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Which is the most normie distro? Which is the least normie distro?
Austin Reed
most normalfag: ubuntu least normalfag: LFS
Nolan Evans
LFS isn't a distro.
Jack Lee
Should I bother with hosting web apps on my server? I can't see myself using most of them.
Easton Rodriguez
So what's recommended for creating a standalone container file with LUKS? The faq recommends mounting it as a loop device and mapping it, although you could just map it with cryptsetup as you would a device. Honestly, I'm not sure wha the difference is.
Henry Phillips
Most normie: Debian Least normie: Slackware
Benjamin Fisher
Anyone use or tried Plasma Neon?
I'm on Manjaro and like the AUR and attitude of the community behind Arch, but there's just so many little stupid problems I'd honestly rather not deal with.
I kinda like being a KDEcuck, so debating trying out their (non-)distro. Plus no canonical
Eli Lopez
still have this problem - where can i change that
even with Thunar or Spacefm the sorting is the same. so i guess it's a system setting
where can i change that then?
Nolan Cox
I know, LFS is rather a "book", a set of instructions on how to create a gahnoo+linux distro yourself from 0.
But if you really go that far, then you made yourself a distro which is not something any normalkek can tell about himself.
Isaiah Perez
Is this for real? They really put the free software song in a manga? Also is there a youtube video where I can hear this in Japanese?
Carson Watson
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Hunter Richardson
Is there any reason not to use void other than package availability (I've checked and nothing I really need seems to be missing)?
Jose Anderson
thx, that did it for me. after setting LC_COLLATE=C i needed to rename the files to start with ! or any other Character before A in ascii table
Tyler Smith
Oh also, you can verify if that's really the issue or not by launching your file manager in a terminal like: LC_COLLATE=C my_file_manager If the sorting works properly then that's the problem
Dylan Fisher
will check that later
Logan Sanders
QDDM is ugly as hell, how do I make it look nicer?
Easton Johnson
When installing from the AUR, why do the -git versions of packages always take WAY longer to install?
Justin Perry
>installing from the AUR enjoy ur malware
Dylan Flores
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Jonathan Nguyen
You're building from source...
Jonathan Collins
Show me 1 case where a package from aur had malware.
Oh wait fedora/redhat/debian/uboobtu/ had their downloads changed to a malicious ijso. hmmm
Nolan Hall
Read the PKGBUILDs and you'll understand.
Matthew Wilson
Is there an accessible, complete, and comprehensive suite of organizational tools suitable for academic purposes including calendar, agenda and standard and some kind of notepad with an organized homepage or launcher? Am I stuck with normie operating systems unless I'm willing to search for all of those things?
Nathaniel Hernandez
yes
Robert Lewis
emacs
Caleb Gray
if I rsync a directory that has links in it, will the files from the links get copied or just the link? I set them up with ln -s so I think they're symbolic
Caleb Rogers
athergos
Oliver Ortiz
I love that image.
Robert Moore
I want a rolling release distro that will not be difficult to install shit, any recommendation?
Cameron Barnes
openSuse?
Thomas Brown
Never used any non-deb based distro, how difficult is to find shit or converting deb to rpm?
Alexander Morris
This should be an anime.
Logan Gomez
Anyone have experience with using Linux on a Dell Latitude E6430?
Jack Gray
I always see people here with awesome and aesthetic desktops but using KDE, how do you guys make this ugly think being so pretty?
Matthew Rodriguez
openSuse has decent package manager and a lot of repos rivaling debian but more updated, it also has support for user sources (kinda like AUR), converting deb to rpm with "alien" its really easy, i have only used for converting rpm to deb though.
Not on that specific model, but dell has great linux support, they even sell latitudes with ubuntu on their website.
Jonathan Murphy
Manjaro
Bentley Bailey
Is it an actual manga? If so someone please say the name, reverse image search isn't giving anything useful. Or is it just a 1 off joke image not a part of anything? Or a shoop?
Zachary Jackson
Don't use C, use your actual locale, like en_US-UTF8 for example.
Jordan Carter
Can anyone explain to me, why TOP does not show what programs are using all your memory? For example, if you add up RES, and get say 150MB, but total memory used is 600MB, where is the discrepancy? Is the usage of the OS basically total used minus RES? (leaving out shared memory for simplicity).
