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sitting around waiting for the Debian Stretch release
Cooper Cox
break out of the systemd and install devuan
Isaac Cox
NixOS > Gentoo
Ayden Young
include me in your screennshot guy is best guy
Gavin Thompson
Nice meme
Cooper Garcia
GuixSD > NixOS
Ryder Hernandez
Bad meme
Matthew Allen
Agreed, but I can't bring myself to use it
Parker Mitchell
5 cute fact abour richie: - he like birds - he likes folk dancing - he likes sleeping on your couch - richie!!!!!
Brody Ward
even if so, what would be wrong with it mccarthy?
Liam Watson
this
Ethan Bailey
What's the best wifi adapter (that respects my freedoms) currently? Got this librebooted thinkpad from a friend and I think it would be a sin to install a nonfree wifi driver on it.
Luke Smith
Ethernet
Oliver Turner
that;s only 6!
Nolan Morales
minifree or tehnoetic
Levi Hill
What are some cool Linux commands?
Charles Hughes
mv -- ~ -rf
Brody Nelson
Amidoinitrite?
Aaron Gray
>nigger
Blake Jones
first off, share pape then, uninstall as much as nonfree software as possible (vrms may help, but isn't reliable) then install urxvt and customize you terminal colors (or use wal, which generates a colorscheme based on your wallpaper) then install synaptic, dont use the software centre then install i3-wm, you can select in from your login screen later then try to compile your first program: i3-gaps, and install it then get comfy, learn the shell, avoid installing stupid frameworks, instead read the copypasta colelction in the OP discover the systemd, find your personal favorite programs try to actually understand how apt works youre ready for distro hopping, come back when doe
Carson Collins
>not mint yes >niggers fired
Brody Butler
i have no idea why I wrote systemd instead of system
Adrian Jenkins
echo "scale=1000; 4*a(1)" | bc -l calculates pi to 1000 decimal places.
Tyler Baker
Here's the pape.
Dylan Green
I golfed these together when the whiteboard meme was the new thing:
# Find the sum of all the multiples of 3 or 5 below 1000. n=;for((i=1000;i>0;i--));{(((i%3&&i%5)||(n+=i)));};echo $n # Find the sum of all the primes below two million. echo $[$(seq 2 2e6|factor|sed 's/.*: //;/ /d'|tr \\n +|sed 's/+$//')]
r8/h8
Sebastian Jones
echo $((2+2)) calculates 2+2
Jacob Howard
uname -o
Zachary Peterson
muscle memory and too much time on Sup Forums
Samuel Stewart
I have no idea why I write Linux Torvalds instead of Linus Torvalds
Dominic Gonzalez
Nice try Stallman, but uname -s prints the OS, read the fucking standard.
Mason Rogers
So yesterday I finally installed Gentoo.
Took me three tries because I was trying something weird at first and the bootloader did not like it.
I was trying to install it in another hard drive, /dev/sdb1, but I had another OS in /dev/sda1. I could not get the bootloader from /dev/sda to load /dev/sdb1. Also because I put the kernel for gentoo in /dev/sdb1 instead of what the guide suggested to put it in /dev/sdb2 as /boot.
Though, not it works after I resized /dev/sda1 and feels comfy!
Anything else I should do? maybe start moving to BSD?
Chase Cruz
Nice try Linux Torvalds. $ mo uname -s -o -s, --kernel-name print the kernel name
-o, --operating-system print the operating system
Isaac Sanders
Why the fuck am I getting a connection error in this thread?
Caleb Hernandez
There are weird phrases that cloudflare blocks, and it shows up as a connection error. ls -l (with a single space) is an example
Noah White
What's -- for?
Bentley Jenkins
Hello /fglt/,
I'm trying to deepen my knowledge of Linux and have started reading pic related.
Is this the best book to read through to achieve such a task or would you guys have any other recommendations in mind? Thanks!
Ryan Clark
I originally put that in a code block with 2 spaces. I guess Sup Forums removed the code block because it was too short.
Carson James
Wow this is fucking gay.
I can't make a post containing / etc / hosts without spaces
Matthew Hughes
>Mission Failed, We'll Get Em' Next Time
Gavin Evans
>ignores the standard and listens to false document documentation Kek
Gabriel Perez
-- is a gnu standard like --help or --version, etc, it means "This is the end of all arguments" and makes things like touch -- --no-preserve-root possible
It is actually useful when you have retarded filenames that start with an '-' and you want to remove it. Then you run (to remove the previously created (touched) file: rm -- --no-preserve-root
Jose Clark
how to get the best performance out of a gtx 10 series card? thanks
Benjamin Stewart
>thanks np, thats why were here
Jayden Howard
>glxgears why is this program a thing
Jose Long
!5
Gavin Watson
Damn lol, but you can also do rm ./--no-preserve-root but I see what's going on. Thanks.
Zachary Jones
Install the nvidia-381* drivers and nvidia-settings. You will need to add a PPA if you're running Ubuntu, or otherwise just grab the .dpkg from the pool if you're running another Debian based distro.
Adam Lewis
It's also useful for hardening scripts. Many commands like mv, cp, rm, printf support it. IMHO -- should be used whenever possible. Just imahine some retard uploading a file like on your server.
Jaxson Wilson
>gnu standard I think the POSIX standard getopt does that too.
