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Why does void lack so much packages and ricing capabilities?
Why is Devuan so bloat?
should i simply embrace systemd and get Arch?
James Parker
Somebody tell me how to open a .run file i've been stucking trying to install my drivers
Adrian Torres
merry new year or whatever, fglt % date Mon Jan 1 00:15:42 AEST 2018
Jason Brooks
chmod u+x filename.run ./filename.run or for a graphical means, bring up the properties, go to wherever the permissions are, then tick/set "execute" for "owner"
Is anyone still using the N900 in 2017? How usable is it to this day?
Aaron Brooks
Can Debian be installed when storage is set to RAID? My laptop came with RAID on by default, and attempting to switch to AHCI warns that Windows might not be bootable.
Jace Hill
>Can Debian be installed when storage is set to RAID? Yes, I see no reason why it shouldn't be.
Cameron Miller
yea, it can your bios will warn for any kind of storage standard change, raid, ide, ahci, whatever. since windows is really pissy about hardware changes
Jaxon Foster
Every tutorial I find says you need to change it to AHCI but I booted Debian live with RAID on just fine.
Leo Reed
If you want you use a pacman based distro but you don't want lennartd, you can have openrc on arch (with some scripts from the AUR), you could also migrate to artix or use parabola.
Dominic Turner
they'd probably recommend it, since there's really no point using bios raid over ahci + software raid but if for some reason you need to use bios raid, linux will work with it
Luke Miller
RAID is designed to be used if you connect more disks to the controller to be used in a RAID configuration. If you don't use disks in RAID plain AHCI makes more sense (this is why those tutorials recommend this). Linux will handle the controller just fine in this mode too.
Chase Cox
That looks like a neat portable ssh machine.
Daniel Foster
It ran a Debian base OS and came with a terminal so yeah it would be.
Luis Lopez
Maybe, maybe not. Either way I don't recommend it. That's shitty motherboard fakeRAID to paper over Windows's lack of proper software RAID. Set to AHCI.
Parker Harris
I have a plaintext playlist file for mpv. I want to feed only the first file in the playlist to mpv, how do I do it?
I tried stuff like this
head -1 mylist.txt > mpv --playlist= head -1 mylist.txt | mpv --playlist= mpv --playlist= < head -1 mylist.txt
but it doesn't work. This feels like it should be simple.
Nathan Gutierrez
--playlist=- to read from stdin.
Also the first and third ones are not how you use redirections, you redirect input/output to files not processes.
Joshua Martinez
Can somebody help me?
i'm trying to cd into my flash drive, it has my video drivers, i'm in the command line
how do i do it?
John Brooks
Mount it first.
Wyatt Gray
Before I switch over to Linux, how often does Linux have Stallman like meltdowns?
Isaiah Reyes
Linus is always angry. He rarely has even angrier moments and even then he is tend to be right. See the perkeleen vitupää incident.
Jack Stewart
I just tried Antergos and damn it's good. It's not much different from Ubuntu when it comes to daily use, but the packet management is simply superb. What other distro has comparable job in that area (besides arch)?
Jackson Watson
Thanks. Is - generally to read from stdin? I've seen it in the manpages of some other programs.
Aaron Sanchez
Linus is always angry, all the time, but it's for the right reasons and directed at the right people. He's less assburgers about it than Stallman.
Yes. "-" as an argument by itself typically means stdin.
Jose Peterson
Will I still be able to use Windows, or will I have to reinstall it? I get a warning when I try and change it.
James Howard
>mount /dev/sdb1 /media/usbmount >no valid argument >despite that everything is correct
sometimes i contemplate whether to keep trying to setup alpine or kms
Austin Nelson
There is also Hyperbola, an offshoot of parabola.
Easton Howard
try mounting again with that apparently wrong command post the results of dmesg|tail (you might need to run dmesg as root)
Aiden Lopez
I installed void over winter holiday and I'm liking it but god damn if there aren't 50 billion more packages available for arch and gentoo
Ryan Barnes
source?
Kayden Torres
yea, usually "-" in place of an input file means to read from stdin
It given me a bunch of text >my flash drive's name (SanDisk cruzer blade) >sdb: sdb1 >USB mass storage device detected >write protect is off >write cache disabled read cache enabled: doesn't support DPO or FUA
Jeremiah Russell
hah, nice i assumed those words were a name, not a finnish swear phrase
Noah Hill
Never mind, fixed it, no problem
James Morgan
>uncompressing NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver for linux >Extraction failed Signal caught cleaning up
Fucking shit hell, millionth error today i got when setting up alpine
help
Bentley Reyes
I dont understand why you're having so many problems.It took me maybe 20 minutes to get a working system + xorg + openbox setup on alpine
Jackson Hernandez
what gpu are you using?
i have to use a propertiary Nvidia driver, or get forced with the shitty VESA default
Ian Garcia
1050ti using blob drivers
Landon Collins
can you just unpack it with the -x parmeter?
