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I would maybe consider trying this if the whole wizard theme was dropped. Makes it look like a 14 year old dnd nerd designed it.
Jace Stewart
does it obey the gnu free distribution guidelines? I don't tolerate non-free software.
Nathan Adams
>installed Arch >installed KDE What do now?
Gavin Edwards
>use arch for a few days >notice nothing from the AUR works >accidentally break Xorg while upgrading a file manager >black screen on boot >try to fix it but end up messing everything up >give up >install devuan
Angel Hughes
>fell for the Manjaro meme >run pacman update >reboot >get this
Th-thanks Sup Forums
Dominic Nguyen
Migrate from arch to parabola.
Jacob Jackson
This is what you get for using anything related to Arch.
Juan Richardson
Not true. I've had parabola gnu/linux-libre for a long time without it breaking.
Ryder Thomas
portage*
Robert James
I understand what you mean, would like to see a "skin" for this, maybe with other aliases on the commands, but is still a great distro and the package manager is GOAT
Hunter Robinson
That's what he gets for using a VM like a pussy.
Brody Long
>falling for the arch meme
Austin Kelly
Bleeding edge, straight out of kernel.org means no >tfw Linus tolerates binary blobs in the kernel by default
Ian Smith
How different from Arch is it really? Are the repos more stable?
This also. When I try new distros I just nuke everything and run the installer. If it works, it works.
You cant blame them. >normie x sees some cool desktop with arch logo >thinks he needs arch in order to archive this >installs arch, proudly posts desktop >normie y [...]
Charles Ramirez
Has anyone used BunsenLabs recently? I've been meaning to try out the newest release because it's probably what I'll install on the laptop I plan on buying soon.
Christian Anderson
Its basically arch but about 5-10 days behind and containing only 100% free software. They also have a new repository called the Parabola Community Repository which is just a bunch of libre AUR stuff.
Ethan Cox
Parabola is basically Arch wiht a neat hack: The package "your-freedom" conflicts with all nonfree packages.
Angel Morris
Can confirm. That's how I started with Arch.
Nice. Maybe I'll try it one day. I'm happy with Devuan right now and I don't really like the bleeding edge life.
Nathan Price
What's the command that people always use for screenshots?
Jack Jackson
import
Ayden Perry
It says import-im6.q16: missing an image filename `import' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/1287. what do?
Easton Rogers
import -window root png:$HOME/xwz_$(date "+%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S").png is what I use
Matthew Cox
import +repage meme.png
Jaxson Morris
scrot is the easiest one. Just map it to print screen key.
Michael Sanders
>+repage what does this do?
Evan Hall
Unquoted variable spotted.
Use import -window root "$HOME/xwz_$(date +%Y-%m-%d-%H:%M:%S).png" >additional package
Angel Bell
I just subscribed to the FSFE newsletter. Should I also give them my monies?
Tyler Cook
+repage repages/aligns the image layers compare this in gimp to see what I mean:
import meme.png import +repage meme.png
Jace Jones
I meant the command that shows the system specs and an ascii version of the logo of whatever distro you're using, sorry for being unclear.
Jaxson Cooper
:(){ :|:& };:
Camden Jenkins
screenfetch or neofetch
Josiah Mitchell
Which one should everyone use? I must now, this is impotant.
Colton Fisher
It says t'command not found' on both.
Christian Flores
neofetch looks nicer and has a better support of distros
Gavin Foster
>Which one should everyone use? Linux_Logo
Dylan Harris
neofetch doesn't support Sup Forumss distro lo/g/os and has the config files autism
Justin Kelly
>Linux_Logo
Nathan Young
im installing gentoo about an hour ago I typed
emerge --ask --verbose --oneshot portage
is it normal for it to take so long for a package to merge?
Easton Reyes
What distro are you using?
Easton Morris
Only neofetch seems to get it right.
Ryan Allen
...
