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Don't know what to look for? $ apropos %something%
Why do I need root to do literally anything? I can't even edit text files in my home directory without needing to use sudo Where did I go wrong? What is the fix The only fix I've done so far is chowning my /home
I recently switched to XFCE and now my Scarlett 2i4 (audio interface) no longer works. I can only see it under configuration now, worked just fine when I used cinnamon though. What do? The device is also missing in my DAW and crashes when the audio engine activates.
how to make moc not look for plugins? it slows it down
Can't load plugin libaac_decoder: file not found Can't load plugin libmusepack_decoder: file not found Can't load plugin libwavpack_decoder: file not found
Sebastian Gray
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Andrew Gonzalez
Did you chown recursively?
Tyler Smith
>>b-but what e-mail providers respect my privacy and freedom of speech? >Try protonmail or disroot
The best way is to register your own domain name, then host it at your home server.
Logan Johnson
I do this myself but some people don't have the time/skill to do it, for them I recommend protonmail
Connor Green
How the fuck do I unlock my full disk encryption at boot using a USB key file instead of a passphrase? I've been searching for hours and just finding random posts talking about it vaguely instead of giving clear instructions.
Logan Martin
Archwiki Luks#usb keyfile
William Perez
How can I prevent tracking on the internet?
>Don't use Google (DuckDuckGo) or Gmail (Self hosted email server), Google Docs (Self hosted nextcloud), Google Drive, etc.
>Leaving Facebook soon
>Run secure chat server for friends, don't allow people to talk to me about anything remotely important outside of it
Plan to switch away from it ASAP, probably to PureOS
Josiah Brooks
I've seen # links to this supposed section but it doesn't exist.
Elijah Turner
Its not the LITERAL link to it, but read the god damn wiki, it babysteps you
Carter Turner
I've read the wiki. That's how I set up Luks in the first place. But I don't see anything about setting up a USB key file to unlock at boot.
Adam Nelson
Then you didnt/cant read
Hudson Sanchez
flatpak or snap firefox with patched meme file picker where?
Adrian Wright
Considering the patch is for gtk...never
Anthony Lee
I should have been more specific I want the one with the opensuse QT patch
Charles Reyes
Considering the patch is for qt...never
Jackson Carter
Installed a fresh copy of Linux and everything looks tiny as fuck as if it was for ants.
I'm using a 4k resolution. How do I make everything bigger?
Grayson Gutierrez
Are there any IRC clients that I can access remotely (like a web interface)? I have a raspberry pi seeding torrents and doing other stuff and it'd be nice if I could have it connected to IRC at all times so I don't miss any conversation directed at me.
Xavier Young
chown -R someuser:somegroup /home/user/* chmod -R ug=rwX,o=rX /home/user In the second line, the X means: set execute bit if the file is a directory or already has execute permission for some user.
Oliver Jenkins
dpi
Ethan Sullivan
What distro would you recommend for a T420? Right now Im on linuxmint but I also have my desktop on that setup so I want to experiment with the laptop. Boot speed is a plus. I want to use my T420 to learn programming and shitposting.
Colton Watson
Anyone know anything good for digital signage? Trying to set up a few menu boards for two delis with the same owner, possibly using Pis or similar. Something centrally managed would be nice. I've looked at things like Concerto but they were all shitty.
Prove it. Link me to the correct place on the wiki where my question is answered.
Camden Cox
what is the best and safest way to uninstall windows 10 so that i can go ahead and install linux?
Michael Phillips
Sludgehammer
Blake James
How do I create a desktop shortcut?
Eli Lewis
just scored a free T61 and am poasting from my Fedora 26 LXDE system, have told myself I would teach myself Linux this year, went balls deep and installed it onto the SSD, wish me luck guys
Jaxon Davis
I don't know anything about digital signs, but if someone asked me to do this I would just write a startup script for the rpis that caused them to boot directly into a fullscreen viewer of whatever file type is being used (is figuring out what file type to use part of your job?) and display a file that's stored locally. Then I'd write a script that, when run from some office computer somewhere, pushes new files to the rpi via scp or some such thing.
What's wrong with doing it that way?
Sorry for my ignorant non-answer, but I am curious to know why this requires special software.
Levi Torres
Ive definitely heard its the memeist distro, what is your reasoning?
