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Users of all levels are welcome to ask questions about GNU/Linux and share their experiences.

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Before asking for help, please check our list of resources.

If you would like to try out GNU/Linux you can do one of the following:
0) Install a GNU/Linux distribution of your choice in a Virtual Machine.
1) Use a live image and to boot directly into the GNU/Linux distribution without installing anything.
2) Dual boot the GNU/Linux distribution of your choice along with Windows or macOS.
3) Go balls deep and replace everything with GNU/Linux.

Resources:
Your friendly neighborhood search engine.
$ man %command%
$ info %command%
$ help %command%
$ %command% -h
$ %command% --help

Don't know what to look for?
$ apropos %something%

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: →
/fglt/'s website and copypasta collection:
fglt.nl && p.teknik.io/wJ9Zy

Other urls found in this thread:

muen.sk/
scs.stanford.edu/histar/
freedos.org/
freevms.net/
capros.org/
kolibrios.org/en/
github.com/0intro/plan9-gpl
reactos.org/
jnode.org/
gnu.org/software/hurd/
archhurd.org/
wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
twitter.com/SFWRedditVideos

Good thread. GREAT thread.

y-you too

Rate my idea of storing pages offline under /srv/local

...

As opposed to what?

/boot

why would you do that?

For the next OP, there's actually a new thread for GNU/Linux games

Why do people use man pages when there's GNU Info?

Friendly reminder that Linux is just the kernel. Other kernels under GPL are:
The Muen Separation Kernel muen.sk/
and HiStar scs.stanford.edu/histar/

Operating Systems under GPL are:
FreeDOS freedos.org/
FreeVMS freevms.net/
CapROS capros.org/
KolibriOS kolibrios.org/en/
Plan 9 github.com/0intro/plan9-gpl
ReactOS reactos.org/
JNode jnode.org/

Special mention to GNU/Hurd gnu.org/software/hurd/
Arch Hurd archhurd.org/
Debian GNU/Hurd wiki.debian.org/Debian_GNU/Hurd

Friendly acknowledgement

Ubuntu vs Xubuntu vs mint
Which one should I use as my first distro

Doesn't matter much. Mint perhaps?

No, not Mint. Mint is a showcase distro and has historically been shown to be an unreliable and unsafe distro for actual use. Use Ubuntu or some variant thereof.

I want to use xfce as my DE if that effects anything

Then use an Ubuntu flavor.

PCLinux

I like xubuntu

I have to say PCLinux is very newbie friendly as it comes with additional packages (like codecs) to ease non-technical people the transition without even bother on touching the terminal if you don't really want to.

Who was in the wrong here?

>GnU pLuS LiNuX

I DIE SUKII all of my /fglt/ frens!

What are some cool terminal commands?

Is there a way to make image-dired applicable to video files and animated gif's?

when will gtk3 stop being dumb?
the file dialog is far more minimalist than anything apple

GTK3 will never stop being dumb. We'll just move onto the next Big Thing a` la x86-64. In this case, it would be GTK4.

I'm trying to set up usb wifi on a raspberry pi. The tutorial I'm follwing says to edit /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf as so:
network={
ssid="YOUR_SSID"
proto=RSN
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
pairwise=CCMP TKIP
group=CCMP TKIP
psk="YOUR_PASSWORD"


My first question is, should there be a closing } for all that? Also, for ssid, if my network is called
>bitchface
Do I put it as
ssid=bitchface

or
ssid="bitchface"

?

>should there be a closing } for all that?
Yes.
>Do I put it as ssid=bitchface or ssid="bitchface"?
The latter.

Then Xubuntu

c-can I be your girlfriend, user?

You're in the wrong place, pal.

i-isn't this an anime website?

show buttplug

It's not a dating site, that much I can tell you.

blue board

can we just hold hands then?

>blue board
>hold hands
get your shit together, son.

You can show buttplugs on blue boards

>son
Look the BroccoliButts profile on porn hub. Thank me later.

you know, i've noticed something kind of interesting while browsing through the archives--

it seems like a lot of people end their distro hopping with debian. it's just a particular observation, but it seems like people finally end up on debian and they're happy with it. why is that? for you debian users, why do you like it so much? what's special about it?

