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Why the FUCK is there not a link to tldp.org in the OP?
Ian Davis
What's tldp.org?
Angel Flores
>want to learn more at my local community college >offers 10 courses on windows/microshit >not one course on unix/linux What gives? Is microsoft paying them to only teach their os?
Tldp a shit. >linux cli >upercase variables >ni quotes >backticks >etc. In the 90s this webside may be cool, but today it isn't . Go to mywiki.wooledge.org/BashGuide
Brandon Collins
what is the linux equvilent of "programs and features" on windows?
Elijah Nguyen
Unix was a system in the 70s. Linux is a kernel. Learn the GNU commandline.
Not sure this is the best thread for it, but I'm running Manjaro. Used the Architect build to have a somewhat more "pure" (or whatever0 experience building an Arch-based distro. However, I can't run some programs and games under WINE because WINE is trying to run with OpenGL 3.0, when my card supports 4.5. (R9 390) What can I do to fix this? DOOM 2016 is an example game.
Brandon Clark
I tried virtualizing windows in Ubuntu using qemu+kvm, and ran it in virtual machine manager. The thing is, it was so god damn slow that it was borderline unusable. Anyone have a link to a solid tutorial, because I must have done something wrong
Josiah Allen
Get a pdf for comptia classes then learn and take the test at approved comptia testing facilities
John Johnson
How do I use a different file picker for Firefox? I don't like how I have to click an image to see an actual preview.
Camden Stewart
Is there any benefit in using gdebi over dpkg?
Isaiah Sullivan
What's a good distro to start off with? I've been wanting to do a dual boot my rig for awhile. now.
Eli Long
I'm also interested.
Jack Garcia
Mint, Ubuntu, Debian. Sorted from total pleb to computer user.
Daniel Powell
Are there any tricks to fixing wifi? I got a card that I thought was broadcom but is actually some realtek piece of shit, and everything I find is just the same problem I have without a solution (abysmally shit speeds, 5mbits tops)
Jaxon Gonzalez
You can give you wifi module specific flags, find yiur eufi module and do some research.
Landon Martinez
wifi* Fat fingers today.
Elijah Richardson
dual boot is shit, just use windows version of unetbootin to burn either a buntu or mint to flash drive with the persistence option, and just boot from the drive when you want to use linux.
Jose Gomez
Got anything more specific than "Google wifi linux settings"? Because I've already done a whole shitload of that
Jackson Robinson
so what aur helper we all using now?
Jayden Diaz
yoart, same as always
Blake Torres
yo i want my terminal to boot up on startup, do apt-get update and apt-get upgrade, ask me for permission to upgrade (by entering y), and then run neofetch
how do
Nathaniel Nelson
pacaur
youart introduces bugs and crashes that are only specific to youart.It has been this way since its introduction
Michael Peterson
Last I checked the Arch wiki adviced against using yaourt because it's no longer maintained.
Some user here programs in their distro? I'm already on Void and I love it but I probably will be programming soon (C to be specific) and I would like to hear suggestions.
PS: If it is relevant, I'm used to Vi/Vim.
Landon Clark
terminal should let you set a startup command, and when you do that via some script then just add it to your startup.
Cooper Rivera
thanks i'll have a look
Samuel Jenkins
Use searx instead of google.
Henry Sullivan
Go fuck yourself
Isaac Powell
wait how do I make the script
Easton Price
use tmux and split panes between vim and the shell for using gcc or make, that's what I usually do
Kayden Russell
>for using gcc or make, I didn't know I could go full programming in gcc. Truth is I never researched into programming under linux.
Isaiah Williams
What's the worst that could happen if I uses Windows 7 bootloader and do not use GRUB? What are the pros/cons here?
Henry Green
I was assuming you were just getting into learning C, gcc alone is great there if you're compiling little things. If you're making bigger programs you'll need to use makefiles
Jordan Taylor
Its not maintained but it is feature complete. The only time that it may become buggy is with the release of pacman 5.1 which is still a ways out. Hopfully other helpers get their shit together by then
Jordan Moore
Put those commands in .bashrc (or profile for just when you log in) . Not sure if that's a great idea since updating will take a few annoying seconds every time you open a terminal. Probably better to spawn a new terminal window where it can take as long as it wants and exit when done.
Easton Morales
>I was assuming you were just getting into learning C You're not wrong either. I have a project in mind that also will help me learning C. But I thought I would need something better than Vim even from the start.
Sebastian Rodriguez
You wont boot linux
Jace Torres
lmao i put neofetch into .bashrc just to test it but now a terminal just opens and closes.
I removed neofetch and it still just crashes
Jonathan Brown
mpc with auto completion is so comfy especially when you know exactly what album you feel like listening to. basically just keep ncmpcpp open for rice these days
Cooper Kelly
Try a different terminal. Or check if your bashed has a syntax error or something.