Nathaniel Sanders
Run weechat on the machine and then just SSH to it. Otherwise, I think weechat has some kind of remote interface, but I've never used it because SSH + "tmux attach" is just simpler.
Ian Foster
Starting with Mint, Fedora, or Debian and moving to Gentoo when you feel like learning more is what I recommend to everyone who is not hopelessly tech illiterate. You said you want to experiment, so you're probably ready.
Gentoo is not very noob-friendly, but if you're willing and able to learn how it works it's the easiest distro to use, in my opinion. I'd say that it's kind of like how classic cars are easier to work on than modern ones, but harder to own for people who don't know how to work on them. It's not a perfect analogy, but the point is that it's both a pretty good way to learn and a great system for people who have already done the learning. It's a meme because it's an ironic thing to recommend to someone who wants to know how to hack facebook.
I use it on my desktop as well as on a 9 year old netbook. Updates can take a pretty long time on the netbook, but if you're willing to let them run over night it's not a big deal. Boot times are reasonable even on a 1.6 GHz, hyperthreaded single core. If you want fast boot times, though, just hibernate instead of shutting down. You don't really ever need to shut down all the way unless you're changing kernels, at least not with Gentoo.
Gabriel Sanders
Yeah I was thinking SSH with some command line interface would be an option. Thanks, I'll look into it.
Christian Robinson
can someone please explain to me why zorin os has such a bad reputation around here?
Joseph Parker
Allow me to quote their About page.
>Despite the enormous advantages it has over traditional operating systems, we recognized that the biggest barrier to the success of Linux on desktop computers was that it wasn't user-friendly enough. Linux-based operating systems were generally designed for engineers by engineers, with little consideration for regular users. We decided to fix this.
That's why it has a shit reputation, because its built for retards.
Julian Hernandez
so people are salty that new users can get into it easily?
on distrowatch the distro has a user rating of 7.7. i start to believe that all this hate is nothing more than some kind of Sup Forums projection again.
Gavin Wilson
No.
The problem is that things that are built for retards have training wheels or make assumptions that are difficult or annoying for skilled users to overcome.
As much as you would like to think that Sup Forums is full of retards, there are a reasonable number of competent users here, and they don't want shit getting in the way of actually using their computer. As a result, they're going to unironically recommend things like Gentoo, and decry things like Zorin.
Jacob Allen
People here hate visual studio and repeat the meme it takes 60gb to install for more than 5 years, what else do you expect
Andrew Ramirez
okay i see, but what exactly cant you do on zorin that you can do in other distros? what i dont get is why they hate it. i am capable of using a bike, so i automatically hate on training wheels because i cant do certain things with them. but they are very useful for kids, ie beginners. to just hate on them because of this is very ignorant.
Sebastian Green
If you can ride a bike without training wheels, why would you choose one that has them, given the choice?
>what can't you do with Zorin
You can't not have systemd without some fucking around, which is, as I described, simply an annoyance to users who prefer choice and freedom.
Jordan Baker
tools.suckless.org/ii/ Saves the chat to a simple text file, you also reply simply by echoing your reply to those files.
Luis White
> no net install, just 'lite' So fuck you if you don't want their GNOME spin. What if I want to make a headless Zorin appliance or server? >you need a server os for that. like ubuntu Does Ubuntu have a desktop too? That sure would save me some time. > bi-yearly release cycle I get my video drivers from mainline kernel and Xorg. No thanks. Not to mention all the strange odds and ends I now have to build because Zorin's version isn't new enough or isn't packaged at all. No, I'm not going to pull in stuff from Ubuntu and make a FrankenDebian.
There's nothing you literally can't do on Zorin that you can on another distro, but it would be so labor intensive that it would need to have Windows-like market share before I could be bothered. As it stands it's just Ubuntu but worse in every conceivable way.
Gabriel Hughes
Hey guys, my friend just changed his main OS to ParrotOS, and while i was over, i was pretty comfy with it. Low resource use from what i could tell, and looks pretty good for me. What do you think about it? Are there some better alternatives ?
Jordan Barnes
thank you, I'll start studying up on it
Gabriel Anderson
Recompile it with those options disabled.
