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Hey guys, I'm new to GNU/Linux and have a few questions.
I have read a lot about ubuntu containing telemetry and being the 'Windows' of the GNU/Linux world, yet a good friend of mine who works in netsec and regularly attends Defcon tells me that they all use ubuntu. I'm interested to see what you're take on the matter is.
Is there a reason it is so widely used compared to distributions such as Fedora and OpenSUSE?
Owen Wilson
>telemetry That's a Windows buzzphrase, stop using it. Ubuntu is a normal distribution, like any else.
Jack Evans
Just use it. The whole 'ubuntu is spyware' is just a meme. At one point they did have a thing that sent your search results to Amazon, but they haven't done that since 16.04.
I'm sure some user will sperg out to you about that.
Just stick with Ubuntu, Antergos, Mint ,etc if you're a new user. Then you can branch out and learn other stuff.
Juan White
You use the same programs and can "learn" them on any distribution. Only idiots use different distributions to "learn" things. Knowing how to use a package manager, which is the only distribution specific software, is non-specific, almost useless knowledge.
Leo Russell
Would it be possible to run linux on top of windows (vm or other method) with relatively good performance? Dualbooting is a hassle and this would make sense imo.
Dylan Long
Doesn't Windows have Ubuntu on Bash or something.
Anyways the better route is to use Linux, Install QEMU and then set up GPU passthrough (It's not hard to set up don't listen to people saying it's hard) so the VM uses your main 'gaming' GPU.
That way you get full performance in a VM
Carson Green
Hello guys. I decided to give linux a shot after all the shit bothering me was windows specific. So I went for Debian, dunno if it was a good or bad decision, I'm not complaining tho; got everything to work properly so far. I've got a question about the drivers tho, sorry if it's retarded. When it comes to AMD drivers, on their site they provide distro specific drivers for new cards. How does that work? I tought that drivers should work on all distros the same like nvidia ones.
Does that mean the new cards wont work on debian at all? I'm curious because I wanted to switch to Vega when it comes out (wanted it for rendering)
Benjamin Allen
I am aware of this method, unfortunately, my processor doesn't support VT-d.
Yeah, but anything I do on my linux partition is strictly browsing, media, etc. So I was wondering maybe a VM wouldn't throttle the performance too much if I set it up right.. Well that's the problem, I don't know what method to even try and was wondering if anyone knew. (and no, I don't want to run ubuntu through the windows 10 bash thing)
Wyatt Morales
What happened to HTML5 media controls on Firefox?
Jaxson Morris
If you're just browsing stuff on the web and listening to music, then it should be perfectly fine in a VM. but gaming, rendering, etc is a no-go.
Anthony Jones
Thanks, it's strange there are no official drivers for these
Grayson Lee
Get the drivers from your distro, not amd. Checking that the distro supports your hardware generally is a good idea before choosing it.
Elijah Roberts
Holy shit. I just installed debian in a vm, becaust I wanted to test something. Why is it running an ancient kernel? What the fuck?!
Christopher Green
debian
Samuel Myers
Enable the unstable repository if you want the newest kernel.
Ayden Richardson
/sqt/ is dead, what is LVM? Should I use it for my partition?
Xavier Cooper
Ooh. A friendly GNU/Linux thread. What a nice initiative.
Running Ubuntu 16.04/Mate on server. Accessing with X2Go.
Trying to upload files from my Nextcloud Webdav accessed folder. (number 1 in pic).
Would like this Webdav folder to always be accessible at bookmarks in file upload window (see digit 2 in pic).
I am confused as to why this network location is not there as a link already. TL;DR How do I add link to 1 at location 2?
Tried navigating to the var/www/nextcloud/data folder from inside the GUI, but can't due to some permissions issue. Thought I'd try mapping this webdav location first.
Lame question, I know. I use Ubuntu every couple of years. Stop using it, then I have to relearn it all over again.
Use backports, the kernel used in sid is usually backported.
Oliver Campbell
How hard is it to do day to day tasks on Linux without GNU or any of the GNU coreutils?
Jaxon Rodriguez
...
Parker Phillips
I don't use gnu. I do everything with emacs in virtual console.
Wyatt Ortiz
Only two features are useful for everyday home use: The ability to encrypt many partitions in one disk at once. So you only have to type the password once. Snapshots for system recovery.
Cooper Turner
>How hard is it to do day to day tasks on NT without Windows or any of the Windows programs?
Luis Fisher
>I don't use gnu >I use gnu emacs
Ethan Cook
No. The old emacs. Before it was a gnu app.
Jonathan Rodriguez
>app
Angel Torres
I think she means with equivalent software but not from the GNU project.
Andrew Foster
Richard Stallman is a crook! He wants all software to be free so he can modify and redistribute it for a profit!