Tyler Martin
explain?
Jonathan Fisher
I assumed you downloaded the driver from nvidia.com and tried to run that .run file.
Liam Peterson
Yes, that's what i did do i just ./(filename) -x ?
Brandon Gutierrez
yes, it has a bunch of options use ./filename.run --help to list them.
Brayden Smith
How can one prove, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the linux nvidia proprietary driver isn't actually spyware? It's a kernel module, so it can do literally anything.
Parker Allen
reverse engineer it
Cooper Morris
Thank you for your valued opinion.
Isaiah Roberts
Does nouveau still see any 'real' development or has Nvidia's hostility become too much to bother with?
Jayden White
Nope, still shit
Owen Robinson
> falling for the alpine meme
Chase Gomez
Right, so, /cyb/ is down, this isn't a question for /sqt/, and /csg/ = bandwidth that probably isn't supported in my country (in terms of communication standards).
Do any of you have a recommended "pocket router"? Sup Forums approved? I just want a portable router where I can manage my devices easily. Preferably OpenWRT flash support.
Sorry for posting in the 'wrong' thread, but this seems to be the most 'suitable' thread as it's not particularly a 'stupid question.'
Disclaimer: I searched the Sup Forums wiki for router recommendations and I dislike all of them. They're not good form factor.
Oliver Jones
If you are OK with 1 ethernet port then you can get any of dem ARM mini-pcs then buy a case and a wifi dongle for it. You can put any distro on it.
Eli Powell
>Tfw just installed kubuntu as babbies first linux Where do I go from here?
John Cruz
just use it. break it, then fix it without reinstalling from scratch. slowly but surely you'll get the hang of it. would recommend keeping a file with some of the commands you might use so you don't forget them. read man pages, and search for how tos on some software you want to start using yourself.
Carson Ross
start using it set up your browser, media player etc try customize it do things, that's the only way
Nathaniel Wood
Follow the Arch wiki's "General Recommendations".Ignore arch specifics
Tyler Mitchell
You want to search for "gnu/Linux distros that use pacman as a package manager" on your favourite search engine.
Hunter Cook
hello is posible to freeze a debian sid install at some point and only get the security update ?
Ethan Miller
No. sid doesn't have a security team or security-only repo.
Elijah Taylor
i read that the opposite on debian site
Jeremiah Martin
No, you didn't.
debian.org/releases/sid/index.en.html >Please note that security updates for "unstable" distribution are not managed by the security team. Hence, "unstable" does not get security updates in a timely manner.
Easton Gonzalez
>Does sid have security updates?
>Not in the same sense that stable does. If the maintainer of a package fixes a security bug and uploads the package, it'll go into sid by the normal means. If the maintainer doesn't do that, then it won't. The security team only covers stable (and possibly testing... there's a pending issue for that case).
nvm I'm wrong, can I do it with testing ?
Jonathan Peterson
Does anyone else exlerience debian to be less stable then say arch?
I switched both my desktop and my thinkpad from arch to debian 9 and I started experiencing random freezes, logouts, hard reboots during regular things like watching videos.
What is strange is that its both computers and it's problems that I never had before on any os. Anyone else who had this problem with debian?
Jeremiah Torres
maybe u need newer kernel, and maybe thats why arch worked better, stable doesnt mean mor support
Elijah Russell
So I've been running Chakra on my laptops for a couple of years now and just recently decided to skip Windows on my desktop. Thing is I use a Logitech G600 mouse on there and the profile saved on it worked fine on linux but all of a sudden it won't do some binds (like CTRL+T just prints "t", CTRL+C/V works just fine though). It's not a broken mouse, I've tried it with another even and it still work fine on Windows.. Xbindkeys shows the correct input so I have no idea what to look for. If anyone would have any advice I'm all ears.
Brandon Myers
Happy new year, /fglt/
Wyatt Bailey
good one
Samuel Peterson
I want to have run a server at home with my music collection and be able to stream from anywhere (something like Spotify) - looking for software suggetsions.