Justin Roberts
Because you caused it by using "sudo" in the first place. Look up what sudo does. Then look up permissions. Then apply common sense to what happens when you do the things you've been doing.
Henry Taylor
Desktop files.
Jayden Hill
It's a pointless downstream distribution that contributes nothing worthwhile and does proprietary things judging by the price tag and restricted features.
Hunter Gray
The same programs use the same resources on any distribution.
Carson Ortiz
Where is the legacy tray icon thing in Gnome now? If I close Discord or Steam or whatever, they're still running in the background but I can't find the icons.
Ryder Scott
what does "disk sleep" mean exactly? was copying a file or some from disk to disk they should not bee sleeping lazy bastards damn them
good luck being able to deliver messages from a home email server
Nathan Wright
'special software' is easier for customers to understand and is just generally more efficient for the market. That goes on in any industry, especially these niches.
David Sanchez
How to use properly the output of strace for debugging?
Tyler James
Any alternatives to Google Calendar?
I'm eyeing Lightning Calendar and Evolution (Gnome).
Brody Moore
How does babbie easily configure xubuntu LTS for a high dpi display? The DPI setting in xsettings seems to only change text but no other elements.
Ayden Davis
When i launch android emulator, i get corrupted sound for time of load+a little bit more. Roughly for 1 min. It's quite annoying. I had that since i first time tried android development on linux in 2016, but it still persist. I changed computer, new distro with new kernel, but i still get that. I really tried to google for solutions, but i wasn't even able to find anyone with same trouble. What can be done?
Anthony Evans
Nah, I have a folder in my hdd, but need a shortcut on the desktop.
Angel Sanchez
What is the point of having a usergroup with your own name?
Blake James
My 128GB Sandisk USB 3.0 (the ones that overheat like a bitch) has suddenly gone read only, on Fedora 27 KDE. How do I set it read-write again?
Robert Baker
I've just installed Linux mint and I've got a weird problem, All my USB 2.0 ports don't seem to work, only the 3.0 ports work. I made sure to disable all uefi options in my bios. it's extra weird cause on Windows I had the exact opposite problem, only the USB 3.0 ports didn't work and all the 2.0 ports worked. I've searched around and can't find any solutions, anyone had a similar problem?
This is the mount output for the USB btw /dev/sdb1 on /run/media/nigger/sandisk type vfat (ro,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
Kevin White
# # /etc/fstab # Created by anaconda on Tue Nov 14 15:04:27 2017 # # Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk' # See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info # /dev/mapper/fedora-root / ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 1 UUID=472db3e4-c278-4fc3-baff-8e49970f2fd4 /boot ext4 defaults 1 2 UUID=4C14-8AB2 /boot/efi vfat umask=0077,shortname=winnt 0 2 /dev/mapper/fedora-home /home ext4 defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 1 2 /dev/mapper/fedora-swap swap swap defaults,x-systemd.device-timeout=0 0 0
Thats all I see, the USB is still connected
Sebastian Jenkins
>errors=remount-ro maybe there's an error message in dmesg
isn't going read-only what flash storage does when it dies
Ethan Gomez
;_; I just bought it though I'll look in dmesg, does it need to be inserted from boot to show anything?
Parker Moore
There's hope then [ 36.125787] IPv6: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eno1: link becomes ready [ 2823.765397] usb 4-2: new SuperSpeed USB device number 2 using xhci_hcd [ 2823.778467] usb 4-2: New USB device found, idVendor=0781, idProduct=5583 [ 2823.778472] usb 4-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3 [ 2823.778475] usb 4-2: Product: Ultra Fit [ 2823.778478] usb 4-2: Manufacturer: SanDisk [ 2823.778481] usb 4-2: SerialNumber: 4C530001090314114073 [ 2823.816724] usb-storage 4-2:1.0: USB Mass Storage device detected [ 2823.816866] scsi host6: usb-storage 4-2:1.0 [ 2823.816960] usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage [ 2823.821765] usbcore: registered new interface driver uas [ 2824.877327] scsi 6:0:0:0: Direct-Access SanDisk Ultra Fit 1.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 6 [ 2824.878225] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] 242614272 512-byte logical blocks: (124 GB/116 GiB) [ 2824.878376] sd 6:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0 [ 2824.881089] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off [ 2824.881093] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 43 00 00 00 [ 2824.881403] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Write cache: disabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA [ 2824.929082] sdb: sdb1 [ 2824.930696] sd 6:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk [ 2833.524781] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck. [ 2840.883376] FAT-fs (sdb1): error, fat_get_cluster: invalid cluster chain (i_pos 0) [ 2840.883384] FAT-fs (sdb1): Filesystem has been set read-only
Grayson Garcia
I would uninstall yaourt
Jackson Allen
>archshit I would choose the rope on the stairs
Wyatt Gray
thanks, it's working again, it needed 2 fscks for some reason.