Parker Reed
It looks like ubunchu but I don't remember that part from the manga. Ubunchu is a fun manga though and it's free as in freedom.
Carson Brown
Yep ln -s is symbolic link.
Pretty sure either just the links will get copied, or nothing will copy at all. They wouldn't grab all the files that are being linked to
Xavier Foster
virt includes libraries (which may be) shared with other programs, and shr is only stuff shared with other programs.
Parker Ramirez
Just the links, but you can add -L to make it follow the links.
Jordan Lee
What's the best DM?
Camden Sanders
SLiM
Blake Moore
lightDM
Carson Davis
When is the KDE Plasma update with the built-in blue light filter setting coming out?
Adrian Stewart
I used to use that but it ignores a fuckton of characters. I have a lot of Japanese music and it's like Japanese characters are completely invisible to it, you could add an A or B to the end of two japanese filenames and they always gets sorted by those english characters.
For a while because of that I actually switched to using ja_JP-UTF8 until someone pointed out that C sorts everything
Kayden Garcia
nvm fixed it's Plasma 5.11 which releases in 2 days (the 10th)
Chase Garcia
You forsook Jesus when you decided to use a Communist operating system.
Isaac Smith
>chromium compiling for 5 hours and counting
Jacob Bell
Which FAQ are you looking at? I usually do the latter. I had no idea you could do the former, actually. I wish there was better documentation on how LUKS works, for Gentoo. I mean, it's kind of simple, in theory, but I always feel like the documentation is always overlooking some critical part, as though it were just a given when it isn't, and it's so frustrating compiling everything only to find out that Gentoo won't boot because of some stupid, simple thing, and I have to do the whole install all over again because I don't really have a reference I can fall back onto to simply troubleshoot. Very frustrating.
Oliver Walker
>Using global hotkeys for an X11 program >Need to register with every permutation of ignored modifier keys Jesus Christ, I hope Wayland will have a better solution for this
Oliver Johnson
CANT REPRODUCE Uxe xev + xbindkeys
Jonathan Bailey
I'm programming in C++.
Easton Cox
i installed icecat and what the fuck are these "click to reveal hidden elements" buttons floating in the top right corner
Dylan Butler
When doing any sort of operation on files that possess something to the effect of "-*" in their name (where "*" is any character), often times the operation will get fucked up because it will try to interpret the "-*" as an option. So, for instance, if an operation is being done on a desktop file named "-g- - Technology", it'll interpret the "-g" as an option and fuck everything up.
Is there a way around this apart from renaming my files?
Levi Perry
That's from the "reveal hidden elements" addon. You can disable it
Jayden Jackson
In most cases, you can do [command] [options] -- [files]. That is, put "--" between the command and the files.
Brayden Collins
Anyone know why the wifi connection would drop randomly? It's not a network issue, nothing else drops randomly. Using arch linux with kde, not sure how I'd check which program is managing connections.
Jackson Perez
Thanks!
Landon Rogers
enter the filename in quotes, tends to work for me $ vim ":file -name %with odd*characters(())"
Hudson Rivera
Is it a 5GHz network?
Mine was doing the same thing in manjaro KDE, I just use my 2.4GHz network now. Kinda sucks but oh well.
Hunter Williams
it's mixed, which is probably the problem since there's no need to have 2 separate networks, and because it confuses normies, I just set my AP to run in 2.4/5 mixed >"which network do I connect to?" >"what's the password?" >"does that password work on this nerwork?"
Brody Cox
Are there any cute ASCII dancing anime girl programs I can run in a terminal window?
Dylan Hall
How the FUCK do i make ranger open files with vim?
Ryan Ross
Like cmatrix? i don/t know anything like that, but there are gif to Ascii converters on github where you can input illya_dance.gif and get an html file with moving text.
Nolan Hill
Exactly like cmatrix.
Ideally I just want some code to stick in a cron job script so while my files are backed up I'm greeted by a cute anime girl letting me know how it's going
Thomas Jones
Turns it works fine with rxvt instead of xterm.
Nicholas Jenkins
And now the fucking ranger process won't close after hitting mod+shift+q resulting 50 process open if i don't manually close them.
