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Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
wiki.archlinux.org
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Sup Forums's Wiki on GNU/Linux:
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Category:GNU/Linux

>What distro should I choose?
wiki.installgentoo.com/index.php/Babbies_First_Linux

>What are some cool programs?
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/list_of_applications
directory.fsf.org/wiki/Main_Page

>What are some cool terminal commands?
commandlinefu.com/
bropages.org/

>Where can I learn the command line?
mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
grymoire.com/Unix/

>Where can I learn more about Free Software?
gnu.org/philosophy/philosophy.html

>How to break out of the botnet?
prism-break.org/en/categories/gnu-linux

/t/'s GNU/Linux Games: /t/'s GNU/Linux Videos: /fglt/'s website and copypasta collection:
fglt.nl && p.teknik.io/wJ9Zy

Other urls found in this thread:

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys
gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html
pastebin.com/qpKygK8C
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

First for Gentoo.
Asked in the last thread but didn't get an answer.

Second for OP is a faggot.

Install NixOS

Install GuixSD

Why is the GNU/Linux mascot still an updated, old, fat penguin?

Are there not OS-tan mascots like there are for different Windows and Mac releases?

Just for discussion, what are some good server ideas with Rasberry Pi's?

I actually want to try this but I can never get it running in a VM.

> No Sup Forums
>Posts Sup Forums

At this point, it's just shitposting.

Nobody gives a shit

This. /fglt/ is the slowest general on Sup Forums because no one really uses Linux unironically, it's a toy OS.

/thread?

tor bridge, exit

Sup Forums BTFO

kernel*

It's one of the only threads that actually discuss technology. The others are manchildren benchmarking their micro penises and dumb phone posters.

>some irrelevant student project OS
>"technology"

Stallman was actually a researcher.
And the definition of technology doesn't conflict in any way with the fact that linus was a student, meme boi.

Hello,
I installed awesomeWM on muh x220 running ubunt (Linux(((GNU)))).
It is kinda comfy and nice, but I have some problems:
>fn keys do not work
>volume keys do not work
how 2 fix? Everything is fine when I choose unity again. Does i3 have the same problems?

I don't know xbindkeys is still the recomended solution for those without a DE but it's what I use.
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xbindkeys

wait, that pic really triggered people enough to get deleted one way or another?

Check the docs you probably have to set the key functions by hand.

You sure you're just not binding them incorrectly? Or expecting them to just work without actually binding them? In WM's typically those special functions (like volume controls or brighntess) won't work without you actually specifying you want them to.

I don't think Fn keys even behave like a normal modifier (like shift, alt, or ctrl) so there is no "Fn+" options.
Those special functions like volume/brightness controls all have their own bindcodes. For example for my volume controls on my laptop I press Fn+F* to use them, but there is no "Fn+F5" or whatever. They are just treated as single entities, not combinations. E.g. for mute on my laptop the bindcode comes out to just 121. For lower volume it's 122, and for higher it's 123.

Your CPU doesn't even support 3Dnow, why would you want it?

Also, larger binaries don't impact performance like you think they do.

If you like using your keyboard a lot and get annoyed by having to use the mouse to click on links (or mash tab over and over again), check out the extension Vimperator. Breddy gud. Bit annoying that 4chanX keybinds don't work anymore though.

What about "VimFX"?

I haven't tried VimFX yet.

First I suggest you kill yourself to stop using that cringe worthy children's parentheses meme. Then you might get help after you reincarnate as a less retarded person.

>you need pulse audio goyim.

Is there any non Jewish web browsers that will let me keep alsa. I could not be assed the deal with puelsaudio.

qutebrowser?

>posted from my windows machine

I ran "chmod -R 777 /" by accident and it's fucked SSH access resulting in "Network error: Software caused connection abort". Can I fix this or have I got to reinstall again?

Listen hear fuckboi, I have u know that I just want another browsers. appreciate the help.

Did you do it on the machine you are sshing to or from?

>Or expecting them to just work without actually binding them?
I expected this.
They all said linux just werks ;_;

You chose to install a limited environment you mong. Sting with gnome or whatever.

SSH'ing too as root. It isn't the client machine as it works fine on my other box.

Your private RSA key must only be readable by user, otherwise it won't work.

probably .ssh folder is fugged. those can be finicky about permissions last time i had trouble with it.

REEEEE why is my mom's internet so slow
I get like 20 kbps download from my server

chmod -R 600 /etc/ssh/ ~/.ssh/

And stop running moronic recursive commands on your whole server.

T-thanks, user. Please no bully, I hit the return key before I inputted the directory.

>mfw learning about sticky bits and extended permissions

Reinstall unless you want to go through every file again and adjust the appropriate permissions.

>sticky bits and extended permissions
l-lewd

I'd like to extend my permissions into HER sticky bits, if you catch my drift.

