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I will, somehow having that on my computer gives me wet dreams
Jeremiah Jackson
OH NO NETFLIX KNOWS WHAT MOVIES AND TV I LIKE TO WATCH. THE WORLD IS LITERALLY ENDING
STFU stallman,you're just to poor to afford a laptop that can process x264
James Roberts
I can see you...
Ethan Rodriguez
Did you chroot? If not boot back in to the livecd and install it
Connor Davis
Is i3wm+Ubuntu a good combo to use as a daily driver in a laptop? I'm new to i3wm and want to use it to strengthen my command line/bash skills. Basically need something where most things work out of the box (for now). E.g. lid close, display management, network management, maybe use thunar or xfce services with i3wm initially.
Luis Collins
>out of the box >any window manager
No. As you say you'll beed to use something like xfce services, but un general línea you'll have to set everything up.
Dominic Evans
Read the fucking wiki or go install something else.
Brody James
Why do I have 2 kernels installed? 4... -75 and 4... -21
Zachary Ward
>notice fan is a bit noisy today >check if something is using a lot of CPU >see pic related
And we're seriously letting Lennart's systemd take over the Linux ecosystem?
How long has pulseaudio been around now? And it's still a buggy piece of garbage!
Wyatt Brown
GNU/Linux*
Lincoln Ortiz
Why are you using it then? Plain ALSA justo werks.
Xavier Lopez
>And we're seriously letting Lennart's systemd take over the Linux ecosystem? not me
Charles Wilson
...
Tyler Harris
Logged in using root as login name. Figuring out how to add a user now
Really? I just installed maybe 2 hours ago. Running pacman -Syu says everything is up to date
Fuck, looking at my reflection my glasses seem way to feminine there
Lincoln Barnes
>syu Use Syyu to force database update from mirrorlist. Change your mirror it is is out dated
Grayson Green
~$ pacman -Qi gtk3 Name : gtk3 Version : 3.22.14-1 Description : GObject-based multi-platform GUI toolkit Architecture : x86_64 URL : gtk.org/ Licenses : LGPL Groups : None Provides : None Depends On : atk cairo libxcursor libxinerama libxrandr libxi libepoxy gdk-pixbuf2 dconf libxcomposite libxdamage pango shared-mime-info at-spi2-atk wayland libxkbcommon adwaita-icon-theme json-glib librsvg wayland-protocols desktop-file-utils mesa gtk-update-icon-cache Optional Deps : libcanberra: gtk3-widget-factory demo [installed] gtk3-print-backends: Printing Required By : evince file-roller firefox four-in-a-row gcr gnome-chess gnome-desktop gspell gtksourceview3 ibus libkeybinder3 libpeas libxfce4ui nm-connection-editor polkit-gnome thunderbird transmission-gtk vte3 Optional For : avahi deadbeef ghostscript libreoffice-fresh qt5-base Conflicts With : None Replaces : None Installed Size : 70.42 MiB Packager : Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) Build Date : Wed 10 May 2017 09:53:03 PM CEST Install Date : Wed 10 May 2017 11:08:16 PM CEST Install Reason : Installed as a dependency for another package Install Script : Yes Validated By : Signature
Gavin Moore
so you can pick and choose
Charles Foster
Linux SUCKS. Why? Because:
1) Command lines/Lack of GUI's
Why the fvck would I want to use a command line? I have a modern computer, capable of displaying color and icons. Why should their be a command line? And further, why doesn't everything have a gui? Gui's are good, and easy, and don't require me to learn commands. Yey for Gui's.
2)Root/sudo is stupid.
Why on earth should I have to deal with either using sudo or running as root to actually use my programs? I still can't get a lot of programs to run because they keep whining about permissions. What ever happened to good old admin accounts? Why does sudo break everything?
3)Apt-get
Now this is just plane stupid. Why is it so damn hard to install anything? I have a desktop, why not do it the way it should be done? I get the installer icon, click on it, press forward a few times, wait, and have a nice icon on my desktop. Why isn't it done this way?
4)Compiling
Again, stupid. Just give me a fvcking installer program. None of this compiling sh1t.
Come on Linux. The rest of the world has moved beyond 1990. It's time for you to do so also. I'm giving up and installing windows.
Juan Adams
>Why the fvck would I want to use a command line? Because typing is faster than pointing and clicking things.
>Why on earth should I have to deal with either using sudo or running as root to actually use my programs? It's more secure.
>I'm giving up and installing windows. Enjoy your botnet, sorry I mean telemetry!
Luis Rivera
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.
Mason Hall
Thank you for using an anime photo
Cooper Cook
nice copypasta
Christian Lopez
should I install arch or gentoo?
Adam Howard
install gentoo
Luis Reyes
Yes.
Luis Rogers
What are some cool terminal commands?
Adam Parker
pkill ""
Zachary Hall
>"" >not .
