it would be very interesting to see a distro that's literally void, but with pacman.
>minimal install
>best installer of any distro. net or local install; doesn't handhold you, doesn't waste your time with CLI bullshit like arch

well... i´ve been using Debian since 6 and i try other distro just for fun, i am in a mid point of knowledge so I will try Arch Linux, whats the best point to start? exist a good guide? I look the official wiki but I think sometimes give things away and I lost the way so what can I do?

Fuck, didn't read all. Don't know why it freezes to you but I didn't have any problems. The AUR is good, but it has its issues, you're depending on the maintainers, security wise it's not nice. Void lacks proper PAX/grsec implementation for now and it doesn't have a sec team as far as I know but things are kept simple.

I never managed to use xbps-src properly, you've got any tips?

could you please explain how to use xbps-src and what I use it for? is it a different way of running make and make install?

Is i3 the best or is it worth learning to use and configure something like awesome or xmonad? ( already know some haskell and lua )

How do I do that? Sorry new to GNU/Linux

arch is decent. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installation_guide is the guide. If you can't follow that, arch-anywhere.org/ is easier. that said, void is a much better distro and also easier to install. It's basically arch with better developers, but isn't based on arch (both are minimal rolling release)

honestly all wms can do the same stuff. they all use barely any ram/cpu, and are capable of workspaces, tiling and floating etc
I personally used to use dwm for years but went to i3 after deciding it was much easier to make it look good. the dwm/awesome style of configuration is just annoying, stupid and pointless.

Cause you get confident in.

No distro is perfect, but if you make it work for you, it will become perfect.