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Nicholas Cook
I tried both netinstall and Live, I also tried the work-respin earlier and got the same error.
Supposedly the error is in my SSDs, but I just installed Debian on them with no issue
James Johnson
I also chose the "check ISO before installing Fedora 27" or whatever it was
Lincoln Moore
Can QEMU do shared clipboard stuff without SPICE?
Levi Evans
Still looking for a way to make the application menu display a programm i installed under the category "Graphics" rather than "Lost&Found" in the Plasma 5 Application Menu widget Yes I already tried rightclicking the application menu settings. See Image I don't know what the Desktop files are
Hunter Morales
>right click >edit applications... Come on now.
Luis Bell
yeah, I got it. Sorry
Julian Russell
As much as I'd like to distance from Google unfortunately English isn't my first language so any search I do with those alternatives (not in English) only garbage and poorly related content pop-up. How do?
Gavin Rogers
Why the fuck won't the terminal emulator start when it's a fresh fucking Debian install?
Seems like quite a fucking problem since the Debian baby proofing won't let me log in as root in the graphical log in.
William Nguyen
QUICK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tomboy or gnote? which to use? i've always liked tomboys, and i hate C++, so that's two marks for tomboy
Nathan Rogers
debian's a pretty standard distro
Easton Parker
I know that, but why is it malfunctioning straight out of the box?
Oliver James
Do you guys like my artwork? {alias,nigger='{printf,'\''that'\'\\\'\''s%1sracist'\\'n'\''}'}
Dominic Cook
Time to fell for Gentoo meme.
Xavier Sanchez
>the terminal emulator >fresh install >graphical login what does any of this even mean
Ayden Phillips
I just finished my initial wave of tweaks and package installs for Debian Stretch. What are some things I shoud not live without?
Easton Mitchell
Notepadqq
Mason Rodriguez
Hey g, Was wondering what DE or WM I should use for arch. I have Budgie right now but it seems to run too much off of Gnome. Was wondering what your favorite ones were.?
Brayden Bell
It's a brave new world, brother
Sebastian Roberts
I'd personally go with tried and true XFCE
Cameron Morris
i3 or openbox
Ian Reed
You might try Awesome, i3, or dwm depending on your tastes.
Easton Wright
i3
Austin Kelly
Breathing.
Lincoln Martin
Too late, user. I was rushed to the nearest hospital, but their machines all ran Windows Vista, so I promptly killed myself via fatal exposure in the radiology lab.
Luis Robinson
And yet you left prism-break, and they recommend autistici for everything.
Oh, right, and I've got Topicons Plus running there, but who doesn't have that?
Eli King
Gnome would still be a great DE if the devs were not so obsessed with making it so fucking featureless.
Dylan Thomas
>so fucking featureless. Tell me about it.
Austin Wilson
Cinnamon is literally the perfect DE. The devs just need to cut the apron strings and get rid of all the gnome deps.
Elijah Wilson
>you need an extension do disable suspend on lid close >you need an extension to change many of the keyboard shortcuts >you need a separate control center to change the shell theme >extensions break every update I'm not hating on it. I always liked. I wish I could still use it.
Sebastian James
Any chance I could get that wallpaper?
Liam Bell
It fills me awe to see the Stallman evolve in his role as the most hallowed excellency st. Ignucius, here seen commanding the wildlife with the power of the muses, his holiness truly is beyond reproach.
Mason Scott
I'm not hating either, to be honest. GNOME has always been my favorite, especially after GNOME 3 came out. Just wish there was a little more out-of-the-box customizability. I liked Kali for that reason, it has some great customization options.
Landon Hernandez
Redpill me on kubuntu
Gavin Hall
Includes proprietary software. KDE is good but I personally don't like it.
Dominic Reed
>Just wish there was a little more out-of-the-box customizability. I mean, isn't that what extensions are for? You're given a Turing-complete scripting language in which to tweak the fuck out of the shell. The one thing I really think needs to be redone is moving GNOME Tweak Tool's functionality into an Advanced tab of the main Settings application. Fragmenting settings is fucking retarded, as we've seen in Windows >=8.
Luis Jenkins
>Fragmenting settings is fucking retarded, as we've seen in Windows >=8. YES. I don't think I'd have any complaints if they just consolidated their shit.
Ayden Parker
How the absolute cunt pissing fuck do I get debian to stop trying to open new links in fucking firefox? I dont want to use firefox for a single god damn thing and no matter how many config files I flip through setting them to my preferred browser, it *keeps fucking opening new firefox windows* I've tried sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser and it's already set to my preferred, what the hell else can I try?
Jaxson Torres
What the difference between /13/ and /17/?
Joshua Roberts
>/13.0/ and /17.0/
Fixed
Charles Davis
What DE are you using? Is $BROWSER set? Some environments override things like x-www-browser and have their own default handlers.
17 is more up to date and should generally be used in all cases.
Evan Evans
I'm using DWM. I got frustrated and just "whereis firefox firefox-esr" and deleted every single path and bin file and it finally fucking defaulted correctly. I'm pretty sure it's because I have gnome running in the background somewhere because I never got rid of it after installing debian and it was probably interfering with my defaults because it's an intrusive pile of shit.
