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NEVER REPLY TO ME ON MY WIFE'S SON'S GIRLFRIEND'S CELLPHONE EVER AGAIN!!!
Ryan Sanchez
Install Source Mage GNU/Linux.
Jason Lewis
Literally a shit version of gentoo.
Brandon Watson
re-posting my cry for help from the old thread:
So I've got a bad journal on one ext4 encrypted disk. I want to dd the data to another disk to recover it. It's capable of unlocking, but not mounting. Should I run sudo dd if=/dev/mapper/luks-eac7b048-2581-4d92-a7c9-8803c2542bdc of=/dev/sdc conv=noerror,sync ? minus the question mark, or write the disk unencrypted?
I think the next step for recovering whines about it or something, idk
Parker Gomez
or write the disk encrypted* fuck me running.
I want my 170gb of pewdiepie videos back
Noah Lewis
Sound the trumpets and the gongs, it worked! Grub doesn't detect the windows 10 hdd I never used which I literally don't care about.
Let's see if it dies again soon, if it does, I'll replace the mobo and/or disk. Hopefully this doesn't happen again though.
Daniel Brown
smgl package manager is pure bash the base system is smaller and packages are compiled directly from the upstream fuck your python katamari
Isaiah Lewis
Had a working vga passthrough system. Until a few seconds ago, no problem whatsoever. Worked for about half a year perfectly. About 10 minutes ago I started the VM as usual. I then went to the host's screen and did a bunch of stuff. Then went back to the guest screen: no output. Tried disabling vga passthrough: still no output. Tried reinstalling qemu: no effect. What can I do at this point? A system restart didn't help.
Jordan Sanders
Sorry, I don't speak retardese.
Michael Turner
Install windows
Leo Collins
>I'm too dumb to comprehend what he wrote >I'll just call him a retard >works every tiem :D
Hunter Hall
Your chromosome test result came back. Above average.
Ryan Gray
ebin
Julian Price
It is installed. In the VM that is.
Isaiah Ramirez
using ddrescue instead because lol@crawling through bad sectors 512bytes/3 seconds
Justin Wright
could it be nvidia breaking compatibility with vms? try to run it on a different gpu
Grayson Richardson
Stick around. You'll pick it up.
Christopher Bennett
As I mentioned, I tried disabling vga passthrough and that didn't appear to help, suggesting that's not it. Beside, I haven't updated my GPU in the past hour.
Thomas Lewis
Should I choose arch, debian, fedora or gentoo?
Juan Harris
>python katamari
Jesus the burn
Christian Mitchell
smgl = [s]ource [m]age [g]nu/[l]inux
Luis Cox
You know what? I would actually love to install sourcemage, the only problem is that there's no installer nor livecd
Cooper Sanchez
Solus, Sourcemage, Manjaro, Antergos, debian9, fedora25 are my recommendations
Now that the dust has settled and it's clear lunix, homOSeX and wangblows are all trash, which OS should we move to? BSDs are not viable since they don't support even decade-old hardware, let alone modern one. Haiku is underdeveloped. Is a solaris still being worked on?
Hunter Bell
...
Elijah Wood
outdated, need emoji version
Brandon Wood
Is AMDGPU or AMDGPU-PRO better?
Logan Brooks
ReactOS, obviously.
Aaron Ramirez
:^)
Juan Bell
it's horrible.
>doesn't realize that those files are just the website resources for the Wikipedia pages on suicide >thinks Sup Forums is something bad and obscure and not the most popular english speaking imageboard >mentions creepypasta for no reason
Camden White
beignet
Wyatt Hernandez
>a calculator >it's a calendar
Carson Ortiz
In transmission it says the port is closed. Does that mean that if i don't allow it in my firewall, i will be able to enjoy all of the delicious downloading benefits with the only, not even downside, but a simple wasteful side effect of not uploading any data back? seems like a pretty sweet deal, why would anyone open that port?
Benjamin Wilson
A calendar calculates the time, which makes it a calculator.