Luke Hughes
alright cool, on arch just only ever had amd cards. will check that out, still not sure i want to do loonux gaming, but it's good to have the option
Kevin Diaz
when you start parsing literally who inputs with shell scrips you're already beyond help
Nolan Johnson
this! fuck gnu!!
Gavin Johnson
GNU literally introduced long options. Guess who gave POSIX it's name.
inb4 its just linux
Isaac Clark
>Guess who gave POSIX it's name. I wasn't saying GNU is bad, I was just trying to make your statement more accurate.
Oliver Gonzalez
that whole stuff reminds me of a question
when writing cli programs, scripts, whatevs, where can I look for standarts or guidlines for command options?
currently I have a short list for stuff -n number -l list -d directory or deamon -v verbose, -V version
stuff like that
Henry Sullivan
Do what you want, or better, do what you think which is the best thing to. Welcome to freedom.
Matthew Lopez
There are no real "standards". Trying to copy the coreutils is generally a good idea, though. -r --recursive (some programs have this is -R) -h --help
If you find yourself with glitches (using scrot or imagemagick), try: github.com/gvalkov/xrectsel github.com/naelstrof/slop Alternativly, kill your composite manager before taking a screenshot. Example for compton: pkill compton && && compton
Bentley Richardson
gentoo
Tyler Morris
8============D
technically it's the (Debian) VM I do all my web browsing in, not the whole machine. but whatever.
Kayden Perez
why is perl so cool? why am I too stupid for peal? why is everyone one ruby/python instead of pearl?
peal is true magic to me
Angel Rodriguez
arch VM on windows 10 8D
Jacob Long
How good is "qutebrowser"s security?
Ian Carter
How do I fix this shit?
Eli Scott
Please leave this thread forever.
Matthew Phillips
>they are posting among us >I actually already may have wasted my time in helping them >my help may posted on some "linux development on windows" blog
that's it fuck the internet i'm out
Jaxon Scott
meant for
Adrian Bell
What about me tho
Elijah Wilson
type 'help'
Jace Nguyen
>he thinks anyone ITT is running linux on bare metal linux is cool for toying around, but not in any way near a windows replacement (sorry for destroying your dreams tho)
Tyler Kelly
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.
Nathaniel Sanders
I'm using Elementary os and it's great but bluetooth isn't working. First the bluetooth panel icon wasn't appearing and I couldn't send files via bluetooth through the file manager. So I entered "bluetooth on" in the terminal. Now the icon appeared and I can send files from my laptop to my cellphone but I made my laptop discoverable on bluetooth settings and my cellphone cannot find my laptop and I can't send files to it. Can anyone help?
Alexander Rodriguez
conntect with a cable
Tyler Campbell
Arch, how to install the Arch terminal logo?
Oliver Myers
I might need to use it for something else in the future. Also I cannot receive files from a friend if he doesn't have the cable.
Anthony Thompson
just install oh-my-logo from the AUR
Tyler Allen
Arch is for advanced users only. You should start over with Ubuntu.
Anthony Baker
Kinda dumb question about Gentoo, but how do recompile the kernel? The wiki leaves leaves me with some questions.
I want to use genkernel. Now do I need to go and delete all the files associated with the current kernel, and then run genkernel, or is this done automatically?
Charles Sullivan
About 5 years behind firefox at any given time. Plus qutebrowser crashes if you go on sites like 'guardian.co.uk'. Plus, it's basically a ripoff of firefox addons like Vimpterpretor. The only project has only got like 1 active developer on any given day. For these reasons I would avoid qutebrowser and stick to firefox with whatever addons suit your purpose. If you delve into qutebrowser you're going to come out the other end disappointed. Qutebrowser is basically vaporware: No private browsing mode, no settings manager or commands to set up proxies, no ASM.js, no 'noScript' or similar addons. The only thing it's got going for it is its keyboard shortcuts, small UI and 'config' file, but all three of those features can be achieved in firefox by a vim addon (where qutebrowser steals its sourcecode) and the 'Stylish' addon.
Hudson Moore
>new users should use distros for retards with lots of proprietary software no
stop suggesting ubuntu, mint, etc crap
Cameron Allen
>About 5 years behind firefox stopped reading here,
Eli Johnson
New users don't care about the cult of FSF, they just want a working system with sane defaults. That being said, new users should try KDE Neon first.
Jayden Clark
So is that bandit game a legit way to familiarize yourself with Linux? I've always wanted to break free from my pleb ways.
Joseph Long
Linus Torvalds was right: The day that Microsoft started developing for Linux was the day that Microsoft lost to Linus Torvalds.
RMS is a Green Party member. That hardly qualifies as communism.
Nicholas Morgan
idgaf if new users dont care, they have to learn that its a different system distros trying to make gnu/linux like windows as much as possible are cancer
it only creates people crying for "waaaa, why is %random_nonfree_program not available?", converting the system more and more into a normie conform bullcrap os
there is literally nothing wrong with learning new things
Owen Bennett
how to write a script in bash that renames all the files in a directory? i.e., I have a directory full of wallpapers and I want to rename them all with randomly generator names like 4e1xz3e or something.
Luke Ward
Anyone doing Bluetooth audio over Linux? Did ubuntu 17.04 fix the Bluetooth reconnection bugs? Is gentoo package manager comfy? Can I Wayland/xfce in gentoo?
Nathan Nguyen
How do I make money off of gnu/linux?
Camden Hernandez
Really, all you need to know is how to do this in any language and to just port it to bash.