Blake Morales
>17 is more up to date and should generally be used in all cases.
Many thanks, user. :)
Juan Evans
So, i don't need this, right? I won't use systemcrap.
I just select profile 19 (desktop/plasma stable).
Angel Morgan
Right, if you're using OpenRC you can skip it.
Ethan Scott
Alright apparently fuckin never mind, now it defaults to chrome. Is there something I'm fuckin missing here? Why is this being so fucktarded?
Benjamin Lewis
Thanks man!
Connor Thomas
What application are you trying to open links in? There's probably a config setting somewhere. Also check what /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser points to.
Hudson Walker
Trying to just vivaldi, I plan on switching to firefox quantum (it's faster and doesnt have the same tearing problems) but I'm waiting to get set up at my new place to pull all my configs off my desktop.
The very last line of x-www-browser is exec -a "$0" "$HERE/vivaldi"-bin "$@" Which I assume reflects my setting in update-alternatives, although that never seemed to do a damned thing
Asher Reyes
You aren't understanding what I'm asking. What application actually contains the links that you're clicking?
Angel Wilson
All of them. My DC++ client, IRC client, steam client, pdf embedded links, word embedded links, anything and everything opens in the wrong browser (except now that I've deleted every single other browser except the one I want them to)
Tyler Bailey
Man, the USE flag is a pain in the ass to configure.
There are dozens, hundreds, thousands of options to set up.
There are other alternatives links than x-www-browser. Check the value of gnome-www-browser, and the $BROWSER environment variable, and the GNOME settings application if you have that installed.
Aiden Cruz
USE flags are the primary point of Gentoo. Why are you using it if you didn't want to delve into that pile of autism?
Ayden Myers
>This OS has me compile every single package from scratch tailored to my needs >Why do I have to spend so much time configuring it tickling my pickle
Asher Rogers
I want to switch to Linux. I don’t really have any experience outside of windows but I am not a complete newbie either. I am mostly interested in simplicity and security, and I read that Alpine Linux is good for those attributes.
Is Alpine Linux a good choice for simple security? Does anyone have any experience with Alpine Linux?
Zachary Young
You don't have to list ALL USE flags in /etc/portage/make.conf. Just the ones that you definitely want to have if they're available. Use /etc/portage/package.use for specifying how you much functionality you want in your software. Also most, if not all, USE flags are self-explanatory.
Carter Sanders
Alpine Linux doesn't use the same C library as most other Linux distros so third party Linux binaries generally won't work. Just use Ubuntu as your first distro like most people.
Liam Morgan
I have used Ubuntu before, and I did not really like it. It was very hard to try to update firefox (I was trying to download from google drive and it wasn’t working). I eventually gave up and just used google chrome, but even then some of the files I was trying to download from google drive were invisible (ebook files mostly chm).
I understand that there is a learning curve with Linux distros and that you need to find all new programs. But isn’t finding suitable replacement programs all I really need to worry about? All I really need are programs to burn CDs/DVDs, convert audio and video, a media player, a torrent application, and an ebook reader.
Nolan Hughes
Welcome to Gentoo, enjoy your stay.
Noah Evans
But he isn't like most people, he's a special snowflake!
Christian Cooper
Is the boot partition necessary?
Landon Thompson
This is supposed to be the Friendly GNU/Linux Thread. Maybe you should start an Unfriendly GNU/Linux Thread.
Nicholas Davis
I would just call it 'Unfriendly Linux Thread'.
Angel Barnes
You're a nice person. Thanks!
Brayden Anderson
Yes, if you want to boot your system....duh
Anthony Carter
My problem with Ubuntu is that is comes with lots of programs that are normally used with windows, but they can’t be updated. Even if you took the time to delete them and get new ones, if you ever had to reinstall Ubuntu, it would have all of this semi-functional crap on it. I would rather spend more time finding programs for an obscure bare-bones operating system...unless there are other issues besides just finding new programs.
Juan Mitchell
Red Hat's remote-viewer went from 200M to 1600M memory in 7 hours
Bentley Miller
why the fuck will my hard drive randomly decide to not spin down when running on battery with laptop_mode, even though other times it works fine
Brody Hall
You don't know what you're doing, and it's not going to get easier anywhere else. If a package is out of date, remove it and install upstream binaries or from flatpake or from a PPA or build from source. This is not a problem that goes away with any distro. > if you ever had to reinstall Ubuntu, it would have all of this semi-functional crap on it. This isn't Windows, spacky.
Gavin Robinson
FUCK LINUX FUCK THIS SHIT PIECE OF CRAP!!!
I'M DONE!