Tyler Cook
ls | grep>find
Michael Lee
Is there some kind of detailed guide on configuring MPV? why would I set vo=opengl vs vo=vdpau? what is debanding? why would I use deringing? etc etc?
Daniel Cox
Without thinking, I added root to wicd user group. Is this bad? How do I undo this?
Samuel Murphy
Default settings are more then adequate >who do i know what all this other shit means You fucking google it
while IFS= read -r line; do length="${#line}" bol=1 for (( offset = 0 ; offset < length ; offset++ )); do char="${line:offset:1}" printf '%s' "$char" if (( bol )) && [[ "$char" == " " ]]; then continue fi bol=0 sleep 0.05 done
if (( length == 0 )); then sleep 0.$(( RANDOM % 3 + 2 )) else sleep 0.$(( RANDOM % 7 + 3 )) fi
printf '\n' done
leave this running
family thinks I am hacking and calls the police
Jason Gonzalez
That's not really autistic as it is just plain stupid. Stop trying to be "cool and unique", everyone knows you're just trying to show off to your normie friends.
i know you can make any look good, especially arch, but i am just saying by default... what looks best?
Thomas Clark
elementry's aesthetic is ugly and stupid.
Josiah Stewart
Stupid? You could argue that. Ugly? Nope.
Blake Turner
Source Mage GNU/Linux
Josiah Edwards
thanks for the pastebin user
Matthew Hall
Thanks.
Juan Sanchez
What's your todolist solution, faglets?
Ryder Moore
Anyone have any experience with using proprietary Nvidia drivers on openSUSE Tumbleweed? Are they in the repositories? I read on their website that if you need proprietary Nvidia drivers it may be a reason to not use Tumbleweed.
Nicholas Richardson
does this kill all killable processes for the user that runs it? why how does `""` do that?
Liam Thompson
Does anyone know any big companies using Debian? All the companies I know use Redhat/CentOS , Ubuntu or if they are European opensuse (´･ω･`)
Noah Robinson
I'm installing Arch (in a vm at first so I don't fuck things up)
I'm at the point where I've uncommented the locales I'll need to generate, but now I'm stuck in the locale.gen file, how do I get back to the terminal?
Angel Ward
It's so you can roll back to the earlier kernel if the new one breaks shit.
Thomas Cox
It's basically getting sneaky with variable parsing and regex. The "" returns an empty string as the variable, and literally everything matches an empty string in regex, so pkill then kills everything it has the right to.
Landon Gutierrez
So I just bought this refurb'd derpbook for a little under half price and I'm want to put Linux on it somewhere. I'd prefer dual boot between Linux and Windows 10. I want to learn Linux but have Win10 sitting in the wings if I decide I need it for something. If things go well with Linux I may turn the laptop into a server. Or I may not if I realize that's retarded. I do have a desktop so I'm not fucked if this laptop goes down or I can't figure out wtf I'm doing for a week or two.
Don't put Win10 on it. Seriously, don't. It's an absolute nigger of an operating system. Instead, stick more RAM in it and install Win10 in KVM.
Nathaniel Murphy
taskwarrior
Christopher Jenkins
Win10 is already on it. There's nothing to do except decide how to place Linux. Speaking of which, the wiki says Mint may have been compromised but that was over a year ago. Did they clean it up or is it still a risk?
Joshua Moore
What are you asking? Elitebooks are generally pretty good for Linux. I've had several Elitebooks and Debian worked well on all of them. Arch and its derivatives also usually work well. I personally prefer Debian though since it's rock solid and I don't have to worry about it.
Jaxon Thompson
>What are you asking?
Is the dual boot idea a bad idea?
Dylan Perez
If you're in the nano editor, ctrl+x should prompt a save and exit.
Also use Alt+F1 through F8(?) to cycle through your virtual terminals. Think of it like a tab in a browser, you can run multiple tasks from the command line at once by using different virtual terminals.
Chase Reed
writing down plain text, just like in real life, you weirdo.
Xavier Bennett
Dual boot is a good idea. It gives you more room to learn and play with stuff. Also if Windows breaks you can try and fix it from Linux.
If you're the guy considering installing Mint, I'd say go with Ubuntu or Debian instead.
The reason being the further you get from the source distro the more buggy and insecure things tend to be, in my experience.
Noah Diaz
that makes sense, I was actually using vi before because of the guide I'm following, thanks.
Kevin Roberts
Which type of archive format (tar, zip, 7z, etc.) is the least exploitable (e.g. making unpacking take ages) and in general unpacks the fastest?
Jaxson Jones
tar is not compressed so it seems like it would be fast and deterministic.
Aiden Anderson
Okay, good. I'm looking at Debian and wondering why the fuck a "lightweight" OS needs 12+gb.
Made some neater changes and views, just update the [alias] section to get the new commands pastebin.com/nhvh5YiF
If you write your own git log format, you can essentially export your messages into any data format you want.