Easton Foster
Why do you care about usage of equivalent words? I would have used the word soft you would be happy? Are you retarded?
Landon White
>Activate Maccy D's WiFi
Xavier Campbell
Friendly reminder.
Eli Ward
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Jaxon Hill
someone in the last thread told me to use this python script to enable "aero style window snapping to Openbox": github.com/BunsenLabs/bunsen-utilities/blob/master/bin/bl-aerosnap but i don't know what to do with it, i can't find a guide on the github page. i'm pretty noob pls
Gabriel Phillips
chmod x bl-aerosnap then move it somewhere in your $PATH then you can start it like any other command
Cameron Foster
they are fucked in 53, stay on 52esr
Ryan Brown
>soft Try Application Software Program
William Diaz
Ok you're an idiot.
Joseph Reyes
Use busybox
Dylan Myers
Right, so for some reason my system's UTC time is one hour ahead.
My timezone is in DST, which makes me think there's something up with ntpd which makes it adjust the UTC time according to DST, and then my system's locale re-adds one hour for DST, resulting in the wrong time being displayed.
How can I try to debug that? Ntpd is running using ntp.ubuntu.com, and it seems to keep the minutes and seconds synced so it's kinds working. I know it's not a problem with my locale because date --utc returns the wrong time.
Justin Fisher
I'm relatively new to the Linux world I tried many different distros and desktop environments they share some core problems
>font the default font on LITERALLY EVERY disto and DE I tried looked awful why is the default font walmart tier? why not include the font that os x uses? and don't give me that legal crap, there should be a free version of it
>taskbar I come mainly use windows productivity is important to me I need to switch between multiple programs regularly the lack of window list taskbar on most of the DEs is disturbing and if there is a window list then most of the time the windows can't be ordered by drag and drop a basic feature present since windows 95 missing in 90% of DEs
>scaling I use a 4k monitor no DE scaled well, no matter how I fiddled with the settings why do I need to scale the text, window, panels, etc separetaly? why not a common dpi setting? why must be the scale factor a whole number? even windows 7 could do fraction number scaling
>programs need a program that's not in the repository? just download this project from github and COMPILE IT YOURSELF compiling it gives you 20 warnings and 10 errors? HAHA GOOD LUCK WITH THAT why is there no unified [click here to compile/install this program] solution?
James Hernandez
Nobody?
So are there supposed to be Network Shares links in that Firefox file upload window sidebar?
Christopher Foster
Tempted to try out Sabayon Linux. Is it a decent babbys first Gentoo based distro? I like the idea of Gentoo but I really don't have the time to set it up, so Sabayon seemed like a decent choice.
Jack Perez
Alright I set it up on a wm, runs smoothly. Only small issue is that inside the vm, the output is detected as "vga", instead of what i'm physically using, (dvi). Meaning no matter what options with xrandr I use, it's still stuck at 60hz since it's running vga. Is there a way I can get virtualbox to run at 120hz?
Connor Adams
probably in gconf or dconf, gtk3
Isaiah Martinez
create /etc/adjtime with the following content: 0.0 0.0 UTC
then set your time using ntpdate and after that sync then hwclock --systohc
Thomas Barnes
OK. Will try that. Thanks
Noah Hughes
sorry i'm more noob than that. i have bunsenlab installed, do i need to place that script somewhere in my filesystem or it's already included? i tried that command and it gave me "chmod: invalid mode: 'x'"
Lincoln Rogers
+x
Angel Cook
How can I change the look of these on Linux? I don't have an example of them since I forgot to take a screenshot before going back into Windows to take this but they look like complete shit.
Benjamin Baker
Theme? If you're using FF, it handles your system's theme poorly. It's recommended to use a userstyle or a theme addon
Juan Ross
stop ntpd and after that ntpd -gq && hwclock -w
Cameron Reyes
You maybe want to create your own ~/bin directory where you can place your scripts in the future and add this directory to your $PATH. Your $PATH holds locations where the shell searches for executable programs. You can see the default locations by executing: echo "$PATH"
To do this, you add a line like this into your ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc: if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" fi
Any script you want to run must be executable. To do this run: chmod u+x myscript
This makes your script executable for your (u)ser. Once a script is executable, place it somewhere in your $PATH so the system can find it. If you don't want to create a ~/bin directory, you can just place it into /usr/local/bin/. sudo mv myscript /usr/local/bin/ But that's not good practic, I suggest creating a bin directory in your home directory instead.
GNU/Linux*
Henry Nguyen
It should be already included. Just run bl-aerosnap from a terminal.
Logan Nelson
>if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then > export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin" >fi No if there is a bin in "$HOME" it must be before everything. PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"
>chmod u+x myscript no just chmod +x myscript
>But that's not good practic, I suggest creating a bin directory in your home directory instead. I agree.
