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Check the Wikis (most troubleshoots work for all distros):
wiki.archlinux.org
wiki.gentoo.org

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:

pcworld.com/article/2984597/storage/hard-core-data-preservation-the-best-media-and-methods-for-archiving-your-data.html
launchpad.net/~oibaf/ archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/
launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/ archive/ubuntu/backports).
askubuntu.com/questions/655833/early-2006-macbook-pro-core-duo
warosu.org/g/thread/49207096
warosu.org/g/thread/49207096#p49214299
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
stackoverflow.com/questions/22125658/how-to-escape-history-expansion-exclamation-mark-inside-a-double-quoted-comm
wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Recommended_applications#Audio
blog.thenets.org/install-ufw-fedora-24-uncomplicated-firewall/
twitter.com/NSFWRedditVideo

>Stay away from proprietary file formats if possible. Use PDF/A, RTF, JPG, MPEG, etc., which are likely to be readable well into the future.
How does that make you feel ?

pcworld.com/article/2984597/storage/hard-core-data-preservation-the-best-media-and-methods-for-archiving-your-data.html

Hey Sup Forumsuys,

I'm a new gentoo user here. I want to ask if it's possible to point emerge to a temporary make.conf, build a binary package, put it on a flashdrive and use it on a different computer? I have a powerful rig that seems to compile stuff in a snap, and my shitty laptop that takes hours to compile even the smallest things. I want to be able to make binaries for it on my desktop and just copy them over. as far as I know, I should be able to just use the make.config from my laptop and copy it over to the desktop and use that to make some binaries to send to the laptop, right? I know distcc is a thing, but I've read that I'll have to reinstall gentoo to enable that in my system, which I'd rather not do. What's the best way to approach this?

Fine. How does it make you feel?

FOSS as fuck

First for
Busybox
musl c
llvm
clang

The kernel should NOT be only able to be compiled with ONE compiler!

good

Which kernel?

This is a linux thread so what kernel do you think?

INSTALL NIXOS

You mean cross-compiling? Yes.

Also, try Paludis.

An experimental distribution whose package manager is considerably less elegant than Guix. It might be a better idea to just run Guix on your present distro, as you won't have to struggle with the impediments of using a functional, experimental package manager while still enjoying the benefits.

*GNU/Linux thread.

But at least I don't have to buy an external USB wifi just to use the internet.

I'd prefer GuixSD, but I'm not ready

>external USB
Why would you use a shitty usb when you can have pci and have way more driver support?

Because I already own the laptop I own.
Surely "buy a new computer" is not any better than "buy a wifi dongle"

Install GuixSD.

MUH DONGLE

What are some cool terminal commands?

Does someone know why the fuck KDE Plasma is using a huge amount of memory(all 16 GB physical and even the 8 GB swap)?installed Kubuntu 17.04 AMD64 last week and am currently @ kernel 4.10.0-28 with the latest MESA 17.3(ppa is from launchpad.net/~oibaf/ archive/ubuntu/graphics-drivers/ ) installed today(Thursday the 27th July,if you are in the Netherlands).

Also using backports ppa( from launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/ archive/ubuntu/backports).

the DNS is acting really weird on my arch install
>doesn't resolve local DNS names (meme.local.net > 192.168.1.40, etc) even though I'm pretty sure the primary DNS is 192.168.1.1
>DNS fails to resolve periodically but comes back after a second
if it matters I'm using pfSense as a firewall/main router (192.168.1.1)

ls -1 -d .* | ffmpeg -f tty -i - out.gif

it's KDE nigga what did you expect

I have a snippet for bashrc that lets you cycle through inserting the last used file-like arguments at the cursor if anyone is interested.

>What's the most appropriate "linux for ordinary people" kind of distro to run on a MacBook Pro "Core Duo" 2.0 15" early 2006?

>Why dont you research it?


