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is there an equivalent program for (ubuntu) that's pretty much like SoundSwitch?
hitting ctrl+shift+F11 and having that switch between sound coming from speakers and headphones was a godsend
David Bailey
Can some of the desktop-thread crowd recommend me a GTK theme? I'm looking for something that has both GTK2 and GTK3 support, and that looks fairly vanilla. That is, is not trying to emulate Windows 10 or Mac OS. Basically I want the kind of themes that come with Xfce, but with GTK3 support.
Austin Cruz
pactl and xbindkeys
Levi Martinez
I want to run a linux vm to program in C for windows (to make DLLs). I want to use valgrind and similar tools.
the thing is that I've always found virtual machines too slow, even if my computer is quite fast (ryzen 1700x, plenty of ram). what is the best way of running a linux vm under windows?
Any cool tips for SpaceFM? Any lightweight terminal that has panels like iterm2?
Currently using Ubuntu Studio, because why not.
Gabriel Johnson
Making the transition to Linux on my main PC by setting up a dual boot and the hardest part by far has been any step involving windows. It's such bullshit, you were right Jow Forums.
Parker Taylor
>hardest part by far has been any step involving windows. you must be dumb
Hudson Russell
what does your guys' rsync commands look like?
Dylan Brown
It's not my fault creating a bootabe usb drive to windows from a linux machine is literally impossible
And oh my god the drivers after finally installing it. Again, bullshit. Would happily go full Linux if I could and save so much stress.
Carter Reyes
>HOW DO I GET DNSCRYPT+UNBOUND TO WORK IN GENTOO if you're in gentoo you should know how to post an error message. what are you googlin? >what is the best way of running a linux vm under windows? running windows under kvm in linux. nice -n19 rsync -ah --delete-before --no-inc-recursive --info=progress2 --partial --append-verify /source /destination
Noah Walker
The only dumb thing was installing windows... Everything else is just the fallout of it
>It's not my fault creating a bootabe usb drive to windows from a linux machine that's literally your fault. do it on windows, dumb dumb.
James Lewis
What's considered "basic" knowledge of the command line? Like, knowing ls, cd, pwd, is a basic as I can get at this point.
What should I do to be command line savvy?
Brayden Green
It just instantly crashes and the log is fucking empty...
That's substantially less helpful...
Luis Jones
grep, ln, systemctl if you are on systemd, nano|emacs|vim, your package manager
Gavin Parker
do the following >how do I list files in current directory? >search "how do I list files in current directory?" >found ls command >what the heck is ls command >ls --help >man ls >cool, ls has -1 switch and repeat
Hello friendlies, i have CD roms that i can burn, they're 700mb. I want to install Kali Linux on a dedicated laptop that i have bought for kali and their "lite" version is 745mb.
What do
Ayden Phillips
>cds >2018 >not usb >ftw
Thomas Parker
Buy an USB stick.
Jeremiah Russell
B-b-but. Is there no way?
Jaxon Nguyen
help me pls ;_:
just installed windows and ubuntu, but once i installed ubuntu, it restarted and now it autoboots to windows
i cant seem to figure out how to switch the default OS to ubuntu...
Henry Carter
BIOS
Oliver James
OK, so im in BIOS, but where do i go and what do i change?
i have both OS's on seperate partitions on the same HDD
(Gigabye MOBO)
Wyatt Reed
im reading online that after one has installed both OS's, when i reboot, i should have the option to choose between windows or ubuntu...but that option never happened for me...
i dont know what im doing wrong
Brody Turner
But user. Your screenshot is black and white
Dominic Taylor
Did you run os-prober? WIndows bootloader might still exist and thatrs why its going right in to windows instead of giving you an option. Boot a live usb then run a chroot to the linux install and setup os-prober and install grub so that you get a choice on boot
Jack Young
why don't you just use DNS-over-TLS, which unbound supports on its own?
Daniel Russell
no user, desu i dont know what os-prober is im not at all that advanced, so im not sure what youre advising :/
Jackson Morales
In BIOS you want to change the boot order or boot device priority. You'll see a few options, usually any disk drive, CD/DVD drive, USB, or network. It sets which drive the computer will try to boot from first. If you have made two partitions of the same drive bootable, the drive will be listed twice usually as "drive (0)" and "drive (1)". Figure out which of the two corresponds with ubuntu and set it to top priority, first in the boot order. You should be presented with a GRUB menu at boot time that comes from ubuntu. This menu gives you the option of booting into ubuntu or booting into windows. You won't get this option from windows.
Julian Reed
I had already uninstalled windows by the time I needed to burn a new image. It was a complicated process, ended up asking a stranger in the libary to let me use their laptop for 5 mins
Anthony Reed
Does it?