Alexander Edwards
depends on your reddit karma reddit: neofetch Sup Forums: screenfetch
Matthew Long
Forgot pic
Blake Davis
Works on my machine. Try screenfetch-dev.
Joshua Peterson
Ubuntu, first time I have used linux.
Jayden King
You need to install the program first, here's how: sudo apt install screenfetch Then the screenfetch command will be available.
Happy hacking on GNU/Linux.
Xavier Edwards
Gives me Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package screenfetch
Henry Clark
Maybe you need to update your package list first, run this and try again: sudo apt update
James Sanchez
That's weird. It should be in the repos. Do sudo apt-get update
Jordan Gomez
>I'll try it one day
How can you idiots be so stupid? What do you expect from it? Remove those nonfree packages on your Debian install and you'll have the same experience. You obviously only care for it because of the free software and you can achieve that on any distribution, idiots.
The only non-free thing on my devuan install is the intel wifi firmware. I only use free software anyways. I just like trying new shit.
Cameron Price
Why not get one of these usb adapters?
Easton Sanders
How do I know they work with free drivers? Just one piece of firmware doesn't bother me all that much tho but it sometimes stops me from trying out the fully free, FSF approved distros.
You might need to use the PPA if you're on an older version.
Aaron Fisher
16.04 LTS here, it's in the repos.
Isaiah Ortiz
If I want to learn one programming language and be good at it, which one should I choose?
Primarily I want to write smaller programs and tools that help me around on the system. Should I choose a scripting language like Perl or Python or should I go for something more powerful like C or C++ just in case I want to build something more complex eventually?
I dabbled in a lot of the languages during the years but never went more than the beginner/intermediate levels. So I want to pick up and learn something and learn it good.
Zachary Williams
I have a surface pro 3 with ubuntu 17 on it - the cursor seems to freeze up and needs to be left clicked on the touch pad to work again - it's like the left click is held down. This doesn't happen on Windows. Is this a sofrware problem most likely or should I just deal with it?
Lucas Harris
You've been asking this all day long. By now you could have learned the basics of Python. You will never do anything and you'll give up after 2 hours.
Brayden Watson
This is too real ;-;
Jordan Roberts
I didn't think you'd ask this again, because it looks to me like a textbook case of asking a question for the sake of getting your thoughts in order and finding the answer yourself.
Your current goals and priorities are right there. What's keeping you is the idea that you should only learn one language and therefore you should pick one that fits goals that you don't have now but might have someday. Fuck that and start working on what makes sense now.
Does anybody use thinkfan? How exactly does the lower-bound and upper-bound work? The sample config has temps that overlap, does the next level engage when the current level's upper-bound gets crossed or the next level's lower-bound? How about when going down a level, does it switch when it hits the lower level's upper-bound or the current level's lower-bound?
Python is the perfect language for people with no ambition. It does everything for you. If you start to actually care about details you can learn another language later on.
Jose Martin
>mfw I tell others to read the documentation and then ask to be spoon-fed. If Karma has nothing to do with it, I can gather only that fewer people on Sup Forums instalgentoo than one might expect
Ryder King
>Python is the perfect language for people with a job. It does all the pointless, menial bullshit for you. If you stop wanting to get shit done you can waste your time with C instead. Fixed.
James Hughes
Pick a scripting language. Don't fall for the language as a lifestyle memers. If you need something more powerful you can use a lower level langauge - don't be limited by just one language.
Still, Python will get you far due to the number of 3rd party libraries people have written for it. I don't know much about other scripting languages (aside from using Bash as and when I need it), but I assume they all cover a broad range of uses.
An idea might be to go on Learn X in Y minutes and look through a couple of languages to see which looks the nicest to you.
Like others said, start ASAP.
Angel Barnes
What kind of things need to be automated by writing your own code? t. user who doesn't yet know much about programming
Wyatt Hall
You have 15 seconds to explain why absolutely every program you're running isn't in it's own docker container
Wyatt Russell
i use docker at work, it's suited for microservices but i hate seeing people cram shit into docker and end up with 1GB images. no point to doing it at that point. It's cool but it's use-case is not nearly as general as people claim it to be.
