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Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
And here we are with fedora, installed in under 20 minutes, works perfectly out of the box, dual screen, all my hardware is detected, nice default theme Launches a config tool at first boot so i can configure my system in a few minutes and can focus on installing software instead of fixing what should be working in the first place.
No wonder why mainstream distro are, you know, mainstream...
Alexander Price
First for freedom.
Owen Smith
It's Ubuntu, but with fewer packages installed.
James Cruz
>tfw can't install guixsd
Joshua Cook
Can someone help me with MPD and NCMPCPP?
I can't change the volume, it says "MPD: Problems setting volume"
I'm running Gentoo GNU/Linux and pulseaudio
Caleb Taylor
>gnome
Jack Hughes
>implying gnome isn't the best DE out there get out of this subreddit
Blake King
Running: 17.10 Xubuntu on Lenovo T440s
I did a sudo apt-get update earlier. I've rebooted since then and my panels and whisker menu won't load ever. My xfce terminal is not listed in the software gui when I open it with alt+f4. When I log into root through the gui I get this error:
mesg: ttyname failed: inappropriate ioctl for device. As a result session will not be configured correctly. You should fix the problem as soon as feasible.
Jonathan Wood
OK so Im new with all this linux stuff and I installed debian netinst amd I cant get this little shit to work ( pic related) Neither the microphone nor the headphones are recognized
Shouldve sticked with windows desu I keep running across problems all the fucking time
Jonathan Edwards
Dont use usb, plug them straight in. install pavucontrol launch pavucontrol check settings
Brody Campbell
Im using usb because I dont have a mic slot in my laptop Can I not use usb in linux or what?
Jonathan Parker
Depends on what device you got, if it isnt a popular device it most likely wont work because there is no incentive to work on drivers for something no one uses.
Try the headset one by its self and see if the system finds it as i mentioned before.
Samuel Russell
What do you mean "the headset one"? Its a separate mic and headphones, like I said my laptop doesnt have a mic slot
Daniel Young
>like I said my laptop doesnt have a So plug in the headset...
Andrew Ramirez
Wait. Ive been planning on buying a DAC. Will linux recognize it or not?
Bentley James
The headphones are recognized by my system if I plug them in directly I want to use my mic though
Nolan Long
type "lsusb" and post the results here
Isaac Ross
...
Joseph Edwards
Help
Daniel Lopez
What really happens when you check that 'Proprietary drivers for WiFi, codecs(...)' box during installation? It still detects my WiFi and it doesnt even activate the proprietary driver for the graphics card, it loads nouveau.
Anthony Richardson
>install fedora kde on my laptop 3 weeks ago (been running Ubuntu on my desktop for months now) >software center is buggy, won't install rpm files >keeps overwriting my default browser (iridium) with the KDE browser every startup >same thing with mpv >installing software almost always ends up with me having to spend 15+ minutes compiling from source and searching for dependencies >comes with all kinds of dumb shit pre-installed but doesn't even have gcc and some other essential stuff Why is this supposed to be better than Ubuntu? I just want a nice looking Unix-like OS I can use to watch streams, compile/write my Java, C, and C++ code, and just use for school shit. Like it doesn't have to "just werk" but I don't really want to spend half an hour installing a program when in Ubuntu I can just write sudo apt-get install mpv What's the point of bleeding edge? I like Ubuntu and wanted to try out another distro, but this just seems needlessly complex and tedious.
Jace Robinson
Sry I forgot to add in the biggest thing is that I understand that it's not supposed to be as simple as Ubuntu, but I feel like for half the things I try to do, I have to research online for 10+ minutes for a solution. Almost everyday I get this. Maybe it's just my inexperience, but it really is getting old
Jacob Adams
Hey just wanna know what's the destop interface installed on Arch here thx
Jaxson Long
The way you are setting the default applications must be wrong. Check out the arch wiki about the topic to get the overview. If you rely on a lot of software that isn't in the distribution, you are using a wrong distribution. If you need specific versions of certain things, then compiling makes sense. >doesn't come with a compiler. Neither does ubuntu. I talked to some representatives from canonical about that back in 2007 as I meant it was contradictory to have an "easy to use" distro and not include a compiler. The response was that they aim to make easy through the packages they provide. Programming is a special use case and they do provide packages for that, but it is not common enough to be the default use case. Programmers should know how to install the specific tools they need.
Zachary Gonzalez
the first one is i3 and the second is probably dwm or bspwm
Tell me you have RPMFusion enabled. Also you use flatpaks too. Fedora's repos are free software only and without patent encumbered software. It works as well as Ubuntu for me, although I don't use software center and have XFCE instead. If you don't have RPMFusion, do yourself a favor and add it, then do "dnf refresh" followed by "dnf search freeworld" to get non-crippled software. I recommend you at least install freetype-freeworld for both i386 (for Wine and games) and x86_64.
Landon Hughes
Thank you based friend
Logan Taylor
Google your DAC+linux.
