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Why do these threads need so much garbage in the OP? Nobody reads that shit.
Connor Hughes
>*** Please be civil >Starting the thread with that image Pick one
Brayden King
I just read it all though
Gavin Lopez
When the fuck will the Wiki be back up?
Asher Myers
>delet
Jace Nelson
Never opened these wiki/paste links before. This is really helpful and I now have quite a lot to learn. Thanks, OP.
Gavin Cox
You're welcome. That's why we're here.
Zachary Roberts
>>/fglt/'s website and copypasta collection: I always thought that's just some interjection copypasta crap, but there's some actually useful stuff in here!
Camden Anderson
>much It's fine. Back in the days the first 5 posts were part of OP. Not joking here.
James Reyes
InstallGentoo wiki is great, shame it's been down for days
Jeremiah Cook
I'm searching for a lightweight Systemd distribution for my Thinkpad, recommendations?
Anthony Williams
Arch, or Antergos/Manjaro if you aren't feeling autistic
My laptop has dual GPU (integrated intel HD graphics and dedicated Nvidia). What should I know before I try to install GNU/Linux?
Will I want to kill myself trying to make them work? Is there a version of Nvidia Control Panel for GNU/Linux to choose which programs use each GPU?
As it is now, they just barely work on windows. I would need them to at least barely work as they do now.
By the way, I haven't set on a distro yet, but I'm leaning towards Devuan. The DE should be KDE Plasma.
Henry Mitchell
cool shirt, but what kind of retard wears something that looks like a razor blade as jewellery?
Jason Taylor
I want to experiment with smb multichannel. I have a ubuntu server with 2x nics, a desktop with 1x nic so far but about to buy a second and I have a managed switch.
So far I've been trying to get the 2x NICs working on the linux box but I don't really know enough about networking, thought it was just a case of assigning an IP to both NICs but I was told that I need to set up some kind of routing between them?
The NICs have 192.168.0.15/16 assigned respectively. What kind of routing do I need to setup? I can draw a network map if it helps but it's a piss easy setup.
Broadband router -> switch -> Desktop and server
Zachary Flores
what's a linux box?
Joseph Wright
ur mums pooter
Cameron Green
Has anyone here fixed their Nvidia's Code 43 error when doing a GPU passthrough? Solution on Arch wiki doesn't work.
Angel Reed
A squared kernel.
Camden Rivera
Trying to connect to eduroam on my wifi uni with netctl, but i dont know the lines to add for complex networks likr this one. Pic related is what should be filled in.
Kevin Cruz
linux sucks >screen tearing >no adobe >no games >shit drivers why even bother
Should I install Gentoo on my single core ancient laptop?
Nathan Mitchell
Only if you are very patient
Mason Stewart
Is there any easy way to uninstall GRUB directly from the GRUB terminal or something? I don't want to bother to make a bootable windows device to do that.
Henry Reyes
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
Colton Sanders
G-guise, I am stuck at the last part of Arch installation. When I tried to install grub on /dev/sda1, it tells me that ext2 file systems are incompatible with embedding. I am perfectly sure that I formatted that partition with mkfs.ext4, what gives? Also, I had to specify the target as i386-pc, how do i specify it as amd64?
Brayden Green
Anyone tried this Arch install script before want to give me their impressions?
Jaxson Cook
...
Robert Nelson
What sort of question is this?
Jeremiah Baker
LOL
James Hughes
Thanks dude xD
Brody Myers
>tfw the posts ITT are getting weirder every day
Luis Garcia
WHY are people copy-pasting that retarded if= of= faggotry? Do you all learn by reading shitty blogs? Jesus christ.
Nathaniel Bennett
Thanks for explaining
William Thomas
what are you mad about, friend?
Adam Hill
FUUUU
Robert Butler
Normal people install it how it's meant to be installed because they're not pretentious idiots.
>install on /dev/sda1 Learn to read.
Christopher Morales
tl;dr dd < penis > vagina
Brandon Hall
This is why /prog/ never should have been deleted. So that we could weed out the ADHD, phoneposting shitposters like you who can't handle a paragraph of text without being supplemented by pretty pictures.
Logan Turner
that's not standard dd syntax
Jordan Jones
>arch users >they're not pretentious idiots
Jack Long
I like Bash pipes but this is kind of obscure. 'input file' and 'output file' are something that is hard to mess up.
Oliver Torres
I was going to ask Artix or Devuan, but Artix doesn't even seem to have an installer. So is Devuan really the only option if you want to go systemdless?
>inb4 Gentoo
Angel Rivera
whats wrong with systemd?
Ian Mitchell
Don't Void and Guix also ship with a non-systemd init?
Carter Cook
gentoo, or try one of the BSDs if you havent already
Ian Moore
GuixSD comes with it's own init GNU Shepherd, Void comes with runit.
Tyler Lopez
nobody knows
Luke Edwards
>mfw taught my bf how 2 install and use Linux, specially arch Linux >come home and he's installing his own desktop environments and loving customising everything
Best feeling, everyone else I've showed, uses it for a week, complaints steady increase, leave for windows cuz much games and excel.
But this boy is a problem solver and a cute one :3
Grayson Baker
Now tell him about GNU.
Henry Sanders
No we hate communism :^)
Jace Green
What does /dev/random output? When I do cat /dev/random, what type of data is being display? Or when I do
>dd if=/dev/urandom bs=1 count=1 status=none
what is that one character that I get? I don't really understand it.
Angel Lopez
man 4 random go away and never come back
Wyatt Carter
Linux is better without GNU trash. Soon as GCC dead, Linux can finally prosper.
Gavin Scott
it's just random data, your terminal might not be able to display it properly if it's not represented in any character sets. if you want human readable data, run base64 /dev/urandom
Matthew Lopez
Anyone? Doesn't anyone run dual GPUs or know whether it works? I see most issues with GNU/Linux seem to involve nvidia GPUs, so I was wondering if I should expect double the trouble by having 2 GPUs.
Dominic Bailey
>complaining about pictures on an anime imageboard
Chase Miller
What file system should i chose for my media storage?
