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>tfw you'll never stumble upon rms while looking around in a computer store
Jaxson Brooks
>ganoo linigs mrw grsec cucked Linux out of actual security
Ethan Ross
First for Gentoo
David Howard
...
Ryder Myers
>That color combo has RMS ever gone in target
Gabriel Roberts
I am running Fedora 25 with GNOME3. I was wondering how long I could keep running this thing without updating? I hate the process of re-installing my apps and OS.
Gavin Mitchell
Does that bag respect my freedom?
Aiden White
What? dnf has dist upgrade now
Assuming it's a facebook machine. 10 years. If it's a shitposting machine, forever.
Jayden Jackson
If I could I would purge all Linux distros aside from Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Arch and OpenSUSE. GNOME, KDE, Cinnamon, MATE and i3 are the only ones allowed and pacman, deb., dnf. should be the only package managers permitted. Ideally the entire FOSS community should be working on Ubuntu GNOME if we ever want to see progress.
Isaiah Miller
@60152662 Gotta work harder for the (You)s.
John Allen
When selecting a laptop or desktop to run GNU/Linux on, what is your go-to resource to make sure that you purchase a compatible laptop or desktop?
Jayden Walker
Main machine. I am a student. So I'll be using it for everyday things plus coding and games.
Cooper Thomas
System76
Landon Gomez
Gimp keeps crashing whenever I try to open a file or export to one. Here's the output when I open it via CLI and try to open an image: GEGL-geglmodule.c-Message: Module '/usr/lib/gegl-0.2/openraw.so' load error: libopenraw.so.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(gimp:29558): Gimp-Widgets-CRITICAL **: gimp_device_info_set_device: assertion '(info->device == NULL && GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)) || (GDK_IS_DEVICE (info->device) && device == NULL)' failed /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-pdf-load: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler-glib.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Redditors like you keep the entire community behind. But I mean if we can splintering off just don't be surprised no one takes Linux seriously, and that it will always remain a hobby-ist OS.
Dell and Lenovo have great Linux support. Generally just search the component (usually motherboard, graphics card and SSD) for it's compatibility with Linux.
Nolan Moore
Basically anything ordinary will be compatible. The main cause of problems is wireless adapters. And even that is reasonably rare.
Make sure to pick ATI if you need an dedicated graphics card. The drivers are almost all free software.
Logan Brooks
When was the last time you updated fedora? Dnf should make it really easy.
Carson Wilson
Did you try installing libopenraw and libpopper-glib? How did you install gimp? From a tarball?
Jaxson Cruz
I haven't. Last time I used Fedora it was F18. But I am saying I don't want to upgrade the distro since things might break. How long can I stay on 25, are there any security issues?
Mason Cook
I generally agree with this statement. I think that a huge issue with the state of GNU/Linux is how splintered everything is, hindering progress.
There are a million distros based on Debian or Arch. They are usually just pre-configured buggier versions of the distros that they are based on. People will use these shitty "based on" distros and think that this is a representation of the entire GNU/Linux experience. It's not. A "proper" distribution (one that is not based off of another) doesn't have as many problems.
The only exception to this rule I can think of is Ubuntu, because it has enough manpower and organization behind it to consider it an independent effort.
Brandon Hall
@60152705 Not good enough.
If you are so afraid I wouldn't bother updating anytime soon. You won't have any 4 channer sshing into your mainframe. I don't use fedora, but dnf was supposed to make upgrading trivial.
Logan Adams
I mean people can work on their own distro, DE or whatever but if you are dedicated to the spread of Linux focus on Ubuntu and GNOME.
Dylan Gonzalez
I installed it via pacman. I can't find libpopper-glib, but I installed libopenraw.
Now it prints this: (gimp:31704): Gimp-Widgets-CRITICAL **: gimp_device_info_set_device: assertion '(info->device == NULL && GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)) || (GDK_IS_DEVICE (info->device) && device == NULL)' failed /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/file-pdf-load: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler-glib.so.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
> You won't have any 4 channer sshing into your mainframe. How safe is Linux in general, and Fedora in particular?
Hunter Turner
> Missing the point this bad
Noah Moore
His decision is retarded. The community needs more rolling release systems. Yearly and bi-yearly release schedules create an inconvenience for anyone who doesn't intend use said distros as a 'jump off'. Especially new users who don't utilize a separate root and home.
Jack Cooper
I wouldn't say that. I fear the day that Linux does become centralized. At that point I'm afraid we will start to lose choices and freedoms.
Andrew Roberts
>libpoppler-glib Try poppler-glib.
Pretty safe. Is there any reason someone would target you specifically? Are you running any web facing service? If so, update.
The unix permission system, software repositories, firewall and selinux are a pretty good protection against most generic malaware and attacks.
Logan Bailey
Also, if you like fedora and don't like updating. Consider installing CentOS instead of updating to 26 when the time comes.
Oliver Phillips
>The unix permission system what's this?
William Robinson
Separate root and home is a meme. All its good for is causing you problems when you need to resize partitions. If you're reinstalling then you should just wipe the whole drive and restore your data from backups.
eh it's been pretty useful for me. No point in wiping the whole drive if I only need the space where the root partition is located. So I can keep my /home without having to backup and restore.
