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What handy tool (or a GUI front-end) do you think you guys miss in GNU/Linux? I am looking for a small project.
Jonathan Harris
>no previous thread
Jose Ramirez
Thank you.
Regarding Does anyone else have anything nice to say about OpenSUSE? I think it's really underrated and rarely discussed on Sup Forums despite being a great distribution. I think it should be in the recommended section on fglt.nl
Previous thread: There.
Connor Hall
This thread sucks, the other one got dubs. KEK has spoken.
Nicholas Adams
I think this already exists but why not try making a dd frontend? Something simple to use for beginners so we can put it in the OP for helping others who want to burn an iso.
Seems too complicated tbqh It should be like unetbootin, just select iso, select drive, click a button, and wait. It needs to be as foolproof as possible.
Jace Martin
The fact that you didn't like the posts in the other thread doesn't entitle you to make a duplicate. Even though you feel pretty righteous, your safe place gets reported anyway.
Brody Butler
Didn't find it on distro watch
Xavier Cox
thats not very friendly, user when people shitpost you should ignore them in the future rather than being such a spaz
Oliver Perry
So you want something like GParted+Unetbootin? I think I could do that.
Austin Green
>/nopol/ Linux faggits comfired for manlet pussies
Samuel Moore
Basically, yeah.
Easton Gomez
GNU/Linux faggits*
Hunter Martinez
Friendly reminder GNU/Linux is based on communist and Marxist ideals if you don't like it, GTFO.
Aaron Ward
I wonder why shills are attacking now the general linux threads, just sage it
Justin Richardson
marxism != communism
Austin Morales
GNU/Linux threads*
Elijah Murphy
Can't believe I've been sleeping on GNOME for so long, it's actually a great DE once you enable a couple extensions.
Ryder Nelson
These days the only extension I use is caffaine
Nicholas Nguyen
OP is literally asking for a Sup Forums invasion, what did you expect?
James Cox
I have dash to dock, user themes, hide activities button and disable topleft hot corner(I just use the super key) Then just install Flat-Plat shell theme and it all looks great.
What does caffaine do?
Daniel Perez
disables screensaver and sleep
Christian Harris
I'm the mint user who installed Debian for the first time from the last thread and this is pretty good. It works well so far, even on this old XP era laptop. I'm probably gonna test drive it for another week or so and if all goes well I might switch over. But holy fuck that install time was brutal.
Christian Hernandez
You're right. That should say "the most conveniently available posix compatible dd command".
Ayden Stewart
Guy who was enraged by the Arch fourms here. Just posting here as the last thead was shit up by people who wanted to talk about politics outside of Sup Forums in a fucking linux thread cus they couldn't take a meme flag.
My response.
Jonathan Russell
Does your grub menu have an item for windows?
Joshua Watson
It does not. Only "Arch Linux" and "Advanced options for Arch Linux".
Xavier Barnes
read but reply here. I was about to migrate anyway.
>cus they couldn't take a meme flag. then don't make your image overly political
I'm going to make the next op an ancap flag next time just to piss you off
Joseph Evans
Free software is a political subject, you arseweed. If you can't take it, then leave it.
Julian Gonzalez
>She was wearing such revealing clothing, she was begging for it! Shitposters are responsible for their own actions.
Liam Rivera
>Free software is a political subject okay then it's not communist it's more about free association than anything
linus and stallman aren't communists they're free market anarchists if anything stallman loves his contracts and wants them to be binding linus explicitly stated he supports the market economy
Benjamin Clark
Everyone was okay with the flag. You're literally the only one who sperged out over it.
Nathaniel Ross
Cool.
Isaiah Harris
>Everyone was okay with the flag. before I even entered the thread there were countless posts calling OP a faggot for posting the flag
just saying
Asher Bell
>berntards are commies no they're just mentally handicapped
Dylan Cox
Stallman is a commie, Linus isn't. That's why Linux kernel is still GPLv2.
Kayden Brooks
That's an outright lie. Why lie when anyone can literally just open the thread and see for themselves?
Hudson Lewis
Aaaaand the libertarian faglord derails another thread...
Here's a new one, guys:
Jackson Thompson
>Stallman is a commie he's not a commie he's pretty left on some things though
Go ahead so you can see for yourself.
Isaac Cruz
this is the most libertarian board on Sup Forums
nobody cares about your shit thread
Lucas Butler
Can anyone help?
Henry Johnson
You seem to be the only lolbertardian here, my man.
Anthony Carter
you seem to be the only socialist teenager here in a sea of freetards, my man
Hunter Smith
why do people still use loonix?
Ethan James
When did I say I'm a socialist? I'm not a socialist.
Isaiah Lee
So what's happening now that Debian 9 is out, when are we getting the next unstable / Debian 10?
Charles Peterson
Dumb animuposter.
Nolan Perez
Almost no one does, user.
Luke Allen
the people debating with me in the other thread were legit socialists that got btfo if you're not a socialist, whatever I don't care
Brody Flores
Cool story bro, just stop derailing our thread already okay?
Alexander Rivera
So when I run sudo grub-probe --target=fs_uuid /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi I get "sudo grub-probe --target=fs_uuid /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi"
Looking in the directory I don't see the file "bootmgfw.efi".
