Previous thread: Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.
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 ***
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 benis 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%
Alright so I just did a fresh install of debian 8 and this is the process I had to go through to install the IDLE for Python 3.4:
- try to download and install idle-python3.4 package - get told I need python3-tk package - try to download and install python3-tk package - get told I need blt_2.5.3 package - try to download and install blt_2.5.3 package - get told I need tk8.6 package - try to download and install tk8.6 package - Success! - Do all of the above in reverse order
Is this how it's going to be for every package I try to install? Is there an easier way?
Okay, not sure which thread is the real thread, so I'll post in both:
Anyone knowledgeable about installing gentoo with UEFI support?
I'm at the point where I should install grub, but it tells me: EFI variables not supported on this system.
Doing some digging, I found that I need to exit the chroot and "modeprobe efivar", but I get
modprobe: FATAL: Module efivar not found in directory
I have also tried modprobe efivars and modprobe efivarfs. Both with the same result. I can only conclude that the minimal installation ISO does not have the ability to do this? Is that correct? And if so, how can I install in UEFI mode?
Aaron Myers
Jesus dude, if you just dropped GNU from the OP without the smarmy "FUCK COMMIES" business then it might have just slipped by unnoticed, and people would use your thread.
I used to be on the /flt/ side when it was worth fighting for, but you're really just being a cunt.
Luke Perez
Is our irc channel called 'flt'? That's what the website links to: fglt.nl/irc.html
Grayson Turner
This is a fake thread. Actual thread:
William Lopez
take your Sup Forums shit and go back we want a friendly thread, not shit like >lele THE COMMIES >lele THE JEWS >lele BSD IS MORE FREE >lele FUCK GNU >lele RMS A PEDO fuck off with your shit
Luis Butler
The channel doesn't exist anymore. It redirectsa to #sqt.
Jack Phillips
What the fuck are you on, son, we don't want GNU drama either.
Xavier Flores
this
die fucking trolls
Tyler Perry
PS1='\n\[\e[31m\]╭|╮\n╰|╮\n╰|╯ \[\e[m\]'
David Perez
PS1='C:$(pwd | sed "s:/:\\\\\\\:g")> ' inb4 >why
lmao
Lucas Evans
In all fairness, the other thread actually predates this by 10 minutes. Bit cheeky making it that close to the bump limit, but it was after 300, and you should have checked the catalog before going ahead.
At this point, you're both just screaming "my thread is better because I says so". If you cared that much, make the thread on or just before the bump limit like a good turbo-autist.
Samuel Perry
>spawning a subshell just for your PS1
Owen Russell
>thread that intentionally removes all GNU parts titled "FUCK COMMIES" is somehow better for actual GNU/Linux discussion than a regular thread
Matthew Gray
Shit that happens when people start memeing GNU every fucking post. Like this didn't happen before.. just ignore it and it'll go away.
Jayden Anderson
I'm not defending the thread faggot, just saying that he's not actually doing anything wrong, you just happen to not agree with him. If it bothers you that much, put in the effort to get there first.
Also, this is exactly how /flt/ turned into /fglt/ in the first place, so your getting butthurt is equally hilarious as pathetic.
>Git good or get out
Blake Bailey
Also, that thread has more unique IPs than here, so if you want to maintain the lower-traffic thread you're welcome to it I guess. Everyone else is just going to decide for themselves, not listen to your autistic screeching.
Brayden Perez
>nothing wrong spreading disinformation is wrong and should not be supported >just ignore it and it'll go away nice meme
Lucas Murphy
I'd just like to interject for moment. What you're refering to as GNU, is in fact, GNU/GNU, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus GNU. GNU 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 GNU, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a GNU, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. GNU 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. GNU is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with GNU added, or GNU/GNU. All the so-called GNU distributions are really distributions of GNU/GNU!
Ayden Ward
stop
Landon Adams
kys
That's how your /fglt/ was born. Now grow up a little and stop this fucking drama.
John Phillips
**GNU/stop
Ryan Gonzalez
>spreading disinformation This isn't a liberal arts course, repeating things doesn't make them true.