Grayson Campbell
>It just instantly crashes and the log is fucking empty... well journalctl could tell you what's going on but since it's gentoo I wouldn't know where the equivalent would be, but I assume the syslog would have it. os-prober finds and adds boot entries to other operating systems to your grub entries (the menu that appears when you start the computer after the BIOS) windows probably still has control of the boot sequence. you should see which disk your BIOS wants to boot from and/or see what grub is booting into. probably has something specific to do with how windows has fastboot or something like that. >ended up asking a stranger in the libary to let me use their laptop for 5 mins that's one trusting guy
Jace Robinson
unless there is some menu im not seeing, i only see [Hard Disk], CD, USB-FDD/-ZIP/-CDROM/-HDD, Legacy LAN, P2_ATAPI iHAS, and Disabled as options for the first, second, and third boot devided.
i dont see anywhere with drive (0) / (1) did i fugg something up?
>fastboot sorry, fastboot is android. windows is "turn on fast startup" completely unrelated
John Cox
Is this a UEFI? Do you have an option to select a boot device after post (i.e F10 for BIOS, F9 to select boot device)? See what options it gives you there. Mileage may vary on what function key gets you there (equivalent to F9 above) but you should see it as soon as the machine powers on.
Jace Anderson
Can anyone with a vega gpu (ideally 56) comment on how good the drivers are on linux? mainly the following 1)fanless desktop mode? 2)ease of undervolting 3)actual game + blender testing?
especially in relation to the open source driver. If i can just do general desktop stuff without any screentearing and without fans spinning up (gonna be a asus strix vega) id be more than happy
Austin Gomez
Yes, set do-tcp: yes and ssl-upstream: yes in unbound.conf. Then in the forward-zone forward everything (name: "*.*") to a forward-addr: of 9.9.9.9@853 (853 being the weirdo port number they assigned for this). Quad9 and cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 support it, if you don't want those (and I don't blame you) there are others (securedns.eu, censurfridns.dk, various others)
Luke Robinson
i dont think it's a UEFI so for me, DEL is BIOS, and F12 is the boot menu as you say and i get similar options: Hard Disk CDROM USB-FDD SUB-ZIP USB-CDROM USD-HDD Legacy LAN P2-ATAPI iHAS
there is a little + next to the first priority (Hard Disk)
still cant find device 0 and 1
i also looked around and tried this in command prompt on windows but that didnt work either: bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi
Joshua Richardson
Boot your ubuntu live CD and open gparted. Confirm there are actually two partitions on this drive. Ubuntu may not have installed correctly
Joshua Nguyen
Also confirm they both have a boot flag. And you are likely to see more than two partitions, check there are two of appropriate size to contain an OS.
Henry Sullivan
So maybe I did something wrong in my installation?
Since you can only get into windows we can try something from there. Get EasyBSD here neosmart.net/EasyBCD/ Scroll down to the bottom a click register. Give them a fake name and email or whatever. You don't need to buy this software. Open EasyBSD, click Edit Boot Menu. Uncheck windows as default and check Ubuntu. Click on the Ubuntu entry and then the Up button to move it above windows.
Evan Gutierrez
Also remember to save settings. and *BCD
David Reed
>Then in the forward-zone forward everything (name: "*.*") to a forward-addr: of 9.9.9.9@853 >the guide said to make it 127.0.0.1@40 jesus fucking christ.... any particular use flags I should enable? dnstap, gost, libressl, python..?
Angel Reyes
>no music notifications what do
Mason Gray
Can't I make a .cfg for grub to boot to windows with just the partition direction? it's retarded you have to make so many 'hints' to grub to actually find something you already know is there (search by UUID, drive partition hd0, n etc). Or I am too stupid still to understand? I understand the fact that you have to specify MBR or EFI and the actual location of the file though. Just installed arch Linux from the wiki yesterday I'm tired lol. I already did it with UUIDs though, just wondering.
Asher Howard
Oh my god it just keeps fucking crashing.. no log.. god damn man, i give up, fuck this
Justin Sanchez
HEYYYY IT WORKED!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks a lot senpai!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sebastian Fisher
Can someone send me a guide to rice my arch linoox? I like i3 but it looks ugly af though, I can't even figure out how to put a wallpaper or activate transparency. I installed a composer I don't recall what is called but nothing changed. I'd like that there was some space between the windows to feel like I can just clean the screen for a while lol, I guess I'm retarded. I like the using terminal teditor thing to fix things but the terminal is still so unreadable (urxvt can't find the cfg to change transparency or color), the font is too small (96dpi suposedly 15.6'' 1080p 16:9). I want to believe is because I haven't setup actual good drivers for the graphics
Owen Miller
There's no such thing as a one-guide-fits-all, if you want gaps install i3-gaps, if you want to fix urxvt read up on its wiki page, etc.
Chase Richardson
Not same user. I think you are a girl. No offense, friendly guess. Confirmation? Lots of things to fix, I'm still half the way there. I was even scared of compiling something because I never thought there was something as intuitive as this distribution to learn. Thanks Jow Forums. I guess after this I will try gentoo. Is there a limit for primary partitions? I can't delete windows because my sister has to use it sometimes.