Owen Barnes
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Ayden Ross
>it isn't friendly to have bants with archtoddlers Dont be so boring
Adrian Morris
Is it safe to upgrade packages like libvirt and qemu above the versions available in the repos? KDE neon is stuck on 16.04 LTS, but I need some newer versions. Would upgrading these packages destabilize the system? I assume not, since they're independent, but not sure
James Russell
not just get kubuntu 18.04 beta
Christian James
In fact you didnt answer the question and the guy is probably gone now, so no, it wasn't friendly.
Kayden Ortiz
It's configured per toolkit, because that's what your programs use.
Jason King
>archlinux tries subtle strategy to get us to answer his archshit question Clever. But not that clever.
Joshua Murphy
you install wine-staging-nine because its not out of date you install wine-vulkan if you need vulkan support
Your programs use GUI toolkits like GTK3 or Qt5. Those handle the scaling (along with the display server I assume). Adjust their settings to make them scale according to your needs. Read the whole article and the section. wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/HiDPI#GUI_toolkits
You're using Xfce and most of its programs are still using GTK2 (until 4.14 comes out) and GTK2 has bad high DPI support.
Wyatt Murphy
Not him, but this made me curious, is there a way to know which toolkit is being used? E.g. I'm using Transmission on Fedora KDE, and would prefer it used the Qt toolkit, would it just do that by default, and how would I know? It doesn't say anything obvious in the About screen.
Nicholas Baker
I've been using Manjaro KDE on my desktop for a year, flawless experience. Now I bought a thinkpad with a nvidia quadro 2000m, and I'm not sure what should I do. On my desktop I've used the amd free drivers, but I've no experience with nvidia, let alone these mobile gpu's. What's the best distro that just werks with such hardware?
Evan Wright
But isnt kubuntu shit
Sebastian Thompson
Why don't you just try your manjaro KDE with it? I have a few-gens-old Nvidia and it has really shit support (no Vulkan etc) and it glitches on everything except for Ubuntu LTS (meaning only Ubuntu, not the variants). Nah it's decent, and 18.04 will be miles ahead of the previous versions which I heard a lot of bad things about. It's basically using 5.12 Plasma which is stable and beautiful. If you need new packages, you should just use Fedora KDE though. Not much significant difference between Fedora and Ubuntu these days.
Austin Perez
Check your package with your package manager. It should mention it in its name (at least that's common sense). Alternatively check the package information with your package manager and see if it depends on Qt or GTK.
Adam Johnson
Also, to clarify things: that's just for Transmission, because Transmission has both a Qt and GTK version as far as I remember. Obviously you can't just take a program and make it "use" a different toolkit without rewriting it.
But the general way to check what toolkit your program uses is still the same. It should be listed in its dependencies.
Cameron Jenkins
>Transmission has both a Qt and GTK version thats what prompted the question
Xavier Edwards
Windows 7 in VirtualBox occasionally hangs up for no reason (it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse). Host system is openSuse Leap 42.1. How to stop that? How do I make Win7 not hang up?
Well actually, I don't care about vulkan or games, I have windows on my desktop for that. But Ive heard these quadro drivers switches between dedicated and integrated for better battery live or some shit, and I kinda not trust linux support. The only thing I need the gpu is to move photoshop / illustrator propertly through wine, and that the desktop don't crash or have weird problems.
Connor Torres
by not using winshit
Daniel Clark
I seem to remember reading about this somewhere but I can't find it in the usual places, how do I route the output of my music player to something like TeamSpeak with PulseAudio?
Jose Phillips
I'd imagine serving the text files over https being much simpler than having to take over the server.
Isaac Wood
Why does noone ever bother to make uninstall scripts for their software?