Noah Perry
>use a proprietary driver module >under a proprietary hypervisor >HURRR Y IT NO WORKY
you'd know if you could see the output in a terminal emulator :^)
weston i3
ob is flexible but you'd have to set it up i3 is pretty much ready ootb
do you use gnome wayland? do you have radeon? does it make mpv playback micro stutter? is nautilus slow to open folders(as if it caches the files for the first time)?
it is [if you know js] it has a nice dev pop up console and shieet
>programs to burn CDs/DVDs, it is only one - cdrtools, and a few guis cdrtools.sourceforge.net/private/linux-dist.html i think you still have to use a ppa if you don't want your cd ruined by the broken debian fork that is preinstalled the rest is ffmpeg shotcut mpv transmission mupdf
Tyler Diaz
So I updated my Fedora 27 like it's been begging me for a week, requires restart, when it starts back up all I have is a black screen with a blinking cursor, nothing else! I can select other kernel versions, only one of which still works. Rescue mode doesn't boot either. Any idea whats going on?
Brody Price
ask fedora irc
Jayden Diaz
>laptop_mode_tools >Not using tlp and tlp-rdw
Caleb Anderson
Because VirtualBox vga emulator is a garbage.
Charles Young
>su password is strong >sudo password is not because I don't want to type a strong password 50,000 times every day
What is the solution to this?
Ian Gonzalez
Use strong sudo password and use sudo -i for interactive root shells if you're going to be doing a lot of shit elevated.
Gavin Nelson
>su password is strong You mean the root password is strong. su is a utility to Switch Users. You can su to any user. >sudo password is not You mean your password. Sudo is a utility to run software as other users (Switch Users DO: "command"). You can sudo any user.
Jonathan Baker
Any idea how I could go about mass-renaming these files? Currently they're named >Copy of Hunter.X.Hunter.-.001.[SUB.1080p.BluRay.x264].[DHD].mkv But I need to remove the bullshit so it looks something like >Hunter X Hunter 001
Nathan Cruz
Test before executing. #!/bin/bash
for OLD in ./*; do NEW="$(echo $OLD | sed -e 's/\./ /g' | awk '{print $3, $4, $5, $6, $7}').mkv"; mv $OLD $NEW; done
exit 0;
There probably is a very friendly gui software that can do that with easy. You just had to search "gnu linux mass renamer" or something like that.
I wish I was dead. I don't want to click on car pictures anymore.
Logan Ortiz
thanks for explaining the obvious
Bentley Diaz
You are welcome.
Juan Perry
...
Easton Jones
Thankyou! I'm sure there are plenty of gui tools but this is a headless server
Colton Martinez
Did you test it before thanking me?
Jose Powell
I have to sleep. I'm going to assume it worked.
Nolan Morris
Hey guys, I seem to have a unique problem. I am dual booting linux on a laptop, but every time I boot into any distro, my USB mouse doesn't work and my trackpad starts acting retarded. Any idea why?
Relevant info Corsair Glaive RGB mouse Asus ROG GL503 Laptop Have tried on Mint, Kubuntu, Ubuntu, and Antergos (Would prefer antergos because my friend and I are using it together) I have been putting it on my ssd, which isn't very large.
Which of these would cause the issue?
Charles Williams
I would prefer to have a "No Retards Linux Thread".
Kevin Walker
Its a thing with the mouse you need to install a driver sadly.
>play 0ad at highest settings >24fps >switch everything to the lowest possible >24fps o-okay...
Tyler Myers
C I N E M A T I C
Andrew Diaz
>"I don’t really have any experience outside of windows" >wants to install Alpine never go full retard
Adam Gutierrez
going right to the deep end is one thing, but going straight to alpine is like going to a different pool altogether alpine is not a gnu/linux distro, it uses musl libc and busybox instead of gnu libc and bash, if you don't know what that means or what it affects, you really shouldn't be looking at alpine
Henry Carter
Hey mates, I've been avoiding GNOME because of the lag I get in the app menu. At the time I really wanted fix it, trying multiple solutions to see it fail.
I really want to move to GNOME now, how do I fix the lag?
Jayden Walker
>root password you don't have to use the root one but the one for the user you're switching to
what's your pc? maybe disable animation enable gdm auto login to save some ram
Ryder Butler
Hey guys, new to Linux and all that shit. Had too many problems with Windows fucking me over on a constant basis and got Ubuntu working in dual-boot for my main computer.
Decided I'd move all my images and mp3 files to another old laptop I have that is also running ubuntu and get it all set up to transfer files between the two when need be.
Is there any specific shit you guys would recommend to get this going smoothly, and is there any preferred way to pull files from the linux partitions when in Windows?
Sorry if I'm an annoying cunt, don't really lurk /fglt/ and thought I'd give it a try asking.
So I upgraded my Debian unstable desktop today, haven't updated it for a week maybe. All of the sudden the internet doesn't work. Not wired connection nor wireless. When I bring up my network settings it just says "the system network services are not compatible with this version." I tried starting the network manager manually service network-manager start but that does nothing. I know I should've read the update notes before just pressing y, but please I really want to save this machine, it's my main one and reinstalling now would be a pain such a pain considering that this desktop is my main computer. I only have a laptop that I have to connect via my phone now.
David Morales
What is your fortune today, user?
Logan Gutierrez
fortune is bloat
Nolan Peterson
Why are you still using "service x start"? Use systemctl and stop using those shitty symlinks or abstractions.
David Hughes
A really convenient way to move the files around is to use MobaXTerm (freeware, mobaxterm.mobatek.net/) and use SCP/rsync.
