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There's a program with installation instructions that list flash as a requirement, will the browser plugin work or do I need a standalone flash player? I'm on ubuntu, if that's relevant.
Do any of you guys using the (((proprietary))) nvidia drivers notice screen tearing when scrolling?
Robert Nguyen
I run firefox like that btw
Luke Adams
REMOVE TOSHINO KYOKO FROM YOUR BASTARDIZATION OF A DESKTOP RIGHT THE FUCK NOW
Gabriel Gray
How do I theme keepassx/xc? is it a Qt thing? is there an lxapperarance analogue?
Robert Mitchell
whats the easiest way to share folders between windows and linux
Kayden Brown
nfs samba ftp
Jayden Watson
remove yourself this thread rn, rudeposter
Noah Nelson
compiling shit yourself is weird it probably wants to link to a package
Lincoln Sullivan
>using nvidia >at all
Jackson Bell
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Elijah Sanders
don't reply to my posts
Eli Stewart
>using ATI cuckware past the 1990's
Nicholas Brooks
>implying nvidia is less cuckware
Luke Myers
Can PCmanFM be configured to ask sudoers for password when superuser rights needed e.g. to mount a volume, like Nautilus does?
Lincoln Thomas
What is a program for linux to create a complete isolated sandbox that doesn't even allow root permissions?
William Hernandez
Spacefm can, its the successor to pcmanfm
Nathaniel Powell
useradd
Brody Kelly
No, I meant something like sandboxie for windows
Andrew Miller
>using a GUI file manager for what purpose
Jacob Anderson
All I can notice is Xorg crashing when I try using my nvidia card, because there cunts haven't yet implemented Optimus support properly.
Evan Gutierrez
chroot
Oliver Lee
yes
Angel Ross
Chroot can be escaped easily
Noah Brooks
Optimus works just fine using the NVIDIA proprietary drivers, you just gotta stop being a brainlet and learn how to set it up. t.optimus user
Blake Reed
Cept it isnt.
Grayson Gray
not if you're using openbsd
Aaron Mitchell
A chroot is not a jail, using chroot can be easily escape from.
Ethan Green
>using chroot can be easily escape from. If that was the case they would fix such a blaring "issue".
Matthew Ross
I know there's a way to make them work, I'm just mad I'll have to go through the pain.
Joseph Jones
Chroot was never intended to be used for security reasons
Grayson Ward
I have a quick question about IRC: A user's prefix determines their channel privileges, right? So "@" denotes operator, "%" denotes halfop, and so on.
I know that "~" denotes owner, but I'm on an IRC server where "!" also denotes owner. Is this standard? I'm asking because my IRC client, Konversation, isn't displaying nicks that are prefixed with "!" in the sidebar, whereas Hexchat seems to do it just fine.
Robert Taylor
not if you're using openbsd
Isaiah Price
Search ForceFullCompositionPipeline. There's a command you have to run to fix it. I haven't tested if the extra composition reduces performance in games or benchmarks though. You may have to put it as an option in in your xorg config file.
Jason Adams
Not him, but I found this a while back and it solved all my tearing issues with the proprietary nvidia drivers
I have the following command in a shell script that runs when my DE starts: nvidia-settings --assign CurrentMetaMode="DVI-I-0: nvidia-auto-select +0+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }, HDMI-0: nvidia-auto-select +1920+0 { ForceFullCompositionPipeline = On }"
The above will need to be modified depending on how many montors you have and their sizes
Kevin James
Will I break anything if I change my username manually via search and replacing my name in the /etc password, shadow, group, etc. and then moving my home folder from /home/old to /home/new? By the way, I can't seem to post the actual filenames, because Sup Forums blocks me every time I do.
Do I still have to chown the new user folder? I thought I wouldn't have to do this since my uid will stay the same.
i tried setting up my wacom on ubuntu and installing xserver-xorg-core made me remove some packages that apparently are needed for any and all keyboard/mouse input.
i don't want to reinstall, it seems like i can just use "sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop" to get the removed packages back but i can't figure out networking in recovery mode and i don't know how to/if i can install packages from a live usb.
please help, i've googled everything.
Wyatt Gomez
I wanted to make urxvt have a background using this xresources template I found in the man pages: URxvt.background-expr: scale keep { load "/path/to/mybg.png" } But it didn't work. Do I need to install pearl for this to work? Running Ubuntu.
Ryder Cooper
make sure you're using URxvt*.depth: 24
Jonathan Thomas
What do I do when software wont run on wine? How do you fix it?
