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I used unetbootin to install Manjaro KDE ISO to my flash drive and when I boot from the USB I get a grub unknown file system error. What could be the issue here?
Chase Wilson
If your iso is a hybrid iso then you can just dd it to your flash drive. It's more reliable than umemebootin for isos that support this.
Trying to get my wifi dongle working in Manjaro github.com/jurobystricky/Netgear-A6210 I found this driver for it, but I'm not sure I'm doing this right. Do I just have to make, sudo make install, and then it's installed? Do I have to fuck around with modprobe? How do I go about installing this?
Thomas Johnson
is it true debian will use a lot of power? should i avoid using it on a laptop?
Dominic Bennett
>62498378 hey /flgt/ im new to linux and recently installed debian, as i am new and a basic bitch. for whatever reasons, games that used to run fine like city skylines, now run at sub 1 frame, and i cant run anything 3d. I initially assumed my pc wasn't recognizing my graphics card, but it seem to see it just fine? am i retarted?
Adam Campbell
What card is it? Do you have the correct drivers installed? Are you running the linux version of games or through wine?
Jace Myers
What distro would be appropriate for my mother who uses Windows 10? It works like shit on her laptop and I haven't touched this shit since Windows 7 so I have no idea how to fix it on her ol machine other than installing linux.
Connor Cook
...
Nathaniel Russell
Lubuntu with her choice of DE.
Austin Jenkins
Are you using nouveau?
Andrew Cook
meme
Matthew Evans
CS is linux native, card is Radeon HD 8670 / R7 250/350, im not sure if have the correct drivers installed, and i dont know how to, or where to install them
Can any of you recommend video editing software for Gentoo? Openshot will not start up for whatever reason (literally no error messages, nothing, running "openshot" in the terminal says "command not found".) Shortcut isn't in the repository. Kdenlive is being retarded and not detecting frei0r-plugin so I'm stuck with very basic effects. Pls halp, I was so happy with Lunix.
Jason Davis
thanks user
Connor Long
suppose this [ 7.044032] [drm] Initialized [ 7.454237] [drm] radeon kernel modesetting enabled. [ 7.948270] [drm:radeon_pci_probe [radeon]] *ERROR* radeon kernel modesetting for R600 or later requires firmware-amd-graphics.
9 times out of 10 "command not found" means exactly what it says. Either the executable is not in the right place (or not installed at all), or your $PATH is not set to what it should be so it's not searching for the executable in the right place.
Did you install it through your distros package manager or did you download it off a website?
Jordan Brooks
It is installed and it was in the right place. The issue is it looks like I can't run Python scripts for whatever reason (and Shortcut is written in Python). Do I need a special package for that? python-exec is merged on my system. I install everything using portage (emerge [atom])
Jackson Harris
i have synaptic, but how do i go about searching packages in it? i should mention ive only been using linux for 48 hours, and have already once crashed my system. i've kinda been working of trial by failure. so far ive been able to install discord and steam, and ive managed to get battle.net to launch into the password screen before immediately crashing.
Nathan Brown
How do you guys download youtube videos? I know youtube-dl exists but also cclive is recommended here.
Dylan Williams
youtube-dl
John Perez
You didn't say if you installed it from your package manager or not. Who owns the executable? What are the executables permissions? What is the exact command you're using to try and run it on the command line?
Dylan Lopez
cclive hasn't been updated in 4 years. just use youtube-dl.
Jace Bell
try sudo apt-get install apt-xapian-index, that might be causing the search bar to not appear. After that, put in sudo update-apt-xapian-index. If it doesn't appear, reboot and open it again. >crashed the system in 48 hours sounds like linux :^) You'll get better at it user, right now fucking things up is a part of the learning experience. Just stick with it and come here when you have issues you can't figure out how to fix.
Grayson Anderson
>Can any of you recommend video editing software for Gentoo? Yeah, anything that works on any GNU/Linux distro. That isn't the kind of software that would be distro specific, and it would be ridiculous to think otherwise. >Openshot will not start up for whatever reason (literally no error messages, nothing, running "openshot" in the terminal says "command not found".) The binary is probably called something else. >Shortcut isn't in the repository. Have you tried looking at their official website? Where they point you towards their Github repo? Have you checked the overlays?
Adrian Reed
I said I installed everything using portage so the fact that Shortcut was installed using a package manager was, sorry for not making that clear. I tried using both my normal user account and root to run it. I tried opening it up from the "Applications" menu (am using XFCE) which would do nothing and typing "openshot" in the terminal which would return command not found. I can't remember the permissions, am re-emerging at the moment to check and try again.
I was using Kdenlive and liked it very much except that the startup wizard would ask me to install the breeze-icons and frei0r-plugins, which I did. Upon relaunching Kdenlive with both packages installed, the correct icons were displayed and the warning about the missing Breeze icon package was gone but the frei0r plugins are allegedly still missing. I couldn't find a single person with the same problem. I'd honestly rather try to fix that. Any ideas?
Joseph Miller
I want to use calcurse but i want to sync with my phone in some way. Is that possible?
