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>Any idea what the fuck is going on then? barely my last idea is trying to set ZDOTDIR explicitly (although if it's empty - it should pick up files from $HOME by default) try running ZDOTDIR=$HOME zsh and doing "echo $ZSH" in that zsh instance
Noah Torres
>zesty Your mirror doesn't have zesty: gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/ I guess they removed it because it's EOL >As far as I know 17.04 is an LTS version Nope, only even major versions are LTS: 16.04, 18.04 etc
Thomas Martin
Now I miss kde 4. Oxygen looks messed up on plasma 5
Oh, okay. I was mistaken, I believed n.04 was LTS and and n.10 was not. Thankyou.
Jacob Allen
I don't think that did anything
Sadly I have
Angel Morris
What about netrunner is, or will be, better than dillo?
Austin Cruz
ehh, is the ~/.oh-my-zsh folder even in place? If the ZSH var is set, everything should be getting picked up by the "source $ZSH/oh-my-zsh" line in .zshrc
Liam Gonzalez
1. How to fix the theming inconsistency on the "All apps" button ? 2. Why is gnome-shell eating 50% CPU?
Evan Lee
Hi all! Newbie to this whole linux thing.
I am very interested if anyone can point me to a pdf of `Rebel Code', a book on the history of GNU/Linux.
In a bit of irony, it is not free ;)
Dominic Sanders
There's a reason why there are daily GNOME hate threads. Disable all effects including within extensions because they may be causing memory leaks (most notably window previews)
My Manjaro Cinnamon install keeps shitting itself all over the bed Why the fuck does this keep happening Also, this is on my secondary SSD in the caddy in my T420 so that shit just reboots into the Windows Botnet on the primary SSD if secondary is not detected or if Manjaro fails to/doesn't boot How do I fix this bullshit
Luis Sanders
how come this comes up when I try to start cmus? cmus: cmus is already listening on socket /run/user/1000/cmus-socket
Ian Allen
From a freetard (no offense intended, just trying to really make people know who I'm talking about) point of view, are games and music okay?
Most games not open source and I really don't know if music can be considered open source or not
Leo Jones
I've been a linux user for quite a while, but due to work reasons I've never ventured much outside of my ubuntu/debian convention for workstations, arch for home servers convention, Since I'm getting a little bored of Ubuntu, what's a good new distro I can give a shot?
Logan Gomez
>how come this comes up when I try to start cmus? >cmus: cmus is already listening on socket /run/user/1000/cmus-socket
Michael Sanchez
First off: Why do you want to use Manjaro?
Dylan Murphy
You are the best! Thanks. Only new about bookfi when I searched before so appreciate your competence.
Christopher Hughes
well gee thanks for the help
Matthew Hughes
You cant play games because the source isnt offered and the license isnt gpl
You cant listen to music because the hardware used to create and mix the music is proprietary and not licensed with gpl
Jack Williams
>keeps shitting itself all over the bed I have no constructive answer for you, I just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate this sentence. It gives a whole new visual tone to the phrase "shitting the bed".
Luis Stewart
I unironically recommend arch to people after they tried some of the more mainstream linux distros.
Not having to deal with OS updates is seriously great if you ever did one and having new versions of software is always nice.
Not to mention the aur makes installing 99% of the stuff around a breeze.
Only case I won't recommend arch is if you run mission critical software on the computer. In the off-chance shit hits the fan it can get a little ugly, but I haven't had any issues ever with updating.
Camden Hall
>Mfw finding out there is no Linux driver for AMD cards that support hdmi audio until the 4.15 kernel which isn't out yet Wow I almost thought Linux was good for a sec
Ian Rogers
>mfw now no one will help me because someone replied to my post and they think it's answered
Benjamin Ross
get a drive that isn't dying
Brody Moore
But the error message tells you exactly what your issue is.
Grayson Ortiz
>french Why are you even here when you could be sucking all the dick and sticking a baguette up your ass?
Jose Murphy
it says here netrunner.cc/ >Local cache >Non-bloated smooth UI >Written in C++ >Low on dependencies >HTTPS with HTTP fallback and ports management like Smart HTTPS and HTTPS by default >Bookmark management >Userscript support >"Open with" feature to use an external application, like for using a video player >many more..... I do recall many more killer features mentioned on the threads here on Sup Forums
Robert Richardson
Then how do I quit cmus to start a new process?