Use MPV as a video player and tune the system to fit your use case. You should be prepared to google any errors you get, chances are tens of people already faced and resolved the same issues.
I recommend learning the basic bash commands and try to spend an hour every day learning a part of the system. Over time this will help you a lot.
Welcome to the other side, we're here to help if you need us.
Alexander Collins
Please don't hack us hackerman.
Dylan Cooper
how would I go about doing it in symlinks. I got the service command from someone who had a similar issue on Ubuntu.
Christian Richardson
I meant that "service" might just be a symlink to systemctl. That's why you never use shitty old solutions. But more importantly, that's why you inform yourself about the things you do and not just blindly copy paste instructions. Read logs, that's going to tell you why it doesn't work.
Jackson Campbell
I really like Emacs, but its bloated as fuck. Is there any stripped down version with decent support? (last version of MicroEmacs is from 2009)
Luke Long
Gnome by chance? Unironically try a different desktop environment if you're convinced the results are not representative of your hardware. Gnome has some problems related to fullscreen applications like videogames.
Jackson Taylor
mg
Kayden Powell
Yes I know I was being a fucking idiot for just pressing y when I should've read the bug report. But I manage to fix it, just had to manually install gnome network manager and all of if's dependence.
Brandon Cruz
ifconfig eth0 up dhclient eth0
Now you should have working wired ethernet, do a dist-upgrade. note: replace eth0 with the """"""""""""""""""""""predictable""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" interface name if you have those. If you don't have ifconfig (that's the latest systemd based distro thing) use busybox as a replacement busybox ifconfig eth0 up
Isaac Sullivan
My pihole VM werks great but reboots take like two minutes because it's waiting for network even though I have assigned static IPs. Is there something wrong with /etc/interfaces?
Adam Barnes
Cheers man, will look into it! Right now I just got SSH working between the two and made the keys. Gonna start testing some files so I can weed out some faults before I load everything up on the 'server'. If google doesn't help me with any problems, I'll try here as a last resort.
Other side is already looking great.
Brody Bailey
Is `more` less or `less` more?
Noah Reyes
Any recommendations on a decent laptop I can get that will allow me to learn Linux while also using Windows?
This looks cool, but how much of it is customizable? I think it's written in C, not Lisp.
Hunter Parker
>I think it's written in C, not Lisp. Well you need to make up your mind then. Normal GNU Emacs is essentialy an elisp interpreter disguised as a text editor. You're giving up your computer resources for it's endless customizability. It's various spinoffs are not. If you hope to get GNU Emacs but without the retarded bloat you're out of luck buddy, might as well switch to vi now.
If startup time bothers you look up emacs daemon/server and clients. They're cool as fuark if you have a work machine you never shutdown since it allows you to keep endless lists of buffers pretty much forever.
Angel Sanders
ed was a text editor created with teleprinter in mind.
Dominic Wood
>that's the latest systemd based distro thing Deprecating ifconfig (net-tools package) has nothing to do with systemd, you absolute retard. But you wouldn't know that, since you're a retarded myth spreader who lacks even the basic knowledge about the topics he's discussing.
Read this for one reason: lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2009/03/msg00780.html Then figure out to use your package manager. Then look up the package that provides "ip". Then look at the upstream URL. Then see where it's pointing to and who's developing it. Then buy a gun and shoot yourself. Unfortunately I doubt you'll get that far, you'll most likely fail at the first step, using a package manager due to your retardation.
William James
Thank you for your absolutely intelligent input nigger (friendly thread my ass) If you have nothing else to say in a 400 character post but "retard" and "kill yourself" then either fuck off back to or protect the environment by not using your keyboard for no reason.
Jaxon Rogers
>If you hope to get GNU Emacs but without the retarded bloat you're out of luck buddy I just want to use Emacs _only_ as a text-editor, without useless shit like Emacs Doctor or stupid games. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea? Do one thing and do it well my ass.
Jose Barnes
>Do one thing and do it well my ass. What the fuck are you talking about? I don't think there's a single piece of GNU software that conforms to the Unix philosophy (do one thing and do it well) with Emacs being the prime example of it.
>I just want to use Emacs _only_ as a text-editor, without useless shit like Emacs Doctor or stupid games. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea? Make up your fucking mind, youre contradicting yourself every time you post a reply.
>I just want to use Emacs _only_ as a text-editor, mg
Jeremiah Morales
>no input >showing a retard (obviously you) how he got even the most basic thing wrong Are you just angry because you cannot handle being exposed as an idiot who is talking (superficial) bullshit on a technology focused forum, thinking no one will expose his retardation and call him out on it?
Jayden Gomez
>Make up your fucking mind, you're contradicting yourself every time you post a reply.
How am I contradicting myself? I asked for stripped-down Emacs because I'm only interested in text-editing. One thing that I didn't mention in the first post (but added later) is that I want to customize it _in that respect_. I don't think that's an unreasonable expectation. It's really hard for me to believe that no-one thought of removing stuff from Emacs that is not related to text-editing over the years.
mg looks cool, I will give it a try.
