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This fucking dickhead. After I formatted it myself, it keeps doing that. I am so fucking pissed. It happens with almost any medium. Happens with NFTS and FAT Ubuntu 16.04
Ethan Hall
xbacklight doesnt work. Prints nothing. Despite checking for intel_backlight, it also prints 'RANDR Query Version returned error -1' if passing with -d. kyberlake laptop with optimus, debian buster. Thanks assholes
Bentley Morgan
I have an amd gpu and my fans dont work. One fix is to recompile the kernel with the option CONFIG_DRM_AMD_POWERPLAY=y i have confirmed that this is a working solution, but im having troubles getting all the other configurations for my new kernel correct. Once i forgot to include network drivers, and now i forgot to enable some kind of ext4 support. How can i compile an identical kernel to my current one, but only add one setting?
James Martin
should I switch from bash to something? no any problem but so many zsh\fish in screenfetch threads .__.
Jack Collins
Hello! How are you?
Austin Cruz
I have used Debian + Xfce for the past year. I am considering switching to another distro and DE, convince me as to why I should or shouldn't. I will weigh all advice equally and then draw a conclusion. Unfortunately, I cannot use completely free distros, as I have an intel wireless chip.
Elijah Barnes
I have a .p12 SSL certificate file that I need to access a web service. In chrome I can just add it, but I need it to be enabled system wide, not just for chrome. How to do that?
Isaiah Ramirez
Arch+fluxbox or alpine+fluxbox
Ryder Gray
Is it worth reading extensive documentation to setup up fluxbox to my liking? I'd rather have a "complete" werks out of the box DE. I'm not really strapped for resources.
Jason Taylor
gentoo icewm
Oliver Rodriguez
I also use Debian and Xfce. idk, I like it, not sure why you'd want to leave. but do what you want. If you're bored then get a live distro or a VM and try some shit.
same answer, install some other shells and try them.
for both its kind of hard to say more than that without some kind of reason you're dissatisfied with what you have or what you might want to get by switching
Gavin Davis
I am fine, thank you! How are you? The weather is very nice today!
Benjamin Ward
localmodconfig
Adam Parker
Has it maybe occurred to you to give the partition write permission?
Xavier Fisher
Yeah, I've got something for you to script ;) *unzips shell*
Thomas Wood
You dont need "extensive documentation", get a gtk theme and a fluxbox theme you like and thats about all you need to do for a working environment. Edit the menu to reflect what programs you want manually or use a generator program to generate and categorize it for you and you're golden.
>strapped for resources Its not about resources, its about installing a meta package that has 500 programs in it, of which you only use maybe 10 daily and maybe 2 more occasionally
Lucas Ross
>same answer, install some other shells and try them. That is such stupid advice. Most of the nuance of shell isn't even realized in interactive mode. And even if it were, simply doing some basic research would be more than sufficient if not better since interacting with a shell only requires a superficial understanding.
Thomas Ross
It's literally just peer pressure. There are practical gains to Zsh, but there much more subtle than they would have you believe.
Juan Cook
>extensive documentation I think you're conflating Fluxbox with FVWM. And, if so, then yes, you most certainly should use FVWM. It's the most rewarding thing ever if you're into that kind of stuff.
Leo Baker
on one hand, you have a point about that. on the other hand, that user didn't seem to have any idea why he'd want a different shell other than seeing them in screenfetch threads. That suggests that he'll probably stay on bash, but that he should dink around a little bit to satisfy his curiosity.
Michael Peterson
Can you even load X in alpine?
Leo Ward
You're right. Sorry for being so dismissive, user. I do think trying to script in different shells might be a fun way to into scripting, but beyond that the appeal really does seem to be just for the e-peen.
Add xf86-video-* if you're using proprietary drivers
Matthew Walker
>convince me as to why I shouldn't. time is valuable you can invest it in better things than distro hopping.
Gavin Ross
Neat, but can I run GNU Emacs on it? If so, then I will be happy.