Adam Flores
>fat neckbeard manchild with 0 subscribers wants to make it big by reviewing shit on the internet like thousands before him it's the same every time
Camden Howard
Is he an idiot? He complains about not being able to do root shit and write and shit when the distro is clearly meant as a joke and he tries to actually legit review it Plus he also uses words like creepypasta when he clearly doesn't know what they mean
Mason Morales
>the deep web
Anthony Moore
I don't know what that is
Oliver Ortiz
Daily reminder to keep your iptables nice and tidy. You don't want to open your ports to all random clients like a some cheap slut
Dylan Sanchez
Meh, redoxos is where it's at.
Brayden Jackson
When is that new firewall with a PF-style syntax going to be usable?
Ian Lee
>iptables deprecated
William Phillips
how can I tell if amdgpu is working? I installed the package but Idk if I did it right
Lincoln Sullivan
check /var/log/Xorg.0.log
Brandon Walker
Where should I be looking in that file
Easton Myers
dude.
David Peterson
weed lmao?
Samuel Morris
seriously tho I need help pls
Ryan Cook
What's the best cli password manager?
Angel Reed
I figured it out. Turns out the dp cable that connected the GPU and monitor just magically stopped working without any warning. I manually switch the source between system and GPU now. Memetic, but works.
Connor Wilson
What's the best resource for learning servers? I literally have no idea why Linux servers are so popular and what makes them special.
Xavier Barnes
Is it possible to get image preview without needing a file manager like ranger?
And this will work with any terminal? Because ranger with image preview only works for a few and out of those only 1 works without issues.
Michael Jackson
Ranger uses the same backend (w3m's w3mimgdisplay), so if ranger works, this function works too.
Owen Scott
>it even refreshes the image after I change workspaces neat how do I make my cursor not blink after I exit? also, is it possible to decrease the refresh time?
Dominic Phillips
>how do I make my cursor not blink after I exit? Remove both, tput cvvis and tput civis (used to hide and unhide the cursor) >also, is it possible to decrease the refresh time? Change the -t option of "read".
Colton Russell
That is a bash script, correct?
Jaxson White
>Remove both, tput cvvis and tput civis but I need the cursor hidden while the image is displayed apparently using cnorm instead of civis will give me a non blinking cursor
Jack Nguyen
>using cnorm instead of civis meant to say cvvis
Jordan Barnes
Sidenote: The refreshing is just a side effect. Maybe should keep the loop time like it is because I used it so you can "quit" the viewer by pressing any key, but have fun hacking around.
A bash function for your ~/.bashrc, yeah, but You could aswell just add #!/usr/bin/env bash to the top and remove i3m() { } for a script file.
Elijah Kelly
thanks user
Gavin Collins
Hey guys. I'm in desperate need of a distro to put on my new computer, and I'm really frustrated. I've extensively used ubuntu mate (liked but mate fucks up every once in a while), linux mint (don't like), manjaro (broke a bunch of times), arch (same), elementary os (meh) and briefly tried fedora and opensuse. It is a powerful pc so it doesn't need to be lightweight, but it needs to be stable as fuck and ergonomic, basically a workstation. I'll be doing a lot of programming and in-browser work, and as for gaming it's going to be little to none. So far I'm leaning towards fedora, opensuse and ubuntu because of how stable and easy to use they are (I don't need extra steps getting in the way, which is why I ditched arch). I LOVE the aur but I don't really need it in the end. As for DE kde, gnome, xfce are fine, my favorite is mate but it broke a bunch of times so not sure any more. What do you guys suggest?
Samuel Jones
>can only return from function or sourced script should I use exit instead?
Christian Walker
Oh, yes, you need exit instead of return.
Owen Richardson
Forgot the most important part! # GPLv3+
Colton Wright
awww
Jose Jenkins
stop distro hopping stick to a distro; any lern to use it (which also means, learn the cli) problem? don't switch; fix it after a while you will realize all distros are the same
Eli Barnes
>printf '0;1;0;0;%s;%s;;;;;%s\n4;\n3;' "${width}" "${height}" "${file}" | $w3mimgdisplay where do you find this stuff? I've looked at man w3m and /usr/share/doc/w3m and haven't found any documentation that explains the input that w3mimgdisplay takes
Luis Harris
Sometimes in Ubuntu when I click with middle mouse button it adds 1~ 0~ to the text. What the fuck is that and how to stop it?