If you have a difference of opinion you are welcome to it, but there are no hard __FACTS__ when it comes to Linux vs GNU/Linux vs Lignux or whatever the fuck meme name is cool these days.
Again, if it bothers you that much, step up your game and beat them to the finish, no point crying about it when janny clearly isn't bothered enough to help you.
Jason Baker
Subtle, but it works.
Someone should email this to RMS, see if he replies.
Adam Brown
awesome!
Luis Gray
The other thread claims GNU (and with it Free Software, because that's what GNU stands for) is communism. This is obvious disinformation in order to troll. It works well because the same faggot kept creating threads before with pics like "PROPERTY IS THEFT" and posting Karl Marx. Fuck this shit. Fuck "FUCK COMMUNISM" and the whole anti GNU faggotry.
>The other thread claims Linux (and with it open source Software, because that's what EFF stands for) is anti-freedom. This is obvious disinformation in order to troll. It works well because the same faggot kept creating threads before with pics like "IT'S NOT LINUX, IT'S GNU/LINUX" and posting RMS. >Fuck this shit. Fuck "COMMUNISM" and the whole forced GNU faggotry. >Without Linux we wouldn't sit here.
It's easy to mince words to try to make a point. Try harder next time.
many bellsings annon, i was thinking i had to refund or do a dual boot
Sebastian Brown
Hey Sup Forums, what's the best lightweight and user-friendly distro for daily use?
Justin Edwards
>it werks
did i mentioned how much i love you user....
Juan Allen
all I did was search for "Shadow of Mordor libcrypto" on google.. you're welcome ^^
William James
I kept searching for shadow of morodor openssl, I wonder why I didn't get it.
>I rly luv u doe
Joseph Howard
I just want to find a neat distro and DE. At the moment I'm trying KDE and it's by far the dumbest DE I've ever used.
Evan Reyes
Source Mage Debian + OpenBox is a nice combo (Or look into Bunsenlabs).
Robert Howard
Debian is by far my best Linux experience. At the moment I'm just trying KDE and it's super uncomfortable.
One thing I have been able to do only in Cinnamon, Gnome, Mate and KDE is a custom keyboard layout. Specifically choosing the Super 3 modifier. How can I do this with OpenBox or any other WM?
Jeremiah Green
>lightweight and user-friendly Xubuntu or the Fedora Xfce spin
Ethan Diaz
update, in case anyone's interested, I solved it by just using an Ubuntu LiveCD to finish the grub installation, since AFIK the gentoo minimal installation iso doesn't support UEFI.
Chase Morris
So now that infinatily is dead, how do I get decent font rendering on Kubuntu?
Fedora with Xfce. It's actually decent in my experience.
Landon Cruz
For all the Poetterware it comes with, it is by far the best ootb selinux distro that their is.
Josiah Hill
Check the Arch Wiki on configuring your fontconfig. It's just a config file. No idea why infinatily became this popular anyway.
Brayden Nelson
it's like Ubuntu, except all DEs have the buttons on the right side like god intended. No orange color scheme. Not based on Debian or anything, a true from-upstream distro. Corporate backing so you don't feel guilty for not participating in the community as much as you should. I could go on, but these are the reasons that come to mind. But with all it's good sides, Fedora is heavily into Gnome and Systemd, and it shows. Happy New Redhat World :(
Aaron Ortiz
configuring fontconfig is fucking hell though
Jackson Smith
>tfw got mpd+ncmpcpp to work fairly easily this time things are much smoother when you take your time reading man/documentation
Aiden Allen
Is this a boy or a girl?
Logan Torres
>things are much smoother when you take your time reading man/documentation that should be the official motto of GNU/Linux. Alternatively: >GNU/Linux: rtfm! >GNU/Linux: just read the documentation already >GNU/Linux: it's always in the man page
Jacob Campbell
Neither; it's a cartoon.
Jacob Morris
girl (boy)
Connor Martin
>Source Mage unironically
Brandon Moore
how to update on source mage? is it a regular command?
