/fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread

Previously: Welcome to /fglt/ - Friendly GNU/Linux Thread.

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

*** Please be civil, notice the "Friendly" in every Friendly GNU/Linux Thread ***

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:

appimage.org/
github.com/scop/bash-completion
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse
without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd
suckless.org/sucks/systemd
github.com/Sup
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

>dat pic
Post ur GNU parallel haxx

Nothing special.

4dl() {
board="$(printf -- '%s' "${1}" | cut -d '/' -f4)"
thread="$(printf -- '%s' "${1}" | cut -d '/' -f6)"
wget -qO- "a.4cdn.org/${board}/thread/${thread}.json" \
| jq -r '
.posts
| map(select(.tim != null))
| map((.tim | tostring) + .ext)
| map("

First for apparently replacing ME with Linux and go speeds up boot time.

I have this driver I need to have running in order to get access to a sensor.
It is poorly constructed but I have no intention on fixing it directly.
The requirements for this driver to be used by users with no root access is for some reason to access /sys/kernel/debug.
But since /sys/ is created upon boot, permissions I set will not be persistent.
What method do you think is the best to solve it?
My options as I see them:
I could make a systemd service that sets the permissions on boot.
I could make a script that sets the permissions when I run the application.

Is there any risks involved with setting /sys/kernel/debug to 755 "permanently"?
Or is there a better option I can use?

Write a service that sets group permissions on it
Make sure each user that needs the device is in the group

You should be able to mount debugfs with different permissions using the uid, gid and mode mount options, as explained in the in-tree debugfs documentation.
I don't know who is more useless, the dev for making such a shitty, but working, driver or you for failing so hard at searching the web.

maybe I am just an idiot, what should I have been searching for?
Is there a simple solution?

What is the original source of the rms pasta. I remember it's a podcast for linux newbies, but forgot its name and wikiquote completely fucked their shit up.

>reminder to not waste time on an obscure distro when the most commonly used one just werkz ootb desu

who are you quoting

name 1 (one) commonly used distro that is systemd-free

Does anyone know if it's possible in vim to get Guile specific syntax highlighting? I have Scheme syntax highlighting but it doesn't seem to catch any Guile specific stuff

Lignoso Torovaldoso uses Fedora.

Why do people hate systemd?

Never forget.

mems in 3..2..1

Systemd is a fine alternative to diversity and flexibility.

Why do developers and distro maintainers hate OpenRC?

Maybe because it's a broken shit.
also bump

lol

"I don't personally mind systemd, and in fact my main desktop and laptop both run it."
- Linus Torvalds, ITWire Interview.

>Linus Torvalds
who?

I'm aware of that.
I'm just wondering why a lot of people seem to have such a hateboner for it.

Insecurity and larping.

That techtipps guy on youtube.

the guy who popularized GNU and eventually replaced it with Linux

It's not an /fglt/ exclusive thing. There is tons of hate for it throughout the GNU/Linux crowd.
We get this question almost daily and often with some good arguments, but I guess people are getting tired of it. Just google it.

Don't listen to this guy , try to use a search engine that respects your privacy instead.

...

I installed Ubuntu in my notebook and it was overheating very fast. I googled about it and some people were saying that installing TLP could help. So I did but, now I have extremelly low internet speed. Does anyone know how to fix this? I'm also downloading fedora right now, could this possibly make the notebook not overheat?

It's a dell i7 second gen notebook.

>been using *buntu for almost a year
>downloading and removing shit here and there
>software updater stops showing updates after a while for some reason
>run it to see what is wrong
>it gets stuck on checking for updates
>when it loads it tells you it needs to perform a partial update
>2 hour download that includes shit for programs you don't even have like VLC
Should I do it? I am feeling like it might be related to my repositories but I am not sure

Devuan

calibre won't start pls help

Install mupdf.

There's that thing called meta-packages, mostly know by DEs, which have all sorts of programs as dependency, so when the meta-package gets an update, it may reinstall what you removed previously. You can solve this using apt pinning and apt mark, but I think removing the programs is less work than reading through the apt docs.

package manageres were a mistake
thats why snaps and flatpack are the future

The future of "Lindows", yes.

So I just finished installing gentoo. Was a pretty fun ride considering how unexpectedly fast the kernel compiled.

My question is, if one recompiled the kernel with the same kernel version, do you actually still have to update the grub config? It's the same entry anyway, but the gentoo guide says I should. Is that section there just for completeness sake, in case someone switched versions of something?