Cuz didn't find much more than this

askubuntu.com/questions/655833/early-2006-macbook-pro-core-duo
>there are no proprietary drivers for the Radeon card, and the open source drivers run it extremely hot, even at idle. Also the sound won't work out of the box. Slackware-based distros seem to work best with the 2006 mbp's hardware, at least in my experience.

and this

warosu.org/g/thread/49207096
>I have an early 2006 macbook pro (1,1) with a 32 bit core duo T2500 cpu and 2 gigs of ram and mac 10.6 is laggy and slow as shit.
>what distro should I put on this thing?
warosu.org/g/thread/49207096#p49214299
>debian with a lightweight DE or WM

I know I'm stupid, but is there anything that will more or less work out of the box on this machine?

why a gif?

Just put some on a live disk and try it them out.

Really struggling to bite the bullet with Linux as my main OS. I've used it before and enjoyed it but I need windows for work and gaming.
I'm thinking of just running win7 in a VM with gpu passthrough but I need to know how easy/long it will take to set up and the kind of performance loss I would expect

You want to put a non officially suported OS on a machine that's basically rigged for you to throw it and buy a new one 2 years after you bought it? And you want it to be easy?

Use arch
And follow arch wiki.It has a very detailed passthrough wiki guide

um dude they're like 5 dollars.

>Slackware
you're fucked

exit

wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/QEMU
wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PCI_passthrough_via_OVMF
Are these the right ones?

Yes

Alright sick, thanks user.

Doh, how didn't I think of this myself? Thanks!

oh cmon, name one laptop make that *officially supports* linux. Even thinkpads have their issues. And this is a rather neatly built machine after all, not just some consumer piece of plastic.

How can i run the title [OZC-Live]Kamen Rider Gaim BD Box E01 'Transform! An Orange From the Sky!' [1080p].mkv as an imput in bash? Say i want to run mediainfo with that as the argument. Using " " or ' ' won't work

>name one laptop make that *officially supports* linux
eeepc701

>And this is a just some consumer piece of plastic, not neatly built machine after all

FTFY

What distro should I go with for just basic browsing and long battery life? I don't like the feel of ubuntu, so throw some suggestions out there for me.

mediainfo "[OZC-Live]Kamen Rider Gaim BD Box E01 '"'Transform! An Orange From the Sky!'"' [1080p].mkv"
That's an interesting edge case. The bangs are in single quotes but wrapping it in double quotes make them not. Escaping the bangs leaves the escape characters in for some reason. You can can either bacslash escape all spaces, quotes and bangs or (like above) double-quote the bits up to the bit that has the bangs, and include an additional single quote in the double quoted bits.

Thank you user. You're the best.

Or disable history expansion like in the first answer here.
stackoverflow.com/questions/22125658/how-to-escape-history-expansion-exclamation-mark-inside-a-double-quoted-comm

You guys are worse than /tpg/

why?

Using Alt-Tab only sends me to the most recently opened window and stays there, trying to press tab again doesnt do shit, but whilst keeping alt pressed i can go in reverse with shift-tab flawlessly.

Remapping it with something like ctrl-tab fixes it and i can use the task switcher without problems but i want alt-switcj to work.

Please help.
Running kubuntu 16

yfw you notice the imagemagick wizard has binary code on his hat so you convert it to ascii.

What does it say?

You despise macs more than /tpg/ do.

dismissive elitism

New gentoo user here
My root is on a encrypted lvm, and the lv is on a raid with mdadm.
Has anyone of you the same config and bootable ?
When i boot i land in a recovery shell where i can:
cryptsetup luksOpen
Then i need to vgchange -a y to activate the volumes
And then i can boot
Thats a bit shitty evertime booting the system

i used genkernel for initramfs with --luks --lvm --mdadm

...

Neofetch depends in gentoo on too many stuff.
In archlinux it only optional depends on the same stuff.
Does gentoo not have optional dependencys ?

What's a good Linux distro that runs from RAM? I am going to travel and I need something to install my shit and use while I am away from my computer, without installing software or trusting whoever the owner is.
Plus I can showcase the power of Linux.

Already tried Alpine Linux, but it had a few issues with my USB keyboard, any other options?

How the fuck do i install lubuntu on C drive without fucking up my porn in D and anime in E?

not using luks but sounds like you forgot to add dolvm to kernel parameters

afaik arch throws together many dependencies resulting in fewer but bigger packages. thats why pacman distros run on 500 and aptitude distros on 1500+ packages

I installed KDE, how do I make it usable?

