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looking for a comfy, systemdless, minimal distro. any suggestions?
Nathaniel Hall
Trying to install adobe piss on a second drive for my job, is the only way to run them on wine is through symlinks?
Xubuntu, void os.
Colton Thomas
Puppy linux.
Daniel Ross
So I'm trying out pywal and while it works out of the box with st (simple terminal from suckless), every new instance of st reverts to the baked-in scheme at compile time.
Is there any way to fix this, aside from writing some script that re-runs pywal everytime I open a new st?
Andrew Murphy
Ok so I did gpu pass through and my drivers are saying that this windows install isn't compatible or some shit.
I tried to fix it but it's still not working. Someone help
If you'd like something Arch Linux like, I suggest Artix.
Michael Myers
What program did you guys use to write your iso file? In windows btw
Logan Parker
Install GuixSD
Jackson Nguyen
It's legit, but AFAIK, it's nothing to really care about. It's just a reskin of Gentoo.
Chase Morris
Install Gentoo. Seriously, read their documentation. That should fix your issue.
Juan Rogers
dd
Matthew Gomez
I would, but my t420 needs proprietary firmware in order to work ;_;
Leo Murphy
It's a binary Gentoo without pulseaudio or systemd, riced to the gills. >literally -funroll-loops
Tyler Mitchell
Gentoo is minimal by default. You only get what you choose to install.
>"or some shit" >tried to fix
Details or no one can help you.
Legit meme.
The only tool you need.
Zachary Miller
I am new to Vim
Where saved script files automatically go? How do I make sure the files get saved in my path?
Aaron Garcia
Well unless you provide another path, any file you write goes to your present working dir (pwd)
Caleb Perry
how do I check what that is :)
Bentley Taylor
Just type pwd in your shell.
Chase Hall
my script still isn't running though
Kayden Gutierrez
Two things.
First, make sure your script is executable. chmod +x filename should sort you out.
Second, if you're going to execute something in your pwd, you need to provide a relative path. Try ./filename after setting it executable.
Christian Ward
Not him but Xubuntu has systemd, right? Tried Void but I can't get Xorg to work on it (or I'm just too dumb)
Samuel Diaz
chmod +x hello.py did not return anything
Connor Moore
i nearly solved this problem but i need an experienced person for the last part >want to update to new kernel >compiles kernel >want to compile initramfs >genkernel --luks --mdadm --lvm --install initramfs >Error rpc/rpc.h Error file not found >Should be in glibc >go to gentoobrowse.randomdan.homeip.net/packages/sys-libs/glibc >they ditched the rpc patches for glibc, rpc.h is now in tirpc/rpc/rpc.h and not in rpc/rpc.h whats the best way to fix this problem ? Should i patch the code ? Should i symlink ? Is it possible to run genkernel with some environment variable like "LIBS=$LIBS:/usr/include/tirpc" ? I'm looking for the nicest and cleanest way to solve this
Jaxson Diaz
It shouldn't.
Try python hello.py rather than trying to execute it directly.
If you want to call it directly, without specifying python, you need the following as the very first line of your script: #!/usr/bin/python
Justin Turner
What's a good prefix for international keys on Emacs? Does anyone have this issue?
Hudson Green
We already know that you're dumb after your initial request.
Landon Wood
Well I am dumb when it comes to Linux because I have very little experience with it, that's why I was asking for help
Gavin Watson
>I edited /etc/sudoers in nano
Jordan Richardson
so every time I run something from the command line it has to have that?
Dominic Johnson
After install ubuntu 17.10 (uefi) i cannot boot from a usb device anymore, and the bios dont save changes for some reason, how i can revert it? :(
Adrian Bailey
No, he means that needs to be the first line of the script.
Scripts aren't actual binary files you know, they're just text. So an executable script is different from an executable binary. When a non-binary is set to executable the terminal understands it to mean you want to run it through an interpreter, like bash or python. The way it knows which interpreter to use is from the first line of the script starting with "#!" called a "shebang"
Gavin Sanders
>i cannot boot from a usb device anymore Can you be more specific? What happens?
Ubuntu doesnt touch your bios...
Brody Thompson
>has little experience >knows nothing about it >but apparently knows enough to know that he doesn't need a specific piece of software
Just stop posting and go back to Windows you retarded, gullible, spineless and pretentious idiot.
Zachary Bennett
>helping a helpvampire
Aiden Diaz
>but apparently knows enough to know that he doesn't need a specific piece of software I have no idea what you are talking about >go back to Windows you retarded, gullible, spineless and pretentious idiot. Why do you immediately insult me lmao, you're missing the 'f' in /fglt/
Ayden Fisher
Just ignore the other guy responding to you. He's a bit of a cancer on these threads and has a pretty unique posting style of going from 0 to mad as fuck in no time at all and low blowing the intelligence of new users asking simple questions. Most likely just a teen insecure about his own intelligence.