Do you think moving "bootmgfw.efi" from /run/media/name/###/Windows/Boot/EFI to /boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/ would fix it?
Kevin Anderson
Unstable should be unaffected by releases, it's always getting new stuff afaik, even when testing is frozen.
*Gahnoo/Loonix
Nicholas Hall
I made this thread, but okay.
Nathaniel Moore
*I get "grub-probe: error: failed to get canonical path of `/boot/efi/EFI/Microsoft/Boot/bootmgfw.efi.'." not the code I put in.
Bentley Ortiz
>I switched from MATE to Arch You cannot switch from a desktop environment to a Linux distribution.
>Any advice besides linking the GRUB wiki page? Yes, install it manually or learn how to use the idiot-proof tools for partitioning. Alternatively continue being an idiot who uses buggy abstraction layers and then complains that it's not working.
Chase Carter
Clean your laptop's heatsinks and reapply thermal paste on the CPU.
Angel James
GNU/Linux*
Nolan Diaz
There was nothing in the post you replied to implying that the poster was referring to an operating system with a userspace and not just the kernel.
Ethan Russell
I vote for the next thread OP to be Poettering themed. The only discussion this Stallman guy generates these days are stale memes and one sided, recycled ethic rants.
Compare the GNU userspace to systemd. At the time linux was first getting usage GNU was mostly a re-implementation of existing, common unix tools (barring printer drivers which, while useful, are not what gained it such a foothold). It was targeted explicitly for UNIX compatibility. Systemd on the other hand is disregarding large swaths of historic standards, best practises and, some would say, common sense. All in the pursuit of making common deployment and maintanance problems in the modern age a thing of the past.
An admirable goal, pity he is such a cunt.
Blake Sanders
I get why people don't like systemd, and a lot of the criticisms are valid, but it is true that systemd is fast, innovative, easy to use and pushing the boundaries further. Above all, it's free software. I don't have any personal issues with it.
Robert Edwards
Notice how the previous thread was a Sup Forums meme and nobody gave a fuck? We posted in it, nobody created a new thread to start shit.
Now someone posts a joke modification of that image and you Sup Forumsfags are losing your heads crying about "leftists" and starting dramashit nobody cares about.
Gee, could it be that all the smiling/laughing/smug pepe/trump reaction images you guys always use are nothing more than a cover for immense amounts of actual butthurt? Who knew?
That's why people hate your board, not because of your actual political alignment. You're not fooling anyone. Learn to take it easy faggots.
Chase Gray
Why don't you head back to to talk about politics?
Noah Kelly
I think you're confused.
Ethan Powell
Well I like being able to modify shell scripts to modify the intimate details of my operating system. So I still use sysvinit. And I like it. My system has few enough moving parts that if an issue arises I know where to look to fix it. Upgrading the heart of my system en-masse threatens to take that away from me and turn me into some kind of normie user consuming the options that the benevolant devolpers deign to offer me instead of a super user make my system work how I want it. ;_;
Xavier Davis
So you have a physical location for a bootmgfw.efi? Good.
I'm just guessing at this point. No. I don't think moving that file is a good idea. According to the GRUB wiki entry, /run/media/name/###/Windows/Boot/EFI could be the proper location for W7's bootmgfw.efi. I wouldn't know though. >These two commands assume the ESP Windows uses is mounted at $esp. There might be case differences in the path to Windows's EFI file, what with being Windows, and all.
If that works out, you can try to retrack the steps to install GRUB in arch very carefully to see if the script messed up. If you can't manage to make auto-config work, try to find a way to make it honor your manual config for W7.
>Systemd on the other hand is disregarding large swaths of historic standards So is at least 50% of the software you're using right now, idiot.
William James
I never dabbled so much with the init system that I need to have something like sysvinit. Systemd does the job for me. And I guess if you wanna get a sysadmin job you would probably have to know systemd because it's most probably used on the servers you would maintain.
Tyler Moore
Some threads ago a guy theorized that systemd's endgame is to become systemd/Linux. I can see that happen. It will create pressure on GNU to improve as well, but it could also mean that GNU gets left behind.
Austin Morris
Oh my god, not this knee jerk shit again. I'm going to repeat myself one more time and if you are going to continue to completely ignore the context of the quotes you cherry pick then I will leave you to argue with yourself.
Note the first two sentences of the post. I think it could be fun to have a thread that focused on the probable impending changes to the dominant GNU/Linux operating systems at the hands of the systemd project.
Note the first sentence of that paragraph >Compare the GNU userspace to systemd. Not compare "anything" to systemd. It is called a segue, you see, because systemd is an intersting contrast to the system that GNU helped to move to such success.
And yes, obviously there is lots and lots and lots of software in use today that doesn't follow historically inspired unix practices. But are there any that are supplanting software that has followed the SUS and POSIX standards for four decades? And has also been at the core of the very operating systems these threads are created to discuss? If so, feel free to bring them up because they sure aren't discussed here as much as they deserve to be.
Kevin Myers
>Some threads ago a guy theorized that systemd's endgame is to become systemd/Linux. This is stupid, even for Sup Forums.
It's obvious that this board doesn't have the slightest clue where systemd fits in to the stack.
