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And to reiterate for readibility: The usb wifi seems to work, but it can't connect to my homework. At the desktop, it recognizes my home network, but says it can't connect because the network is encrypted, and that I must enter the encryption key. I assume this is just the password, but when I type that in, nothing happens. What do?
Zachary Anderson
Delete your other post.
Kevin Jones
Well, people have been long known to connect totalitarian regimes, full of state, capital and classes, with communism. So, the simple answer is because people have absolutely no idea what the word communism means. We can thank the relentless propaganda done by the United States during the cold war for that.
terminal commands are to increase work productive. They're not parlor tricks. Anyways learn bash scripting and impress your friends by starting your coffeemaker using terminal
Kevin Butler
fortune | cowsay
Josiah Harris
...
Ryan Gray
e-file
from the app-portage/pfl package allows you to find packages containing even if they're not installed on your system
Adam Murphy
how do I interface my computer with the coffee maker?
Lincoln Young
>family guy just tie the noose already
Jack Taylor
how do I learn more about UNIX??
Downloading OpenSUSE hasn't taught me fuck all about UNIX systems.
Blake Price
install OpenBSD
Nicholas Baker
UNIX is not a system, it's a trademark.
Easton Taylor
Anti-GNU shitposters confirmed for liking Family Guy.
Isaiah Perez
rube goldberg it
Nicholas Bennett
Read some O'Rielly books, check your stats to see if you've advanced to gentoomancer status; if not, rinse and repeat.
Robert Cruz
woah
Tyler Thompson
install slackware
Camden Bennett
>GnU pLuS LiNuX
David Richardson
Who here also uses the GNU Operating System?
Andrew Ward
Whaow What does this image convey?
Mason Nelson
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Thomas Young
GNU OS is best OS.
Brandon Watson
>spongie buble
Ethan Myers
Is Hurd finished yet?
Camden Sanders
I know, right? Hilarious!
Carson Mitchell
Nope. Try checking tomorrow.
Logan Collins
I'm thinking of finally using linux full time for programming/development in general but don't like the idea of dual booting. You probably get dummies asking questions like this all the time but can I have linux act almost like a second desktop on windows with things like virtualbox? I just want a fullscreen, aside from the bottom bar, window without borders that I can switch to at will.
Mason Cox
>can I have linux act almost like a second desktop on windows with things like virtualbox yes, but you should do it the other way around have gnu/linux run on bare metal and keep wangblows contained in a virtual machine (if you even need it at all)
Henry Thompson
I would, but all the ones that are GNU/BSD are dead and those are the only GNU OSes I really like.
Caleb Price
One step at a time. I still use photoshop, play games and like to use my hardware without tinkering with device drivers all day. I've definitely found myself needing windows specific things less and less though but that doesn't give me a reason to switch my entire OS just yet.
Justin Taylor
Why would you like that as an end user? Those are really academic projects and would have never been appealing even if the did leave the ground.
Daniel Flores
I don't think you can run just a kernel in virtualbox.
Robert Morris
So use a VM?
Bentley James
why not?
Kevin Mitchell
Is there any way to resize my partitions without repartitioning a drive
my windows partition is like 70 gb and I don"t use windows anymore
Blake Moore
It mocks people who correct others all the time when they say "Linux" instead of "GNU plus Linux" or "GNU/Linux". Everyone knows what one is referring to when "Linux" is said. It gets annoying and shows off your autism level.
Liam Edwards
But what if I'm referring to Linux? You're making a lot of assumptions.
Landon Lopez
So you repost a meme image with meme text from black twitter in every general you're in in order to counter annoying autistic shitposting? Sound logic.
Cooper Butler
You can grow lvm and I think gpt partitions arbitrarily and old msdos style partitions if the free space is physically directly behind.
Andrew Cruz
>assumptions Assumptions are an integral part of language and most people are capable of making them. As someone who has worked in jobs where we worked on the linux kernel while using linux distros I can assure you no-one was every confused about whether we were discussing a distro or not.
Carson Foster
I assume that you don't know what you're talking about, because you're a black twitter shitposter.
Leo Adams
The idea of it was fun to entertain: Using a FreeBSD kernel with a GNU/Debian userland gave you all the benefits of Debian and apt with the sensation that you're using the kernel of a true Unix descendant.