So, if i boot from a live cd and then use something like sudo Ctrl c + v to copy the root onto another hdd, can i later boot from live cd again, delete the root and ctrl c + v the root back from that back up add to restore previous version of it? would that work?
Basically emulating the snapshot functionality

Yeah, kinda. There are some other things you need to do like update grub (the bootloader) to inform it of the new install on the HDD, likewise regenerate your initramfs, also probably update the fstab to point to the new rooftfs.

>pretty new to gnu/linux and bumbling my way through fedora
>need to use adobe flash for an old ass video
>mfw the fucking process for getting it to work in firefox
Why the hell is this so fucked

is debian 9 + budgie a good combo?

>start inputting commands into terminal
>they aren't working
>what the fuck
>check for typos several times but they are none
>WHAT THE FUCK
>5 minutes later realize i oppened a GIT bash windows instead of a terminal windows
i need more sleep ;_;

Why do you need to do the fstab and that other stuff if you are replacing the root file structure and playing the new one on the same hdd and partition?

Because it is shit and old and not supported anymore?

Because you are copying them from something that is booting from a different disk.

But that is not true.

OS is live on HDD1
Copy root from HDD1 ---> HDD2
some time later something breaks or whatever
Delete root from HDD1
copy root from HDD2 ---> HDD1
OS is still on HDD1

When I swapped some time ago from being a disgusting mentally ill windowsfag to Linux (arch), I was struggling to set shit up reading the wiki, and I done goofed and somehow configured systemd to connect to some loopback instead of my wifi connection on boot.
Then I saw it was wrong and set the wifi fine, But each time my computer boots it looses some 2 minutes looking for that shit lo.device that doesn't exist.

I don't remember what part of the wiki made me do this shit, so how do I turn this crap off now?

>figure out which way you're connecting (which utility you're using)
>look into the utility and remove that connection

How do you expect other people to know what you did?

Install ubuntu faggit. The only good thing about the arch is the wiki.

>the fucking process for getting it to work in firefox

Do explain what is so hard in downloading the tar.gz from adobe.com/go/getflashplayer and extracting the libsomething.so from it to ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiledir/plugins ?

I know which utility I'm using to the connection that is actually working.
I can't remember, because I was doing a bunch of shit, which one I used to enable that fucking lo.device during boot.
So maybe a better question would be, what can I do to find out what is doing that?It's deffo some systemd bullshit, but I don't know which one.

systemd-networkd

Garbage In, Garbage out.

lo should exist in a normal system

Do I need to have qt5-base installed in order to use qt5 applications, or is it only required if I want to build them?

I wanted to format an unmounted partition and it says error, the device is in use by the system. What the actual fuck? It's unmounted it can't be used by anything.

Thanks man

Care to expand, or at least point me in a direction to understand it? I've no idea what that is.

install Source Mage

You need it installed to run them (unless they link Qt statically, or ship with Qt, which usually both isn't the case)

Thanks, makes sense.

FUCKING TERMINAL TYPOS STOP RUINING MY LIFE

>RMS
>Student
Lol, wut?

Just make sum aliases lulz

kill yourself

I think he was talking about Linux.

Whoosh

Linux Torvalds

Who thought that greyscale was a good idea? Phew

How do i create encrypted container which i can mount and access like i can for example a partition, but it is actually a file which i can transfer and shit? basically same way true crypt worked

luks is capable of doing just that, plenty of guides on the web

...

Linus Mint

Arch Richarx

What are some must-have flags for compiling ffmpeg so most shit will work?

is there some trick to using wine? shit barely works for games. Only use it for foobar

Yes, sometimes you need to install extra dlls and shit. Some games work better with certain older wine versions.

playfromlinux and winetricks take care of these problems.

>leader of the free world
yeah, lemme deblob his kernel first

playonlinux is a framework that allows you to easily maintain a collection of different wine versions in separate containers. And it has community made presets for a lot of games, so you just install it and should work ootb

s/playfromlinux/playonlinux/

I tried that but it was never clear the install process for steam stuff. Do you install steam through playonlinux and then install the games through steam with wine? How does a template know what game you are installing from steam?

>foobar
You are aware that there a native music players for GNU/Linux?

that don't have any useful plugins that foobar has

There's a native version of steam for Linux, you don't have to install it through wine

maybe he wants to play games that don't have a native gahnoo+loonix port?

>install linux
>bring half of the windows shitware with you
What's the point. Just use windows

And here I thought I needed a full GNU/Linux operating system as defined by POSIX to run Steam. Now you're telling me there's a version that runs on the kernel, Linux?

you can play windows steam games from the linux client?

only have a chromebook

>However, if you're going to use these games, you're better off using them on GNU/Linux rather than on Microsoft Windows. At least you avoid the harm to your freedom that Windows would do.

gnu.org/philosophy/nonfree-games.html

After 3 days my computer just randomly restarted.
Checked temps in BIOS nothing was higher than 40C
Checked journalctl at reboot time, only some glib GObject critical assertion errors (googled, related to nautilus) pastebin.com/qpKygK8C
Anyone knows why my pc rebooted..?
Is there anything else I could check?

just play the video in mpv

maybe some systemd feature