Matthew Anderson
So arch is not detecting my phone and usb memory card reader what do i do
Henry Anderson
Why not use transfer over ssh?
Jayden Collins
Thats debian for you, horrible dep management
Grayson Anderson
find the model numbers and google them to find answers
Jose Johnson
apt install idle-python3.4
Ryan Morales
When installing gentoo, does it matter what profile I pick? For now, all I want is a window manager, file manager and wifi.
Justin Moore
Just use the empty profile and build from there
Gabriel Walker
Hey guys, I'm running Linux 18 (Sarah) and I've got the latest version (2.7) of wine-staging installed, got a coupe of questions:
If I install winetricks would it still work with wine-staging? Suppose I want to setup a directory for certain libraries or whatever, I know that for wine you'd use mkdir ~/wine-whatever and then to configure it WINEPREFIX=~/wine-whatever winecfg, does the same thing apply to wine-staging? Last but not least, which do you guys consider better: Wine 2.01 or Wine-staging?
Dominic Green
Not sure which one of you told me to switch from Mint to Antergos, but it's great. Thanks.
Camden Brown
what is linux 18
Carter Wood
Oh shit meant to say Linux Mint
John Richardson
It will helps, if you don't do it now, you will do it later. Choose the default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop
Liam Howard
Haven't tried but it should work since wine-tricks is just a big bash script.
Luke Watson
The way you usually work around this is manually specify some of the dependencies when you install the top level package. It short circuits some of the dependencies resolution that's breaking. It's not great but it works.
Luis Smith
Or dont use a shitty distro with a shitty package manager that cannot handle deps
Kevin Hill
ebin meme, got it off reddit?
Charles Moore
Arch, Gentoo, or Fedora? My number one priority is security while still being usable. My number two is controlling bloat. My number three is ease of use (e.g. being able to hook my laptop up to the TV, having suspend on lid close actually work).
Any advice? Currently running Fedora but I'm not sure if I want to hop distros again once 24 loses support.
Bentley Hill
Hello, mates! My current notebook has a Qualcomm Atheros AR9485 using the ath9k modules, horever my system totally freezes (randomly) and I got these erros:
ath: phy0: DMA failed to stop in 10 ms AR_CR=0xffffffff AR_DIAG_SW=0xffffffff DMADBG_7=0xffffffff ath: phy0: Failed to wakeup in 500us ath: phy0: RX failed to go idle in 10 ms RXSM=0xfffffff
Somente can help me? I'm using Arch Linux.
Michael Long
arch
Elijah Sanders
I was leaning Arch, just because it's installed on my old (now backup) laptop and I want to standardize one distro across every device I own.
My only concern is Arch dropped GRSecurity support and I can't find anything regarding what Hardened Gentoo is going to do about it.
Pacman is comfy as fuck though.
David Long
No, Grsec went PAY ONLY.The testing build that was being used no longer exist for ANYONE. Hardened gentoo is just as fucked,as well as anyone else who was using it.
Use apparmour
Henry Green
sorcery update to update the package manager scribe update to update the packages sorcery rebuild to rebuild all your packages and cast -r linux to rebuild your kernel
Henry White
If security and stability are REALLY you number one for you (with side order of a lean system) then you should be looking at CentOS or Debian stable. My guess is after seeing what security and stability actually looks like, you'll bump up the priority of ease of use and having modern packages.
Bentley Turner
Fedora. No doubt.
Mason Foster
It's not that it can't handle depends so much as there are multiple possible candidates/versions to fulfill dependencies, each with there own dependencies. Also existing software may depend on a conflicting version so replacing something may have side effects. So the package manager is like: you figure it out. Other distros get around this by only providing one packages that provides XYZ. So do you want choice or do you just want it to work?
Anthony Hill
I have zero problems with my distro and my package manager. >choice Why would i want outdated software on my system?
Jonathan Torres
install ubunut
Landon Hughes
is git autistic or am I just to stupid to create a gist? why even that json crap, horey shiet
thats what I tried curl --request POST --data "{"description":"gistfile","public":"false","files":{"gistfile":{"content":"THE GAME"}}" api.github.com/gists