Carter Perry
Yes, during the installation ubuntu asked to disable secure boot, since these moments is impossible boot from a usb device or revert the uefi in the bios directly (because it dont save the changes). My laptop is a small acer es1-111m
Hudson Mitchell
>I have no idea what you are talking about
You are a beginner who knows nothing, but apparently you're so advanced at the same time not to require a specific piece of software that you don't know what it does nor do you interact with it. Textbook definition pretentious and gullible behaviour. There are dozens of posts like yours every day. Your internet connection license should be taken away.
Ryder Sanders
Get a load of mt. stupid over here
James Fisher
question:
why when i add DEFAULT=saved GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true to grub,does it not fucking work
thanks. FUCK
Blake Thompson
>not using visudo the absolute madman
Henry Parker
>i know nothing about the thing or even the basics of what i want >but i want to do this thing i know nothing about just because someone told me it's not good >i am very smart, have this picture
Daniel Gray
pywal sends escape sequences to all open terminals, but it doesn't write a config for st. That's why it works just once. Get a supported terminal or add support for st yourself (for example, patch Xresources support).
Parker Butler
>ubuntu asked to disable secure boot, ah interesting, I dont have any computer with that so I didnt know it could even do that.
You should be able to reset the bios, do a search for how to on your specific model
Justin Reed
>Hello could you please give me advice for [very specific topic] i heard you are very good with [same very specific topic] >*gives advice* [ff few days] *meets you* >Hi can you please give me advice for [same specific topic], a other guy already told me i should [advice from other guy] You: >*breathes in* > LOL YOU ARE SO DUMB NEEDING HELP FROM SOMEONE AND THEN BELIEVING WHAT THE PERSONS SAYS HAHA YOU SHOULD NEVER TAKE ADVICE AND YOU SHOULD DO YOUR OWN DECISION NO MATTER HOW BAD THEY ARE, BTW CUTE PICTURE INTERNET LICENCE HURR HURR
Brody Phillips
Yes, he is an idiot in that case. Only an idiot would adopt strong opinions and make decisions based on things he doesn't inform himself about. The next step on his retardation evolution scale will be ferociously defending and spreading his views he got from a different retard.
Enjoy reading questions about someone's Zsh options not working despite them editing their .bashrc file as read in tutorials. That's the type of person behaviour like that brings out.
Michael Bennett
it didn't ask you, lying faggot, it offered you a choice to install with secure boot or not. ubuntu can't disable secure boot you asinine dumbfuck.
Hudson Carter
How to get started for Android/Linux development on my GNU/Linux machine. Is there something like an emulator for testing? Pls point me into the right direction.
Austin Rogers
Why does Firefox UI looks completely different this morning? I mean, I actually prefer it this way, but did the browser get any update?
Joseph Miller
Firefox 57 (which brings drastic changes) just got released.
Matthew Morgan
Oh I see. Then has it updated automatically? I instantly noticed it as soon as I launched the browser in Xubuntu.
Zachary Morgan
>The Distro only has one package mirror
Christopher Kelly
stop using an obscure hipster distro
Isaiah Reed
Alternatively: maintain your own mirror and contribute to the community.
Jose Wilson
>page 7 GNU/Bump
Jordan Diaz
gentoo
Dominic Cruz
Hello, is there a istripper alternative on linux ?
>I spend most of my time editing in Emacs. I read and send mail with Emacs using M-x rmail and C-x m. >I have no experience with any other email client programs. In principle I would be glad to know about other free email clients, but learning about them is not a priority for me and I don't have time. read that on his website, and I think to myself "What an absolute sorceror," but, using only Emacs for your e-mail probably isn't too crazy once you learn it, r- right?
Parker Hernandez
Anyone have experience with busybox?
How do you make busybox automatically log in on boot?
Normally you would edit your /etc/inittab, but busybox seems to be using a different standard.
Austin Jones
How can I install firefox nightly as a regular program? If it was just a single file I could put it in /usr/local/bin but it's a whole folder worth of stuff
Isaac Turner
I'm copping a ThinkPad x230 later today. It's gonna be the first system I format with Linux/GNU but still don't know which to go with. I've done a live USB with Ubuntu and Tails and played wit a xubuntu system but otherwise I'm not super experienced.
I'm looking for something I could get to know Linux on, do some programming, maybe emulate or play some GoldSrc games. Any suggestions?