Caleb Martinez
I want to stop distro hopping. I know how to use them and I know how to use the command line. The thing you don't understand is that although I've fixed a 1000 problems on every distro, the thing is that I don't want to waste my time fixing stuff that should not have broken, and just use something stable and useful. All distros are not the same, although they can be made almost the same. I just want something to install once and never have it break, freeze and need troubleshooting 2-3 times a fucking week.
Colton Thomas
>the thing is that I don't want to waste my time fixing stuff that should not have broken, and just use something stable and useful. Then you are using the wrong OS. Windows is for things like that. GNU/Linux is intended for hobbists only who have no issue with investing lots of time into fixing it
Liam Harris
for example, I had both manjaro and ubuntu mate installed. I used manjaro exclusively for a very long time, then one day logged in ubuntu, ran an update, and manjaro stopped booting because it has it's own fucking version of grub. Why would I want to deal with this shit if there's some flavor (maybe ubuntu or fedora or opensuse) that doesn't do this retarded shit?
You are wrong. Maybe it used to be that way when you needed to write your own drivers and shit but now that is not the case. A lot of working people use Linux now. It's not a special club any more. Don't feel like a snowflake because you installed something and then followed instructions on the internet when you broke it.
Whenever I try to play a Flash video I get this error message. How do I install "libpepflashplayer.so"? OS is stable Debian.
Jayden Sullivan
>stopped booting because it has it's own fucking version of grub. Because your'e a retard who has two same operating systems installed on one computer.
Jacob Wright
>look up why Slackware isn't featured on FSF's site >there's an unofficial site dedicated to "freeing" Slack >it has the Gnu smoking a pipe instead of Tux Is it wrong that the Gnu smoking the pipe pisses me off? I know they want to "liberate" Slackware but for God's sake leave the mascot alone.
Leo Phillips
The point is really not why I have 2 linux based distros installed. Also, that was just a simple example. This is a friendly thread and you're an asshole. Bring something constructive or gtfo.
Asher Long
I installed debian on a off line machine, in the live enviroment bcmwl-kernel-source worked to get wifi, once in stalled though, when i try I get missing dependencies, I cant figure out how to install the wifi driver because of this
Robert Sanchez
Yes, that's the point. No sane person (non-pretentious, person who actually uses it) has two distributions installed. The same would happen with Windows after an update when it overwrites your bootloader. I don't see you complaining about Windows, you hypocrite idiot.
Cooper Davis
What are some cool terminal commands?
Nolan Ward
I am not in a Windows thread. I don;t even have windows any more. The reason I had both was very simple; I had used Ubuntu Mate for a long time. I had tried Arch, Manjaro, opensuse and Fedora in either VMs or my shitty spare laptop. Manjaro seemed like it worked perfectly for my needs, but I can't know if I only use it once a week for browsing the web on a laptop, can I? So I installed it side to side with Ubuntu (which had all the software I needed installed, like Altera Quartus which is a bitch to get working properly) so that I could use it, but still have my working Ubuntu to fall back on since I actually had work to do. Manjaro ended up working pretty good in the beginning so I kept it, and in the period when I was considering formatting the Ubuntu partition, I saw 2-3 things break (but still took time to fix them since I really liked manjaro and was still about to keep it). Then I booted Ubuntu for some reason that I don't remember, I think I needed to run something I only had in there? and manjaro grub broke. I fixed it, and then a bunch of random things started breaking also. That is why I'm ditching manjaro. I don't know why I'm explaining needing to have a fallback ready to go environment to a person on Sup Forums, all I asked for is a recommendation.
Nathaniel Nguyen
Is there a way to set a minimum time to register a double click? The mouse is stupid and registers a single click sometimes as a double click sometimes, and I figure a minimum time as a treshold would work against it.
Connor Fisher
Dont have shit hardware
Adrian Rivera
neofetch (bash script) can display a logo pic as well using w3m-img as a backend. Also has functions for finding the w3m_image_path, size of terminal, x y and size ..more. I guess you could glean whatever bits you wanted from that. >Or just neofetch -L --w3m yourpic.jpg #kek