Levi Powell
welcome to Cred Forums, you must be new here? ;) they can't stand being called out on their own bullshit. I find over and over again there's people that think they know linux, even have it installed and use it, but would have no idea how to use bash! this is the level of some people here that we end up seeing endless shitposts from. even google is too hard to use for them.
Joshua Clark
> literally sick of people using 'literally' in a sentence. learn english or start speaking another language. english is obviously is too good for you. let me guess, you're american?
>Cinnamon is literally the perfect DE it's quite horrible. maybe give other desktop environments a go?
Leo Gonzalez
Are there any books worth reading on being an arch user or should I just check the wiki when a problem appears?
Kevin Gutierrez
Arch wiki + man pages and you should be good to go.
But read about whatever tool you're using when you start using it, not when a problem appears.
Parker Cruz
What is the main factor in a file transfer over USB 3.0 lagging like fuck? I'm on Fedora KDE 27 and it's a i3-3110 with 4GB DDR3 RAM and Intel "GPU". Is there anything I can do to make it smoother? Is it KDE's fault? (KDE is shit smooth otherwise)
Carson Flores
Read speed of the drive being copied from. Write speed of the device being copied to.
Bentley Bailey
The CPU goes up like 25% across all cores though
Jace Morales
>What is the main factor in a file transfer over USB 3.0 lagging like fuck? The filesystem of the removable pendrive. fat32, exfat and ntfs (realistically the only filesystems with enough compatibility to be used on another operating systems) do not have a native kernel driver. For technical and licensing/patent reasons they all use abominatiosn like fuse which offer dogshit performance and there's pretty much nothing that can be done about it.
Your choice is either use ext2/ext4 for large external storages and just giving up on the possiblity of using it on other operating systems without 3rd party software or using fat32 and god forbid you trying to copy files larger than 1G.
Easton Anderson
Both drives are ext4. I'm thinking the i3 is literal ass.
Jaxon Anderson
what are the speeds though? Are you getting better transfer speeds on other operating systems? What speeds is the device rated for? Have you tried using some software measuring transfer speeds?
Noah Howard
I don't really have anything to compare to, because this is the only USB 3.0 hardware I have, but it's pretty fucking, like a 3GB file transfers in like 20 seconds. Haven't tried other OSs. I just wondered if there was a way to stop this shit from lagging.
Nathan Diaz
Actually XFCE...
Levi Moore
No idea then. I don't play videogames.
Jeremiah Gray
AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Carter Ross
/fglt/ I have a rather weird question. I'm looking to design a hardware unit that displays text on a screen. Basically, you attach it to the system bus (AXI4 in my case), then you can write characters to it and it emulates a framebuffer containing an image of the text currently stored in its text buffer. I am now wondering how I would best design such a unit in order to be able to integrate it into linux. What I'm looking to end up with is basically something that displays the output of a tty, but doesn't have to care about where the input comes from. I have been reading about tty drivers but it seems that is still one level above what I'm trying to do as I am not looking to implement any tty functionality, just provide an output sink for a terminal. Can anyone give me a pointer?
Hello anons, I have a question if you don´t mind. As I posted in I'm trying to improve my iptables rules about toorrenting with RELATED so I can use all ports but not openning them always. Am I in the good way?
When I got this I just boot the previous kernel lel It used to be because I installed /boot/ with not enough space.
Ryder Perry
i'd look it up online if i knew how to consolidate my issue into one coherent sentence, but here i am... i'm mostly enjoying GNOME, but there's one thing that pisses me off and i have no idea how to even start fixing it.
say i have two windows side by side such as Firefox on the left and VScode on the right using Win/Cmd + left/right (pic related). i then want to bring another window into foreground, such as file explorer, on top of Firefox, and be able to use VScode while the file explorer stays on top of Firefox. what happens instead, is as soon as i click on VScode, Firefox automatically gets returned into foreground, hiding the file explorer completely.
i like the fact resizing one window resizes the other one accordingly, but i don't agree that the two windows should be treated as one, meaning any other windows which are not tiled in such a way are sent to back.
if anyone knows what the hell i'm talking about pls halp 2 fix, preferably in a way that doesn't require replacing GNOME completely.
Lincoln Green
You want to disable "click to raise" behavior. IIRC GNOME Tweak Tool can do that.
Andrew Williams
Can I just remove it? Always thought it is required for general network connectivity.
Ethan Hill
It's just a convenience thing on servers and can be disabled. Make sure nothing in PiHole's UI is using NetworkManager for status checks, though.
Lincoln Lewis
tried all the options but none of them seem to make a difference to this particular issue. thanks for the suggestion though.
Eli Sanders
I want to go back to Windows but I seem to be having some problems creating the bootable USB.
How exactly do I format an USB to FAT32 in Ubuntu? And also, why the fuck does Rufus doesn't recognize my USB?
Landon Parker
You don't. You're here forever.
Nathan Evans
mkfs.fat /dev/sdXX where sdXX is the partition label you want to format as FAT32.
lsblk to get the list of devices
Charles Moore
if you're switching to Ubuntu (good and intelligent move), you better get used to googling for easy shit like that not even gonna spoonfeed you because you can google that search term and it will give you the answer and this is why retards never even learn about ubuntu or linux, because faggots like you spoonfeed them and they're never incentivised to learn a fucking thing on their own initiative
Joseph Ramirez
he wants to go back to windows you insufferable cunt.
