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Why the fuck didn't richard get the Millennium Technology Prize???????????
Cooper Kelly
What text editor to use for creative writing (novels, screenplays, etc.)? I'm curious if either vim or emacs could be configured to be more suitable for that sort of thing. I'm already familiar with vim, and I know spacemacs can use vim keys, so converting to spacemacs wouldn't be a problem for me either.
John Thompson
Who?
Colton Rivera
What is your distro and what are your fetishes?
Daniel Smith
Devuan Vanilla
Christopher Rodriguez
fedora femdom
Adrian Turner
Debian Cuddling/ spooning
Kayden Kelly
4head
Isaiah Hughes
Gentoo Traps
Carson Gray
This right fucking here
Matthew Rodriguez
brainlet here.
So I installed opensuse but its annoying to get applications to install on it. Everything needs to be ported over or built.
Am I doing this right?
Should I just swap to ubuntu to have an easier time or will I experience the same problem
Also it turns out I'm 1 version behind in OpenSuse and its not a few step process to update.
James Jenkins
Debian.
Caleb Williams
Non-rolling release distros are ass for PC use.
Jonathan Wright
debian has best support for software?
as in is it the default linux distro people make 'linux' software for
Henry Young
Arch Vanilla intercourse between two consenting adults for the sole purpose of procreation
Parker Campbell
i dont know the more detailed things about linux what is userspace and why does linus sperg about it
Adam Walker
Vim + vimtex and a pdf visualizer
Hudson Foster
You need to create a .desktop file. It acts like a launcher and you can set a whole ton of options in there
Christian Davis
My go-to setup is sublime3-dev with the LaTeXTools plugin and evince running for a preview while formatting. Some dude created a GitHub repository that can be cloned to have a spellcheck dictionary for every popular language there is.
Joshua Wright
Arch For fapping: Pretty much anything that's not gay, loli or furry With my girlfriend: Light bondage (she's very vanilla and insecure)
Caleb Smith
Whats the best ubuntu flavour for a beginner? I tried debian net inst and even though I managed to get it work alright, I ran ibto various problems which I couldnt fix. I dont want unity.
Jose Gomez
Trisquel Hairy bushes
Samuel Hall
Ubuntu Interracial
David Mitchell
Maybe we could try and help you with your Debian problems? If you're deadset on leaving Debian for Ubuntu, maybe you could try Ubuntu Mate or Gnome, whichever DE you prefer.
Daniel Smith
Already tried, nothing came of it. Thanks for the offer though.
Oliver Lopez
And its not like Im deadset on leaving debian, its just that I dont have time to deal with shit like that and right now I only want something that just works.
Christian Gonzalez
There's plenty of flavours of Ubuntu that don't include Unity. You could just net install and install only what you need and nothing more.
Connor Rivera
Hey so I installed ubuntu on my laptop a few months ago. Everything has been going well, and I've realised the power of the command line but I have an issue. My PC has Win 10 on it and I've installed some opensource program to remove Win 10 spying.
My concern is that I have blocked the spectre + meltdown patch. I'm running an i7-8700k. Is there any way of checking if I've been patched by Micro$oft?
Dominic Evans
>remove Win 10 spying. snake oil crap and it usually breaks your system get rid of it and just do personal stuff on your laptop or dual boot
Matthew Edwards
Debian 80s bush, if you can even fucking believe that's a fetish
>/usr/local/MATLAB/R2017a/bin/matlab should be /usr/local/matlab or /usr/local/bin/matlab or even ~/.local/bin/matlab whatever
Joshua Smith
kek
Jayden Green
What's a simple command I can use to transfer files between machines over the Internet?
I don't really care if it's a file-sharing service or a "start a little server on one machine and connect to it from the other one" kind of deal, as long as I can use basic tools found commonly on Linux machines.
Ian Thompson
Lula 2018
Ayden Mitchell
do i really i need to patch the kernel for kpti? what are the risks if i don't?
Zachary Reed
your lolicon collection may leak or be deleted of course you don't
Nathan Long
...
Lincoln Thomas
Android?
Ethan Murphy
Hi I am trying to learn more about imagemagick and have trouble using it with the terminal. I can open the user interface by typing display-im6 into the terminal but all terminal commands don't work. For example when I try magick mogrify -resize 50% rose.jpg it says that the 'magick' command was not found. The same happens for any other command with 'magick'. What do I do wrong?
Christian Price
>RMS will never run as Lula's m8 for 2018 election
Why live
Ayden Morgan
Run the command without magic. Imagenagick has serveral commands like "convert", "mogrify", etc.
Bentley Taylor
the thief who stole my heart
Gabriel Gray
What will you do when RMS dies one day?
Gabriel Wright
Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get MAD! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot — I don't want you to write to your congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the botnet and the proprietary software and the capitalists and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say: 'I'm a human being, god-dammit! My life has value!' So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!
Colton Taylor
Is there a way to have the window decoration on Firefox like epiphany/web where its part of the browser instead of just taking space on top.
Juan Edwards
What's a good linux distribution similar to Windows that's great for a media server but also being able to use steam and play arcade games?
Grayson Fisher
The fuck you even talking about?