GNT/Lindows*

Then gnu+linux can have the same dll in 15 different places just like windows.

*Apt was a mistake

I use to put books my kindle. It's something with python.

>import error

If the kernel is the same name you wont need to touch grub.

>Was a pretty fun ride considering how unexpectedly fast the kernel compiled
thats what surpried me the most about gentoo. That and how long webkitgtk takes to compile.
Fuck webkitgtk

>>Anyone have Linux (preferably a variant of Ubuntu) running on a Ryzen based PC? If so, how does it run? Any issues? Been wanting to run Ubuntu MATE on my desktop but don't want to bother if CPU support is poor.

What eould make it run poorly

Who are you quoting?

Filesystems with dedupe are a thing, nobody cares.

Why are Windows users so opposed to switching away from Windows, instead going to extensive effort to try to ameliorate the worst parts of it?

...

Windows is malware. It should be removed completly.

games & lazyness

Last thread. Apparently the post number didnt copy over.

There is a learning curve for more indepth features. Office workers should just use fedora

Thoughts on appimage.org/ ?

>app

Which shell should I use and why?

the one that came preinstalled with ur distro

The first one.

The GNOME shell.

Bash, whats the point of other shells?

What does the universe expand into?

But Bash has shitty autocomplete.

So what?

I like it. Does the job, stays out of my way.

I want better autocomplete.
And maybe other nice things I don't even know about yet.

Should I go with zsh or fish?
They both sound nice.

Idealism?

Look into bash.

I already have bash and it sucks.

>asking others what's the best for you
Here's your first problem.

Your second problem is that you obviously didn't read the documentation of the specific shells, which would enable you to decide for yourself.

krita appimage from the krita download page werks 10/10.

Im still getting screen tearing after enabling force full composition with nvidia drivers. Its not as bad but still annoying as hell. What should i do?

>github.com/scop/bash-completion
Git gud or GTFO.

What if the big bang was a single bubble amongst all the other bubbles in a pot of boiling water, and the pot's size is infinite?

zsh is nice to have, not far from bash ootb, can emulate ksh which is 80% like bash. Needs lots of configuration and learning to get the full potential (same with bash btw).

Fish is pretty different, since it comes like zsh with its own language which isn't as intuitive like zsh's, for example, there's no && but "and" and stull like that. Unlike zsh and bash, fish doesn't need much configuration, most goodies are available ootb.

Also look into the bash manual. Bash has lots of overlooked poweres.

bash autocomplete just works while zsh is a pain in the ass and constantly gets in your way.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiverse

I'm a brainlet. What's that script do?

Read up without-systemd.org/wiki/index.php/Arguments_against_systemd

Downloads all files from a thread into the current directory.

bash fuzzy complete is garbage compared to zsh

zsh works out of the box, no config needed, you can skip the entire intro config and get a good stock config setup compared to bash

on the right resolution?

This is another page that covers it
suckless.org/sucks/systemd

You might as well reconfigure grub just in case, also regenerate your initramfs.

Worse than windows installers. They are literally just big bundles of binaries you download. We have package managers for a reason.

It uses the Sup Forums API to get the files, so no thumbnails 'n trash. github.com/Sup Forums/4chan-API

Sure, kid.

...

It's spelled Linux

so what exactly do I have to do to get this to work? tried 4dl url and it didn't worked, tried ./4dl and it said permission denied, tried with sudo and it said command not found

...

>replace windows with ubuntu on my dad's pc because sick of reinstalling windows for him
>two weeks later when i visit he has set up a windows vm and gotten it infected with several viruses

should I try solus?
I want a distro for daily stuff and looks like solus is perfect for it

First off, it's a function (for your bashrc).
Second, you need to have jq and parallel installed.
Third, it's just a bad example for parallel usage, if you just want to download all files from a thread without installing any dependencies, just run this oneliner:

wget -nc -nd -nv -e robots=off -ER html,s.jpg -rHD i.4cdn.org

what an intelligent dummy

no

install debian

Fedora is the best systemd distro, because it was designed for it.

wow... it just worked


all my life I always wanted to know how to download all images from a thread but never actually was able to

thank you, sweetheart

also, is there any way to do this on any website?

It also works for archives btw, you just need to adjust it a bit, for example, replace i.4cdn.org with img.4plebs.org and you can download a thread from 4plebs.

what is the best window manager?