Hunter Sanchez
then hes in the wrong board you fucking twat
Jace Price
What distro should I choose?
1. Debian has old packages 2. Ubuntu shoves Amazon down your throat 3. Arch is too difficult 4. Manjaro feels slow even with XFCE
What is left?
Jayden Walker
Fedora
Noah Rodriguez
>What distro should I choose? It actually doesn't fucking matter and you have to be an idiot to believe otherwise. Pick the one that suits your needs most and stick with it. Debian stable is a good starter and considering the history of it it technically should stay a fine choice for the next 20 years.
Jackson Sanchez
Maybe check tilling extensions for gnome with a behavior more to your liking.
Jose Ward
That's not what RELATED is for. When you open an outgoing connection to a server, your client sends an ephemeral port number to which the server is supposed to send its reply. The incoming ephemeral port connection is RELATED. The port number you get for other peers on a torrent swarm doesn't come from any information a firewall can reasonably be expected to inspect.
Bittorrent can't have outgoing port restrictions, or at least shouldn't if you care about maximizing performance. What you probably want to do is run the torrent client as its own user and create -m owner rules to limit outgoing traffic from other programs.
Brody Jones
You can use debian testing. I use stable and it just werks.
Lucas Watson
Already googled it a shitton, but every time I try to boot the USB, it says it's not in the correct format. Already tried FAT and NTFS. Currently using YUMI to install the .iso in the USB.
Joshua Barnes
>ubuntu shoves amazon down your throat Are you planning to use stock 12.04?
Ayden Hall
i made the switch back to windows
Noah Foster
good goy
James Robinson
user NOOOOOOO!1!!!!one
Owen Nguyen
pajeets now have your personal information/banking passwords
Oliver Moore
>Bittorrent can't have outgoing port restrictions, or at least shouldn't if you care about maximizing performance. What you probably want to do is run the torrent client as its own user and create -m owner rules to limit outgoing traffic from other programs. Thank you, I understand it a little better. That's why I couldn't find any information to my issue, because I was getting it wrong.
Right now, my rule looks like this for the listening port of my torrent client: iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport PORT -j ACCEPT iptables -A OUTPUT -p tcp --sport PORT -j ACCEPT
I'm blocking myself a bunch of ports because I noticed it improves performance when I clear the rules. What I should be dooing (beside you said in your reply) to not block myself out? Thank you user.
Jace Rogers
I'd just use UART over USB and an arduino or similar microcontroller
Gavin Phillips
Not enough context to say. If you're blocking all outgoing connections by default, you would want a rule like -A OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner torrent -j ACCEPT Where 'torrent' is the name of the user running your BT client. I wouldn't exclude UDP connections unless you're absolutely sure you'll never use DHT.
Parker Rogers
Install Crux
See
Adam Martinez
Hm. I can give you some context then. I already has all policies with DROP, so I'm trying to open only the ones I need. With that in mind, I don't want to open ALL ports a torrent can use, but the ones a torrent will require. That's why (before you taught me) I was searching for the related option.
Logan Baker
Is there a Linux equivalent to pic related? It was my favorite thing I could do on Windows. It's from AquaSnap, some premiumware I shelled cash for because it was better than the default - nurgo-software.com/products/aquasnap
Dominic Rodriguez
System details: Currently running GNOME 3.22.3 on Debian Stretch
Lucas Rodriguez
Why the fuck would you ever want that?
Adam Davis
Making specific windows stay on top from time to time has plenty of uses, especially with what I do.
Oliver Butler
> I already has all policies with DROP, so I'm trying to open only the ones I need. I think you need to do a lot more research before you can run a configuration like that without inadvertently hamstringing yourself. > I don't want to open ALL ports a torrent can use, but the ones a torrent will require. Since almost every torrent program can be set up to use random ports over an arbitrary range, the correct answer is "Literally all of them." At minimum 6881-6889 plus 49152-65535 would cover peers configured according to best practices. From a security standpoint, Bittorrent already opens up so much two-way traffic that limiting its outgoing port selection is pointless. Anyone who wants to open a connection to a botnet controller is just going to use one of the ~15k ports you already need open.
Anthony Ortiz
right click >> keep on top
Leo Kelly
>the correct answer is "Literally all of them Yeah, that's what I thought. Therefore, I was searching some kind of rule like the previous we discussed to let the torrent but only the torrent connect to where he needs. Seems like maybe closing all and running the user based rule would be my best approach. Am I wrong?
Anthony Carter
Aw fuck, forgot about that. Thanks.
Elijah Thompson
I'm having an issue with pulseaudio since a few days. Everytime a new sink input connects (web browser, video player, etc), I'm hearing a short crackling. What can I do to investigate and fix this? All I can find are threads with generic crackling issues, but my issue only occurs for a fraction of a sec. I'm on Arch and this started happening since a few days after I upgraded to the latest kernel, I think. This happens on both my desktop and notebook, running different DEs on Arch. >inb4 uninstall pulseaudio
Asher Brown
That and put your torrent client in a sandbox or set up some mandatory access control rules for it.