Aaron Long
Xubuntu Arch Gentoo Void Debian
Juan Foster
I keep tryong to unpack a ,deb file but it wont be recognized Linux makes me want to die
Kevin Russell
That's good news. might install fedora whenever i give up on using mint.
Ayden Bailey
>is pop_os a gay meme? Judging from the screenshots on their site I see it comes with papirus icons, so I says it's a meme Stay clear
Luke Myers
Type $ sudo dmesg -w
then plug it it. This way you may find if some error or warning from kernel comes the moment you plug it in.
But I think your issue is pulseaudio >Install pavucontrol >Start recording, let's say from audacity >Launch pavucontrol >Go to recording tab and for audacity select the proper recording input >Stop the recording in audacity and start again >Now it records from the correct source
David Stewart
>Why is this supposed to be better than Ubuntu? Fedora better than anything? Who said that? Granted Fedora looks polished out of the box but by using you are redhat's beta tester >I just want a nice looking Unix-like OS >I can use to watch streams >compile/write my Java, C, and C++ code >and just use for school shit. >Like it doesn't have to "just werk" but I don't really want to spend half an hour installing a program You just described Debian Stable >when in Ubuntu I can just write >sudo apt-get install mpv Ubuntu is nice too but Debian Stable is much more low maintenance and just werks that any other OS out there You configure it once and then it works the same for years without a single issue >What's the point of bleeding edge? There was never a point. Use stable distros and compile what you need from source (or use backports) >I like Ubuntu and wanted to try out another distro, but this just seems needlessly complex and tedious. I suggest you try Debian once you get used more to Ubuntu and you feel you had enough with Ubuntu's choices that are pushed down upon you
Samuel Mitchell
Don't apologize, just don't fall for the bleeding edge meme An OS should be predictable and stable If it isn't it's a shit OS
Elijah Long
$ mkdir foo $ cd foo $ ar -x ../foo.deb $ tar -xf data.tar.xz
Mason Young
>dmesg has a follow option Fuck. I should have read the man page of it about 10 years ago.
Ryder Wilson
I installed Windows 8.1. I thought would be okay because I could use Linux vms in hyper-v. Not sure if I can use this as my main desktop though. Feels like shit in comparison. I'm just too used to being one keyboard shortcut to terminal emulator with my aliases and custom scripts to take care of my every want and need. I cant enjoy using my computer if I cant customize it little by little to make it more convenient and efficient.
Jacob Cooper
While Windows is shit it isn't for the reason you mentioned I remember that windows shortcuts properties allow you to specify a Ctrl+Alt+Shortcut for any program Also if you pin a program to the taskbar you can launch it with Super+1, Super+2, etc where the number is the position of the program in the taskbar Pretty neat feature but Windows is shit for other reasons
Jacob Nelson
Another good option on dmesg is -H to have human readable timestamps # dmesg -wH
Brandon Martin
post the pulseaudio output section of you're mpd.conf
Jacob Ward
You want status icons? I guess you have to decide if you are a GNOME app, an Ubuntu app, or an XFCE app unfortunately. I'm sorry that this is the case but it wasn't GNOME's fault that Ubuntu has started this fork. And I have no idea what XFCE is or does sorry.
It is my hope that you are a GNOME app...
Charles Edwards
Trying to do basic bash scripts
I created "test.sh" and whenever I write "test.sh blabla", it should write "hello blabla, testing testing!"
How do I create something like this?
Ethan Perry
go ask /r/bash
Jaxson Gray
you need to take the arguments the script is run with and use that as a variable look into ARGV
Connor Campbell
How?
Jace Walker
#!/bin/bash
echo "hello blabla, testing testing!"
# chmod +x test.sh # ./test.sh
You could have googled that in 10 seconds. Why even ask how to do hello world? Are you retarded?
Wyatt Lee
i told you what to look into, it's up to you to learn how to do it you need to use an ARGV in your script as a variable to print, work out the rest
read his post properly
Grayson Adams
I used $1 instead
Colton Russell
Sorry didnt see arguments #!/bin/bash
echo "hello $1, testing testing!"
You can use $@ if you want them all not just the first.
Ryder Gomez
Hey, I have a HP 2540p and I want a Linux distro for it.
What do you recommend?
Sebastian Torres
ubuntu
Juan Brooks
use posix shell and printf.
Leo Rivera
How do I find out what wlan module is on my card? Trying to get my laptops wireless working on arch
Adam Barnes
dmesg|grep -i wlan should be a good start
Christopher Evans
Lick Umi.
Luke Wright
What do you want to do with it?
Jason Miller
Can I set up and configure a Linux distro on a VM and then transfer it somewhere else via USB stick? I'm waiting for my new laptop to be shipped but would like to set up a nice arch install so I can just move it over and won't have to fuck around for ages
If you mean copying the VM image itself, if you're using virtualbox the vdi is kept somewhere. If you mean installing arch to a VM and then moving that installation to a physical system, why not just install arch on your host machine and move that eventually? All you need to do is copy all the data in the root partition and set up your bootloader properly. Polite sage
Landon Hall
GNU/Linux*
Samuel King
Punch Umi
Evan Rivera
he might possibly install Alpine instead, which is not GNU. polite sage
Mason Howard
user in the last thread asked for a gentoo version of this. i actually made this several months ago, so here you go.