Elijah Gray
apk add emacs-nox
Sebastian Young
chmod -R 777 ~/BlueStick
Noah Long
You shouldn't ask whether you should switch. Try them out and see if you like them. Fish looks nice when looking from the perspective of interactive shell.
But after "POSIX compatible shells" like dash bash will always be the defacto "industry standard" that everyone expects all scripts to be written for whether you like it or not.
Jack Nguyen
echo 50000 | sudo tee /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness Does this work?
>alpine on the desktop lmao
POSIX defines the standard, it doesn't define a shell at all
Wyatt Hill
>POSIX defines the standard, it doesn't define a shell at all Hence why I said posix compatible shells like dash.
John Harris
Debian+Xfce is a fine choice, I'd stick to it. Maybe make your feet wet with a nice tiling WM? i3 is a good entry, bspwm is great.
If you really want to try a complete different distro, try Arch.
Also, spend some bucks for a wifi adapter and never deal with botnet drivers again. Check minifree, thinkpenguin, techtronic, etc.
Zachary Thomas
Ayy, I should learn 2 read.
Lucas Green
is there anything powerful that I can write in bash? Can I use bash like any other programming language (C++ for example?)
Julian Cruz
pls no bully
I always used windows and haven't used desktop PC for over 10 years. Now I'm building a PC and I have a windows 10 lenovo laptop. Can I install some version of Linux on the laptop?
Anthony Fisher
No. You're confusing compiled languages with interpreters. If you want a more powerful interpreter then you just run that interpreter (like python)
Noah Reyes
You can probably even install GNU/Linux on that laptop if you really want to.
Joseph James
Shell scripts can be extremly powerful when you know what you're doing. I've seen music players, window managers, IRC clients based on shell scripts, but at some point you may want to switch to C or Perl for efficience and speed. Many people also just use Python because it's easy to learn and allows you to import basically everything.
Angel Taylor
Download Ubuntu, use rufus to put it on some USB drive, boot from that drive. Then just hit the install button and you're done.
Oliver Wood
You can write anything you want in bash because it can call other pieces of software (sed for example was proven to be Turing-complete language, I'm fairly sure the same applies to awk) Whether you actually should is the more important question. It's performance will be sub-par to pretty much any programming language.
Evan Evans
just make a live usb with ubuntu 16.04 and try it
Andrew Bailey
for i in {1..100};{((i%3))&&x=||x=Fizz;((i%5))||x+=Buzz;echo ${x:-$i};}
Juan Foster
Quick question. This script gets executed as root (my user "archdic", using sudo...) how can I make it, in the last line, execute "startx" as the user "archdic", not root? What I've tried doesn't seem to work. Thank you!
Aiden Parker
Just run the script as your user and use sudo for the priv'd commands.
Mason Russell
But then during the execution of the script it's gonna ask me to keep entering my password. I've added ~/bin/ to my sudoers file to make it not ask me for my password when executing my scripts.
Nathaniel Roberts
sudo -u Learn to read man page
Owen Kelly
>Does this work? yes, the only way i'm changing brightness so far,. Same problem was with ubuntu 17.04
Parker Butler
What's the least bad discrete GPU these days?
I've only ever used Intel integrated graphics in the past, but I'm tempted to start a build that gives me an option for gaming. What's the current status of Nvidia and AMD under GNU/Linux? Or am I better off getting an Intel CPU and use integrated for GNU/Linux and let Windows handle the discrete one?
Christopher Harris
Thank you but this doesn't seem to work either. Since "-u" is an option for "sudo" and "sudo" is outside the script: I summon the script in ".bashrc" as "sudo ~/bin/script.sh". And I put the "-u archdic startx" inside the script.
Grayson Brooks
>install virtualbox >download a fuckton of distros >try them all out and see what you like >pick one and look up how to install on your machine
Colton Carter
How can install debian on a encrypted lvm without write random data to my ssd? I want to give it a try but I can't figure how to install it without kill my ssd.