Hudson Phillips
>Is there any reason someone would target you specifically? No. I don't host any web services.
Lincoln Collins
saved
Angel Lopez
There wont be more progress. More than likely there would be less due to infighting and devs dropping out of projects they don't like.
Christopher Ward
Every file has tree attributes. 1. Owner(a user); 2. Group(a group of users); 3. Others(everyone that is not the user and don't belong to 2).
Each of those properties is a 3 bit flag. This flag can represent any combination of the permissions for reading(r), writing(w) and execution(x).
Check if cairo or libcairo or anything like that is installed. Try rebooting?
Easton Green
You guys wouldn't to know of any good sources to learn/understand perl, not sure if this is particularly related to this thread.
Jonathan Murphy
he's a macfag
Isaac Long
Search for /dpt/ on the catalog.
Jose Roberts
MacOS is Unix.
Jose Lee
What are some cool terminal commands?
Nathan Gray
telnet towel.blinkenlights.nl
Elijah Howard
lolcat is fun
Mason Jenkins
deltree C:\Windows\System32
Jordan Jones
Cairo was reinstalled and I rebooted, now I get this: (gimp:1779): Gimp-Widgets-CRITICAL **: gimp_device_info_set_device: assertion '(info->device == NULL && GDK_IS_DEVICE (device)) || (GDK_IS_DEVICE (info->device) && device == NULL)' failed gimp: cairo-scaled-font.c:459: _cairo_scaled_glyph_page_destroy: Assertion `!scaled_font->cache_frozen' failed. gimp: terminated: Aborted
Then Idk. Sorry, I'm not even a Arch user. I suggest you ask on the arch or the gimp support mail list. The Arch forum may be useful, but it's mostly circle jerking.
Nathan Johnson
Also, remember to tell them what the original error was as well.
Austin Parker
What do you mean by the original error? The problem is that it crashes when I try to select or export to a file.
Isaiah Scott
How to make cmatrix use the matrix font in a terminal emulator?
Brody Fisher
That's really cool, user.
Not particularly a GNU/Linux question, but what kind of mini laptops are out there? There's the eee PC 701, any other laptops that are neat, old or new?
Jeremiah Powell
is there a wayland equivalent of startx? How would I start a gnome wayland session from tty and make sure it's wayland?
Eli Cook
Hurd 1.0 soon.
Benjamin Evans
As soon as hurd can have audio, firefox and vim I'm basically set to switch to it for daily use. How are those ports going?
Logan Wilson
If I started gnome from gdm, and didn't choose gnome on Xorg, am I running wayland? I wanted to try out wayland and I'm impressed that all my x programs, including firefox still work.
James Diaz
Has anyone tried using the Nix package manager on Fedora 25? I'm thinking of using it to install my multimedia software so I don't have to rely on RPMFusion.
Caleb Lopez
man cmatrix
Hudson Miller
There is a guide for this on the Nix website, though it is written for Debian/Ubuntu, I'm unsure if it will also work for Fedora.
For what it's worth, I installed a minimal Ubuntu server and installed xorg and gnome-shell. I used Nix package manager for everything else, now I have a stable base OS with up to date software and the best package management system.
Justin Smith
>implying I didn't read it already
Jonathan Sullivan
gnunet any good? is it full of pedophile like other p2p services?
Dylan Davis
Yep, that's exactly what I do.
$ bash
Owen Gomez
>bash
Ryan Thompson
Is NixOS really that unstable? It seems more streamlined to use the same package management for the entire system. What would be some pros and cons of just using NixOS?
Joshua Williams
Tired of Ubuntu. I have spent that last week distro hopping looking for the right distro that works for me.
Finally settled on this.
>Arch without the autism >comfy global dark theme >rolling release thats also stable
Realling enjoying this.
Liam Young
you'll be fine if you don't let the memes get to you
William Gonzalez
Budgie sounds gay.
Thomas James
Why does rms dress like a Staples employee.
Cooper Gray
I ended up with xfce. Seems pretty Good so far. >inb4 too lazy to take a screenshot
Ryan Howard
Can anyone help me to get shadow of morodor working, it simply won't launch at all.
Parker Watson
Just remember to change your system clock to bypass cert warnings.
Adam Collins
sup /fglt/. running debian with openbox right now aka bunsenlabs. pretty comfy, been thinking about switching to arch for better documentation, what's your opinion?
Dylan James
No need to change if it just weeks imo
Tyler Thompson
That's true and why I haven't switched. I am going to wait until this summer when I have a lot of free time and switch to arch then to improve my linux-foo.
Daniel Flores
Will do.
Christian Rogers
stealth
Gavin Thompson
What do any of you think would be a good DE to use on a Tablet PC with a low resolution? Specifically X201t tablet.
Caleb Campbell
fuck guys. I messed up big time. >openssl update fucks my shit up in arch >because I'm a retard, delete the library that was causing the problem (libcrypto.so) >pacman won't do anything because missing shared library libcrypto.so.1.1 How do I fix it from the live usb? I would copy the file, but it doesn't seem to exist in the live usb.