Isaiah Barnes
We need to fight for ourselves I guess. But honestly I really hope there will be a mastermind next to RMS who has the same clean and uncucked view on laws and software like RMS and will spread his message.
Benjamin Powell
Android.
Dylan Hughes
On the screenshot Epiphany (on top) has the close/maximize buttons in line with the search bar and it looks like its part of the browser. Firefox (on the bottom) has it on top. It doesn't look like its part of the browser and it takes more space.
Jayden Long
Don't think so. It's one of the things Firefox 57 took away, so it might appear some time in the future as an option if people ask for it enough (there's already an issue on the bug tracker, look it up).
Daniel Jackson
Wait for Firefox 58. I think that one will enable client side decorations which you can turn on.
Luke Wright
You can't run steam on android though
Leo Gutierrez
Using i3, is it possible to open up windows in the original workplace the command is run/parent window is on? I use matlab, and some rendering takes some time for the figure window to appear, so I change workplace and do other things, and when the rendering is completed the window appears in the current workplace, not matlab's, and I'd like for those windows to appear on matlab's workspace. I'd like for this to work for every window I start (for it to start in the workplace it has been called), how can I go about it?
Jose Ross
There should be a file where you can specify where you want programs to always dock at.
Dylan Rivera
>I'd like for this to work for every window I start If the program you want to start doesn't do the right thing and decides to pop up in your current workspace instead of the one it was in when you first started it, then the only solution is to pin that one program to some fixed workspace (i.e. you could still move it anywhere, but it will only launch in that workspace). So you could create a matlab workspace and specify all windows with "matlab" in their class/title/whatever will only pop up on that workspace.
Not the best solution, but the only one.
Adrian Sanchez
IS THAT STALLMAN WITH EX BRAZILIAN PRESIDENT LULA? what the fuck
Tyler Morales
Why does firefox litter the filesystem, instead of just installing to /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin? Its throwing binaries and symlinks in to /usr/bin,/usr/local/bin,/usr/lib,/usr/local/lib, How do i prevent it from littering my system with this shit when i have %PATH setup properly?
Jeremiah Cruz
By packaging it properly.
Landon Roberts
Meaning? I dont see build time settings to control where it is installed too.
Hudson Richardson
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.
Samuel Stewart
It shouldn't touch /usr/local if you configure it with an /usr prefix.
Austin Richardson
>configure it Where? I dont see any mk or ac options to specify this.. I only want it in /usr/BIN as a binary named "firefox".
Ryder Allen
DELET THISS!!!
Jeremiah Gutierrez
what's wrong with systemd?
Juan Hill
no
Luke Long
I give up, bros, this shits impossible. Why is installing Arch with LVM and systemd-boot so fucking hard?
Andrew Lewis
Hoped there would've been a more general solution, but I guess it can't be helped, i3 is kinda old. Thanks for the help!
Hunter Allen
>Timed out waiting for device Your UUID is invalid
Cooper Johnson
How can I get Gnome to display the data at the top by the time?
Henry Hall
arch cuckolding
Carson Ortiz
ac_add_options --prefix=/usr
William Rogers
Yeah well, that’s what fstab gave me and blkid confirms.
Lucas Campbell
genfstab gave me*
Nathaniel Taylor
running debian gnome on my xps 13 and the trackpad is close to unusable. is there a better driver i can use?
Gabriel Nelson
>didn't mention which driver he's using right now >wants new driver recommendations Idiot.
Owen Garcia
distro package is compiled with this setting and it still litters the system with files.
Chase Nelson
Debian stable. Garter belts
Luis Lewis
void /d/
Christopher Ward
Which distribution? Switch to a different distribution or compile it yourself.
Zachary Edwards
I'm trying to compile it my self(compiling with this setting right now) This setting seems to do little in regards to firefox throwing out 5 copies of its self for no reason since its part of the distros prepackaged firefox
Jayden Ward
Arch. Having a deep connection with my partner, feeling safe and sharing everything. Then whichever type of sex comes from that.
William Collins
Which rolling release distro should I use? I'm currently on Opensuse Tumbleweed, and while I like it a lot, apparently keeping the package count low is somehow impossible because of strange dependencies and recommended packages. I would consider Arch, but if I remember correctly it installs some bloat (devel-packages?) alongside regular packages. Void is run by Bronies, Debian Unstable has apt which I hate, Gentoo is too challenging.. what to do? Have a cat wallpaper as thanks for your help!
>I have retardedly arbitrary standards becuz I like pretending to be a pro but still yearn for a meme I can attach my emotions to. If you were actually serious you'd roll your own.
kys my man
Carson Jenkins
Lula for prison 2018
Henry Wood
If you're deadset on those opinions, your best bet is just to bite the bullet and unironically install Gentoo.
Jackson Flores
Is free software comunism?
Adrian Watson
So let's say I want to set comment and string syntax highlighting in .c files in vim to light green. There is a lot of comment 'definitions' in c.vim but there are all linked to either cComment which is linked to Comment or cString which is linked to String so no problem with that. Now when I set cString and cComment in my vimrc to LightGreen it does everything as intended but when i use String and Comment alone it only changes the string color to the LightGreen and leaves the comments as they were.
Help guys, how do i change the syntax highlighting with the default groups so it affects other highlighting of other languages? I don't use any colorschemes also if this could be the case.