Noah Edwards
AMD vega cards are scheduled to work "out of the box" like current intel cards do in kernel 4.15
Andrew Ward
I'm running an orange pi zero with pihole and dnscrypt and it keeps fucking freezing. Can't even SSH in. Then I have to hardreset the thing which corrupts my SD card.
1) Can I somehow see what caused the freeze? 2) Can I somehow issue a reboot if a freeze is imminent? 3) If no, what can I do?
armbian jessie by the way.
Kayden Taylor
Please help a niBBa out Sup Forums
Jose Morris
Leave a monitor/KB hooked up, or just pop the SD out to look at the logs on another system. Or set up a serial console, if *pi devices have that. I'd guess something's probably panicing your kernel, but what it is and how to fix it you won't know until you can see what its saying.
this is literally an option in the installer, you can untick the "overwrite with random data".
Nvidia is pretty famous for being dickweeds about this. Their binary driver does work, but AMD is getting stuff upstreamed. It only got pulled in 4.15 and the work so far is all about supporting Vega, rather than older cards, so you'll need to be bleeding-edge for a while.
Aaron Bennett
>worst girl and worst distro fits
Zsh has the most mature programmable completion, but almost everything most people do with zsh that matters outside of painfully fancy prompts can also be done with bash and readline if you take the time to configure it. It's mostly popular because fancy configs like oh-my-zsh are all over the place, made up and ready to go.
Fun zsh fact for people who actually script in the terminal: It defaults to arrays starting at 1. Set the ksh_arrays option.
Fish isn't POSIX compatible, its it's own special snowflake language and should not be used if you script interactively/paste shit off wikis and want a headache-free life
Brody Walker
>this gross misunderstanding of how scripts work
Every line in the script is its own command, not an option to sudo
Henry Sanchez
Anyone tried this framebuffer UI github.com/8l/fbui Sounds good and I like how they want to remove bloat but didn't found any pictures.
Ryder Watson
That's my point though. That's why writing "-u archdic startx" doesn't work.
Luis White
Try adding acpi_backlight=vendor in GRUB to the linux command line and see if it helps.
Robert Gutierrez
sudo runs something as a different user, if you call it as root you don't need to enter a password to use it. But you have to actually call sudo.
Alexander Richardson
Wow that readme goes off the deep end.
Justin Sanchez
>the Linux Desktop, finally!
Gavin Evans
what anime does he watch
Mason Lopez
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James Sullivan
What? There isn't such option. Is the netinstaller different?
Joseph Ramirez
Who?
Nathaniel Gonzalez
Trying to build chromium.Getting stuck building gn with this error. Any help would be appreciated [370/370] LINK gn FAILED: gn clang++ -pthread -o gn -Wl,--start-group tools/gn/gn_main.o libevent.a base.a xdg_user_dirs.a gn_lib.a dynamic_annotations.a -Wl,--end-group -lrt -latomic tools/gn/gn_main.o: file not recognized: File format not recognized clang-6.0: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation) ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed. Command '['ninja', '-C', '/build/makepkg/chromium/src/chromium-62.0.3202.94/out_bootstrap', '-w', 'dupbuild=err', 'gn']' returned non-zero exit status 1
Nathaniel Reed
>using xubuntu I seemed to be having graphical driver issues after several crashes while running specifically 720p 60fps on an old desktop.
I was keeping up with the updates and noticed the last update was having bios issue with my graphics card. Now this update I'm having difficulty running software.
After running a recovery mode cleaning, updating, and fscking the sda/sdb I have now come to a point where it won't even recognize my graphics card.
Should I run a repair installation or just format it with xubuntu or a new OS.
I'm learning how to not be a total idiot on Linux on my laptop, but this is just my personal use desktop.
James Diaz
>Trying to build chromium. Why?