Nathan Hernandez
I can't help but read /fglt/ as "faglet".
You're all fucking faglets.
Robert Martinez
It's pronounced "foogy looty"
Jonathan Morris
I spent all afternoon upgrading to debian stretch.
I almost wish I didn't, because the defaults were pretty shit and I just spent several hours re-editing configs to get the old behavior back. Easily, the worst change was auto-locking the screen after suspending, they added light-locker as a hard dependency on all of xfce4 so you have to disable it or else it takes 15 seconds for the os to come back after sleep.
Luke James
KDE is trying to murder my CPU.
Is there a DE that wont try to cuck my motherboard? Cant stand having my CPU getting assfucked everytime i want to search for something.
Leo Wood
What else went wrong?
I'm actually interested in this because I have two machines and a couple VMs running Jessie and I'm a bit nervous about eventually having to upgrade them when they release Stretch
Jason Jenkins
NixOS is very stable but doesn't have the man power behind it such as Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora. Not that it makes much of a difference just it bothers some people, however the Nix package manager is the best there is due to portability. You can use it on GNU/Linux, MacOS and FreeBSD. It is useful for when a particular distribution doesn't package a certain software (e.g. MPV in Fedora).
Julian Jackson
I have a compaq 18 Keys Keyboard.
Had to take out from the trash, clean it and rewire several pieces of the circuit sheet.
Now i want to use the Multimedia keys but nothing out of +vol/-vol mute sleep play,stop,next,prev,pause Works. I got the official driver for windows and got keybindings for the rest, sadly i want to make it work on linux too.
Is there a Tool to make it work on Linux? I tried with LinEAK but i cant make the motherfucker compile after adding 6 preheader files the uploader forgot and i sincerely surrendered with that route.
William Nguyen
What's wrong with bash?
Angel Cooper
My gf is leaving me . To cheer myself up decided to buy a new laptop and install distribution I haven't tried yet.
What laptop should I buy and what distribution should I install?
Laptop should have -good linux support, obviously -good display -if battery can last at least 3-4 hours, good for me
Now I'm on old asus x54c -shit battery lifa -shit display -doesn't work bluetooth -slow wifi
Robert Bell
Debian is for cucks so that'll suit you nicely.
Cameron Hernandez
oh man, REGT! god halp him recover!
Austin Nelson
How do I enable smooth scrolling for steam and stuff. Sometimes it's smooth, sometimes it isnt.
Dominic Reyes
I was thinking more like SourceMage, gentoo, funtoo And don't think this word applies to me.
Aiden Hughes
Or maybe linux from scratch Just not sure how stable any of these are
Jackson Miller
I'm joking with you friend, I hope you don't have too much of a bad time.
Try NixOS? The Nix package manager is the best there is, but I don't know much about software availability for it.
Adrian Perry
stretch breaks virtualbox, you need to uninstall it, and it's no longer available in the repos so you have to add it to your sources.list and add their public key. wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox
exim4 is set to do some kind of DNS fuckery at startup and adds about 7 seconds to your userland startup time according to systemd-analyze you need to disable it with dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config
audio controls might not work unless you add the pulseaudio panel plugin the wallpaper chooser seems to have less features, i can't lower the brightness anymore and I haven't figured out how to change picture directory xfce4-terminal seems to have switched to Adwaita theme permanently, it clashes with the rest of the system if you use a weird color scheme DejaVu font family has been renamed to Noto font family. nano 2.7.x breaks a lot of .nanorc stuff from 2.2.1, you'll have to toy with it again
Adam Roberts
if you have the money, get a dell xps 13 or 15. They're pretty expensive but worth it. The 13 is more portable, but only has a dual core CPU and soldered RAM. Both come with 1080p or 4k displays and they all have insane battery life. (6-10 hours of basic web browsing/video It drops to about 2 hours of compiling though.) They have pretty good support for gnu/linux (they actually sell the 13 with it preinstalled). 15 support is a bit worse, but still fine: the current version of nvidia's driver is broken for the GPU, but the nvidia beta and older driver aren't. Just install one of those, install bumblebee and it should work. I'm really happy with my xps 15. As for distro, it really barely matters. They're all good. I like Debian, but for either of those laptops you really need a new kernel (everything works in 4.10, but they have a few problems on older kernels. Debian stable is unusable with the default kernel because it doesn't support the hardware. I use Arch on it because it has good support for bumblebee, and installing the newest kernel, nvme kernel patches and Nvidia dkms beta driver are all easy. I wouldn't recommend gentoo or any of those type of distros.
Angel Hughes
I'm OK, at least no one will interrupt me now.
Hm... I might just check all these and pick one.
Though, casting spells in SourceMage does sound cool.
Brody Wright
>virtualbox couldn't they have just left it in non-free? bleh, guess I get to see if they ever unfucked KVM and virt-manager. I tried like two or three times over the past few years, it never worked right if I wanted to run a graphical environment in a DE. Or rather it worked, just unbearably slowly and with enormous CPU usage, vbox never did that.
oh well, at least I only have to do this shit once every two and a half years or so
