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How can I keep my PS1 when sshing to another machine?
Logan Perez
I have an Asus X552C laptop, with a Mediatek MTE730E WiFi+Bluetooth Combo that's giving me problems since forever (before with Windows, now with Ubuntu). My machine is double boot (Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 16.04, I need both OS), so another Sup Forumsentooman here at /fglt/ told me that to replace it with a linux-compatible one I should get something Atheros. So, guys, what would be the best model for it? Something that's available on Amazon (so I'm sure I can get it in Italy), is compatible with the rest and doesn't cost too much, if possible.
Bentley Jackson
hey Sup Forumsee, I noticed some people post images that they think will help them get responses when they post their question. can some people dump some of those interesting and unique pictures for my future use? TIA
Ryder Morales
What are some cool terminal commands?
Josiah Jenkins
Any mpd users here?
I'm used to having all my songs in a single playlist that's usually on shuffle. However, recently, mpd occasionally becomes unresponsive for 2-20 seconds, and occasionally halts the music for ~3 seconds before continuing.
The setup is an Odroid SBC with an external powered hard drive and the playlist contains about 28k songs.
What could be the cause for this? The SBC is most certainly fast enough, and mpd is quite lightweight.
Chase Jones
That's not /fglt/, user. Stop shoving ignorant, anti-gnu propaganda bullshit down our throats.
Jackson Perez
"lurk moar, newfag"
Liam Evans
>Creates his own containment board. >Refuses to stay there.
Jaxon Smith
zenity --warning --text "OP is a hedgehog."
Grayson Jackson
how to install extreme minimal debian? assume I unmarked everything in tasksel all I'll need is xorg, xfce4 (minimal), lightdm, python 3 most recent version, firefox, coreutils and a PDF reader
Ian King
Grab the netinstall image.
Ethan Rivera
I tried to install nvidia drivers on debian 9. Followed this tutorial but ended up with a blackscreen after reboot. What did i miss ? I'm i'm grateful for any advice. GPU: Nvidia GTX 1050 Ti youtube.com/watch?v=_5RJzZxQ62U
Bentley White
I did and I installed debian already, here I have the command line window opened in virtualbox. I want to know the real necessary packages to have before I download xorg, xfce4 and what I need
Samuel Reyes
>What did i miss How on earth could anyone know what did you miss lol. You definitely missed something though because from my experience Nvidia while completely disregarding the foss community doesn't have problems with providing good (as in installing, working and stable) drivers for their recent GPUs.
John Williams
pls
sorry for phonepost
Isaac Perez
nvm, I'm reinstalling it with everything I don't need
Joseph Mitchell
probably chroot install
Austin Rogers
That's /flt/, user, Stop shoving ignorant,pro gnu region propaganda bullshit down our throats.
Anthony Wilson
If it ain't GNU it's worthless.
Jayden Hill
This is the Friendly Grownups Linux Thread. You're containment board is >>>/flt/
Connor Baker
>use ristretto because it can display gifs >use gpicview because it's default >use geeqie because it can zoom in without aliasing
how to merge these 3 into 1?
Benjamin Peterson
/flt/ is the thread dedicated to discussion about the kernel known as Linux and not the operating system GNU/Linux, which it has been historically referred to as by its progenitors, regardless of technical distinctions.
Jace Williams
/flt/ is thread about the Linux operating system. If you take my post for example: , you can see that none of those are GNU software because GNU people don't know what a pixel is.
John Rogers
I think pornview supports gif's and zoom (although I don't know about antialiasing). It also supports certain video files.
Camden Jackson
/fglt/ is thread about the GNU/Linux operating system. If I take your post for example, , you can see that none of those softwares are Linux, because Linux people don't know what a pixel is.
However, it is necessary to have some GNU utilities in order to use said software; whereas, it is not necessarily a requirement to have Linux in order to use such software.
Chase Morris
>>use gpicview because it's default Why is this an issue? Do you know what a mimetype is and how to configure associated files?
Nathan Cox
Conkybros, do you have any nice up/down arrows I can use instead of the letters? Preferably with the code to make them show up because I'm a conky newfag.
Juan Stewart
Linux is a kernel AND software written for the Linux kernel. GNU is just a tiny part of Linux ecosystem. The shit part.
clang > gcc busybox, toolbox > gnu coreutils dash > bash c11 > GNU C linux > hurd
Carson Kelly
>nvidia Found your problem.
In all seriousness, never buy nvidia for GNU/Linux. I don't mean this in an antagonistic way or anything--I have no stake in the nvidea/radeon dichotomy (I don't even really know or care about the performance distinctions between the two)--but nvidia really, really hates Linux dev's, and they even go so far as to sometimes do some really petty things, to where it's hard to trace why they have such a deep grudge against anything not Windows. They just do.
Nolan Jenkins
GNU's coreutils are so awful that they're good. The code is so tediously micro-optimized that it significantly increases shell script speed.
Eli Bell
Sup Forums was never good. But you're not helping matters. Why not just fuck off?