David Morales
As said, -- is pretty much standard on GNU programs, but I wouldn't rely on that. ./-* works too (./ refers to the current directory).
Colton Clark
I'm about to give up and just use Fedora again. It just works
Daniel Cooper
Sounds like a fun project, i modified some code i found on github, it was used to randomly get a gif from reddit and make an ascii animation for bash. Pretty useless if you ask me, but it takes any gif you feed it and outputs the characters to console. #!/bin/bash
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then FRAMES=gifimgout%05d.jpg VID=$1
# Split the gif / gifv into frames if [ -f $VID ]; then ffmpeg -i $VID $FRAMES > /dev/null 2>&1 elif [ -f $GIF ]; then convert -coalesce $GIF $FRAMES > /dev/null 2>&1 fi
#Display each frame in ASCII, sleep, and clear the screen for img in gifimgout*.jpg; do jp2a -f --grayscale $img sleep 0.05 #adjust this for speed clear done
# Tidy up rm gifimgout*.jpg gifs in.gif in.gifv 2> /dev/null
else echo "No file" fi
I tested it with pic related
Luis Clark
anyone here use lxde (i.e. lubuntu) just because it looks better than the rest?
Connor Gomez
If your EDITOR environment variable is set to vim, you can just press E on a file.
Luis Morris
Very new to linux Installed Debian, I did the encryption LVM with a separate home partition
First boot, I go to apt-get install something and it tells me that my username >is not in the sudoers file, incident will be reported
Google tells me that its a "broken" sudo, but im not sure what that means and with a brand new install shouldnt it work?
Does the encryption and separate home partition change things? Do I have to access root power some other way because of it?
a) Since you use bash, use bash syntax: [[ instead of [.
b) Not an error, but a bad habit: don't use uppercase variables to make sure not to overwrite some env variable by accident.
c) Quote variables. No exeptions.
d) If you want, you can shorten 0.05 to .05.
e) Look into mktemp, which generates a random file or directory, so you don't need to fuck around in the current directory. Makes things safer.
Benjamin Morris
add your username too /etc/sudoers
Connor Butler
use su
Dominic Sullivan
There's no reason to use su ever.
Robert Murphy
What are some cool terminal commands?
Juan Rodriguez
Will do, thanks for the tips, i have no proper knowledge of bash scripting "just work" knowledge.
su executes the .bashrc for the root user i think, it might be useful to have some alias or script only root can execute.
Nathan Richardson
I swear im sick of the shitty gnu/linux fuckery man. >install new 16.04 xubuntu >update to 17.04 >mouse and keyboard dont work >grub doesnt boot Wtf am i supposed to do
Carson Phillips
Stop using crap distros.
Matthew Hernandez
Upgrading is probably one of the biggest reasons to not use *buntus. For whatever reason, it's catastrophic at least once a year.
Matthew Phillips
This is supposed to be one of the distros that Just Werks from what ive heard I cant image the other more fringe ones. How do you deal with troubleshooting everything everyday youre on the computer?
Give me something that just works
Asher Anderson
I heard Windows just works.
Liam Collins
"st" is the command for a pretty good terminal
The other interpretation is nonsensical. "What are some cool commands for computers?" - yea, its the ones that do the things you want / need done, whether you run them from terminal or not.
Brandon Roberts
You should never recommend Windows, not even as insult.
Alexander Jones
It's nothing that serious. You just have to add your username to the sudoers file (that is, /etc/sudoers).
So, depending on how you want to get permission to use sudo, you might do:
1) Just getting sudo permission by yourself: su (then type in root's password) visudo and then add yourusername ALL=(ALL) ALL somewhere in the file (usually under a similar line with root)
or 2) getting permission by adding yourself to a group Assuming your /etc/sudoers file is the same as the above link's, then all you need to do is: su adduser yourusername sudo
In both cases, you can type exit after you've finished, and you should be done.
Juan Carter
Debian is the one that just works, ubuntu is the one thats more friendly.
Liam Barnes
>Give me something that just works Fedora?
Josiah Price
Unironically thinking of switching back for the 1000th time.
William Ross
I manually got into the file with nano and it wouldnt let me save it
I just did the visudo and its working perfectly now Thanks user