Andrew Johnson
run it in a VM like qemu+kvm
Samuel Butler
Unfortunately still nothing. if I run urxvt with the -pixmap flag I can get a background, but this particular xresource isn't working.
Nathan Brooks
This requires a valid windows license key?
Landon Morgan
qemu+kvm are free software under the GPL and they don't require a "windows license key"
Justin Murphy
also I tried running the equivalent terminal command to that xresource
urxvt: rxvt_img::new_from_file: Failed to open file '~/Waterfox_wallpaper.png':
No such file or directory
urxvt: new_img_from_file failed at (eval 24) line 4. of course that file does exist and I am writing it correctly as confirmed with cat
Brayden Walker
Hey so I have an interesting issue. I want to make a native linux installation on my phone. So I have both the Motorola Droid 2 and Motorola Droid 3 and I was messing around with them the other day and I wondered if I could root them and do something with them. Is there any way I can natively run a linux distro on both or either of them? Any help is appreciated
Landon Phillips
What's a distro like Xubuntu (lightweight, simple to navigate, plain looking, etc) that has properly system-wide colour management support? I tried regular Ubuntu but I cannot stand that "activities" bullshit. The general navigation was unbearable.
>TL;DR Entire city finds out Linux on the desktop is not for grownups and professionals. Switches to Windows. Sup Forums children on suicide watch.
Jonathan Sullivan
You mean microsoft's lobbyists paid them to switch.
Jaxson Roberts
No.
>"Windows 10 will make it easier to source compatible applications and hardware drivers than it has been using a Linux-based OS"
Juan Howard
Unironically, Gentoo. Everything else feels crippled or hampered.
Syncthing. 100% idiot proof, 100% open source, no neckbeard required.
Ryder Bailey
I think there are two reasons for this. One is that they decided to create their own Linux distro which is retarded (should have used Suse or Redhat) and the other thing is jewing.
Xavier Bell
install flash on fedora and it works on chrome but not waterfox, what should I do?
Charles Hughes
Lads I'm about to install Debian, if I want to be cool like you and have my terminal say something like Akari@Neo Venezia which name do I put in which field?
Eli Ortiz
well you'd pick akari for your username and neo for your hostname but you can't put a fucking space in a hostname.
Joseph Bennett
Thanks, it was just an example. Last time I had myname@myname and isn't that just embarrassing?
Hudson Thompson
Well no its got more to do with munich being more or less the richest city of all germany and they want to show off. the seriously had imacs at a reception desk for uni there.
t. guyfrommunich
Jace Nelson
There is literally no reason for that project to exist.
James Martin
I guess. I tend to pick hostnames somewhat randomly.
My current system is named "detroit" because I decided to name it after a fucked-up city and that's the first thing that came to mind.
Pic related.
Charles Hughes
Just tell us what fucking package it is.
Lucas Ramirez
Learn how to symlink directories.
Luis Carter
>microsoft lobbyists paid them and wrote a pitch
Hunter Miller
please spoonfeed me I'm new to linux
Tyler Foster
Try Ubuntu mate
Josiah Williams
That sounds quoted from a microsoft representative. what happens is that microsoft sends some lobbyists to the ploliticians and shows them slides with marketing buzzwords in them; like "more compatible with software and hardware" "leading supplier of business-class level services" and other crap. Convincing them that windows is preferred since microsoft will do the work for them. Instead of spending money to develop linux to match their needs, they'll spend ten times as much to buy microsoft's package, because microsoft said it was better.
Aiden Bennett
>Actually believing this
Get out of your moms house and get a couple of years worth of real world business experience kiddo and then come back and try to defend GNU/Linux on the desktop.
Protip: you can't
Joseph Johnson
> W*ndows 10 > malware-tier update system bugging you until you set the time when it should reboot the PC, or just randomly initiating update installation at boot time, which it downloads without asking unless you tweak update policy > lagging like a bitch on everything that isn't a game PC > without thinking much placed a MessageBox call in the paint event handler, the app froze, Windows was unable to kill the process, I had to reboot > basically, almost fucking everything requires rebooting > everything takes ages
Microsoft has gotten way too arrogant, Windows users have little authority over what their own computers do. Linux can be a major pain in the ass sometimes (unless you're using an Ubuntu-tier distro), but it still doesn't piss me off as much as Windows 10 does every day.
Anthony Bell
But user I run a business and [spoiler]linux is frankly terrible for business, it isn't interoperable with anything and I have to pay out of the ass for licenses of microshit products and hate every second of it.[/spoiler]
Daniel Thompson
Read the OP.