Nathan Cox
did you mean to post the same script twice?
Juan Perry
>and typing "openshot" in the terminal which would return command not found See, this doesn't actually rule anything out. For starters what if it has a different name like "openshot-gtk" or something.
With portage you can figure it out by running equery f openshot | grep bin
Also whatever that command spits out try running it exactly from that path. Just typing a command without a path on GNU/Linux always searches your $PATH for the command. You want to cut that step out. So run it directly like "/usr/bin/openshot" or wherever it's located.
I'm guessing it's somewhere in "sbin" which is often not included in your $PATH by default.
Samuel Powell
>Yeah, anything that works on any GNU/Linux distro. That isn't the kind of software that would be distro specific, and it would be ridiculous to think otherwise. I know, I just wanted to know if there is any more stuff available in the Gentoo repos. >Have you tried looking at their official website? Where they point you towards their Github repo? Have you checked the overlays? Am a brainlet and a newbie to Gentoo and GNU/Linux in general, I still need to look into how overlays work in portage and how to install software outside of the official repos.
What a general command to identify the init system?
Justin Collins
just realized one said update and the other install, my bad
Landon Bennett
Can i use golang binary, compiled on ubuntu with 4.10, on debian 8?
Samuel Green
No problem
Jackson Thompson
Any systemd users ITT?
Asher Cook
I was being an idiot and it does indeed have a different name, it was "openshot-qt". Now it throws up this: Loaded modules from installed directory: /usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/openshot_qt launch:INFO ------------------------------------------------ launch:INFO OpenShot (version 2.3.4) launch:INFO ------------------------------------------------ app:INFO openshot-qt version: 2.3.4 app:INFO libopenshot version: 0.1.7 app:INFO platform: Linux-4.12.5-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i5-6500_CPU_@_3.20GHz-with-gentoo-2.3 app:INFO processor: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz app:INFO machine: x86_64 app:INFO python version: 3.4.5 app:INFO qt5 version: 5.7.1 app:INFO pyqt5 version: 5.7.1 logger:ERROR Traceback (most recent call last): logger:ERROR File "/usr/bin/openshot-qt", line 11, in logger:ERROR load_entry_point('openshot-qt==2.3.4', 'gui_scripts', 'openshot-qt')() logger:ERROR File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/openshot_qt/launch.py", line 70, in main logger:ERROR app = OpenShotApp(sys.argv) logger:ERROR File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/openshot_qt/classes/app.py", line 91, in __init__ logger:ERROR from classes import exceptions logger:ERROR File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/openshot_qt/classes/exceptions.py", line 30, in logger:ERROR from classes.metrics import track_exception_stacktrace logger:ERROR File "/usr/lib64/python3.4/site-packages/openshot_qt/classes/metrics.py", line 30, in logger:ERROR import requests logger:ERROR ImportError logger:ERROR : logger:ERROR No module named 'requests'
Am I missing a package?
Adam Rodriguez
No. I'm closing this post
Eli Morgan
OK, for whatever reason, I can't actually post the command to do this.
But this is one way to find out what your init system is. Follow the hard link.
Josiah Collins
Now that I don't know about. You might have luck just googling the error about missing requests module. I don't know if that's Qt related or Openshot related though, it could be either I guess.
If still no luck then you might just want to ask on the gentoo forums (assuming you're using gentoo because portage) or maybe even stackexchange
Luis Perry
Changed GPUs booted and installed Solus. Everything was normal until the installation finished and it tried to reboot. Now the red LED is blinking and its beeping. No idea why. What could it be ?
Jordan Allen
Check your mobo for what the led means and then go from there
Leo Jackson
It's "ls -l" which triggers connection errors. Had the same problems some days ago. >posted with code tags between - and l
Jaxon Lee
install i3 or i3-gaps
Jordan Taylor
“RAM problem“ but i only changed GPUs and it worked before i installed Solus what the hell ...
Aaron Williams
its graphics card guy from last thread, i installed what i think was the driver's, and its still shitting itself. tried with lower quality 3d games got the same result's. any ideas?
Kayden Miller
Fuck it, I'm installing linux. Should I just use the base ubuntu and install a DE later at my pleasing, or do I benefit from picking a flavor from the getgo?
Kevin Nguyen
Why does cinnamon sucks so much at cpu usage? There's was a time that this DE was usable but, since some old version that I don't remember till the actual 3.4.6, this shit is burning my fucking notebook.
Owen Powell
It was a RAM problem kek Why did my fucking ram die out od nowhere
Nathaniel Torres
which of these should I use?
Connor Reed
bin
Carson Bell
thanks
Thomas Robinson
having a bit of trouble setting up a dual boot system with win 10. I've read that win10 reserves an EFI boot partition but the 500mb reserved partition is ntfs and efibootmgr demands a fat32 partition. do I really have to create yet another boot partition or is that avoidable with a reasonable amount of effort?