Camden Wood
That includes virtually all of the software that has been packaged for debian, 90% of which you won't need. The first dvd image will do a complete install, or just go with the net installer that is a few hundred mb and downloads what is needed.
Henry Barnes
is it possible to do passthrough with ryzen yet?
Caleb Fisher
Anyone know how to get Thunar to display the proper icons for Samba shares?
Notice in the Nautilus window it shows the correct icons, but in Thunar - it just shows some generic icon.
Thank-you!
Dylan Cruz
Should I just give in to the systemd?
Easton Anderson
Depends what you value more, convenience or UNIX philosophy.
Joshua Torres
Hello, I asked some questions a few days ago about full disk encryption things. I am a bit frustrated as installing Arch from the command line and encrypting a USB with the /boot partition mostly worked, but it still gives me some problems. Doing a system update broke shit for some reason, I am guessing the kernel, since it doesn't know that /boot is on the USB. Even though put in my passkey and can navigate the files and shit. I dunno if I am a stupid idiot or if it just makes things stupid having encrypted USBs and shit.
So someone said GRUB supports an encrypted /boot, correct? Does this mean that this article - twopointfouristan.wordpress.com/2011/04/17/pwning-past-whole-disk-encryption/ - is a thing of the past? Could I just put my entire system on the hard drive, and put GRUB on my USB and be fine? Will I be secure from stupid fuckery like that article? It is like 6 years old so I am just wondering if it is still relevant. Reading that was the entire reason I felt the need to put /boot on a USB, though.
It is frustrating. All in all I want - an OS where the only way to access any of the files is to enter my passkey.
Ryder Murphy
source mage
Hudson White
>le angery comman
Wyatt Scott
>daily driver Kill yourself for perpetuating retarded memes and concepts.
Adam Nelson
You don't even know what the UNIX philosophy is nor do you know how systemd is allegedly breaking it. You don't care that your other programs are allegedly infringing it. You care that systemd does it because you think it makes you cool and smart for being able to talk about something that "complicated. Kill yourself.
Ryan Cooper
Woah dude stop projecting
Benjamin Gutierrez
What was GNU with Hurd kernel called before Linux was created?
Asher Hughes
GNU
Juan Flores
I am an absolute noob with Linux, but forced to use Ubuntu for work. I like it quite a lot, but some seemingly simple operations turn out to be a drag.
I downloaded PyCharm for Linux. To run it, I have to manually navigate to PyCharm.sh in the Console and then run the script. I do not see an option to create an icon on the Desktop.
Jason Howard
>I do not see an option to create an icon on the Desktop. an icon for what? PyCharm.sh?
Jayden Gutierrez
so it was ok to call the os after one component then, GNU instead of GNU/Hurd but now suddenly it's wrong to call it after one component, Linux instead of GNU/Linux?
Bentley Hall
the operating system was supposed to be called GNU Hurd is a part of the GNU project are you stupid
Ryan Bailey
>tfw, on a fresh arch install, just tried KDE plasma for the first time
not bad.
Jonathan Martinez
Hi Felix
Zachary Ortiz
what's a good CLI music player? Preferably something with support for mp3, flac and maybe vorbis (occasionally but I barely use it). An integrated visualiser would also be cool, but tmux+cava does basically the same thing. I also like how ncmpcpp can press l and load lyrics from a variety of sites. I currently use mopidy-spotify and ncmpcpp, but I'm ditching Spotify. I don't really need a server like mpd or mopidy.
Jose Campbell
I use moc. It does not have integrated visualiser. But at least its not using 30% of my CPU. >MPD
Dominic Morgan
I use cmus. It has none of what you talked about. You just run it, point it to a directory with music and press play. I use it with a dedicated drop down terminal that automatically starts when I press media play on my keyboard. It is simple, lightweight and out of the way.
MDP and ncmcpp is the opposite. It requires lot of attention, lot of setup and is bloated to the point where you might as well use a graphical music player.
Jayden Long
What's the difference between a distro like Gentoo and straight up LFS?
Jayden Brooks
So I've been having some issues with an Ubuntu 16.04 server I have, every now and then it will crash and I have to do a full reset to get it to reboot.
Are there any common things that would cause a server to outright crash, and are there any good diagnostic tools I can use?
Leo Gonzalez
FUCK I'm the biggest retard ever. accidentally ran "rm -rf /home/user". Ctrl+C'd probably 0.5 secs in. It doesn't seem to have deleted anything- how can I make sure? Is there an easy way to get a log of what it deleted? Can I restore it easily on ext4?
William Smith
Does rm work alphabetically? I think it got my downloads folder, and nuked one of my larger torrents, but nothing else...
Juan Wood
rm -rf basically just calls unlink, so the data is still there, but free for overwrite you can use tools like photorec to recover rm'd data, but you also should use a different drive when doing it
Nolan Jenkins
LFS is totally unusable for a main system, or as anything other than a learning experience. Gentoo has a package manager (portage) included, but it just compiles the packages using ebuilds.