Joshua Green
I used the netinstall ISO, yes, but that shouldn't matter. And the non-graphical installer, which may matter but shouldn't. I also set up my partitioning manually, but I thought it gives you the option to not overwrite (or to skip the overwrite once its started) if you take the default luks-on-lvm option. Try doing that.
Jeremiah Ramirez
Maybe he removed the botnet.
Nicholas Bell
screenshots senpai?
Kevin Butler
It's chromium, not chrome
Noah Hughes
This retard here:
I'm still trying to get yeahconsole to demand focus so that I can full screen it and then toggle transparency, but I'm not sure what I'm doing. It toggles itself with control+alt+y, but if I try to full screen with alt+F11 it full screens whatever is behind it in the workspace. The only reference I can find to focus issues is a note by the developer in the changelog that says it should hopefully be fixed.
I have this in my .Xresources that is loaded:
yeahconsole*term:urxvtc
And, obviously, I have the daemon started as it is at least able to be pulled down. What do?
Nathan Torres
Because I would like to use chromium
David Clark
I think the tripfag's point was that you can 99% of the time just use your distro's packaged version of chromium rather than building it yourself.
Chromium *does* have some "Googled" elements (e.g. you can still sign into the browser to have synced data). I'm not sure if the "phone home" bug (people thought it was malicious, but it was just the Chrome thing of the browser checking for updates, which Chromium should never have to do) was ever patched, but that was another "Googley" thing.
Robert Hernandez
Can't you set the geometry in xresources also?
John Lewis
I am compiling some patches and compile flags that are not available in the distros binary chromium.
Kevin Sanchez
For yeahconsole specifically? Yeah, but it has defaults. Doesn't change the fact that it doesn't grab focus and keep it properly.
Are you suggesting to set geometry to match full screen by default instead of toggling it?
Jaxson Scott
Is it mounted ro? Some flash memory reports itself as read only once it has enough hardware faults, that could be happening as well.
Gabriel Nguyen
I'd suggest fedora and openbox. Openbox is a great blend of usability and configuration, and fedora is an extremely solid system to work on.
Mason Evans
Thanks. That narrows it down.
Aaron Richardson
What does this even mean and how do i fix it? error: "Update aspirational_scripts per Unicode 10.0"
Xavier Garcia
Hey guys, I want to install Source Mage on my 2008 Macbook. Is this doable?
Brayden Jenkins
What compression algorithm has the strongest compression?
Mason Taylor
I wish, that's the thing I am asking.
Hunter Ward
Huh, it just werkz if I set it to Alt+1 in muh Xresources file. Still strange that it doesn't work with Alt+F11, but I guess I just need to mess around with keybinds and see what works.
Alexander Flores
lzrip
Joseph Butler
im sick of seeing women's blood going down the wc keep that shit to yourself
Nolan Peterson
Now that GNOME is default for Ubuntu what will the developer's choice of DE be? Unity was pretty much perfect as a no thrills out of the box dev DE. GNOME in contrast takes hours to set up right.
Henry Williams
>GNOME in contrast takes hours to set up right. u know im tired of reading that shit default gnome is fine almost all extensions are useless >muh yuuge titles press F11
Brayden Ward
Best way to remote handle my Raspberry Pi other than SSH?
Benjamin Mitchell
Why do you all use distro's like debian, arch, mint and whatever if you all use linux because it respects your freedoms but then your god idol Richard stallman says they're all botnet anyway?
Adam Jones
What do you do when you compile a programs new version but when you check the build version information in the program, it reports a later version, not just one revision behind but more then 10 revisions behind. Have confirmed the built binary is indeed using the latest source
Nathan Torres
Stallman's got some kooky ideas about what constitutes "free" It's damn near impossible to have a functional fully free OS, mostly because of binary firmware blobs for essential components. My distro of choice, fedora, is on the non-recommended list exclusively because of those blobs. It's just something you have to deal with.
Daniel Roberts
So what's your opinion on the distro's he does recommend?