The appeal of Debian is that it's not special. Like a rebellious teenager and their worthless ornaments v/ a normal, functioning member of society.

Never hopped that much. When I was in the hopping part of being a novice, downloading 700MB would take one week. And would have to wake up at 01:00 to start the download, and again at 05:00 to stop it.

At the time being able to download download/buy the entire repos in CD would be a deal breaker.

Nowadays is stability and muh freedom.

Sure we can hold hands user

I like a lot of the debian-based distros because of the usability. I'm not really into using Linux just so I can make a ricer. I just like it because of the security and lack of data mining from microsoft.

>3d
Ew
>Pornhub
Ewwwww

.debs are probably *the* most common Linux install archives you might find while browsing the interwebs, besides tars themselves. You can confidently say that, if it doesn't work on Debian, it probably doesn't work anywhere.

Plus, Debian probably has the best community.

Nonetheless, it's not *the* only endgame distro. Pretty much all non-babby distros are endgame quality, due to either software availability or the way the system is arranged.

Or you could just build from source. If it's free software, there should be a popular means of distribution beyond a Debian binary.

But Deb's aren't exclusively packaged for Debian. Often time, you'll find Deb's that are packaged with specific Ubuntu packages in mind and won't work as-is on Debian. The same way Slackware, OpenSuse, Fedora are all RPM distros (which are supposed to be the standard, by the way) or Slackware and PC(GNU)Linux and tarballs, Gentoo and Exherbo with ebuilds...

Back then you could buy home-burned distro discs for like $2 at the local computer shops along with all those txt file collections of hacker shit. Good time to learn before windows really hit its stride.

Windows hit its stride far before that. Just ask Gary.

I downloaded mine at school (those in the pica are mine). I spent a lot of time pretending to make comic sans power point presentations.

Windows wasn't good til like 2004.

Or you could ask Mark Shuttleworth for a copy of Ubuntu. Or get a copy from your local library.

>implying it has ever been good

Windows was never good.

I actually still have some of the free discs they sent in the mail. Back when everything was all brown and orange and earth toned. Came with free stickers!

Thanks for recounting what was already common knowledge.

rude
Nice feels.

I never shared my discs with anyone. Ever.

Well as bad as windows is currently, it was much worse. It really soundly beat X11 by the time XP got some service packs. Hardware was still pretty non-linuxy til maybe late 2000s, too.

You don't need a good product to have a monopoly, you stupid Microsoft apologist.

Windows isn't even better now, it was then. Windows was still practically unusable in the 90s. I don't have a single windows machine, or mac. Linux is a great desktop OS, just needs to get rid of X11 still.

I shared mine with all my friends in College and got them to pass it on when they were done, because we lived in a poor neighbourhood, no one could really download them. kinda wish I had kept them now

What is the most optimal and simple way of running software vpn router and services like sonarr/torrents/plex/smb on an old core2duo era laptop with 1core and 2gb ram?
Ubuntu server with 128mb LEDE virtuabox VM?

I'm not really sure running LEDE in a VM (pick qemu / kvm if you can) will simplify anything for you vs just running Ubuntu server for all of this.

I'm a newfag to Sup Forums. How much of a meme is gentoo, and is it suitable as a first linux OS?

It isn't a meme at all. Its objectively one of the most customizable and powerful Gnu/Linux systems available.

However, for a first linux OS, I wouldn't recommend it unless I hated that person.

>However, for a first linux OS, I wouldn't recommend it unless I hated that person.
Why is that?

Is this really as friendly a thread as it seems?
I need a friendly place to make friends.

It's an actually serious distribution. Has a very powerful package manager and the distro maintainers are doing a good job.

> is it suitable as a first linux OS
It's documented well enough that you can install it as a beginner - it's not really going to be easier later on either.

But you probably *don't need it*.

If you just want to install a Linux so you can continue posting on this site while you watch Japanese lesbian porn in mpv, you'll be at that point much faster if you pick a binary desktop distro like mint, ubuntu, fedora, opensuse, sabayon, whatever.

Have you tried reading the OP? Also, it's GNU/Linux.

