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>b-but what search engines respect my privacy and freedom of speech?
Try qwant, searx, ixquick or startpage.
>b-but what e-mail providers respect my privacy and freedom of speech?
Try autistici or aktivix.

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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:

packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-iwlwifi
iwf1.com/how-to-add-open-as-root-entry-manually-to-kdes-dolphin-file-manager
twitter.com/SFWRedditImages

installingnewkernelversionwithnvidiadrivers.jpg

is there any way to use a modern distro without that plymouth bloatware? its installed in all modern distros and its not possible to remove with the package manager without breaking lots of things.

which repository should i add to debian to download iwlwifi intel wifi drivers ?

packages.debian.org/stretch/firmware-iwlwifi
Read the header

what's the most stable/easiest to use non-systemd distro and why is it alpine?

Just install matching kernel headers

Arch doesn't even have it in the official repos

Gentoo

MX Linux

from last thread:

Is it easy to switch from NVidia to AMD and vice versa?
Do you need to uninstall the open source driver?

If I'm looking to set up a hard drive specifically for seeding torrents (mostly TV/anime & FLAC music) should I bother with file system compression? Or can this kind of stuff not be compressed any futher? I read some stuff about zstd being able to be trained on data sets to provide better & faster compression but I don't know if that can be done on a file system level.

Sup Forumsentooman goodmorning. I have a memepad x220 and i installed linux (deepin) for the first time today. The wifi isn't working and that's weird because under lspci the intel card is recognized, the iwlwifi package is installed but under ifconfig the card doesn't show up. I tried with my t430 wificard (the same intel) and it also didn't worked. it's like the card is disabled but i can't manage to reable it again or maybe there is some kind of problem with drivers clashing together. On windows everything werk just right. Same shit on AntergOS. Wat 2 do?

Define lots of things. I'm on Debian and the only "boot screen" I've had beside grub is login.

hey Sup Forums so i have a rasberrypi that has an external 3tb hdd attached to it, it is a headless setup, i have used gdisk to partition the drive but when i lsblk it doesn't show up, fdisk -l doesn't show anything either. any ideas whats wrong?

Video and music codecs are already highly specialised compressors. That's the entire point of them. Don't bother with filesystem compression.

Ah, yeah that's true. Thanks.

How big should my root partition be on a 2tb drive

20 GiB

That wont fill up? Im encrypting, so to my knowledge i cant resize it later.

fvwm is really fucking powerful
too bad the config syntax is ass

You´ll be fine if you keep /home separate

I installed this piece of shit DE on arch and it fucked with my GRUB settings.

Its good but rough in many places. Could outpace GNOME if non-Chinese forked it.

Install Ubuntu until you learn about drivers.

AntergOS had the same DE. This may be the issue.
I clearly said driver are ok and I reinstalled and re activated iwlwifi.

>alpine
>stable
>easy
(GNU/You)

>tfw installing the superior piece of engineering known as debian over the steaming pile known as fedora
Feels good

that feel when can't get wifi working with debian because brainleet. Feels bad man. I want to quit.

>tfw your packages are 2 years old

40-50GB if you keep /home on another partition.

Get the wifi firmware off debians site and drag it to the firmware folder of the flash drive you burned the installer to

You have the following extra options:
-replace your internal wifi card with an atheros card from ebay ($5-$10). Atheros card work with libre firmware thus every distro supports them OOB
-buy an atheros USB wifi, guess the same applies
-buy a ralink USB wifi. Cheap shit, medicore quality and needs non-free firmware, but the fw is distributable and the drivers are libre so after installing the firmware-ralink package they will work just fine.

Seriously though, does anyone use Alpine as a desktop/development environment? I'd much prefer a distro without systemdicks that also has a large community backing (I believe alpine is affiliated with docker), but I keep hearing conflicting answers as to the stability and sanity of a non-server alpine setup.

I've literally never heard of Plymouth until now and I've been using Linux for years.

Is there a reason why I shouldn't use freeBSD over some Linux distro if I can code my own shit in C or C++?

if you "code" "shit" then don't use BSD or GNU+Linux, go get a mac and fuck off from the thread.

assblasted sperg detected

I do scientific computing and computer graphics, thank you very much.

In libre writer how do I make pic related behave like Office word?
When I try to move the bottom indent, both of the indents would move instead of the bottom one only.

GUH-NOME

install WPS office

press Ctrl while trying to move it.

Thanks that worked.
Is there a way to make the top one moves with the bottom one as a whole?
I tried CTRL but didn't help.

Either the free software community kills the GNOME faggots or they kill the community. There is no 3rd way.

Wont happen we are stuck with these faggots

BSD, the Hurd and ReactOS w-will s-save us.