Matthew Allen
You totally missed my point. You literally can't run GNU/Linux without some GNU software being involved. Even Alpine uses GCC to compile Linux. In contrast, it is feasible to run GNU without any Linux being involved. It is thus perfectly reasonable to distinguish GNU from Linux, because Linux is genuinely interchangeable.
Even if there was a true, pure way to use Linux entirely separate from GNU, you're still talking about distros that are using GNU. And for the Linux distros that have cleaned their hands of GNU--call them XYZ--then we should acknowledge that project and call them XYZ/Linux or whatever they would like to be called.
Camden Russell
← ↑→↓↔
Bentley Miller
This user is rekking shit
David Lopez
>You literally can't run GNU/Linux without some GNU software being involved. 100% false.
> you're still talking about distros that are using GNU The amount of GNU is less than 10%. The rest is libre soft. Also, many of those packages are unused and unknown by the vast majority of user (GNU hexdump).
It would make more sense to call it Mozzila/Linux or RedHat/Linux than GNU/Linux.
Zachary Brooks
What I meant is that GNU/Linux, by definition, uses GNU, and it should be applied to the software that's applicable.
And you totally ignored my last post. All that software needs the GNU suite to work. Furthermore, most GNU/Linux software, including Linux, is licensed under GPL, a product of the FSF made for, but not limited to, GNU.
Colton Allen
Also, I think it's clear that from "you're" (sic) post: this obsession with removing GNU from GNU/Linux is some kind of perverted ego thing. Why would you even involve the quality (or lack of thereof) of GNU software when the discussion isn't even about that? It's a total non sequitur.
What do you even gain from totally lobotomizing the ethical element that GNU introduces to the term "Linux" when you call it what it actually is: GNU/Linux.
Logan Robinson
Is this good advice?
Jonathan Gonzalez
>gnufag calls other people obsessive
David Jenkins
Yes. Especially the last part. Research the hardware you're going to buy before buying.
I know I've been bitten by wifi adapters. I bought the Pau05 by Panda Wireless. I fucking hate those people. The description said it was compatible with a bunch of Ubuntu derivatives and Fedora and Suse. That should've been a red flag that their product needed proprietary firmware, but I just assumed they were pandering to idiots who couldn't into Linux firmware. I was mistaken. And they don't even supply the firmware themselves. I had to fucking hunt down the driver in the Debian repo, unpack it, and rebuild my Linux manually. It's feasible, but it's just such a fucking nuisance. Never buy Panda Wireless.
Generally Dell has good GNU/Linux support, though. They ship products with Ubuntu, although they also maintain their own repo for special firmware, so I'm not so sure how well Linux will work beyond the Ubuntu-compiled Linux.
Brody Reed
I think anyone who posts anything on Sup Forums can be classified as obsessive in one way or another.
Nice trips, by the way.
Bentley Roberts
Hello Sup Forumsuys Not sure if this thread is the best place to ask but here is the thing: I've grown tireod of win10 and I would like to use another OS. Can any1 tell me what is the best OS to start as a newbie (Debian/Ubuntu/Mint/Manjaro/Slackware/OpenSUSE/etc)? How much of a differences do they have?
Sebastian Butler
All but the first one. Mayyybe it applies to laptops of a certain age, but otherwise it's just shillery.
Ayden Bell
It depends on you want to do. What do you want from an operating system? And then pick a distro that emphasizes those features.
You can do basically the same thing in all of them, though. After all, they're just respins of the same operating system, GNU/Linux.
John Turner
it should be lightweight/fast. Literally the only thing that I would like to see + nice bonus would be lookin aesthetic (but i guess you can make any of them aesthetic by configurating desktop environment?)
Dominic Myers
When I tried to install ubuntu there were a bunch of missing letters, it didn't happen when trying to install it on my laptop. What the fuck? How do I fix this? I wanna join the linux master race guys come on give me a hand here
Adrian Sanders
xubuntu
Jason Allen
Your going to have to be me thorough then that. Were you just running the livecd? Was this after Ubuntu was installed? Was it just one application in which the font didn't render, or was it everything? And I mean everything.
Camden Davis
I was using a flashdrive. I didn't install it, this was during the instalation screen. It was everything. Lots of blank letters which partially showed up when I put the cursor on top of them.
Matthew Brooks
daily reminder
Jacob Russell
...
Dominic Lee
try installing a different flavor of ubuntu. or try installing from an earlier dot release and then upgrading post-install
Ryder Ross
What's something other than Ubuntu that's good for beginners?
Jace Gutierrez
Fedora, Suse, Debian.
Carson King
How do I play .swf files on Ubuntu 16.04? I tried using Firefox, but it doesn't do it, I tried Chromium, doesn't work too. I tried VLC and the standard Video player, but they all require some plugin or codec Which I cant find any info about. All the info that I can find online are either leading to dead/missing websites or require me to do some hacking type wizardry. I just wanna watch a freaking flash-video I have on my PC.
Julian Allen
you need pepper flash for chromium. also need to edit an xml file so it stops downloading the swf file instead of playing it.
Easton Gomez
Flash is literally dying/dead so what do you expect? Adobe announced that they'll completely drop all work and all support on flash altogether soon.
Colton Martin
Good thread.
Aiden Hall
Doubtful. If he actually knew anything about linux, he'd be using vim.