What's the best music player for Linux? I remember back in the day everyone used mpd/ncmpcpp. Is that still the case?

>arch throws together many dependencie
No, it doesn't

foobar2000

Who cares, they all play music, just use what you like.

Will encrypting the system ssd increase writes to it at boot time or is that a readonly process?

Why doesn't wrapping it in "" work?

What? Did you literally miss my entire post?

Guix is platform-agnostic. That means you can theoretically run it on any GNU/Linux distribution in parallel with your present package manager (if you have one). The only difference is that you need to initialize the guix-daemon on startup because of unprivileged package management.

Puppy.

No, you see, he has to use everything that's g approved. He can't think for himself. He doesn't even have to like the things he uses as long as someone on the internet tells him it's "the best".

tails?

exclamation points
escape the exclamation points

what is a kernel and why did they name it after the tasty treat?

has anyone here actually succeed to install gtk webkit?

wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Recommended_applications#Audio

It really depends on your use case. Do you want social media integration? How much music do you have? Do you want more features or better performance?

One size doesn't fit all.

That could do the trick, although it's based on Ubuntu 14.04, which is even older than current Debian release.
Overkill, but looks like a good option too.

what can i do with bash on ubuntu on windows?

You can use bash.

What the fuck did you expect?

GNU/Linux thread. So take your hipster sucksmore crap to somewhere else.

Enjoy Ubuntu with 200% more botnet.

Many things, as long as you can do it without gui, sound and "advanced" kernel features.

Are you retarded?

alt+.

>vim long_ass_filename
>rm alt+.

You can use Linux without using Linux.

configure keybinds like you want them (kwin window snapping, application shortcuts etc). I found the default bindings quite silly all in all.

Besides that, change what is bugging you.

Nice.
kek

What's your favorite terminal emulator? My vote goes to Xfce4

urxvt

I prefer the xfce-terminal. Sane defaults and gets the job done.

apt-get clean
mount tmpfs -t tmpfs /var/cache/apt/archives/


packages apt downloads now will be in ram and not on disk, speeding up installation.
You can simply umount the tmpfs to clean up later.

I was thinking of installing gentoo over my arch installation, yes or no?

Last time i used gentoo was like 10 years ago

Why don't you just keep arch and dual-boot? its also way more comfy to install gentoo from existing linux in my opinion. Also you can fix stuff easier than just having to use Live medium everytime

Is there an end user firewall on Fedora like ufw on Ubuntu?

I suppose that would work, would have to resize my partitions but that shouldn't be a problem.

Didnt really think about this, thanks, this way i will have a working setup if i get bored of fucking around with gentoo

blog.thenets.org/install-ufw-fedora-24-uncomplicated-firewall/

Also forget to say, because they will be both gnu/linux distros you can have a shared /home partition

Yeah, Im going to take my other ssd from my laptop and install that to my desktop and set that as my /home,

Gonna be fun i guess

pls respond

I think the point is that msoft was worried that linux was capturing so much developer mindshare because you can compile for linux and windows and linux. So they made WSL so you can compile stuff for linux on windows now. I did a quick search and didn't actually see any reviews of it from that perspective though, or any useful perspective other than "look, a new thing!".

By choosing your former C: as /. If you're too paranoid just unplug the other drives

I don't remember it to well, but I remember reading an article about how Windows users had to interface with Linux servers in some way, and the method they used to make it all work was kind of hack-ey. What I took from it was basically that bash on Windows was a way to supplement the holes in functionality that Windows can't fix--or, at least, it would take a lot of resources for Microsoft to add the same functionality that bash has on Windows shell, but I would imagine what you said is an added bonus of doing that.

Make your C partition unallocated and install loobuntu on that partition

It's one drive partitioned into three. And I did choose it as / but got some error 141

H-How?

I actually came to the thread to find out more about these transactional install Linuxs

Once I've got a script/recipe set up how I want, how do I "inject" it into the install process? Do I need to run it off a USB or something? And when I want to modify the script to add more packages or whatever, would running the updated script only pick up the new packages I requested?

Also, can't all distros do this to some extent? What's special about these 2 (nix and guix)?