Parker Jenkins
I never questioned this. The topic is GNU/Linux on the desktop which is garbage for business.
Paying for Microsoft licenses can hurt small business but you will get the job done and at the end of the day your normie customer will thank you for using things he or she is familiar with.
>Top500 CTO here btw
Oliver Harris
Now for the DEV side of my business, linux all the way, but if I want to do business stuff I need to use windows.
Nolan Sanchez
I agree with this. Some of my (((frontend))) developers also run GNU/Linux and some BSD but they never need to communicate with external and/or internal customers or use any of our business software (ERP, BI, financial reporting and such). I let them use this to keep their autism in check. My real developers use Visual Studio against Azure and PowerBI. They are coincidentally way more productive and generate higher quality software.
Lincoln Rogers
Personally I was never a fan of visualstudio but I understand that if you are the kind of shop that uses it you will be more productive.
At home I am all linux and mac though, I find windows a chore to use for anything but the bare minimum.
Leo Clark
Can someone walk me through host/network discovery in linux?
How do I see what I'm connected to and what is on my network? Can I do some kind of passive traffic sniffering?
Is there anything that works through routers?
So far I only know
ifconfig nmap nmap -sn arp
Caleb Allen
How do i mirror ubuntu in real time? i want to install ubuntu server on usb flash and use current drive with an addition of a new drive in lvm. Right now it's debian8 that installed on generic 50gb partition on a single drive(the 2nd one is just sitting on my table). So, if i install ubuntu on a usb flash, i want it to be mirrored on 2nd usb, because usb is not really reliable. As far as i know freenas can do that out of box, but how it can be done with ubuntu?
not sure but maybe the Qt one could never used this so idk either way that's a bad idea
>the successor to pcmanfm stop lying faggot
dont do stupid shit create new user chown your old stuff
go to #ubuntu irc
no, MS provide VM ready windows images just get one and start virtualbox what does not run in wine?
gnome classic
Nathaniel Cruz
So I'm stepping away from Win & started my foray into Linux with Mint Cinnamon LiveUSB. Have already had a lot of trouble but I could use a hand at this moment.
Windows used to be on what Mint sees as sdc, which was originally 2 parts. I previously divided the Win part into a root part, swap part, home part & a "data" part, the resulting structure visible in the terminal. However now I can't see the parts in the Install Linux Mint program. What do?
Asher Jenkins
>either way that's a bad idea Why?
Cameron Sanchez
# Network exploration tools 113 nmap 114 nmap // Full scan of hosts on the network 115 nmap -p80 // Scans range 192.168.1.0 - 192.168.1.255 for port 80 116 'nmap -sT -sU -T5 -p 1-1024' // Stealth TCP/UDP scan for first 1024 ports - highlighted because effective 117 nmap -sL // Passive reverse-DNS on hosts to learn names 118 nmap -sn // Pings all ip's on the 192.168.1.0 network 119 nmap -PS // TCP+SYN sent, SYN/ACK received, RST sent; port probe 120 nmap -PA // Similar above, but ACK instead of SYN; port probe 121 nmap --traceroute // Determine port/protocol most likely to reach target 122 arp // Hosts that have recently attempted to connect 123 124 /* GUIDE: 125 * = 192.168.1.0/24 etc. 126 * = 192.168.1.0 etc. (no hostmask) 127 * 128 * ifconfig // Look at inet addr: and Mask to figure out network to scan 129 * nmap -sn // To simply check if the hosts are online 130 * nmap // Will do a full port scan as well 131 */
not sure if formatted correctly
John Brown
because you want to sudo with the simplest commands possible
Thomas Scott
what is the kernel in linux?
Adrian Sanchez
Quit since you can't even get Linux-for-children to work.
Caleb Johnson
The kernel in the windows subsystem for Linux is called "NT". Hope it helps.
Brayden Ortiz
it's the part that translates communications between software and hardware so they can understand each other
Adrian Gomez
There kernel is the part of the system which acts like a translator between hardware parts and the system.
Aaron Foster
A meme.
Jackson Jackson
the kernel in linux is the linux kernel, hope this helps user
Landon Long
...
Jace Cox
gentoo
Blake Ward
The GNU kernel.
Owen Gutierrez
the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run
Connor King
Richard Stallman
Kevin Allen
Obsolete.
Cooper Young
> French national police moves to Linux > Has a well implemented policy, such as using ODT file format as standard > Doesn't try to fab up some custom Linux distro > Saves millions of euros Good thing there are better examples of Linux used in the public sector. zdnet.com/article/french-police-move-from-windows-to-ubuntu-linux/