Robert Long
archwiki dual boot read it
Jaxon Wood
Install dwm
Carson Cooper
I'm going to nuke my shit and start again. I have everything critical backed up multiple times both locally and remotely so I don't stand to lose a great deal if shit goes south, but in the event that it does indeed go wrong or I have regrets afterwards, is sudo rsync -aHAX --exclude=dev/* --exclude=*lost+found/* --exclude=mnt/* --exclude=proc/* --exclude=run/* --exclude=sys/* --exclude=tmp/* --exclude=var/tmp/* --exclude=opt/games/* / /mnt/network/bkup/$(hostname).fs/ 2>$HOME/rsync.error a good enough command to allow me to restore my shit as painlessly as possible? Is there anything I've missed? I'd rather not dd because I have a lot of free space and it'd be wasteful. Also don't have a spare disk so that's out.
Zachary James
when did you realize that hjkl is a deprecated meme and start using your arrow keys?
Bentley Cox
>open file in nano >jjjlhjljlkhjkl tldr; never.
Jayden Campbell
When using i3. >movement: hjkl >split vertical: v >split horizontal: ???
Ayden Sanchez
hjkl is pretty much everywhere. Enjoy being cucked with less etc. I even use it in my browser.
Charles Collins
lel
Speaking of nano. How to rice? >syntax >indent >...
Michael Cook
You may have misunderstood me. I'm saying I never thought it was deprecated because I try to use it even when it's not a thing. Programs without hjkl get the boot.
Noah Cooper
include the syntax files in your nanorc. I think there's a line you can uncomment to include everything in one go.
Jaxson Ramirez
thanks
Joseph Wilson
Actually the opposite. I just assumed it was a meme from the start and used arrow keys for a long time
But then I started learning about more useful ways to do thing in vim where my hands were always on the home row and using arrows was tedious, so I slowly started finding hjkl extremely useful and more efficient.
Only in vim though (and also firefox with vimfx plugin) Anywhere else it shows up I usually remap it, like in i3 I completely changed those hotkeys. There's no point in deciding to navigate by keyboard or mouse and always with my right hand, when I could have my left hand do some work
James Hughes
What do you guys think about Solus ? Looks good but it feels weird to use eopkg
William Evans
map map map map
Blake Miller
If I dual boot Windows 10 and Manjaro, would it be easy to set up encryption for both? Could I just encrypt Windows with BitLocker/VeraCrypt, and encrypt Manjaro at the initial install?
Eli Flores
just delete your cheese pizza
Brody Cooper
Just another non-declarative distro
Austin Morris
Is there a signal I can send to rsync to see what file it is currently processing?
David Gutierrez
Since I can't load mp3 files on Ardour, researching around people say to convert it before. But I couldn't find any proper tip as to what format I should convert to. What would be a lossy equivalent that Ardour accepts? I could just convert to wav, but this might decay the quality even a bit more, and even if it doesn't I'll have a much bigger filesize for nothing since it won't add any quality. The same question goes for .opus file.
Are there free equivalents for these files, that would keep a very similar and coherent file in all aspects?
Nicholas Morales
.ogg
Carson Walker
Thanks, man. Do you mean for both .mp3 and .opus though?
Noah Cooper
im trying but arch livecd wont let me because of zsh
Kayden Hill
How do i install debian to a partition without wiping the entire disk?
Nathaniel Edwards
--progress
Aaron Howard
Assuming you're using windows you need to make your partition in that first, then when you boot into the live usb and proceed to install you have to make your own sub partitions to the partition you previously made. Honestly if you google linux dual boot it'll go into more detail
Blake Martin
That's an option, I mean a signal for an already running process that isn''t using any verbosity options. I got it into my head that SIGUSR1 would cause rsync to announce the file it is processing (like tarsnap's ^T) but it just killed it the process. Not sure where I got the idea from, to be honest.
Adrian Johnson
Use a search engine which respects your privacy.
Dylan Parker
mp3. I don't know about opus, sorry. Never used it.
Gavin Smith
opus is amazing compact, you get 320 style quality with just 128-192.
James Rogers
im already at the partitioning phase of the install i partitioned off 800gb for debian what do i do here to get it to install on it?
Actually it's fine on Sup Forums and your desktop fuckeries it since the picture contains exif data wich tells your viewer how to orient it, but Sup Forums removes exif data to protext us from ourselves.
Dominic Hernandez
Should I get a NAS?
My desktop runs 24/7 anyway. I don't dual-boot and the last time I installed a new operating system was 7 years ago. So the desktop is basically a server.
So why would I need a NAS? I can just RAID-5 a few HDDs in my desktop and share them
Adam Bennett
hello thread, I love you
Brayden Hernandez
Yeah, it sounds pretty impressive. I tried converting to .ogg and it wasn't much but some of the body was lost through the conversion. What definitely doesn't happen with mp3.
Only way I've managed to keep an .opus recording decent after conversion so I could load on Ardour was full-blowing to .wav. Which is shitty practice, but .ogg although close to .opus in type of compression just wasn't cutting at all.
Jayden Jones
Name one (1) reason why you aren't running Bebian right now.
