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Chase Lopez
Good news, source mage just got added to screenfetch, update and check it out. With it in both screenfetch and neofetch, you can now use source mage in screenfetch/neofetch threads or any other GNU/Linux threads. FSF should be asked to to add source mage to their list of approved distros.
Who arrived at the ultimate phase where everything just works for you, you settled for a distribution, the novelty is gone and you don't even notice you're using a Linux distribution any more?
Feels... average and unremarkable.
Samuel Ramirez
Install Debian.
Chase Gray
Hi! I'm the user who had issues with the bridges in the last thread. I've resolved it thanks to 2 anons (I believed) but as I'm a total uknknow in the topic, now some services are failing.
What are the matters I have to take in consideration after succesfully building the bridge? Now fail2ban thinks my SSH request are attacks, for example. What did I miss?
Thanks in advance guys.
Dylan Brown
Try Slackware. That's the final frontier.
Dominic Morgan
Managing your own slackbuilds is fun!
Grayson Davis
There is no frontier, idiot. Normal people (those that aren't idiots) realize what a distribution is early on and stick with it because it satisfies their needs. Only idiots like you perpetuate some myth of steps, levels and frontiers to inflate their intelligence which is obviously lacking.
Adam Bailey
FRIENDLY gnu linux thread
Samuel Roberts
ArchLinux
Jaxon Williams
Normal people are the wierdest sickos.
Gavin Cox
What are some efficient gui applications?
Adrian Adams
pavucontrol - all-in-one volume, input and output manager for memeaudio. It should be a default in every distro with pulse preinstalled/part of the desktop metapackage.
Dylan Torres
terminal emulator to access efficient CLI
Daniel Wright
Synaptic instead of Ubuntu's cucked "Software Center".
Chase Jenkins
Why do you think I am not "satisfied" with my current distribution and way to use my computer?
Jacob Rivera
It has flaws and no one is actively fixing it. I reported some usability concerns and they won't get fixed any time soon.
Dominic Taylor
will it ever get an qualizer?
Luke Morgan
e+
Brandon Howard
>Feels... average and unremarkable. This bit. You gotta try new things man. Why settle for average when there might be something perfect just over the horizon.
Ethan Perez
I don't want my operating system to be exciting and new. I want it to be familiar and reliable. I actually use it, unlike some idiots that install different distributions to play with different desktop environments and themes, thinking that those things make up a distribution.
Nolan Hernandez
>I actually use it I don't think you belong on this thread, man.
Gabriel Powell
nice >FSF should be asked to to add source mage to their list of approved distros I don't think they'll do that, for the same reason they refused to add debian, since they offer a nonfree repo
Austin Rivera
Do you think the FSF will accept source mage?
Connor Cox
compiling my kernel right now I'll be uploading screenshots as soon as I rebuild the system and install xorg and a wm
Nicholas Perry
It's less that they have a non free repo and more they make it too easy to find and install nonfree software.
Jose Cruz
Little bump for my issue, I'm a little lost.
Previous info
Juan Price
Daily reminder that these are things you can add to your Bash now (by putting them in ~/.inputrc): >set colored-completion-prefix on When pressing tab twice to list all possibilities the matched part is colored >set editing-mode vi Vim style command line editing (e.g. press escape and enter / to search history, or cw to change word, etc.) >set show-mode-in-prompt on For Vim command line mode adds an indicator to the start showing which mode you're in >set vi-ins-mode-string "(ins)" >set vi-cmd-mode-string "(cmd)" In Vim command line mode sets how the indicator appears in either mode
Happy bashing!
Jayden Reyes
!github 2hrs ago: added support for endless OS
Brody Lee
Daily reminder there are many things in /etc/inputrc that are simply commented out. Theirs you're template, boys.
Gabriel Davis
What?
Josiah Watson
yad - it allows you to write little gui applications with shell scripting.
Jason Perry
virt-manager x2go gparted
Jeremiah Rodriguez
How do I copy a file into the same directory and give it a different filename, using command line? inb4 rtfm, I read the man page for cp and can't find shit
Luis Wright
cp oldname newdirectory/newname
Aaron Thompson
if you want it to stay in the same directory just omit the newdirectory/
Julian Butler
curl -# "file://my_file -o my_file_copy
Hudson Johnson
Whoops, remove the ".
Angel Collins
thank (You) senpai's
Chase Miller
somebody was excited that sourcemage was just added to {neo,screen}fetch.
Aiden Cooper
dd if=porn.mkv of=porn_copy.mkv
Owen Cook
>image.jpg
Thomas Butler
>implying you don't phonepost
Caleb Russell
>owning a botnet listening device
Logan Torres
cp oldname newname || cowsay fail
Jacob Stewart
Dylanaraps updates fast, just a few hours after the screenfetch issue was opened he already had it implemented into neofetch and even used the logo in the request thread.
Jason Butler
Do you guys think "unison" is stable enough to be run as root? There's some root owned directories I want to sync between two of my machines.
Alexander Perez
cat file > newfile
Jacob Edwards
i am, but not feeling average. started learning more of bash scripting, vim using, and refining my loonix experience as a whole.
Kevin Hill
...
Adam Mitchell
There is no ultimate phase, you're always learning
Robert Murphy
wallpaper?
Parker Hernandez
is it enough to just do make defconfig
when compiling a kernel? it'd be a pain in the ass to go through thousands of settings and figuring out which ones I need and which ones I don't are the defaults sane?