Charles Green
>Help out a friend or family member to install a GNU/Linux distro on their machine >Given them the usual friendly lecture on why it's better than using Windows or Mac, muh security, muh freedoms, muh privacy, muh FOSS, muh volunteers, etc. >It all sounds amazing to them, they're curious and eager to try it out >Install and setting up everything goes off without a hitch, they're happy as can be >A couple days later, as soon as they have a slight problem or don't know how to do something, they get all aggressive and AS YOU'RE HELPING THEM get frustrated and say "ugh I should've just stuck with Windows" seconds before you show them how to solve the problem and it turns out it was very simple >"O-oh, thanks user"
How triggered does this make you? It makes me scream internally, tell ya hwat.
Why do they always come off as making a threat? Like that's the first thing they go for. "I should just go back to Windows!"
Josiah Watson
Been there done that, and I can confidently say that people who can't install it themselves are not going to enjoy it no matter what.
I have a .tgz and I can't unzip it with tar -xvf folder.tgz
It's giving me child returned status 1, pls help
Gavin Myers
I've given up on normalfags. I don't recommend or install GNU+Linux for anyone, they can rot with their non-updated, bloatware ridden win7 installs for all I care. I only install GNU/Linux when people ask me to install it, there have been a few cases.
Try it without the - tar xvf folder.tgz
Bentley Hernandez
Arch user here, but after talking to someone here yesterday about a couple of Gentoo's features, I've been considering messing around with it.
Noah Flores
go for it. if you installed arch the "proper way" then you obviously know how to read, which is all that's required for gentoo. good luck
Tyler Wright
please do remeber to be patient
Jeremiah Wood
I am, same error
Ayden Harris
try unpacking it with gunzip, see what error it displays. Remember to use use the "keep source file" parameter.
Cameron Lee
Be careful. I'm not talking about how hard it is to install gentoo (it's just a meme, honestly), talking about how it becomes a downward spiral from there.
Gabriel Evans
how?
Hudson Thompson
gunzip -k folder.tgz
You should get a .tar file.
Colton Miller
>What do you want to do with it? Latex, Matlab, Internet
At the moment I use Sumatra as a PDF reader a lot, is there a lightweight PDF reader for Linux?
Jordan Murphy
Yeah, I'm not afraid of an os that doesn't hold my hand. Does it retain make configuration after installation so that I don't have to reconfigure packages on update?
Daniel Scott
invalid option -- 'k'
Blake Brown
it's not for everyone. it requires a DIY mentality, and a lot of people just don't have patience. but those that do will be rewarded with freedom and customization.
Michael Campbell
Neither is it Linux. Linux is just a kernel.
Kevin Scott
i don't understand what you mean
Henry Martinez
maybe only gzip accepts that, run it without the parameter.
Alexander Ward
in what way?
Eli Price
for img in *jpg; do convert "$img" -gravity SouthWest -pointsize 200 \ -fill red -annotate +30+30 %[exif:DateTimeOriginal] "time_""$img"; done
Trying to add date/timestamps to some photos, this is creating a timestamp with the format YYYY:MM:DD, but I want YYYY/MM/DD, can that be done or does it just do it this weird way?
On some of the photos I'm also getting this error, but they all should have working exif data?
I mean when I compile a package for installation and it goes through the ncurses interface, does it save whatever configuration file that creates so that I don't have to go through the ncurses interfaces again and can just let it run in the background?
Jordan Diaz
nothing happens
Alexander Ward
i think i get it, but if i'm saying the wrong thing do correct me - that's not how the package manager works in gentoo - you set a group of USE flags, which is similar to 'make config', but you keep it in /etc/make.conf instead. you never need to use ncurses to configure packages, other than the kernel if you want to customise it. the USE flags define what support to add or remove, and is consistant across all the packages you install via the package manager, removing the need for the ncurses interface
Jeremiah Martin
So, gentoo's package manager, portage, handles compiling for you. It has two places to look for configuration files: >Global USE flags: System-wide configuration that you want all of your packages to be set to >Package-specific USE flags: You edit these in a folder called "package.use" really not as tedious as it sounds though.
Michael Scott
OH alright lol. I just woke up, and I was messing with FreeBSD yesterday, so I don't mean to sound like an idiot. I don't know if you've ever used it, but it uses ncurses interfaces for configuring most of its packages.
Andrew Adams
Damn, why do we even call things the way they are
Christopher Howard
Not him but, what really is the point of using Gentoo on a desktop? Isn't the performance benefit from customizing packages to your hardware really negligible?
Luis Smith
use make config-recursive for doing them all at once on freebsd
Nicholas Anderson
yeah, it only benefits you if you enjoy that kind of thing. I do, but it's not for everyone.