Levi Nelson
Deepin vs. ElementaryOS vs. Solus Discuss.
Bentley Allen
That sounds incredibly stupid.
Alexander Green
No. To all. But use whatever you want.
Cooper Gray
So this thread is only specifically for GNU/Linux? What if I wanted to discuss Busybox/Linux?
Robert Lopez
Busybox is not an operating system.
Jose King
You check the catalog for a Busybox/Linux thread, in case there is none, you create one. Welcome to Sup Forums.
Mason Thomas
But the fact remains that there are Linux distros without GNU that use BusyBox as an alternative to the GNU coreutils.
Aaron Sanchez
>use Mate with Linux MInt / Ubuntu Mate / Debian >shit performance, despite compositing being turned off >use Mate with Arch >silky smooth OpenGL acceleration why are the Debian distros completely shit for graphical programs?
Levi Parker
So create a thread and stop annoying this one.
Wyatt Morgan
I thought this thread was supposed to be friendly. You are not being friendly. All I did was ask a question and you started sperging like an autist.
Christopher Adams
Stop blaming software for your retardation.
Jaxon Harris
You really think that an entirely separate thread should be created for the discussion of Linux distros such as Alpine Linux, Devil Linux, ttylinux, etc...? They are compatible with the same applications that run on GNU/Linux systems. Does the fact that they are missing GNU have some relevance that should cause them to be excluded from conversation in this thread? Do people really come here to discuss the GNU coreutils specifically?
Ethan Thompson
An entirely separate thread should be created for shitposters like you; regular free software users are warmly welcome.
Christian Rodriguez
You are right, regular free software users do not use busy boxes.
Austin Perez
So it's shitposting to want to discuss distros other than ones that come with the GNU coreutils installed? What the fuck is wrong with you? It seems like you are displaying symptoms of cognitive dissonance related to this topic.
Henry Flores
>implying busybox isn't free software
Ryder Lewis
Okay, fine. What kind of busybox distros do you want to talk about right now, pray tell? Alpine? Are posting from Alpine right now? Discussion.
Matthew White
Stop replying, retards.
Juan Wilson
You fucking know fully well that all of us would be happy to discuss any so-called busybox distribution just as much as any other free operating system, UNIX or otherwise, but you didn't post that, did you? No, you had to post bait. You could have had a nice, normal conversation like the rest of us, because you're more interested in flaming than anything else. Because you're more fascinated with the idea of discussing about discussion than just discussion itself. You got what you wanted, so you can't be mad.
Lucas Butler
Sorry. I'm a dum dum ._.
Josiah Foster
Which programming language is the best for small cli utilities?
James Baker
No, I really did want to have a conversation. I asked a question and you went full autist on me. As a result I followed the advice to open a separate thread where I am now having a conversation about Alpine Linux.
Henry Carter
That's a lie. You're just a prick.
Christopher Morris
shell script -> Perl -> C
Hunter Allen
for
Benjamin Roberts
cade
Andrew Garcia
>That's a lie. You're just a prick. No it isn't. You can find my thread about Alpine Linux in the catalog. I think it's humorous that you are calling me a prick when all I did was ask a simple question. You are the one who become defensive and started sperging.
Easton Bailey
thoughts on systemd?
Xavier Myers
What if the user doesn't know about computers? Stupid pic
John Thompson
You're still an asshole.
Jaxson Powell
fortune | cowsay | lolcat
Ethan Adams
Okay buddy. You win. I'm an asshole. Have fun being an ass burger.
Joseph Murphy
No thoughts, only Tanasinn.
Evan Turner
That's what Ubuntu's for. Alternatively: install Gentoo.
Angel Cruz
>not real communism Please stop
Lucas Martinez
Have anyone here tried clear linux distro by intel? I just want to know if that worth it (if it really works much better than all other distros with intel cpu) I know that solus distro is based on ot, but i want to know bout rly clear linix distro. Sry for missclick tgat fkin tremor, lol.
Isaac Russell
Linux*
Ryan Lee
Do I need to manually add a repository to get the latest packages on Ubuntu, or is there a command for this? New to Linux
Liam Sanchez
The green "updates" check sign (pic related) is missing from the Dropbox icon. Anyone else having this error? I'm having this problem for days now I thoght maybe there's a fix for this problem - any ideas?