Asher Collins
>|| cowsay fail Should be standard tbqh
Jeremiah Kelly
I found it on Sup Forums/g :^)
Cameron Wood
if you have generic as fug hardware then it's enough. However at least look at the network card and storage controller sections (also enable nouveau/radeon/amdgpu as module so you aren't stuck with VESA console). If you have these 2 right then the kernel will be able to boot up and you can add everything else.
Jose King
You mean that satire tech board?
Benjamin Gutierrez
>also enable nouveau/radeon/amdgpu as module those are separate packages that don't come with the kernel, no?
also, do I need an initramfs image if I don't encrypt the root partition?
Owen Brown
what are the first things you install after a fresh install?
Jose Gonzalez
thanks
Andrew Rivera
What does "--release" do in i3 after "bindsym"
Apparently it's needed for taking a screenshot with the Print key, but I have no idea why
Christian Wood
>those are separate packages that don't come with the kernel, no? You are thinking of the drivers of x.org, yes those are in separate packages. They all require the kernel-level driver. If the kernel driver is present and operational you will get high resolution, widescreen tty.
If you don't encrypt your root and your disk drivers are included in the kernel (not as modules but built-in) then you don't need an initramfs.
Luke Martin
What will happen when I write rubbish into /dev/mem? Will Linux get autism?
Parker Parker
the command will run when you release the key rather than when you press it
Brody Morgan
thanks user
Brandon King
you already write rubbish into Sup Forums/g/fglt/
Josiah Young
if your kernel doesn't have the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM option activated, you will get ~~~undefined behaviour~~~
>Computers that don't track you >Built-in webcam Hmmm...
Christopher Young
Nice try Microsoft, but the webcam has a built in kill switch!
Kayden Nguyen
My Arch LARPtop became convinced that its mousepad does not have hardware buttons about an hour and a half ago. All the diagnostics say that this mousepad does not have hardware mouse buttons. It does. I've set up tap clicking as a stopgap measure, but this is really annoying. All the help threads I can find are about making your touchpad STOP thinking it has mouse buttons. Any advice?
Is it possible to make a browser (or any other program) asking twice which file I want use to upload or sth? I'm looking for the browser or script language which allows that. I just want avoid missclicks and things like that.
Parker Turner
it can be also plug-in to any browser, I just want this feature
Andrew Parker
hold ctrl and click on a second file
Henry Hernandez
I have settled with arch for now, but every once in a while I bump into something I want to do that I have to learn. There are a few things that I want to do which I do not understand but can live without. For instance, having my VM automatically shutdown first when I send a signal to reboot/shutdown my host OS. Another which should be easier to learn is scheduled S.M.A.R.T. HDD checkup, to at least give me some warning if one of my hard drives is about to fail.
I only backup absolute essentials, but would like to save what I can should that happen so I don't have to re-download as much media or waste money purchasing another huge NAS for redundancy. That reminds me , I should write a script that grabs all folder names in my media folder and dumps the text into a text file with newline delimiters, far more compact way of backing up media which can be re downloaded.
Levi Parker
So I ended up resolving it. For some reason now works, edited some things at /etc/interfaces as some user told me to doo but with a minor change. Some things didn't work was a matter of configuration and now I have fully working bridge.
The only thing it last is if I want to set a manual lease on this bridge, I either give him the original MAC, as I have it in the router, or I give the router the bridge one. Someone would mind to point me what's the better solution?
Jace Campbell
Installed ubuntu for some reason and then uninstalled everything I didn't use which was a ton of shit, installed gnome and like 5 other pieces of software and the fucking thing still has almost 1800 packages. This installation is just used for web browsing, discord, spotify, and torrenting. Insane that 1800 packages are needed for that. I guess it doesn't matter much because it is still running very well and not even using half of my available ram
Julian Jones
Gnome alone is like 1 GB full of shit you wouldn't need, why would you clean your system and then ruin it by isntalling Gnome?
Ayden Evans
install xfeces
Adrian Taylor
Idk I like it? I think i3 is cool but Im not going to learn all those fucking keybinds
Thomas Thomas
So, why didn't you just install Ubuntu Gnome then?
Matthew Wright
Fucked around with unity for a bit. Only took a minute or two to switch. I'm just surprised there are sooo many damn packages. I'll do an arch install some time soon and install the same handful of applications to compare amount of packages. There was so much accessibility shit for like the fucking blind and spics, that was like 100 packages right there.
Isaiah Ramirez
Arch splits its packages less, so it will have less packages for the same shit. Which doesn't say anything useful about your system anyway.
Noah Phillips
I have a shitty partition layout
>boot live disk >mount all partitions and rsync entire / tree to another disk >fix my shit >rsync back and fix up fstab + any loose disk references There's no reason this wouldn't work, right?
Cooper Foster
It won't look like that. Why do you never mention that?
Lucas Bennett
ok, I've been using linux for like 2 years now, BUT I CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO ADJUST MY SATURATION. MY TN PANEL LOOKS LIKE SHIT, AND IN NO FORUM THERE'S AN ACTUAL ANSWER.
Jackson Carter
>mfw i have been spending my time to compile the kernel everytime it got updated in debian to enable AMDGPU support for SI/CIK cards and i just realized that it seems to be enabled by default now when the fuck did they do this change, have i been compiling kernels for no reason for a long time or what, the only small change i did is there by default now
Oliver Peterson
I'm about to install Ubuntu but how they want to go back with Gnome desktop I have doubts about whether I should install.
I have always used the main version and just tried mate and lxde flavors for an old laptop so I do not know if I should start to get used to the new desktop by installing the gnome flavor or stick on the main distro until 17.10.
What do you recommend me to do?
Jackson Reyes
yes
James Turner
>What do you recommend me to do? to make up your mind