Jonathan Cruz
>MUST be before everything No, it doesn't. It can be the last one in *unless* you have a script or some shit like modifying how a default binary from your distro is run
Ethan Barnes
When I compile a software, I don't want to use the OS but mine. Putting ~/bin after everything is useless.
Michael Perez
What are some cool terminal commands?
Aaron Reed
>Useless What if you use $HOME/bin just for random personal scripts? No son, it's not useless, and definitely not a MUST. Quit being autistic
Xavier Mitchell
How do I copy files with spaces read from a list? List looks like this: ./image 1.png ./im age 2.png ./i m a ge 3.png ./ima ge 4.png ... ./imag e n.png
I tried xargs -a list cp -t ~/images
and for i in `cat list`; do cp "$i" ~/images; done
and both didn't work for files with spaces.
Christopher White
He has a point. When you create a program called "convert", you except your system to run your program instead of imagemagicks' convert.
Cameron Gray
SO you made two different bin in your home? Or you never compile a soft yourself?
Landon Young
I know, but it doesn't apply to all cases. They give you a *choice* to prepend aor append it for a reason
Nicholas Smith
>for i in `cat list`; do cp "$i" ~/images; done
why not just call the list directly?
Caleb Anderson
while read -r line; do cp "$line" ~/images/; done < fonts
James Edwards
I've compiled shit and I let my pkg manager track it, what shitty distro are you using
Colton Roberts
s/fonts/file
Sebastian Allen
you really package your compiled software? good on you then...
Andrew Gray
Thanks guys, it's working now!
I think I installed ntpd while braindead tired and didn't actually register it as a service. One reboot later and I'm sitting here expecting it to sync stuff while it's not even running. Should be fixed now.
Joseph Foster
Good luck uninstalling your program without an uninstall routine.
Liam Bennett
thanks, this worked is there not a simpler/shorter solution though?
what do you mean?
Evan Rogers
It's not that hard? Are you this fucking /new/? Your PACKAGE MANAGER is there for a reason
Carter Hernandez
cd "$HOME/local" && rm -Rf bin etc include lib libexec man opt share var fucking easy
Aaron James
arch
Kayden Rivera
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Adam Sanders
neat, I would use it too, but I'm not smart enough ;_;
Angel Perez
telnet nyancat.dakko.us
Liam Martinez
hey guys, I'd like to switch to linux but there are a few things that are stopping me 1) I love to have desktop widgets such as rainmeter and I can't find a linux equivalent 2) can't get used to linux, keep going back to 3) arch linux or gentoo?
Jordan Phillips
install checkinstall CheckInstall keeps track of all the files created or modified by your installation script ("make install" "make install_modules", "setup", etc), builds a standard binary package and installs it in your system giving you the ability to uninstall it with your distribution's standard package management utilities.
Joshua Reed
Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.
Zachary Barnes
Wipe Windows. Overwrite everything with Ubuntu GNU/Linux. Install conky.
Levi Rivera
telnet freechess.org
Jordan Gray
1) Conky 2) Learn English 3) Ubuntu is made for niggers like you
Zachary James
uuh i've done everything but i still don't have it working. i placed it inside /home/*mynale*/bin (it was already in my $PATH) then used the chmod command (it became green so i think it's executable) then i right clicked on it and selected "Execute", but nothing
Connor Lee
so i was trying to figure out why I couldn't switch between two analog audio outputs (headphones/speakers) and after unplugging the cords, kubuntu no longer wants to send any sound to anything that gets plugged in.
i've tried: 1) changing the device config in audio & video settings (pic related) 2) >killall pulseaudio; rm -r ~/.config/pulse/* ; rm -r ~/.pulse* >pulseaudio -k >reboot 3) (after losing all audio settings) >sudo apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
i also thought it might be an issue with my HDMI connection taking the output, so i pulled the plug on that. i've tried only using 1 output device (just to get sound confirmation), ive tried switching the connection port. nothing is working.
most ubuntu wikis have outdated info
Angel Johnson
>but nothing create 2 new hotkeys one for bl-aerosnap --left one for bl-aerosnap --right
Elijah Gray
oh and i tried using the feature to make a "dummy" device that handles simultaneous output to all devices and i still get nothing.
Christian Wood
telnet telehack.com
Jackson Foster
I usually just symlink binaries
to be honest I haven't written many rpmbuild scripts
Chase Parker
for i in "$list"; do
Gabriel Evans
>blinkenlights.nl Theres also a BOFH excuse service on port 666 telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl 666 | tail -2
Gavin Gomez
sorry, if sh:
for i in "${list[@]}"; do
James Moore
Are these MUDs? I'm too much of a pussy to try
Wyatt Flores
try pavucontrol, it's a quite good memeaudio config tool