Noah Kelly
>or set up some mandatory access control rules for it. Like strong user and password? Or do you suggest something different? I'm used to mess around with LXC so making a new container shouldn't be any issue.
Henry Evans
in kde5 on debian 10, receiving an error notification (e.g. failure to mount) drives my notification volume up to maximum, while everything else stays the same, and the only way to fix it is globally reduce the volume and then change application volumes relatively any idea how to keep this from happening?
Ryder Fisher
I deleted ~/.config/pulse, restarted and the issue seems to have disappeared...
Blake Wood
Mandatory access control would be like SELinux or App Armor rules so it can't do things outside its little area. LXC will also work.
Jeremiah Rivera
How would you personally backup an existing mdadm array? Say you had 8 drives, would you just have two separate mdadm arrays? Raid0 seems stupid but I would still have the other array plus fuckhuge performance.
Joshua Harris
Thank you again user, I thought for a while on isolating torrents as I isolate the web server, and I think you gave me the final push. I shouldn't need an excesive control if I have the client into a container.
Luke White
Hi m80s.
I installed Linux Mint over a week ago, because of Windows messed up system of shutting off, broke it, then deleted linux, windows was still broke, deleted windows and reinstalled it from scratch. But thats on my main drive.
My secondary drive (2 raided HDD, 1tb, 500gb each) was another victim of my installing of linux, never worked on Linux, doesn't work now on my fresh install of Windows.
When I try to boot into Linux Mint live CD, it tells me that I should boot fix my drive (which I can't, or don't know how) or mount it as Read only.
I intend on doing the latter, in order to back it up, format it, get rid of the shitty useless raid, install Linux mint in one of them and format the other one in NTFS to use it as my secondary drive for windows...
Well, how do I boot into Linux Mint Live USB with my /sdb1 and /sdb2 into read only? Or in windows? I don't care, the only thing i want is to back it up and get over with this over a week long nightmare
tldr: how do I mount a corrupted internal hard drive into read only state in a Linux Mint live usb (or any other live SO or Windws for that matter) in order to back up the data
note: my drive is not in a software raid, it's in 2 specific SATA ports for making it raid that ASUS dedicated in the motherboard.
Xavier Price
>inb4 reddit spacing If i had a reddit account I'd ask those fags which usally are more helpful to newbies than smug 4channers, i just wanted to make it more readable.
Ryder Fisher
Which email client do you guys use? I used to use thunderbird but was wondering if there is anything better.
Alexander Carter
mount -o ro /dev/sdx
That's mounting as read only.
Wyatt Morris
crackling has come back... I'm so fucking angry
Benjamin Smith
I've already asked this and haven't been given a real answer. Why compiling from source makes programs faster (e.g. Gentoo)? What is the real reason? Different instructions sets of CPUs?
Julian Green
when a dev releases a binary of a program, they typically compile in support for all features and compatibility so as to work on the largest amount of machines possible without trouble if you're compiling it yourself, when you build it you can pass flags to exclude certain things or to take advantage of special features of your hardware, i.e. if a program by default contains pulseaudio support, but you don't use pulseaudio, you can tell it to not compile the pulseaudio related code. on the other hand, if, for example, you have a fast graphics card, and the software doesn't do hardware acceleration by default, if it's available you could tell it to build hardware acceleration support the actual gains will vary pretty widely by package, and the largest thing you'll likely gain is smaller binaries, but again it all depends on what package you're compiling, and of course if you compile a package with the default options there won't be a difference from the prebuilt binary the area where you'll likely see the most gains is in configuring and compiling your own kernel
Brayden Sullivan
That one was helpful, thanks senpai
Ryan Rodriguez
anyone know good timeline creation software to link with emacs?
Liam Perry
Do you have libinput installed? IIRC, this is what fixed mine. If that doesn't fix it try xf86-input-libinput.
Nathaniel Gray
Org-mode can probably do that. Org-mode is magical.
Daniel Anderson
>Install Crux Best in thread.
Noah Adams
Currently in Linux Mint safeboot mode, because the drive wasn-t letting me boot in normal mode, i can see it in the file manager program, but cannot mount it...
Justin Hughes
Any music players that come close to the functionality of MusicBee? Most important features to me are being able to download tagging info + album art from the internet, and being able to organise my music directory automatically by tags (using musicbee in wine is too buggy to be tolerable, otherwise i'd just do that)
Ryan Young
Most graphical players will auto-download album art. Hell, even mpd clients like Cantata can. Downloading tagging information for ripping is a function of the ripping program's CDDB integration. I know brasero (GNOME default) and K3b (KDE default) are both good at that.
Dominic Green
I have no idea how to solve your problem but never dl DHD if there are any alternatives.