Jeremiah Rogers
terminal noob here. Suppose I want to make a small install script. And I want to do some commands that need sudo privileges. Can I just sudo the whole script or do I need to put sudo before commands in script. Ie.
And then just do "sudo ./script.sh"? Also, how do I deal with "sudo -u " use case? Just to leave it like that?
Ian Lewis
What are you up to in this GNU/Year's Eve, /fglt/?
Isaac Jenkins
trying to finally setup mutt, but not feeling like i'll get it done this year. i don't even really get many emails now that i started unsubscribing from mailing lists i got myself into.
Xavier Cox
Use sudo within the script
Samuel Myers
Use xev to get the keycode Use xmodmap to map them Use xbindkeys to bind them
Do you want them to be the home row,keypad, or other keys?
Matthew Ramirez
thanks, and happy new year user
Jack Peterson
Oh, xev tells me (in the case of ctrl+t) it's actually t+ctrl..
I'm just using them for lazy Firefox browsing.. I've now tried it on two laptops running the same updated distro and it worked on one of them..
I'll keep trying, thank you, I'm a noob and didn't know about xev.. I guess you guys are kinda friendly after all
Happy new year!
Brayden Foster
Happy GNU year central EU
David Gray
Happy gnu year to you too!
Isaiah Nguyen
happy new year faglets 2018 is the year i will install gentoo (maybe)
Jaxon Collins
Welp, i'm done with linux. I let you asshats trick me into thinking it's good si i put it on my htpc and that thing is constant trouble, not only is getting any hardware to work a massive trouble (on windows my scanner and printer worked out of the box where on linux i has to spend two hours googling fucking console commands and packages to get it to work) Then there are things that stop working all the time for no good reason, like my scanner, it was working fine for a month and then suddenly stopped reacting even though nobody touched the hptc, but when connected to a windows pc it works fine. I guess linux is fine as a toy system or on things like the raspberry pi, but to use it as a main driver on a computer causes me to constantly have to waste time by fixing problems that don't even exist on windows. On windows i literally installed it and never had to touch it once for YEARS i had the linux for 3 months now and i had tons of various medium or small problems that i had to fix It's a good system but simply not mature enough. Please stop tricking people like me into taking linux seriously, that is a lot of time wasted i'm not getting ever back.
Jayden Lopez
bye
Isaiah Sullivan
no shit, people here are linux hobbyists only, nobody here uses it for anything important obviously (except for some clueless neckbeards of course) for an htpc you should definitely be using windows 7
John Thompson
>no shit, people here are linux hobbyists only, nobody here uses it for anything important obviously (except for some clueless neckbeards of course) >for an htpc you should definitely be using windows 7
Kayden Baker
Happy new year fellow Gnus and Penguins!
Logan Baker
Happy GNU/Year
I hope you're all having a better time I am at the moment
Xavier Reed
*than I am can't even post right, damn.
Jacob Parker
Reposting this from /wsr/.
How can I move a protective MBR to another partition using fdisk on Linux? I'm trying to replicate a procedure that uses commands exclusive to FreeBSD's version of fdisk, which is incompatible with my version of fdisk (from linux-utils).
Well, it is primarily intended for use in servers.
Owen Wright
>tfw starting to use emacs (spacemacs but same diff) feels gnu man
Jordan Roberts
Have this hedgehog.
Liam Myers
thank you user
Julian Collins
How would one track network use locally? Not bandwidth, but processes
Camden Hill
Which distro should i try next in 2018, debian xubuntu or someother? started using linux this year with ubuntu
i'm curious about arch but i'm afraid i'll spaghetti it all
Austin Watson
i'm wondering if the issue is that you have a hybrid MBR a protective MBR is a standard feature of any GPT disk, while i've never used EFI myself, it makes no sense to me that any EFI machine would refuse to boot a disk with a protective MBR, as that's something all GPT disks have by default
if you don't know, a protective MBR is simply a standard MBR with a false partition in it, in place to prevent legacy MBR-only software from touching the disk, the protective MBR makes the disk look "full". without it, legacy software may think the disk is blank or damaged, and so may write new data to it a hybrid MBR instead adds real partition data to the protective MBR space, to match the GPT partitions, such that legacy software can access the data on the disk. though this can trick some software into believing the disk is an MBR disk (which is kind of the point, but is a problem if the software also supports GPT)
you can create a new protective MBR using gdisk (gptfdisk) gdisk /dev/sdz x (expert) n (create new protective MBR) w (write changes) note: this will not affect your GPT partitions or data