Gentoo

DOWN WITH GUHNOME
DE WAR NOW

Find the correct kernel module and it should load automatically . If not
modprobe

Isn't kernel 4.15 supposed to be out already, why can't I update to it

when i try to apt-get install something on debian,
i get
Media change: please insert the disc labeled
'Debina GNU/Linux 9.3.0 _Stretch_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20171209-12:11'
in the drive '/mdeia/cdrom/'
How do I overcome this?
Why is this happening, why can't i just get a normal instaliation like in ubuntu or arch after typing YES ?

as root open /etc/apt/sources.list in a text editor and remove the cdrom lines from the start.

After it, run apt-get update. This is happening because you instaled debian from a non-netinst iso which has a whole bunch of packages on it.

>dropbox
>manjaro

how?

>manjaro

1. slap yourself in the face for installing a distro because it was high on the distrowatch list
2. install debian/antix/ubuntu/opensuse/anything that is not a fucking meme
3. wow dropbox works OOB

so you don't know either?

>drive broke
>Have to use usb2 chinese piece of shit drive
What do I put on ramdisk to make it less painful?

>set autologin on passwordless user without sudo priviledges
>can't log out to log in as root
welp

Okay I just switched from AMD to Nvidia, painless in Ubuntu.
Going from a 260X to a G210, just enough to display two monitors since I no longer game.
Do I need the proprietary driver?

su
Idk

Proprietary Nvidia drivers perform far better than the FOSS ones. If you don't game or use any sort of 3D application where performance matters, you may be able to get away with the FOSS drivers.

Although, I never tested the FOSS drivers myself. So they 'might' have some bugs idk.

pacaur -S dropbox?

how to hide a daemon from ps?

Make an alias the greps it out

pacaur is dead, use trizen

Okay I installed them. I'll use the FOSS drivers when Nvidia stops supporting my card in 2019.
Too bad it has a hard time playing 1080p in vlc.

Which wm is easiest for ricing? i3, dwm, awesome, openbox???

awesome if you don't care too much about all the minimalism autism

Anyone using Epiphany/Web knows how to install userscripts like 4chanX on it?

how to get rid of screen tearing on debian?

I'm new to Linux. I'm considering switchign from Windows to Mint. Guess I'll keep dual boot for some games. But anyway I wanted to know what linux distro is this? Looks fun

Could be any distro, but it's using i3 window manager

Dwm or i3

Don't use Mint.
Use Ubuntu (or variants such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu-mate etc), Debian or openSuse.

came here to say this. I'm actually running i3 on Linux Mint currently. Just open the terminal and do 'sudo apt install i3' and it should install.

But i3 comes very, very bare bones by default. It includes the freedom to mold it into anything ever.

When will people learn that distro doesn't matter
I use arch btw

thank you dear Sup Forums. and I gonna think again about distro for sure

Trying to add an open as root context menu to dolphin following this guide iwf1.com/how-to-add-open-as-root-entry-manually-to-kdes-dolphin-file-manager
ive added it but it says "Could not find the program 'kdesu'" when i run the menu button i added. I tried installing kdesu but it says it could not find it in the repositories, so i got it off the debian site and manually installed the package. I still get the same error after installing it. How do I get this to work?

I'm a new CS student and I'm looking to install a Linux distro (currently running the W10 botnet). I'm looking for something fast/lightweight that has lots of support in case things go sideways. Got any (non-meme) suggestions?

lubuntu

Is Void usable out of the box yet?

debian sid

funtoo

Why is this happening?

But how could you be happy if u cant play Deus Ee (2000) ?

fuck this crap i just installed nemo

Can I expect performance problems if I run a debian server baremetal from a usb2 stick but run every other service in VMs off a SSD?

>...and why is it Slackware

add contrib and non-free to repo sources
sudo apt cache search (get your card from lspci)
sudo apt install linux-firmware or
sudo apt install whatever driver you need (the cache search will tell you which is for what)

>debina
What the hell are you using

fixed now, thx for help though.

Openbox from my own personal experience (most is gui)

Not a problem of Debian. Which DE are you using?

AntiX linux. Runs on 70mb ram and its underlying functionality is SU-PERB. You won't find a better alternative to debian that is lightweight

>tfw using a dark GTK theme makes part of an application unusable because there's white text on a white background

Is there a way to get python-evdev on Debian stretch? I need it for emulating an XB360 controller

Install any gtk2 theme instead of gtk3

If none in repos and pip died again, do it from source

Isn't arc dark a GTK2 theme?

What things should I learn to go from beginner to "advanced" Linux user? I understand just learning how to do stuff you normally do/need to do but after that, I tend to stay in the same cycle.

did you see the photoshop post here and on /r/linux two weeks ago? the guy running photoshop cc 2018 on wine 3. did you try installing it? I did and it's kind of ok but buggy. ghosting tooltips and you can't see the topbar with file edit etc when using it with i3, no problem with openbox

There are ports of GTK2 themes to GTK3

Try to do everything via terminal and just use it...nothing more to it. If you run into a problem, google it, use it, learn it.

It's void linux

Not easy, not good, meme distro, i rate bait/10

You've never used void linux, you are the actual bait