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Also what's this "archive mount" thingy in linux mint that can mount isos, mdfs and shit? (package name plz)
Eli Moore
Just installed Linux for the first time and I have some questions. Why the mouse speed is so high and it feels weird sometimes. How do I increase the scroll speed in firefox.
Jayden Barnes
Dont use mint,simple solution
Cooper Lee
>why are all these personal preference settings,set at things im uncomfortable at using Go in and change them. >how archwiki
that's not linux though? it's xorg settings isn't it? mount -o loop thing.iso /mnt/mountpoint
Jack Green
because AUR is open to users, not only to official archlinux maintainers. I have myself added my own software to AUR. Really cool. ubuntu ppa are also cool.
Lincoln Young
>using firefox now that pulseaudio is required kek. install chromium + the smooth scroll extension, you filthy casual.
Jose Brown
>apulse >--disable-pulseaudio
Samuel Hernandez
>be windows user >try to install manjaro >fails to install twice and just wont boot on other occasions >try to install antergos >boot into DE >windows won't scale, don't have any text >try to install sabayon >live disk just freezes nice os guys
still that the firefox dev team decided to no more maintain the alsa backend. i have instantly left firefox when i heard this. in chromium, you can import everything from firefox (even the browsing history) with only 2 mouse clicks (bookmarks->import bookmarks and settings). fuck firefox, fuck mozilla. their browser has been garbage and technology obsolete since a few years now. i should have left when they fired Brendan eich for though crime. Mozilla deserves to die on both a technology point and on an ideology point. please, don't use firefox nor any mozilla products anymore.
Liam Bennett
but you already know the answer
Nathaniel Evans
>all amateur downstream distros Mmh, I wonder what could be the reason behind this bizarre behavoir.
Carson Richardson
But it sends what programs I'm using someone else with a cron job.
Levi Rivera
EGGCELLENT RADICAL BLAG POST BRO TELL ME MOAR
Logan Phillips
Fancy a change, which distro please my knowledgeable friends?
I'm currently using kevinnet
Luke Gray
yes
Sebastian Davis
How is that relevant?
Brandon Ortiz
fuck, the eternal anglo was responsible? someone has to stop them.
Samuel Kelly
Beause I just checked my Ubuntu VM and it comes preinstalled (didn't check Debian). >locate popularity-contest
Owen Butler
How any of this fucking relevant? It's not a botnet. Learn the definition of a botnet.
>(didn't check Debian). It's opt-in during the installation of debian, so even if you click "next" like a sperg you end up without it.
Parker Thompson
how that is radical?
Jeremiah Lewis
>Learn the definition of a botnet. reddit pls go
Eli Cooper
So I chose Ubuntu as babbys first Linux to dualboot with Windows 10 on my HP craptop. The thing is I have to walk the BIOS to the right EFI every time i wanna boot Ubuntu. I would like to run grubx64.efi by default. The BIOS offers a customized boot path option which I have set to highest priority, that should work, right? Now what path do I actually type in? Or how do I find the correct path in the first place?
Nathaniel Scott
>So I chose Ubuntu with Windows 10 welcome to the botnet
Alexander Moore
>How any of this fucking relevant? I dont know user, maybe some people don't want to let the whole world know what programs they run and how often.
Brayden Clark
It could materialize, come to your home and fuck your mother on the kitchen floor and it still wouldn't be a botnet, learn what a botnet is.
How stable is Unity on Arch? and is Arch by default only going to download stable updates or do you have to set this up? Also, let's say someone develops a program that uses dependencies from the AUR, if one dependency is compromised isn't the program that uses it compromised as well? wouldn't it be better to just use something like Ubuntu or Fedora where default repos are controlled by the developers?
Carson Phillips
hasn't unity been dropped?
Jeremiah Williams
Arch itself is stable like a girl on period.
Dominic King
Possibly the best interview with Stallman I've seen
Probably going to get insulted for this, but does desktop GNU/Linux have any audio enhancement software? When I am using Windows I tend to use this Dolby thing that makes dialogue crisper and normalizes volume, and on Android I use Viper for similar purposes. Watching videos/listening to music on GNU/Linux has seemed lackluster in comparison.
Jason Rodriguez
ree don't touch audio audio engineers work hard to make things sound the best on default settings you are not supposed to change them with equalizers and stuff
Evan Stewart
I'm really tired of Windows, I've using linux on my workstation(laptop) since about a year but now want to change my desktop to linux too. My only concern is the drivers for my RX 470 and i7 7700. I don't play video games too much but I'll probably install Portal 2 and Payday 2 via Steam and want to have a decent 1080p60 perform.
So is there proper drivers for my GPU/CPU on linux(any distro)?
Julian Kelly
Whew, now I understand why these terms of use and privacy policy documents are always so long. >over 16000 characters for an informal personal file server I want to share with family members and friends
Hunter Lopez
Just install a distro on a flash drive and run it from there, if you use something like Ubuntu there will be a program that automatically fetches proprietary drivers and you will see which driver is available.
Brandon Robinson
Yeah, I know it's heresy, but I like the way it sounds better for whatever reason. Turning on a flat EQ and a little bit of whatever the hell "dialogue enhancer" is, as well as the normalizer really makes a difference when trying to hear quiet parts of shows like Elementary over the sound of my AC unit blasting in a shoebox apartment. Using speakers, obviously.
For Viper I like to use it's binaural audio thing because it really does help my Ety-MK5s not be as bothersome.
Zachary Ramirez
steamos has dropped amd official drivers in favor of the open source mesa drivers.