Parker Diaz
>What gives? Is microsoft paying them to only teach their os? Very often yes. Microsoft "donates" all the computers with windows to the uni.
Ryan Rivera
why did dnf update replace the proprietary Nvidia driver with some piece of shit llvmpipe? how do i re-enable my nvidia driver? better yet, how do i make sure this shit doesn't happen in the first place?
Asher Wood
Sounds like KVM isn't actually loaded and you were using raw QEMU.
Lincoln Thomas
Elementary! uwu~
Juan Baker
something like this provided your terminal has the option to set the command. #!/bin/sh yourTerminalGoesHere --command='sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && neofetch;bash' then give it permission to execute, and then add it to startup
Eli King
I have an unallocated hardrive but it's not showing on cfdisk when I'm trying to install Arch. Why?
unironically dd from one usb to another and reinstall grub, then resize the partition to fit the whole usb. someone tell him if this is retarded
Jayden Young
what is dd?
Adrian Rogers
I'm trying to set up a tigervnc server on a vps. It's a Fedora 27 minimal install in a Proxmox container, and I've already installed all the relevant packages. The vnc server starts up fine and I can log in, but I get a black screen. I can get gnome to start up with DISPLAY=:1 gnome-session but I've never had to do that with other installations. Does anyone have any insights? I already have gnome-session in my ~/.vnc/xstartup file.
Isaiah Morales
why is zsh so cute bros
Dominic Russell
Cuz ur dumb.
Joshua Watson
its a program that reads input data from a location/device and writes it into output location/device. by copying /dev/sda (assuming this is the first usb stick) into /dev/sdb (assuming this is the new usb stick) you will end up with exact copy of the system on a new usb (it will be partitioned exactly the same so you will have to resize the partition to fit the bigger usb), also you may need to chroot into the system copy and recreate fstab for the new disk, and maybe reinstall grub, im not sure. you can also try to use clonezilla.
There still has to be a vnc server running for tightvnc to connect, right? I can connect to the server fine, but gnome never loads.
Cooper Diaz
how to install linux in android?
Wyatt Gonzalez
step 1:
done.
Austin Phillips
Android runs on Linux.
Levi Thompson
funny, now yell me how to install it
Charles Ward
Close your eyes, imagine a place where you feel safe, repeat three times "there is no system but GNU and Linux is one of its kernels", open your eyes again and linux should be installed.
Nathan Smith
It already runs linux. Install termux or something like it to get to a terminal. I've seen people run desktop linux distros like debian on android phones. But I think that works through a virtual machine and not running natively.
Termux is seriously your best option. You get a full functional GNU environment without needing to root, which means it can coexist with your bank's app or shitty gacha games or whatever.
Nicholas Long
I forgot to add this only works on distros where rename is linked to perls rename (prename) like debian based distros. The vanilla rename program is utter shit.
Luis Jackson
for loop
David Thomas
Thanks
Christian Hughes
makepkg
Brandon Morris
guess i'll try again.
how do i enable Nvidia driver after it got disabled by an update?
Nolan Roberts
Don't they're botnet.
Bentley Martin
extremely helpful, much appreciated.
one step closer to saying bye to linux and buying a fucking mac
I tried on another computer, and there was no problems. But on mine: >Have SSD (2 partitions) and HDD1 (1 partition) for Windows >Have HDD2 unallocated >Boot Linux from disk and cfdisk >2 partitions showing >1 SSD partition (System Reserved) and the HDD_1 partition >These partitions are displayed twice, can only select the last two
My next guess is that my optical drive is not reading well, so time for trying USB but my guess is that this won't work
Landon Young
Reminder that dualbooting is for pussies. https:/hooktube.com/watch?v=q9mXyakv2i8
Joseph Torres
We love botnets here.
Daniel Gomez
>called windows useds "users" by accident bad day
Hunter Harris
Is there a photobooth alternative on linux? want something fun to do with gf.
Connor Cooper
Why dont you touch her boobs and tickle her belly?
Lucas Wilson
No luck. Used unetbootin and /dev/disk/by-label/ARCH_201804 didn’t respond within 30 seconds. Is my unallocated hdd just screwed?
Chase Barnes
Ignoring that stallman us always right, I personally can confirm that going balls deep makes your life better: you learn faster, you don't pussy out, you go and learn how to fix problem a then problem b and when problem c appears it isn't even a problem anymore since you know your system already.
Went balks deep into debian, leaned gnu/linux in 3 weeks and now I'm busy writing scripts to automate my daily shit.
Now imagine you're a dual boot fag. I imagine the tine to learn the system yo the point you feel comfy is by 90002% compared to just sticking it right into the pussy.