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That feeling when you go balls deep in scripting your own tools.
William Thompson
>not knowing Parrot Security OS ŚMH
Juan Hughes
Feels good isn't it.
I remember starting with Linux where all these random shell scripts everywhere seemed so shoddy. After some time I was beginning to appreciate it. There's something elegant about them really.
Anthony Collins
GNU/Linux*
Michael Gray
not every linux based operating system is GNU my friend. I don't want to be an exclusive shithead by forgetting distributions like Alpine and such.
Jason Harris
>and such
Daniel Price
They're actually referring to the kernel, Stallman
Isaiah Allen
>a Linux based OS, not combined with the GNU system, turns a kernel in a complete system
Julian Morris
correct
Juan Richardson
So stop calling Linux "Android" since it's just Linux.
Chase Baker
Android is actually a fork of Linux.
Adrian Adams
That feeling when you go balls deep in scripting your own tools and the more you learn you realize that they will never be 100% perfect.
Christian Powell
Android is a Linux based operating system which uses a fork of Linux, the kernel.
Camden Nguyen
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Android, is in fact, Android/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Android plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning Android system made useful by the Google corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many smartphone users run a modified version of the Android system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Android which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the Android system, developed by Google.
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 Android operating system: the whole system is basically Android with Linux added, or Android/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of Android/Linux.
Josiah Diaz
Android is an operating system based on a fork of Linux with Google's extensions.
Lincoln Walker
Android is an operating system with Linux installed.
Ayden Cook
with a fork of Linux therefore not Linux.
Joseph Long
That pasta is stupid. Google uses a lot of independent replacements for the GNU system; the combination of these replacements doen't turn Android in an operating system. sincle "Linux" is the core part and an operating system by definition, calling it "Linux" instead of Android is correct.
David Martin
Well, you're only doing 1% of the work. Other people did all the hard work by creating those programs.
John Reed
I agree except for the part that calling it Linux is correct. Linux is an operating system kernel, which always needs certain third party parts in order to work. Calling the full system just Linux is a logical error which stems from thinking that the GNU/Linux vs Just Linux thing exists because "Linux uses GNU tools", which again leads to thinking that "a GNU/Linux system without GNU tools must be just Linux" - but actually, GNU/Linux is a combination of TWO vital (but incomplete) operating system parts, while Android combines the kernel with multiple independet single parts - a "yet unnamed" combination, or as I've recently taken to calling it "just Android" (the same goes for Alpine).
Parker Diaz
I'm on Linux first like 3 days now.
My laptop has a known issue and I have found a solution online by patching the kernel.
The patch is in tar.gz format and the text for manual patch is there as well.
How on earth do I patch the kernel?
Wyatt Cooper
Android/Linux, Alpine/Linux, GNU/Linux or are you running the bare kernel?
Jokes aside. Could you link the patch?
William White
By using the patch utility. I suggest you first learn and go through a normal kernel compilation. Just compile and install your distribution's kernel. It will be easier, because you don't have to configure it (just use their configuration). Once you get that down, it's like a minor thing to learn how to use the patch utility. Finally, I suggest you learn how to package software for your distribution. Then you can neatly install your kernel, remove and update it.
Dominic King
Post neat cli utilities. Recently discovered fzf, which is pretty amazing.
Isaiah Collins
Opinions on GNOME 3? I'm not liking it so far.
Adrian Gutierrez
>Linux Torvalds Kek
Joshua Bailey
Is there a lean version of KDE?
Nathaniel Collins
Lxqt is close enough
Tyler Sanchez
Dolphins' black background in the icon explorer section is unaffected by gnome tweak tool appearance changes and shell themes. Any ideas how to fix this?
Noah Harris
Reading the article gave me a bit of a chill. Maybe Terry Davis has the right idea...
Luke Howard
Can someone explain to an idiot how to build programs from github on antergos? I already cloned it and I'm lost now.
Charles Martin
There is any "modern" distro able to boot faster than win XP? My SSD XP VM loads in literaly 0.8s
Dominic Cook
Post link to program. Theres no "general" installation practice.
Alexander Martinez
KDE is usually a metapackage. Basically a list of kde-related packages. Depending on you're package manager, find the command to list packages a metapackage pulls in. Install the obvious deps and the packages you want, and let you're package manager sort out the dependencies.
i did a test to turn my bios time to instant, and uefi boot to 0 as well, i get my loonix login prompt in under a second from hitting the power button. its actually really close to instant. i use an nvme drive
Hudson Robinson
Okay, the Arch wiki should do from here. Thanks.
Blake Foster
It's really fun, and makes you appreciate the quality of both the tools and the shell itself. Does anyone know an XML parser for pipelines, like what jq is for JSON?
Parker Powell
What are some cool lightweight terminal commands suitable for daily use?
John Carter
mkfs.reiser4 /dev/wife
Aaron Lee
curl cheat.sh
Caleb Morris
What reason do I have from not using Linux permanently? I know it seems odd to ask but outside of video games, I don't need Windows. Work does everything on Google Suite and they use Chromebooks. I'm just curious since all I would use Windows for is a few video games. I plan to learn coding and web dev too but I already know I can do those just fine.
So my question is I guess: outside of games, what would Ubuntu struggle with, if anything?
i don't understand the loonix has no games meme there are tons, thousands on steam and gog
Jaxson Perry
Ha, if you learn C, webdec is essentially out of the question. Not many hardened PROGRAMMERS will take a liking to webdev (in more than the 'essentials' of it).
But I commend you, if you ARE determined to use Linarx as a main OS - keep in mind, WINE works excellent for most moderately 'oldish' games, and quite a number of new ones, too. You sometimes get exceptions but they don't affect anything noticably.
Get acquainted with writing your own workflow. Thats the best thing you can do. Learn makefiles, C and asm optimizations, learn vi/m, learn hotkeys, configuration/customization. Build your own "home" with the tools you can find, and create your own if usecases require.
Blake Adams
i know that - I didn't mean to imply it doesn't. I meant as "outside of a few video games that work only on Windows - I can't see a reason not to switch to Linux full time"
Adam Myers
I want something to do to kill time at work - right now I'm in IT support for a small business and they're all on Chromebooks so there's little to do. The site is done in Wordpress and they wanted me to try to help out since I did it as part of a course. Hence me curious about jumping into it from an actual career perspective. Though actual programming in at least terms of it being useful for Linux would be a godsend since I'd rather use it than a Chromebook
I've used WINE before a few years back and it was fine for the most part. I was just wondering if there's anything unique to Windows I couldn't do in WINE.
Bentley Thompson
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Brody Ortiz
>python project >not using distutils/setuputils for installation
I don't understand what the fuck is wrong with people. Why do they demand stuff like flatpack/snappy, appimage, "linuxbrew" and all this crap? Is the concept of a package manager really that hard to deal with?
Jaxson Martin
evreyone else in my office use Photoshop so using GIMP will make projects arkward
Brody Turner
Linux Mint isnt regonising my windows partition when i try to install it. What to do?
When people are new to a system they don't understand, they tend to perceive its differences with systems they're more familiar with as "problems" that somehow no one has noticed before and it is up to them to "fix".
Like how people who are halfway through hiragana often have these bright plans on how to fix the Japanese writing system.
Eli Young
I can think of the following: -keeping up with the app store meme, most likely to pander normalfags -less dependency on distro-specific maintainers, package formats and library versions. I can imagine a mpv meme package with the latest ffmpeg, libav and mpv without depending on what the distro ships. Yes, 50-100 MB but the latest versions supported.