Aiden Anderson
Hello there! You seem to have used the term "open source". The term "open source" was created by a group of people that did not want to be associated with the free software movement. When I say "free" software (which is one of the alternatives preferable to "open source"). It's not about price; in that case I would say "gratis", or "free as in free beer". It's about "freedom"! This is what the free software movement is fighting for. So what is "free" software? Free software is any software that guarantees the user the four essential software freedoms: > 0. Run the program as you wish. > 1. Study the source code and change it so it does what you wish. > 2. Redistribute exact copies of the program. > 3. Distribute your modified version of the program. Some people decided that they wanted to restrict the user; but being able to study and modify the "open source" code is not enough! This is directly hurting the cause of the free software movement because it takes away the sociological "freedom" aspect of free software and turns it into a technological one. So for those reasons I ask that in the future you use the terms "free", "free/libre" or, if necessary "FLOSS" (short for "free/libre and open source"), though the latter should still be avoided.
Jackson Garcia
I'm trying to use awk in a bash script, but the location of what I'm getting with awk changes in different OSs.
I put a variable so the user changes from there, but I have no idea how to pass that to awk correctly.
So far I have something like this:
location='8' ... | awl '{print $7}' | ... I want to replace that $7 with the variable, how do I do that?
Jayden Thompson
Wew I didn't check what I wrote, that's awk not awl.
Cooper Roberts
Use double quotes " instead of single quotes.
Jason Nelson
Oh so doing something like this worked, thanks.
location=8 ... | awk "{print $$location} | ...
Austin Myers
godamn forgot the " at the end lmao.
Oliver Perez
> Install Arch because rolling-release > use LTS Kernel because don't want to deal with hardware bullshit > plug in USB keyboard after system is all set up > it doesn't work > plug in USB mouse > it doesn't work > laptop keyboard does though
Why? The internet won't help me.
Matthew Morris
alsaequal GNU/Linux >steamos who cares >but the location of what I'm getting with awk changes in different OSs. what exactly are trying to retrieve? you can pass a env variable to awk via -v: awk -v var=foo
Xavier Rivera
>Install Arch >it doesn't work That's normal.
Aaron Lopez
Nice. He's so cuddly :3
Alexander Hernandez
This just looks horrible tbqh.
Aiden Price
The problem is pic related. This is why I ask about RX 400 series drivers.
Noah Nguyen
Fuck off, man. I did everything right and this is the only thing that's not working.
Jordan Diaz
Babbies first GIMP, getting comfy with the path tool, but the hair part gives me autism. Any hint's how to make the hair part look better?
Easton Myers
Feather selection.
Parker Richardson
>mesa 10.2 kek. mesa 10.2 is from 2014. we are not at mesa 17.1
Charles Smith
hey boys n Sup Forumsirls,
so ive been switching to mint and i installed wireshark but can seem to have access to scanner on my ports because of privileges(im the only user), ive tried to run it as root(wont work), says i got to change the privilege. any idea on how to do that shit
Isaiah Mitchell
>mint user >cant use basic program features >cant permissions kek
Joshua Barnes
You shouldn't run wireshark as root anyway. Create a group for wireshark with cucked privileges. Check the archwiki.
Caleb Parker
Friendly thread.
Angel Johnson
>mint user >going in to a linux thread Dont use downstream distros
Carson Reed
GNU/Linux*
>Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.
Stop being an asshat.
Oliver Jenkins
Does anyone have ASCII art of rms, or knows a free as in freedom tool to convert pictures into ASCII? Need it for the greeting message on my server.
Noah Kelly
Is it possible to get mesa 17.2 on 4.9?
Landon Lopez
do i have to chmod that shit or what, because it says to go vim some /bin files or wtv
Xavier Baker
Must also be 80 characters or less wide, please.
Xavier Fisher
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Blake Taylor
I have some gnus if you want. Some good programs are jp2a and img2ascii but there are also billions on github.
Joshua Thomas
thanks i did it myself,
i used :
sudo dpkg-reconfigure wireshark-commun
and told it to let non-root user to capture packets :)
Jack Russell
I dont know,you have provided zero details for us to attempt to help you with.
There are system wide equalizer that you can set to emphasize the mids. I didn't even know system wide volume normalizing was a thing, what does it do? Like if you are playing music and a sound notification goes off does it make it the same volume as the tunes so you can't hear it? What if there is a quiet but in a movie, does it make it louder?
Grayson Wood
Look at your logs. First would be dmesg while plugging the in, see is they are recognized as input devices. Second look at X logs to see if they are auto detected.
I'ill answer myself because could be useful for someone. It's possible, at least in Ubuntu/Debian, to get mesa 17.1 working on kernel 4.9.
Jonathan Evans
>What if there is a quiet but in a movie, does it make it louder? Yeah, it seems to do this on Windows and Android.
Brayden Allen
>Babbies
Jaxon Campbell
Memes best kept away from: Guix Nix Void Gentoo Source Mage GoboLinux DragonflyBSD
Nicholas White
I owe you an apology. pacman -syu updated the kernel and took away my modules without telling me. I had to reboot.
Julian Ortiz
Trying to install a linux distro as a dual boot with windows, Tried installing Manjaro but there were issues with my GTX 970 GPU. Any other distros I should give a shot? ( Can't install arch cause im a retard and I'm most likely going to run into the same problems as Manjaro ) I was most likely going to give Linux Mint KDE A shot.
Colton Williams
how are any of those besides gentoo memes?
Dominic Taylor
install gentoo
Hunter Russell
among other things slackware ftw
Lincoln Ross
guix is a package manager, newfag
Connor Foster
install gentoo
Mason Taylor
Memes as in cool distros worth trying.
Xavier Brooks
I'm trying to catch the command I actually run in bash. I found that $BASH_COMMAND will print the current command, but when I run an alias, $BASH_COMMAND contains the *real* command, not the alias. How to catch the alias?