Jose Baker
I finished my sysadmin degree a month ago. What should I start with to get some basic experience that would be useful in many workplaces? Like setting up and maintaining a safe web server and what else? I live in the middle of Europe so my school was a shithole where we could do nothing, but I'd really like to know where should I start.
Gavin Roberts
Sorry. I meant GNU/Linux.
Levi Reed
Why do you have to be so elitist? Why are you so desperate to polarize something as arbitrary as text editors?
If you want to use emacs or some implementation of vi, that's your prerogative. Different strokes for different folks. Why do you need to bully them for no reason?
Angel Turner
>as arbitrary as text editors Well, if you spend most of every workday working with an application it shouldn't be an arbitrary choice which one you use.
Hunter Walker
Why don't people recommend Arch as a starter daily?
It's either that or Fedora for me. Planning on dual booting Linux + W10 on my home rig and my XPS 13.
Justin Rogers
What do you mean by starter daily?
Joseph King
My first Linux distro. And one that will be used on the daily.
Evan Harris
>multimedia keys not working in my internet keyboard >Only volume,sleep and prev/next track are working >Unplug and plug the keyboard >Play/pause, stop and eject are recognized now. >mfw
I also have like 7 extra keys that wont even be recognized, i have tried checking the scancodes and they arent even registered.
What the FUCK can i do?.
ANd the piece of shit capslock delay is a stupid Cianigger cockshit
Ayden Adams
Anyone looking for any scripting help?
Jack Sanchez
yeah, help me with a script that gets me a gf
Gabriel Jenkins
sudo apt install love
Joshua Campbell
The closest thing we have to a gf package for GNU/Linux is Virtual RMS
Aaron Lewis
Well, if you don't need an installer and have the patience to read a manual and do a chroot install, then, by all means. Most people don't recommend Arch because many of the benefits it provides aren't useful in the context of normal users who just want to use their desktops to get work done and is more oriented towards involved users who want to validate themselves to a bunch of strangers on the internet.
Samuel Richardson
What the hell is an internet keyboard?
Also, sauce?
Jack Ortiz
swap encrypted but it doesn't get automatically mounted, manually mounting it fixes this, but i am reading and it says that the swap uuid get changed on boot, so there's no way to automatically mount it , is this true?
Evan Anderson
What's the best Linux music player?
I want something like MusicBee on Windows.
Grayson Morris
I'm convinced that the GTK-3 filepicker is a conspiracy. Developed by Windows/Mac fanboys determined to keep GNU/Linux down in the gutters by making their software as shitty and useless as possible
Have you tried using APMD? Is it that the media keys literally do not send any input? Because it may be that things just aren't configured right. You should look up the model. Maybe you need to build special firmware in Linux.
Lincoln Garcia
They are dead in Linux
Windows had no problems with such keys but here they arent even registered.
Although the keyboard is quite old and i had to rewire several parts of the circuit plastic sheet to close the corroded parts, maybe all those 7 keys are fucking dead.
I might need to check it later, it still doesnt explain why i have to power-cycle the keyboard to make the other keys work
Asher Perry
Nice dubs.
Also, what specifically in MusicBee did you like? If you want a more fully-featured music browser (e.g. social media integration, other superficial stuff), try Exaile or Clementine depending on which toolkit you prefer.
If you want a music player that handles large libraries, consider MPD. If you want a music player that is not only made for large libraries but is extremely extensible and has a lot of practical functionality for thing like sorting libraries, gMusicBrowser.
Jeremiah Hill
That's unfortunate, mang. Have you started xev to see if the inputs are working? Because, as I said, that may be your problem.
Worst case scenario, you just write a few keybinds to do the same thing.
The circuitry for these 7 keys might be fucked gonna run some tests tomorrow.
Jose Anderson
>be me >had installed a few things from unstable branch of debian >now everything's fucked up and I can't install shit without getting "this package needs so-and-so dependencies but they won't be installed" (FUCK YOU! Just install them anyway! They won't be installed... who do you think is in control, here?) >"apt-get -f install" doesn't do anything
I'm really considering just wiping the slate clean and starting over. I think I fucked up by mixing and matching packages from stable and unstable.
Easton Lopez
open aptitude and look at it's suggestions. Follow the instructions down the bottom of the screen to view them and cycle through until you find one you are happy with.
Chase Smith
>>be me Who the hell else would you be?
Alexander Moore
Same happened to me a couple of days ago, using sddm + kde minimal, tried to troubleshoot a little, but i had no success. In every other distro I tried, it just worked perfectly, no issues ir whatsoever, I think is a problem with Debian itself.
Ayden Hall
>I think is a problem with Debian itself I've been using frankendebian since 2011 and haven't managed to get the system in an unfixible state.
Levi James
DOXXED!!
Angel Perez
What distro are you using, user? Why?
Adam Allen
Well fuck I'm retarded. I just fucked shit up real bad.
I'm just going to do a fresh reinstall. I didn't have important stuff on that partition, anyway. The whole point was that I wanted to switch to GNOME.
Blake Wood
Now I know to never try making Frankenstein's monster because I clearly have no idea what I'm doing.