Cameron Green
ExFAT transfer guy from the last thread. I carefully removed the 8TB from its case and installed it internally. System will not post with it installed. Post error code refers to a drive problem. Checking the reviews and Q&A it seems this is a common problem with this drive as per amazon. "Seagate Expansion 8TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0 (STEB8000100)" I guess its some kind of firmware limitation with this model. Maybe it has something to do with the linux transfer rate?
Not that user but maybe try installing grub again. Maybe something went wrong with grub's installation
Jace Collins
Getting do_IRQ: no irq handler for vector usb-port: over-current condition
at boot. Should I be worried?
Juan Sanchez
So I heard you guys rebind your Caps Lock key to Escape.
Wyatt Fisher
Vim people like escape, some other folks use it for ctrl. I think you can make it an extra bucky bit too, which the Emacs crowd probably has a use for. But pretty much anything you bind it to will be more useful than the capslock function.
Grayson Hughes
I swapped them. Capslock is brain damaged in its regular position.
Logan Murphy
Inching my way towards GPU passthrough. Real fucking close right now.
Struggling with the error 43 in the guest because nvidia is a bunch of jews, I guess. I've appended to it, but with no luck. Do I need to reinstall drivers or the guest to get this to work?
i've had usb drives die on me before. you're describing what happened to me. it's dead jim. last time a usb drive died it was after the power company installed new meters which resulted in a hard power off.
Jaxson Reyes
Fuck nvidia, honestly. I'll probably never buy any of their products again as long as I live.
Nolan Nguyen
Works just fine after placing it back in the enclosure though, also passed SMART etc.
Bentley Bailey
still slow only under linux though :/
Carter Williams
By using a diffrent theme.
Tyler Johnson
bucky bit?
Xavier Powell
See a lot of games that say they run on Linux, but then only name off Ubuntu. Does this mean the game will only run off Debian based distros? It won't run on distros like Arch or Fedora?
So essentially it shouldn't matter? Just how the package manager handles things when installing?
Matthew Lopez
control, alt, and so on. keys that modify other keys.
Levi Ward
It basically means they only test for ubuntu, if you are using GNU/Linux already, you should be able to figure out how to run it on any distro
Asher Martin
Being able to make a game "for X distro" is nothing more than a way to please companies. When they complain about there being tons of distros we just tell them "well then develop for Ubuntu or SteamOS". Because in actuality it doesn't matter. Worst case scenario you have to add some simple environment variable to the launch command or install a missing library.
Barring some very unusual case I might not be aware of, basically any game that works on one distro can be made to work on any. Usually with little to no effort. Especially steam games since most of them use the steam runtime libraries.
Isaac Gray
Ah nice nice. Thanks for the info. Didn't want to go and change distros, even though I'm thinking about it anyways, just because of that. Or rather didn't want to be forced to use a debian based distro.
Speaking of which has anyone used SteamOS here?
John Lee
are you using Arch? no
Nolan Robinson
SteamOS is literally Debian except with proprietary software preinstalled.
Ethan Morris
I came across one issue where the library file wasn't in the same place Ubuntu put it or wasn't named the same. So it couldn't call it. But this doesn't apply to steam games
Ayden Stewart
No. Why?
Yeah but is it cool?
What did you do to fix it? Just put it in the same place Ubuntu did and renamed it?
Julian Lopez
Some games have folder called include where it is installed. You put the required file in there. So game/include/required.so
Josiah Turner
fedora then
Josiah Lopez
>spend 2 hours reading and configuring my custom kernel >go over to the exit button and click it >it didn't write a config file >exiting by pressing ESC twice makes it write a config file I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY FUCK THIS AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Why does my computer/CPU buzz when using Linux but not when using Windows?
Disabling all but the C1 c-state of the CPU removes all buzzing. Does this mean Windows disables them by default?
William Moore
>clicking buttons There's your problem.
Sebastian Green
Ah okay. Thanks.
I might test it out. Thanks.
Michael Parker
well I fixed it, apparently I didn't put in the virtio drivers. wonder what other landmines I left for myself
Ryder Johnson
>menuconfig Load / Save an Alternate Configuration File
Isaiah Richardson
no, I assumed that you're using fedora, not encouraging you to use it
Alexander Thompson
You can always make a steamos chroot, might have a bit of a mare using the hosts graphics, but I'm sure its possible.
Ayden Evans
All you have to do to fix it is tell it where the library actually is. >LD_PRELOAD=/path/to/library.so You can also use LD_LIBRARY_PATH. You shouldn't have to move or copy libraries around.
Also you're being more paranoid than you need to. 95% of games are going to "just work" if you're using a distro that's at least somewhat mainstream. Of the remaining 5% or so times that it fails 4 out of 5 times you can just google it and the solution will be right there. So that leaves about 1% of the time where you can't get it working. Then it's time to just go and join your distros forum or IRC and ask there and you'll almost always get the answer.
Getting games to work is not rocket science.
Asher Ortiz
>Disabling all but the C1 c-state of the CPU removes all buzzing. Haha, wtf?
Jose Watson
Can anyone recommend a program to normalize the volume of my audio collection? Its a relatively large collection so I would like a program that does it in bulk.