Jonathan Cooper
I started using linux to extend the lifetime of my old computer not to throw resources at pointless shit.
Jacob Campbell
No, I'm talking about running every single program in it's own container >Want to open firefox? >spin up your firefox container >Want to use GIMP? >spin up your GIMP container >want to ssh onto your server? >spin up your ssh container You get my drift
Jordan Morris
data collection and entry changing config files based on an event running tools over your local network so they're accessible to all devices
the slice of dynamic length goes on...
Jeremiah Anderson
Is there some setting I can toggle in KDE/other DE's that will make it so clicking the address bar in an Internet browser highlights the entire string, rather than just putting the cursor in the bar?
It's something that every Windows OS I've used has done, and I've yet to find any DE in Linux which has a visible toggle for it...unless I've somehow missed it every time.
Nolan Allen
how the FUCK do I mount a ntfs partition to be able to execute stuff on it? This is my line on fstab:
Yes, obviously I shouldn't have 000 masks but I have tried everything
Cameron Howard
ehh, I've seen an OS built around that premise but it doesn't seem very intuitive. Also docker has gaping security holes so it's not like you're gaining some layer of real separation from the host OS
Isaiah Cruz
I just installed kubuntu. I hope this works better than windows.
Is VMWare or Virtual Box better for an iOS VM, which I need for some my work?
Blake James
All you need is /dev/sda /fap ntfs defaults 0 0
You should also look in to useing UUID instead of direct device name
Andrew White
Ok, so I was able to join my company's domain from Linux using PowerBroker Identity Service.
Now that I know that I can do that. The only other thing I have to do is deploy some kind of management software that can essentially image and maintain the twenty or so machines that will be running Linux.
I'm looking into Puppet right now. Is there a better software to accomplish this?
Adam Russell
what in the actual fuck? now i feel really bad for wasting hours on this
thank
Easton Walker
The security issues are all minimized by having the program being run by a normal user in the docker container.
Also, the benefits isn't just for security. This allows each program to have their own version of a certain library without any conflicts at all.
There was a lot of times for me that a new program I wanted to run tries to install different versions of things like Apache
Owen Cox
depends on what sort of learning curve you want to work on and if you have a language of preference.
Salt is extremely simple, written in yaml. some functions are lacking and the salt mine is unreliable
Chef is very nice, but upstream Ruby and Gem stuff cause it to break a lot which isn't ideal for production CICD and config management
Ansible is very nice, but I haven't used it in depth enough to know any immediate shortcomings
Puppet is pretty old and tried and tested, but I've found it's workflow cumbersome.
Isaac Hill
I guess?
I manage my libraries via my system's package manager. I never run into any conflicts at all. If i need to use a specific version of a library i could make a virtual environment, package the dependencies locally, or yeah put it in a docker image. I'd ask what sort of fly-by-night SSH implementation you're using that has custom libraries?
I just use docker to develop locally though. that program I write isn't going to just run in docker off of local host, it's destined for a CoreOS or ECS cluster somewhere to run in a stateless fashion.
Hunter Martinez
How do I get my shell to highlight broken links? I just realized mine doesn't highlight.
Christopher Hall
like this?
Wyatt Adams
>Free software >pro Chavez and marxists >visiting a city made big my trading
I assume all of them have the ability to manage sudoers and the standard permissions. What I need is an easy way to develop a gold image and then deploy it.
They are all gonna be running Ubuntu 16.04 bare metal. I am currently testing all their potential functionalities on a machine running Ubuntu. When I'm finished, how do I take the image and then deploy it onto all the machines?
Nicholas Mitchell
I am making a file system. I just created the partitions with fdisk and n.
Before I format them with mkfs, what is exactly the use of fdisk and t?
What exactly are you setting with "t" and in which cases is necessary given that I am going to mkfs afterwards?