Jason Sanders
I enjoy Fedora, just add rpmfusion and pick a version with Cinnamon or KDE. It's pretty comfy. I have had a few hardware bugs but all in all pretty easy and good
Hunter Barnes
No sale until the dev tools are Chrome level
Brayden Foster
>chrome
Caleb Jones
Alpine
Evan Martin
>yourfavoriatesearchengine >"how do i kill a process in linux"
Jose Edwards
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Landon Rivera
see if i can Sup Forums from red star os
Elijah Phillips
thanks
Daniel Baker
PCLinuxOS, pUPnGO, maybe Alpine. Do try some source based distro like Gentoo or sourcemage.
Looks like an interesting experiment going on.
Thomas Davis
GNU/Linux or OpenBSD for a laptop?
Ryder Cruz
>Openbsd Why would you run an insecure operating system?
Luis Phillips
to avoid illusions
Brayden Price
gnu+linux
fishBSD isn't really for desktop/laptop use.
Gabriel Phillips
>security as a product
Liam Gomez
So, is Gnome DE (specifically Ubuntu 17.04) truly bad, or are most on Sup Forums just meming? Just looking for a reliable and easy experience. I have more than enough resources in the machine I'm installing it to.
Elijah Rodriguez
XFCE is comfy
Asher Allen
What is XFCE?
Nolan White
I have no idea what XFCE is or what it does, sorry.
Leo Foster
if you share the same exact idea of what a de should do with gnome devs its fine, but for customization its pretty bad
Alexander Myers
I'm trying to access my encrypted 32bit Linux SSD from my old ThinkPad. I'm on a 64bit Win10 machine, and it's formatted in ext4 so I can't just use my SATA to USB and copy the files.
>durrr just copy the files I've tried DiskInternal's Linux Reader, but it won't open my drive up (maybe because it's encrypted, but it won't even ask me for a password).
>hhuuurrr just boot from it and copy the files to an HD/USB I can't, it simply won't boot up on this PC. IDK why, because it sure sounds like it is, but nothing displays and my monitor just goes to sleep.
Henry Bell
How is it better than the existing terminal browsers? Some of these even have pretty heavy graphical support (which, yeah, kinda defeats the purpose but is still nice)
Lucas Clark
Boot a live usb Decrypt files(luks? veracrypt? pgp?) Copy files
Ayden King
make a linux live install on a flash drive then access the hard drive from there
Jaxon Davis
Is Void suitable for use as a daily driver?
Benjamin Russell
Could I move exclusively to cli applications in this days?
Samuel Morgan
archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_pUPnGO Toying with this ultra minimal distro, so far I liked pupngo.dk/xwinflpy/output.iso Includes jwm Win95 clone window manager, retawq (fast!) text mode web browser, EITHER OXElmo email client, OR rdesktop RDP client, BUT NOT BOTH ON A FLOPPY xcmd run bar, edx text editor, bcalc simple four function GUI/command line calculator xcalendar date/day/time pop-up calendar. Only 1.6MB!!
Lincoln Morales
Soon
Isaac James
>insecure operating systems >openbsd >t. FSFnigger
Robert Turner
>t. BSDshill
Kayden Jackson
OpenBox is max comfy!
Parker Turner
Could you install that wm on a ubuntu based distro?
Isaac Scott
Wallpaper please
Yeah is under the name jwm but not sure if it looks like that ootb
Cameron Gonzalez
I've been trying some distributions in virtualbox and I think I like manjaro with the XFCE edition the best. However, I haven't been able to find a way to disable the shadow that desktop icon text has and it makes the text hard to read. Is there a way to change this?
Asher Ortiz
how do i get that info that everyone posts in the desktop threads like OS/Kernel/Uptime etc
Evan Perry
screenfetch
Noah Roberts
goodnight, virgins
Ayden Jones
god damn it i installed debian in VM and apparently i don't have any permissions
apt-get install gives me "unable to lock administration directory. are you root?" error
and sudo apt-get install tells me "command not found"
what did i do wrong?
Carson Gonzalez
gotta install sudo cause debian is retarded first you need to edit your sources.list and comment out the line that mentions the install cd so it doesnt complain it cant find it in case you already wiped it. then you can use su to go install sudo
Liam Cox
>The state of Sup Forums
Did you install sudo?