Lincoln Edwards
why does compiling have to be such an enormous pain
Eli Ross
are you looking for distro suggestions?
literally anything.
If you're looking for a place to ""learn linux"", I would recommend staying away from the Windows-lite "click click install" sort of distros like Ubuntu, Fedora etc.
But at that same token don't go arch/gentoo etc, stick with a middle of the road distro.
Memes aside, go to distrowatch.org and just pick out something in the top ~50 range. Anything there will be good, stable, and with a large enough community to solve your problems.
One last thing, don't choose based on looks. Any distro can be made to look like any distro. Completely ignore whatever the "desktop" screen image they have on their site -- it doesn't matter. You'll customize it to look like how you want.
Jayden Reed
Thanks senpai, I'll give it a look
Angel Phillips
make a symbolic link in /usr/local/bin and link it to the firefox executable in your home directory
Tyler Ramirez
How do I get icons to show up in my bar? Currently using i3 and polybar, copied someones script for testing, but none of the workspace icons appear.
Thanks in advance
Angel Long
why still no 57? pls no bulli
Cameron Green
Cant reproduce, update your mirrors
Robert Rodriguez
I'm about to install Fedora for the first time. Anything I should know?
It's the net install of Fedora Workstation 27, and I'm gonna be using KDE.
Christopher Lee
if this isn't done anything in 10 minutes, am i safe to assume that it's dead?
Andrew Hughes
hasn't*
Grayson Jenkins
Is anybody using instant translate for firefox? It stopped working any idea how to fix this? ;_;
Aiden Foster
Honestly I'm glad I started on Ubuntu. Interface is really easy to use so once you're fine navigating it, try adding something like a window manager (I've been using i3 and love it). With a wm installed, on the lock screen you can chose if you are loading into the wm or just the preinstalled Ubuntu gnome desktop, good for if you mess something up. From there, I'd recommend learning how to do basic ricing to get used to going between various config files. After that, you shouldn't have any problems doing whatever you so please.
Gabriel Perry
Cant google that, is it possible to make a single gvfs trash for all users on certain partition, or at least make it work without checking owner and permissions of .Trash-1000?
Leo Brooks
What's a good terminal font? Tried out Roboto Mono, but I'm not sure if I did something wrong or it's just the font because it comes off spaced out like this
Noah Martinez
terminus, hack, inconsolata, dejavu sans mono
there's the top 4 most popular, all Sup Forums approved.
and the spacing you're seeing is called "kerning", that is what you need to google + your terminal emulator
Jack Gonzalez
I really like Liberation Mono.
Jonathan Butler
Thanks, it worked Learned that roboto is just ugly in my opinion Trying out this, like it so far
Jack Allen
I need a script that opens up three terminal emulator windows in one go. Any idea why this doesn't work? urxvt -e sh -c "cd ../../dir1 && ./run.sh" urxvt -e sh -c "cd ../../dir2 && ./run.sh" urxvt -e sh -c "cd ../../dir3 && ./run.sh" It opens a new urxvt window, but only one, and runs all the run.sh's in that same window. I'm not sure what's going on.
Gavin Price
I don't know if this works but try appending an '&' at the end of the first 2 lines
Camden Smith
That did indeed work, thanks!
Dylan Davis
Anyone happen to know why my spacemacs has that fucked up buffer line? It's not really affecting functionality but it triggers my tism.
Tyler Morales
What's the current state of open source Nvidia drivers for Kepler generation GPUs? Specifically a Quadro K2000M. Don't need tip top gay men performance, just want something stable and usable.
Jaxon Sanders
install fontawesome or any other needed font installed a new addon like forced https, etc?
Landon Morales
Stop using binary based distros.
Ryan White
looks like the powerline (left/right) arrows are too small
Henry Adams
spacemacs modeline is a buggy piece of shit.
Juan Robinson
spacemacs is a buggy piece of shit
James Hill
Please avoid using the term “google” as a verb, meaning to search for something on the internet. “Google” is just the name of one particular search engine among others. We suggest to use the term “search the web” or (in some contexts) just “search”. Try to use a search engine that respects your privacy.
Brayden Powell
Not a linuxy question, but any font like Tewi but in ttf/otf?
Benjamin James
disregard assuming it's in ~/firefox, update your ~/.bashrc with PATH="$HOME/firefox:$PATH" save, then $ source ~/.bashrc done, your default firefox is the one in your ~/firefox ; it won't work if you have launchers targeting explicitly /usr/bin/firefox obviously.
Zachary Diaz
No.
Cameron Fisher
yes
Joshua Mitchell
What is the best icon theme for Linux?
Nathan Hall
Anyone else here that got trackpoint problems after the latest manjaro updates?