Brayden Brooks
I don't know if you're still there user, but I think I'm discaring isloating it atm. I need to mount a HDD and since I have to do some tweaks I end giving up some security measures for the sake of the container. So, following next line from Deluge page: For security it is best to run a service with a specific user and group. You can create one using the following command: sudo adduser --system --gecos "Deluge Service" --disabled-password --group --home /var/lib/deluge deluge This creates a new system user and group named deluge with no login access and home directory: /var/lib/deluge I think I will be pretty okay. Thank you once again for all you helped me to learn.
Lucas Barnes
If you really care about security you should use additional security layer. Remember that default umask will allow this user to read your files. I personally use and like apparmor.
Justin Long
I know next to nothing about apparmor and selinux because them seem infinite. I gave a look to apparmor on debian and seem like I have to download profiles or something like that. Should I really mess around with AppArmor if I can't configure it properly?
Jaxon Murphy
You could also run it in a VM, whitelist outbound connections from the VM's source IP, and use the neat 9P functionality in libvirt to mount a directory on the VMhost system as a directory inside the VM, and then use that for storage.
Julian Jenkins
Apparmor is turbo easy. Literally run # aa-genprof $application Then run application, go back to root terminat, hit s (scan for events) and allow things that application need then repeat while app will work propertly. Then you can manually tune profiles, they are in /etc/apparmor.d
Kevin Flores
You exploded my head, user.
So it would be like aa'genprof Torrent Then ./Torrent and scan the results form terminal?
>If you have torrent in non standard path Nah I was trying to avoid particular examples. Actually as you could see I will be using deluge with the deluge user.
alright, im fed up with systemd. Im ready to fall for the install gentoo meme. However, i do not want to use genkernel, as it defeats the purpose. Where do I begin to read what kernel modules I need for specific hardware, e.g. a t420?
Charles Thomas
Yes. If I remember correctly the speeches are from the movie Revolution OS. Check the pasta link in OP for a link to the movie and other RMS speeches.
Lucas Watson
opinions on Manjaro?
Isaiah Mitchell
Slackware is the answer
Matthew Long
Which solution is easiest/cheapest to go beyond 1gbit Ethernet? Imdont know shit about midnight or sfp and whatever else there is. Cable length should be ~20m long too.
William Harris
Includes non-free software.
Evan Morales
There is nothing on your network that would benefit from having 10gbit throughput. Even if you're streaming multiple 4k titles simultaneously , you wont be reaching the throughput of 1gbit
Also, the cost of setting up a 10gbit network is astronomical
Samuel Richardson
Two 1gbit Ethernets.
Levi Wright
Hello /fglt/ !
My MSata SSD just arrived today. I'm planing to stick with Win7 in one partition and try a loonix distro in another.
What's a good distro to play with it? I want something light, basic, then gonna add some shit to it.
How's Arch (or Antergos) for a newbie?
Zachary Green
When building our kernel, consider the following.
Processor (name, model, type) Hard drive (type, capacity) Network card (ethernet, wireless) Internet connection (dial-up, DSL/cable, WiFi) Input devices (keyboard, mouse, Wacom) Video card Sound card Monitor Printer Other peripherals and devices (Mic, camera, etc.)
use. commands to find the info for each, enable the module. If its not obvious, look on gentoo wiki.
but according to Stallman literally everything other than a few obscure distros are non-free it's a bit too autistic
Landon Clark
Parabola and Trisquel are just rebrands for Arch and Ubuntu. Everything works the same.
You don't need to agree with him about everything. And the fact that the FSF doesn't endorse a distribution doesn't mean you can't safely use it.
Debian includes only free software and has a non-free repo that you don't need to enable. Fedora also includes only free software but makes non free firmwares available, just don't install them. I think CentOS is in the same situation.
Anthony Barnes
>freedom is restricting your personal computer habits because a communist jew told you to respect licenses
Asher Smith
>I'm an uneducated american teenager that screams communism at everything he doesn't like or understand
Free software allows you to do anything with your computer. Proprietary doesn't. Proprietary software restricts your "computer habits".
Connor Lewis
>Parabola and Trisquel that's not how you spell Hyperbola
Brayden Cox
Just use Xubuntu. Anything much lighter than that starts cutting out things newbies might want.
Grayson Richardson
Newbies to what?
Leo Hernandez
Is there any reason to use St over urxvt?
Dylan Wright
uses less mem and you don't have to deal with Xresources nonsense
Samuel Wilson
/newtolinux/ here Is there any easy way to play audio files out of a server without having to go into the terminal each time? Got my speakers plugged into it and sometimes just wanna boot up the server and play shit through there quick and easy without relying on the terminal too much to SSH in and get each file.
Dominic Adams
isn't that was mpd is for?
Caleb Kelly
mdp + ncmpcpp
Jason Watson
Gonna check again the LXC sharing HDD option since I'm a derp and the iptables rules I wanted to use it wasn't designed for the purpose I wanted to use. Sorry for changing too much, and thank you once again.
Jordan Lee
is virtual box safe? or is it gonna sell my data to nsa?
Jeremiah Kelly
Unless you code it your self, there is no real way to know
Benjamin Bell
I was thinking about getting a vpn subscription and running a lubuntu vm on my windows 10
Ryder Russell
>windows 10 You're already deep in the botnet.
>vpn Get a cheap vpn and setup a proper openvpn tunnel for your self.