Matthew Sanders
no, i was using the small net installation thing so i thought it downloaded everything necessary
ok thanks
David Gomez
I'm trying to get arch to work on my laptop, but systemd boot says it can't find my vmlinuz-linux file (error loading \boot\vmlinuz-linux: Not found). I mounted my root partition to /mnt, and boot partition to /mnt/boot, and my arch.cfg has "linux /boot/vmlinuz-linux" in it. What am I doing wrong?
Chase Allen
What laptop?
Owen Jones
Easy mode to overclock my monitor fro 60 to 75Hz?
Nvidia panel has this option on Windows, but not on Linux.
Kayden Morris
XPS 15 9560, people have gotten it working on this model before. I feel like I'm missing something obvious
Joshua Myers
>systemd Found you're problem right here
Aiden Phillips
Does Funtoo still miss some ABI stuff from Gentoo making it hard to have a full multilib system?
Asher Anderson
Your bootloader is probably hooked to a wrong partition.
Joseph Davis
Indeed, user, Openbox is max comfy, both standalone or as an expanded LXDE
Ayden Green
Yes if all you do is browse the web and do small things like that. It lacks packages, it comes outright broken out of the box and god knows what else, i didn't bother trying further. If you are looking for Libre, go with Parabola or Devual, if you are looking for SystemDicks free-distro, check out AntiX, MX, Slackware, Gentoo or do Debian without systemDicks
Ayden Peterson
Don't know if you're still around, but it should be linux /vmlinuz-linux. Paths with systemd-boot are relative to the boot partition.
Luis Clark
>says it can't find my vmlinuz-linux file (error loading \boot\vmlinuz-linux: Not found)
Not a single distro has a file name like this. The file should be either vmlinuz or vmlinuz-version (like vmlinuz-4.15.2) I have a feeling someone fucked up something in your grub config and used vmlinuz-`uname -s` rather than vmlinuz-`uname -r`
Jonathan Turner
What are you talking about? Arch uses vmlinuz-linux and doesn't even use grub.
Samuel Thompson
>Arch uses vmlinuz-linux The memery levels of arch never fail to amuse me.
Xavier Jones
i have no sound on fresh debian install. How do i get sound to work?
Luis Hughes
as I recall debian only comes with free fw, maybe you're chip needs non free firmware you could download the package from a repo if you have the non free ones in your sources list depending on your chip.
Christian Flores
meant your not you're
Landon Kelly
>console, no root >alsamixer >go to analog out and change outputs until you hear something
Protip: dont have the headphones on while changing the volume
Joshua Bennett
Well, i guess I could see two different stances on music: 1. Music isnt software, so whatever 2. Only listen to music that is licensed by creative commons cc0 or By-SA which are compatible with GPL, (allowing remix and such, even for commercial use)
There are FOSS games, so a strict freetard might stick to those.
Hunter Butler
No, Debian isn't retarded, it's just that people like you don't know how to read. It explicitly says to not enter a root password when you're asked in order for it to automatically set up sudo.
Blake Gomez
I'm looking for either a way to make Ifran my default photo viewer in Ubutnu or to find a replacement for Ifran. Any ideas guys? The shit on Google hasn't been any help, it just tells me to run code that doesn't seem to do anything.
Ayden Roberts
alsactl init
Samuel Evans
I don't know much about ifranviewer but feh is a decent cli picture viewer it doesn't work with gifs though, but it's lightweight and opensource!
Samuel Bell
Assume I'm using a meme distro and haven't found any good built-in way to handle this. So, starting from scratch, how can I make my laptop hibernate when it reaches 2% battery?
Brandon Smith
If you're a reasonable sane person who can deal with something that's new and slightly different to what they're used to, use GNOME. If you're an autist who thinks that OS UI design peaked with Windows 95 and want an archaic "taskbar that no-one ever uses with old timey start menu you have to manually click through" then go xfce.
GNOME just werks, and its clean and modern. Most importantly it stays out of your way until you hit that super button because you lost track of your alt-tabbing and want to see what's open. I went Windows > XFCE > KDE > GNOME. I should've just started with GNOME to see if I liked it and ignored all the shilling.