Mostly because of the installation process being extremely long and tedious, due to having to compile everything. Portage handles it for you, but it's still pretty time consuming.

There's a very steep learning curve. The Gentoo handbook can walk you through an installation, but there's not a lot of "if something goes wrong" information. You're left to Google's mercy for searching your error messages.

I wouldn't recommend Gentoo unless you have at least a couple of years of working with linux as a daily driver, or you have all the time and patience in the world for googling your issues.

If you aren't afraid to brick your shit from time to time, or having to constantly rebuild your kernel because of a missed feature, or generally getting your hands dirty, you can make Gentoo sing like nothing else. You'll feel like a goddamn wizard when you're done.

That said, there's a challenge there. Its definitely doing linux "the hard way", and it isn't for everyone.

The installation process is also full of pitfalls for someone who isn't accustomed to tools like parted or fdisk or terminal text editors.

I'd dare say Portage is the best thing going in the GNU/Linux universe right now. Between overlays, the masking system, and USE flags, I don't know of anything that gives you quite as much power and flexibility.

what is the linux equivalent of c:\program files?

Also what is the diffdrece between /usr/lib ans /usr/share ? Sometimes I find libraries for a program in one and sometimes in other

> I need a friendly place to make friends.
Figures you want to watch this for the placebo effect.

Well, it takes more than the usual simple installs on distros with an installer and binary packages. If that's what you want.

But extremely long or extremely tedious is an overstatement. There are much, much harder and lengthier and more annoying things than installing Gentoo. And today's computers can crunch sauce code pretty damn fast.

Ultimately if you customize certain things or even just want software in specific versions, it can be faster.

Try a local gay bar, gay boy, I bet you use downstream distributions and cat | grep, fucking idiots.

> what is the linux equivalent of c:\program files?
There is no such thing, unless you're on like, GoboLinux or other distros that do arrange programs into individual folders.

Regular distros are structured like this:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

>install open suse
>pick lvm encryption
>only 50 gib available on my folder
>50gib more in the root folder
>ssd has 256 gib
why, I picked the whole ssd for the OS. Did I mark something wrong when I installed it?

Check "lvdisplay -C" and "df -h" for starters.

great post

Will do when I get home again. Currently can't access my laptop.

With Ubuntu 17.10 is it possible to get rid of the task bar altogether? If so, how?

Why is the Windows Subsystem for Linux not a Windows Subsystem for FreeBSD instead??

Because the targeted audience uses gnu+linux, not freebsd.
Tbh nobody uses freebsd, not even freebsd devs.

FANTASTIC post.

Does the laptop have two Ethernet ports? Surely you will need two NIC's for this to work

install Gentoo

I'm pretty sure they use it on servers

Okay, try again when you get home again and get access to your laptop

Why the fuck are you asking questions when you aren't even at your computer? No one even needed to know that. You aren't a Southern grandma wasting some poor IT nerd's time with problems that you vaguely remember in your car running errands.

I'm about to install arch, first itme linux, I red there are some desktop environments to choose from, do I install gnome or wich one? Does it even matter?

I want linux for my laptop when I'm outside and the only things I do is reading PDF documents, write code and browse the internet
and I hate using my touchpad so much, I would love to be able to do most of the things with just the keyboard
I saw people doing everything in the console, that looks comfy

oh and I also want to "rice" it a little bit, thats what you call it right? to make it look minimalistic and comfy

Is it hard to install Ubuntu on a regular SD-card?
Want to boot from it since my Laptop has a port for this.

GNU/Linux

install Gentoo.
Look up debootstrap.

No, it's as trivial as doing a normal install.

Expect terrible "disk" performance thou.

> Triggered

> He just asked a question friend, this is a friendly thread, we're all inexperienced here.

I'm going to use chink RTL8153 dongle for wan interface.

>page 10

systemctl bump thread

The differences between them?

xubuntu and plain ubuntu with the xfce metapackage installed slightly differ in terms of preinstalled software.
Installing the xubuntu-desktop metapackage on a plain ubuntu system gives you a full xubuntu experience

If you want to use xfce, try xubuntu or debian with xfce desktop.

I3wm